Kansas Commission on Civil Rights and Kansas Human Rights Commission : selected newspaper clippings, 1954-1999 / Collected and photocopied by the Kansas State Historical Society. 1954-1999

Kansas. Commission on Civil Rights

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In 1953, the State of Kansas passed the Kansas Act Against Discrimination (KAAD), the twelfth state to pass such an act. This act created the Anti-Discrimination Commission which focused solely on employment practices and had no enforcement capabilities. In 1961 when the act was amended in order to become an enforceable law prohibiting discriminatory employment practices because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry, the name changed to the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights. Ove...

Kansas Human Rights Commission

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In 1953, the State of Kansas passed the Kansas Act Against Discrimination, the twelfth state to pass such an act. This act created the Anti-Discrimination Commission which focused solely on employment practices and had no enforcement capabilities. In 1961 when the act was amended in order to become an enforceable law prohibiting discriminatory employment practices because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry, the name changed to the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights. After furt...

Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division

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