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The Commission on Civil Rights—and Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C.
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When there is a crisis of the conscience, the natural human response on the part of many churchgoers is to put a little something extra into the collection plate on Sunday. That is roughly what the nation did in 1957 when it created the Commission on Civil Rights.

Just three years previously the Supreme Court, in Brown, had invalidated the old separate-but-equal rule. Some of the southern states had resolved to resist the decision with all their might. Civilrights groups had countered by mobilizing for a fight that would last longer than they expected.

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 291 - 305
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1972

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References

1 U.S. President's Committee on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights 154 (1947)Google Scholar.

2 Hearings before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, First Session, on Implementation of Recommendations of Presidential and National Commissions, p. 5.

3 Ibid., p. 1.

4 Ibid., p. 269.

5 Ibid., pp. 276–277.

6 Ibid., p. 235 et seq.

7 Ibid., pp. 277–278.

8 Ibid., p. 5.

9 Ibid., p. 278.

10 Ibid., p. 272–273.