Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

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

Little Rock Situation, September 24, 1957.

From the Presidential Library of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Little Rock school desegregation crisis, including deployment of U.S. Army troops to Little Rock, September 24, 1957, and a presidential speech, 1957

Mar-56

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