Document Title: Document 72 September 9, 1957 Public Law Records as President, White House Central Files: Official
Document Description: Civil Rights Act of 1957, text of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (Public Law 85-315), in five parts: (1) to establish the Commission on Civil Rights, (2) to provide for an additional assistant Attorney General, (3) to strengthen the civil rights statutes and for other purposes, (4) to provide means of further securing and protecting the right to vote, and (5) to provide trial by jury for proceedings to punish criminal contempts of court growing out of civil rights cases and to amend the judicial code relating to federal jury qualifications
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