Civil Rights: Excerpts from the 1961 United States Commission on Civil Rights ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 119 pages |
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Page 34 - States, should help areas of substantial and persistent unemployment and underemployment to take effective steps in planning and financing their...
Page 64 - Housing ... seems to be the one commodity in the American market that is not freely available on equal terms to everyone who can afford to pay.
Page 48 - That the Federal government, either by executive or by congressional action, take such measures as may be required to assure that funds under the various programs of federal assistance to higher education are disbursed only to such publiclycontrolled institutions of higher education as do not discriminate on grounds of race, color, religion or national origin.
Page x - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of laws under the Constitution...
Page 109 - ... (US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Special Labor Force Report No. 75, "Poverty Areas of Our Major Cities,
Page 102 - Personally, I don't care if the United States gets the first man on the moon, if while this is happening on a crash basis, we dawdle along here on our corner of the earth, nursing our prejudices, flouting our magnificent Constitution, ignoring the central moral problem of our times, and appearing hypocrites to all the world.
Page 101 - Perhaps we could establish a stronger alliance against these outrages if we were to meditate more deeply on the true import of our Christian heritage. Could we not agree that the central test of a Christian is a simple affirmative response to the most exalted command mankind has ever received: "Thou shah love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and thy whole soul, and thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.
Page ix - It does not adjudicate. It does not hold trials or determine anyone's civil or criminal liability. It does not issue orders. Nor does it indict, punish, or impose any legal sanctions. It does not make determinations depriving anyone of his life, liberty, or property. In short, the Commission does not and cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights. The only purpose of its existence is to find facts which may subsequently be used as the basis for legislative or...
Page 21 - ... legislation providing that all citizens of the United States shall have a right to vote in federal or state elections which shall not be denied or in any way abridged or interfered with by the United States or by any state for any cause except for inability to meet reasonable age or length-of-residence requirements uniformly applied to all persons within a state, legal confinement at the time of registration or election, or conviction of a felony; such right to vote to include the right to register...
Page 74 - That the President issue an executive order, stating the national objective of equal opportunity in housing and specifically directing all federal agencies concerned with housing and with home mortgage credit to shape their policies and practices to make the maximum contribution to the achievement of this goal...