the Supreme Court there is the same story of the tre-
mendous financial outlays and the long and burdensome
struggle through the various procedural delays and
obstructions until the court makes a determination.
In the school cases, some Negro children have
never gotten to enjoy their Constitutional right, enun-
ciated in 1954 by the Supreme Court in the Brown case,
to a desegregated education, and so in the first place
this language we feel would he a mandate to the courts and
the General Assembly and give them guidance in elimina-
ting the long delays that Negro citizens in this state
have historically suffered when they seek to enjoy and to
have their Constitutional rights enforced.
I find that many of the delegates have no
understanding of this area because they do not come in
contact with it, and I would like to bring to the
attention of the delegates the report just issued in
October, 1967, via a joint survey conducted by the
United States Department of Labor and the United States
Departrent of Commerce.
They included Maryland in this survey. The