Document Title: Document 19 February 14, 1957 Testimony From: [Herbert Brownell Jr.] E. Frederic Morrow
Document Description: Civil Rights Act of 1957, statement of the Attorney General on the proposed civil rights legislation, covering the administration’s four-point program: creation of a bipartisan civil rights commission, creation of a civil rights division within the Justice Department, enactment of new laws to aid in the enforcement of voting rights, and amendment of existing laws to permit the federal government to seek preventive relief from civil courts in civil rights cases (compare Document 10).
Publication Year: 1957
Publication: Documentary History of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidency
ProQuest Product: ProQuest History Vault
Source Institution: Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Papers as President: Ann Whitman File, Administration Series, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas