Category Archives: Presidential Committees and Commissions

Folder on White House Civil Rights Conference, agenda papers, proposed reorganization of American education, metropolitan development budgeting for equal opportunity, Steering Committee membership, and Andrew Young appointed deputy director of White House Conference, “To Fulfill These Rights,” Alphabetical File, 1965, 1965

Bill Text: Joint Resolution creating a Joint Committee on Civil Rights, 1948

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Advisory and informal advisory panels, including Task Force on Aggression and Violence, 1968-1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Equal Rights Conference, Commission on Civil Rights, Selected Office Files Related to Civil Rights–Lee C. White, 1965, 1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Equal Rights Conference, Commission on Civil Rights, planning sessions, Selected Office Files Related to Civil Rights–Lee C. White, 1965, 1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights proposed programs, participants and planning, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Complaints leveled at federal agencies by White House Conference on Civil Rights participants, including racism in the FBI, nonexistence of black judges in Southern districts, state desegregation noncompliance, and discrimination in government programs, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Civil Strife and the Law: An Overview, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Comments on Group Violence Task Force report, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Comments on public safety section of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders final report, November 13, 1967-February 21, 1968, 1967-1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: August 22, 1967 meeting of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, focusing on Detroit Riot, 1967, and Newark Riot, 1967, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: October 23, 1967 meeting of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, including statement of Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: October 5, 1967 meeting of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: September 20, 1967 meeting of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: September 21, 1967 meeting of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, including statements of Ernie W. Chambers and Roger W. Wilkins, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on civil disobedience, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on group violence, including black militancy and white extremism, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on group violence, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on group violence, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on group violence, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission statement on violence and law enforcement, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Commission correspondence file, 1968

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee correspondence, including comments and inquiries from organizations and individuals, and White House staff on establishment and disbanding of Committee., 1946-1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights planning papers on jobs, administration of justice, voting, health, families, housing, communities and education, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders reports, memos, and testimony, December 22-31, 1967, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Detroit, Michigan, Kerner Commission files, September 1967, 1967-1968

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: The Report of the Committee on Civil Rights and President Truman’s Message to Congress of February 2, 1948: request to review the “Charter of Negro Rights” outlining ten-point program for safeguarding civil rights for all Americans, 1948

Record from President Truman’s library: President Truman’s attempts to put the principles of racial justice into law: civil Rights Program, Message from the President of the U.S. Transmitting His Recommendations for Civil Rights Program: message to Congress outlining president’s civil rights program based on recommendations of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 1948

Record from President Truman’s library: President Truman’s attempts to put the principles of racial justice into law: civil Rights Program, Message from the President of the U.S. Transmitting His Recommendations for Civil Rights Program: message to Congress outlining president’s civil rights program based on recommendations of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 1948

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: President Truman’s attempts to put the principles of racial justice into law: statement and Analysis by the Attorney General concerning the Proposed Civil Rights Act of 1949 -HR 4682, S. 1725: includes background discussion of Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, parts of Title 18 U.S. C, and detailed analysis of bill by title and section, 1949

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Federal anti-lynching legislation letters of support referencing case of Willie Earle in South Carolina, including correspondence with NAACP., 1947

Congressional Hearings: Investigates unemployment and underemployment among blacks living in urban ghettos, as reflected in “Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,” Mar. 1, 1968, and referred to as the Kerner Commission Report., 1968

House and Senate Reports: Employment and manpower problems in cities, implications of report of National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee establishment by Executive Order 9808, and advance press release of Committee report., 1946-1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders correspondence pertaining to riots, February 1-March 11, 1968, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Kerner Commission field team examples for the Interim Report, November 7, 1967, 1967-1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Final Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, March 1, 1968, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Kerner Commission, general correspondence, August 1967, 1967-1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Group Violence Task Force, 1968-1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Violence in America, 1968-1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Interim report draft, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders correspondence pertaining to riots, January 15-27, 1968, 1968

