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Equal Employment Opportunities Enforcement Act

Hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor on: S. 2453, the Equal Employment Opportunities Enforcement Act, to allow the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to issue judicially enforceable cease and desist orders upon complaint of discriminatory practices (text, p. 1-27); and S. 2806, the Administration proposal, to give EEOC the right to sue through familiar court procedures (text, p. 28-32). NAACP called as a witness., 1969

Equal Employment Opportunities Enforcement Act

Congressional Hearing: Considers S. 2453, to grant added decisionmaking and enforcement authority to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Focuses on viewpoints of various minority groups. NAACP called as witness., 1969

Equal Employment Opportunity

Congressional Hearing: Considers legislation to prohibit discrimination in employment. Focuses on discrimination in employment opportunities in D.C. Apr. 22 hearing was held at Fairleigh-Dickinson University. Includes “Employment in Washington, D.C.,” report by the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (June 1963, p. 355-421). NAACP called as witness., 1963

Equal Employment Opportunity

Congressional Hearing: Considers S. 1308 and similar S. 1667, to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. NAACP called as witness., 1967

Document 2 February 2, 1948 House Document Fr: Harry S. Truman

Record from President Truman’s library: President Truman’s attempts to put the principles of racial justice into law: civil Rights Program, Message from the President of the U.S. Transmitting His Recommendations for Civil Rights Program: message to Congress outlining president’s civil rights program based on recommendations of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 1948

Civil Rights

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

Civil Rights

Congressional Hearing: Considers legislation authorizing the adoption of the Senate Civil Rights Bill without further House consideration., 1964