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[[image - black and white photograph of Joseph W. Williams, Sr.]]
[[caption]] JOSEPH W. WILLIAMS, SR. [[/caption]]

Joseph W. Williams, Sr., is a director of personnel relations for Loews Corporation in New York City, and is particularly noted for his exercise of diplomacy in minority, labor and governmental relations.

It was by employing his own concept of patient diplomacy that Mr. Williams was able to make a major contribution toward the settlement of 1971's long and costly strike by the International Tobacco Workers Union against Lorillard, a division of Loews.

Mr. Williams is a long-time friend and aide of Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts whose campaign for the U.S. Senate he helped manage. Prior to joining Loews, Mr. Williams was involved in the pioneering days of minority conflicts with industry while serving in executive positions with Eastern Airlines, United Liquors, Ltd., and a federally-funded anti-poverty program in Boston, his home town.

Mr. Williams is Chairman of the New York State Council of Afro-American Republicans and is also active in numerous community and national projects concerned with implementing equal opportunity in industry.

Mr. Williams is married and has a son, Joseph W. Williams, Jr., a music student in Boston.


CHARLES S. WRIGHT INC

Mr. Wright is president of his organized New York-based firm, has a highly diversified background in housing, planning and physical development at all levels from the Federal through to and including community-based planning agencies. His firm has specialized in the development of community-sponsored non-profit housing projects in the New York Metropolitan Regional Area.

The firm has $30,000,000 worth of housing both in construction and planning under FHA Sections 236 and 221 (d) (3) programs.

This firm possesses a dual capacity in urban planning and housing development (community-owned). 

Mr. Wright is regarded as being one of the leading Negro urban planners in the nation and consequently, the only successful Advocate Planner currently in operation.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE OF CHARLES S. WRIGHT: Prior to forming his own organization, Mr. Wright was employed as the Director of Housing and Planning with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation where he was responsible for the development of the comprehensive rehabilitation and development as a part of the Bedford Stuyvesant Special Impact Project.

Earlier, Mr. Wright was the Associate Director for Neighborhood Planning with the United Planning Organization in Washington, D.C. He also served as a physical and business planning analyst with the SBDC of the same agency. He was employed as an Urban Planner in the HUD predecessor, i.e., HHFA. In addition, he served as a city planner with the New York City Department of Planning and with the New York City Board of Education.

While employed in Washington's SBDC, Mr. Wright was instrumental in organizing Uptown Progress and MICCO, two Federally-funded citizen's planning organizations. The former was concerned with commercial redevelopment of inner-city commercial areas, while the latter addressed the total planning needs of D.C.'s Shaw Urban Renewal area.

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