Mitchell v. State Court Opinion

    SAN FRANCISCO REGIONAL OFFICEFY73Anne Chiarenza- Reports, 
Correspondence, etc.



TO: Anne T. Chlarenza Date 6 December 1973
FROM: Jean Fairfax
RE: Benetta Ivey*s Trip to California

Beni Xvey« our Field Representative in Atlanta who directs the 
Georgia Power Project# will be in Oakland during the Christmas 
holidays to visit her family and to pick up a car. I have asked 
her to arrange to spend some time with you while she is in the 
area. This would be a good time for the two of you to share ex­
periences about projects related to public utilities. Also# she 
would like to meet the women who are challenging discrimination at 
PG&E. Maybe by the time you two get together# we will have infor­
mation about the status of negotiaticxis between the united States 
and Georgia Power. The proposed settlement has lots of good stuff 
in it.

JF/mec

ecf Benetta Ivey



M E M O R A N D U M
January 26, 1973

TO: Anne Chiarenza
FROM: Jean Fairfax
RE: APPOINTMENTS IN WASHINGTC^N
Monday. Janw.ry 29. 1973
10:00 a.m, Phyllis McClure

LDF's v^ashington Office 
Suite 510
1028 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

1 2:00
Noon

Peter Bloch re Study on Women in the Police Forces 
Urban Institute 
2100 M Street

1:30 p.ffi. Heather Ross
Re Study on Women Heading Households 
Urban Institute

4:30 p*ro. Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz
Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor 
14th and Constitution, Room 1305

6:00 p.m. Black Women’s Community Development Foundation 
Suite 1010
1028 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Cocktails with Inez Reid

Joyce Ladner, Howard University
Evelyn Moore, Black Child Development Institute 
Patsy Fleming, Office of Congressman Hawkins

Evening: Carol Kuitatierfield re Civil Rights Commission's Women's
Project. Phyllis McClure will take us to Carol's home.



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Tuesday, January 30, 1973
9:30 a ,iR. Sonya Fuentes

Office of General Counsel
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Room 1151 - 1800 G Street

11:00 a,®. Dr. Mary Barry
Higher Education Division, Office for Civil Rights, HEW 
and her deputy, Walter Bailey 
HEW, North Building, Room 3458

3:00 p.m. Doris WOoten
Office of Federal Contracts Compliance 
Room 1212, 711 14th Street

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cc: Phyllis McClure

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CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM

February 21, 1973

TO; Anne Chiarenza
FROM; Jean Fairfax
RE; GETTING OUR PROJECT OFF THE GROUND

I am eager to know what your thoughts are as you launch the 
western regional office of our new program. What ideas and 
plans are shaping up in your mind as a result of our interviews 
in Washington and our staff meetings? Let’s get into the habit 
of commvinicating and corresponding fully with each other. I 
have not written so far because I have had several very absorb­
ing crises and meetings out of town. Also, I wanted you to 
have time to get your office set up. I*ra never s\ire how much 
specific guidance a new staff person wants - or needs. So, I 
may err on the one hand in telling you more than you want to 
hear or in assuming on the other hand that you already know 
certain things. Anyway, here are some thoughts I want to share 
for whatever they are worth.
1. I am glad you have fo\md a secretary. Get her off to

a good start. Lolita has told you what our expectations 
are and stands ready to help her fulfill her responsibilities 
especially in such areas as financial reports. However, 
you are the one to set the tone. There are always special 
problems when the boss is out of the office or out of town 
a lot. You must insist that she arrives on time, takes a 
regular lunch hour and stays the full day. You'll have to 
plan your work so that she is busy when you are away. You 
are paying her too much just to have her take your callsi 
Arrange your dictating so that she can do tapes while you 
are out. Put her in charge of a clipping file. We have 
had bad experience in using secretaries for community work 
but you can certainly train her to interview people who 
come in with a story to tell or to analyze certain kii^s 
of data which you collect. Give her very specific instruc­
tions; leave full information about your whereabouts and 
check her telephone etiquette, if you discover that her 
work is not up to standard, let her know right away and 
give her a deadline for improving.



2. We want to have full documentation on this project. Write
up every interview and contact: name, title, address, phone;
summarize the conversation; note the follow up which is 
indicated. If the person gives you materials, read them as 
soon as possible. Then write the person to comment on your 
meeting and on the material. If one of you has agreed to do 
something, recall the arrangement, deadlines involvement of 
others, etc. Send copies to appropriate persons. This is
a very efficient and cheap way of keeping others informed.
Send me copies too.

