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• W1171890517 abstract "THE DAVIS-BACON ACT: VESTIGE OF JIM CROW David Bernstein* I. INTRODUCTION In a 1987 speech to the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, then-Equal Employment Opportunity Chairman Clarence Thomas argued that legislative initiatives such as ... [the] Davis-Bacon [Act] provided barriers against black Americans entering the labor force. During the confirmation process, Senators Kennedy, 1 Metzenbaum, 2 and Simon, 3 all strong supporters of civil rights legislation, attacked Thomas for his hostile statements about Davis-Bacon. But as this Article will show, Justice Thomas' assessment of the Davis-Bacon Act was correct. The Davis-Bacon Act, 4 though a relatively obscure and unknown law, has had a tremendous negative impact on Black construction workers for decades. Initially passed by Congress in 1931, the Act requires that con- tractors with federal building contracts whose values exceed $2,000 pay their workers the prevailing wage, as determined by the Secretary of Labor. One of the goals of Davis-Bacon supporters was to prevent Blacks from working on federal construction projects. The law in large part ac- complished this goal, and continues to serve that goal to some degree to- day, while also inhibiting minority business enterprises from competing for federal contracts. Part I of this Article will review the evidence that Congress passed Davis-Bacon with discriminatory intent. Part II will document the histori- cal and continuing discriminatory effects of Davis-Bacon. The Article con- cludes with the hope that Davis-Bacon, a vestige of Jim Crow lawmaking, will be declared unconstitutional. II. EVIDENCE OF DISCRIMINATORY INTENT A. Discrimination Against Blacks by Construction Unions In the immediate post-Civil War period, an estimated 100,000 out of the 120,000 skilled construction craftsmen in the South were Black. After the Civil War, White workers began to displace Black building craftsmen * Clerk, Judge David A. Nelson, Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; J.D., Yale Law School 1991. The author, while a law student at Yale, co-authored the amicus brief of the Landmark Legal Foundation Center for Civil Rights in Building and Constr. Trades Dept., AFL- CIO v. Dole 90-5345 (D.C. Cir., argued Oct. 31, 1991), which is currently pending. 1. Remarks by Senator Kennedy During Floor Debate Regarding Nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, Federal Information Systems, Oct. 4, 1991. 2. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on the Nomination of Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, Federal Information Systems, Sept. 13, 1991. 3. 137 Cong. Rec. 14452 (1991). 4. 40 U.S.C. § 276(a)-(c) (1988)." @default.
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