The Diversity Index

Epilogue

JOHN G. FEILD REMAINED DEEPLY ENGAGED IN RACE RELATIONS after he left the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in 1963. He spent one year working on a study at the Potomac Institute on how to increase the number of minority employees in the Defense Department. For the next decade, he was a member of the U.S. Conference on Mayors, where he advised cities on how to implement their antidiscrimination laws and apply for federal grants to improve race and community relations. During that period, his budget increased from $250,000 to $4 million, and his staff increased from two to 42 professionals. Feild helped create the Mayor’s Leadership Institute and the Urban Fellows Program to assist in educating new leaders and young ...