The Nation - News from May 3, 1985

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus introduced a resolution demanding that Marianne Mele Hall, chairman of the U.S. Copyright Royalty Tribunal, resign over the “abhorrent racist philosophies” in a 1982 book she edited. Caucus leaders said several other House members had agreed to co-sponsor the resolution. Hall has told a House subcommittee that although she was listed as a co-author she only edited the book and that she found its contents “repugnant.”