1975 July The NAACP's sixty-sixth annual convention in Washington, D.C. focuses on the country's bitter economic situation with over 12% of adult black workers and as much as 40% of black youth unemployed. Discussion centers on programs for creating new jobs and on organized labor's seniority system, which unintentionally, but automatically, discriminates against blacks. President Ford addresses the convention but refuses to create special programs for unemployed or under employed blacks.