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Civil Rights. [Part 1]

Congressional Hearings: Considers H.R. 7152, to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the U.S. to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in education, to establish a Community Relations Service, to extend for four years the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, and to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity., 1964

1965 Annual Report

National Archives Folder: 1965 annual report of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, submitted by assistant attorney general John Doar, covering reorganization of the Civil Rights Division, and litigation under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1965

1967 Annual Report

National Archives Folder: 1967 annual report of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, submitted by assistant attorney general John Doar, covering equal employment opportunity, school desegregation, voting rights, law enforcement, and public accommodations, 1967

An Act To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes

Law Text: An Act To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes, 1964

124-A-1 Segregation [and Desegregation] 1956 (1).

Records from the Presidential Library of Dwight D. Eisenhower: White House Central Files on public reaction to civil rights issues, including racial violence in South and Montgomery bus boycott, 1956, 1956

Mar-56

The Claude A. Barnett Papers: Coverage of the civil rights movement and other news from the Associated Negro Press, 1965