Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963

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Página 7 - Study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution...
Página 109 - ... a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance or unrest...
Página 103 - I hereby direct all departments and agencies in the executive branch of the Federal Government, insofar as their functions relate to the provision, rehabilitation, or operation of housing and related facilities, to take all action necessary and appropriate to prevent discrimination because of race, color, creed, or national origin...
Página 101 - Agency and all other executive departments and agencies to use their good offices and to take other appropriate action permitted by law, including the institution of appropriate litigation, if required, to promote the abandonment of discriminatory practices...
Página 108 - And the possibility of disorder by others cannot justify exclusion of persons from a place if they otherwise have a constitutional right (founded upon the Equal Protection Clause) to be present.
Página 57 - ... would fall. Likewise, we would have a different case here if the transfer provisions were unrestricted, allowing transfers to or from any school regardless of the race of the majority therein. But no official transfer plan or provision of which racial segregation is the inevitable consequence may stand under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Página 75 - ... shall be used exclusively for the training of individuals designed to fit them for useful employment as highly skilled technicians in recognized occupations requiring scientific knowledge, as determined by the State board for such State, in fields necessary for the national defense.
Página 130 - ... in cases where separate hospital facilities are provided for separate population groups, if the plan makes equitable provision on the basis of need for facilities and services of like quality for each such group...
Página 248 - That Congress amend subsection (b) of 42 USC 1971 to prohibit any arbitrary action or (where there is a duty to act) arbitrary inaction, which deprives or threatens to deprive any person of the right to register, vote, and have that vote counted in any Federal election.
Página 63 - Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, and West Virginia — and the District of Columbia early adopted school desegregation as a matter of official policy. The five "desegregating...

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