Civil Rights Files, 1963 - 1966

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Civil Rights Files, 1963 - 1966

1963-1966

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40031964

The series consists of material accumulated by Lee C. White in his role as Associate Counsel and then Special Counsel to the President. They reflect his involvement with many aspects of the government’s activities relating to civil rights. They consist of correspondence, memorandums, drafts of bills and executive orders, published and unpublished reports, newspaper and journal articles, and other types of material. Among the topics represented in the files are implementation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, consolidation of federal efforts in the field of civil rights, businessmen and civil rights, the military and civil rights, discrimination in medical facilities, ethnic minorities, public accommodations, discrimination in housing, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, federal assistance programs, desegregation in the South, public and vocational education, law enforcement and riots in northern and southern cities, and violence directed against blacks in the South. Although the series includes material on civil rights throughout the United States, many of the documents focus on the South, particularly Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. There is considerable material on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, the Community Relations Service, and the 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights (“To Fulfill These Rights”).

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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