3. I hope you have some ideas now about your own schedule. We 
must establish in everyone's mind that this is a regional 
project, and not focused in the Bay area. In fact, we may 
end up doing very little programing in the Bay area. I would 
suggest that you plan to spend half your time outside San 
Francisco. Many of these trips will not require you to be 
away from home overnight. Since it may not be easy to arrange 
child care on a short notice, you might plan to be in San 
Francisco on Mondays and Fridays and to schedule your out
of town trips for the middle of the week. This would permit 
you to plan a week of work with your secretary on Monday and 
then to do your reports on Friday. This kind of scheduling 
may not work perfectly because you will want to go to con­
ferences that may be on weekends. But it will get you into 
a format around which you can plan for whatever help you need.

4. I look forward to your reports. You should send them to me
and to all the other Division staff members. Reports should 
include: a brief report every Friday on what you have done
the past week and where you plan to be the following week. 
Since I travel a lot, I will know how to reach you when I am 
moving around. The substantive reports can be interviews, 
comm\inity reports, reports on industries public agencies, 
reviews of articles or other literature, etc.

Memo to Anne C3iiarenza
February 21, 1973
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5. Mv plans
As I review my notes from the Washington interviews, I find 
lots of suggestions for follow up. I shall try to sperwl 
1-3 days a week on the project for the time being, mostly in 
Washington. Tomorrow I visit Carol Kuraraerfield at the U.S. 
Commission on Civil Rights and Mr. Jean Coutourier of the 
National Civil Service League. While in Washington, I shall



touch base again with the Women's Bureau. Next Wednesday,
I plan to see George Gee in Washington. Several of us will 
spend that afternoon with David Copus headed EEOC's task 
force on Ma Bell. I note that the Coimnvinications Workers of 
America are trying to intervene in the suit. In preparation 
for our session at EEOC, one of our keenest lawyers is analyz­
ing the consent agreement so we will go prepared. We won our 
case in the Fifth Circuit against Georgia Power. I shall study 
it tonight and get our attorneys* ideas about implications for 
the black women's project. Also, I'm clipping articles like 
mad. All of a sudden, sex discrimination is IN!
I hope that I'll be ready to come out to spend a week with 
you around the end of March or mid-April. By this time, we 
should be ready to get some specific six months goals. Mean­
while, I'll write up my notes.

6. 'rtiere is also the possibility that Allen Black could spend 
some time with you later - maybe when we know where we want 
to focus. He's great on community organization around employ­
ment issues.

Memo to Anne Chiarenza
February 21, 1973
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Let roe hear from you soon.

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M E M O R A N D U M
January 5, 197^

TO: Anne Chiarenza
FROM: Jean Fairfax
RE: SEVERAL THINGS

I talked with Dr. Phyllis Wallace yesterday. She was one of EEOC's 
top researchers for several years and is now on the staff of the 
Metropolitan Applied Research Center (Kenneth Clark's shop). She 
will be moving to MIT in February to join the Sloan School of Manage­
ment. She often does research on a contract basis for Federal 
agencies and is winding up several pieces of interest to us. One 
is a study (completed) of black teenage girls which should have some 
data on their job expectations. A large study for EEOC is a report 
on the employment status of all minorities and women and should be 
ready in February. She is working on an analysis of the employment 
of black women for the National Manpower Task Force which will be 
completed by stmnmer.
She is eager to help us and is willing to be on our national advisory 
ccamnittee. Since her study on black women will not be ready until 
later, I suggest that we postpone the convening of our committee 
until she has something to present to us. She responded to my offer 
to pull together a group to react to her findings. I will definitely 
schedule an appointment with her while you are in New York. In 
fact, I hope that she can arrange to meet with our Division staff 
and some of the national staff attorneys during our discussion of 
the new program.
Since you are going to be away for at least a week, you may be able 
to take advantage of excursion rates. We can get the ticket and 
send it to you since your travel card will probably not be available 
by then. Will you plan to spend the weekend in Boston before or 
after your week of meetings? Let us know if you plan to begin and 
end your week in the east in Boston.
I am ordering a subscription to Ms for you and me. The latest issue 
has some short features on various women. Included is a thing on a



black woman in New Mexico who sounds like a good contact for you 
She has been fighting job discrimination. Give her a call.

Barbara Richardson
New Mexico State Employment Service
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Memo to A. Chiarenza
January 5, 1973
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