Executive responsibility in intergroup relations [microform]

Concern is focused on advancing intergroup relations, knowledge, skills, and methods of advancing the goals of equal opportunity which had been set forth by the 1960 administrative program. Policy directives, procedural steps, and organization of intergroup relations resources which might be appropriate in any and all government operations are suggested and discussed. The federal government, besides being the nation's largest employer, administers many programs affected by, and influencing, intergroup relations. Constitutional authority, legislative action, judicial decision, and executive fiat have given it substantial responsibility for guaranteeing broad areas of civil rights, for promoting the welfare of specific ethnic groups, and for bringing into the mainstream of American life the many racial, religious, and nationality groups that comprise its people. The areas covered are intergroup relations in government practices and services, utilization of intergroup relations in the state department and Peace Corps, training of intergroup relations personnel, government role in intergroup relations research, government reference services in intergroup relations, and leadership role of the president in intergroup relations.