Title VII prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion.  In this talk, Laird Bell Professor of History Harry Williams will briefly recount a seminal but still unresolved debate about the relationship of race and sex to the labor market that in the 1960s engaged Rep. Edith Green (D-OR), a champion for civil rights, fair labor practices, and gender equity, and Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women,  who supported gender equity in the abstract but prioritized economic opportunity for black males as a concrete strategy to strengthen African American families. In December 1961 President John F. Kennedy appointed Green and Height to the Commission on the Status of Women.