Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Brief Amicus Curiae of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Urban League, Inc., Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the New Jewish Agenda, and the Commission on Social Action of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Supreme Court records on Sheet Metal Workers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1985

Civil Rights — 1957

Congressional Hearings: Continuation of hearings on civil rights legislation to create a bipartisan commission to investigate violations of civil rights; to create a civil rights division within the Justice Dept; to enact new legislation to aid in voting rights enforcement; and to permit Federal Government to seek civil courts’ preventive relief in civil rights cases., 1957

Document 19 February 14, 1957 Testimony From: [Herbert Brownell Jr.] E. Frederic Morrow

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)., 1957

Document 92 1958 Pamphlet E. Frederic Morrow Records

Civil Rights Act of 1957, publication of the Civil Rights Commission, listing commission members and including information about what it is, how it operates, what it must do, what it can do, what the individual can do, and how people can contact the commission for further information, 1958

Document 72 September 9, 1957 Public Law Records as President, White House Central Files: Official

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, 1957

Document 103 February 27, 1959 Report Gerald D. Morgan Records

Civil Rights Act of 1957, text of a report noting Executive Branch cooperation with the Civil Rights Commission, essentially updating the commission’s request for assistance from federal departments in fulfilling its mission (see Document 93)., 1959

Civil Rights

Congressional Hearing: Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on Civil Rights, 1957