Law Text: Joint Resolution Authorizing the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights regional outreach trips and selection of participants, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights participant list, 1966

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee meeting minutes on civil rights and legislation, with transcripts of testimony from Justice Department, National Urban League, and NAACP officials., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee meeting minutes, including testimony on behalf of civil rights organizations and researchers., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee papers, including statements by consultants, subcommittee memoranda and interim reports, executive order creating committee, and early press releases., 1946-1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: NAACP civil rights correspondence with Committee, including issues of employment, lynching, voting rights, violence, and conditions in Southern states., 1946-1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Correspondence sent to National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders, November 2-16, 1967, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, reports and memos, November 20-28, 1967, 1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Civil Rights Conference Planning Session, Meeting with Negro Leadership, United Civil Rights, Marvin Watson, White House Conference on Civil Rights Background Materials, Agenda for Committee Discussions and Bayard Rustin, November-December 1965, 1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Correspondence sent to National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders, October 1-24, 1967, including documents on unemployment, Cincinnati Riot, and aftermath of Watts Riot, 1967

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee meeting minutes, including transcripts of testimony on behalf of civil rights organizations and researchers., 1947

Folder of documents on the White House Conference on Civil Rights from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1966

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Transcript of Committee proceedings of April 17, 1947, including testimony of NAACP and others., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Transcripts of Committee proceedings of April 3 and 15, 1947, including testimony on Justice Department, legislation and legal issues, radio and hate speech, antisemitism, and hate groups., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Transcript of Committee proceedings of June 30, 1947, with Committee members’ discussion of content and emphasis of report, and its use as a tool of mass education., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Transcripts of Committee proceedings of March 6, 20, and April 2, 1947., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Transcript of Committee proceedings of September 12-13, 1947, with Committee members’ discussion of content and emphasis of report, including segregation, discrimination, legislation, and role of federal government., 1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights press releases and list of participants, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Reaction to report of the National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), March 1, 1968-June 13, 1968, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights recommended participants, 1966

National Archives: Racism and race relations in America, responses to a report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968, 1968

National Archive Records: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders examination of riot causes, 1967-1968, 1967-1968

National Archive Records on Black American civil rights, White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965-1966, 1965-1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Correspondence sent to National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders, September 5-21, 1957, including information on housing, ghettos, and Detroit Riot of 1967, 1967

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee memoranda, including digests of news reports and organizations’ comments; discrimination faced by Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Indians; and group defamation and libel., 1947

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee memoranda, including lynching, armed forces, Hispanic Americans, history of civil rights legislation and case law, U.S. possessions, federal employment, black Americans, disclosure requirements, and housing., 1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Civil rights issues demanding further investigation following the White House Conference on Civil Rights, including complaints leveled at federal agencies by White House Conference on Civil Rights participants, including racism in the FBI, nonexistence of black judges in Southern districts, state desegregation noncompliance, and discrimination in government programs, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on Public opinion on the White House Conference on Civil Rights, and papers on ghettos and discrimination in education, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights council members’ lists of suggested invitees, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Group Violence Task Force, 1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Group Violence Task Force, 1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: The Politics of Protest: Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation, a report to the Commission prepared by Jerome Skolnick, 1969

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Summary pamphlet of Committee’s final report, including dissemination and reaction from civil rights organizations and mass media., 1948

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee report on constitutional civil rights, segregation, discrimination, and remedies, 1947

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, a report to the Commission prepared by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, 1969

National Archives folder on Black American civil rights, recommendations and follow-up from White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1966, 1966

Library of Congress Folders: White House Conference on Civil Rights, Press Releases, 1966, 1966

Folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights, Correspondence, 1965-1966, 1965-1966

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: President Truman’s civil rights message to Congress, February 2, 1948, consisting of drafts with outline of actions for Executive branch, Congress, states, and for public education., 1948

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Shoot-out in Cleveland between black militants and the police, 1968