Council's Report and Recommendations to the Conference, June 1-2, 1966, Washington, D.C. |
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Page 49 - Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research at the request of the Office of Statistical Standards of the Bureau of the Budget.
Page 2 - We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Page 34 - Congress; the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963; the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965...
Page 1 - To Fulfill These Rights." Its object will be to help the American Negro fulfill the rights which, after the long time of injustice, he is finally about to secure. To move beyond opportunity to achievement. To shatter forever not only the barriers of law and public practice, but the walls which bound the condition of many by the color of his skin.
Page 88 - ... activity, such relief is not available once a prosecution is instituted. The Commission recommends that Congress consider amending section 1983 of title 42 to permit injunctive relief, notwithstanding the Antiinjunction statute, where State prosecutions are brought against persons for exercising 1st amendment rights directed at obtaining equal treatment for all citizens regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin.
Page 71 - From the experience of three decades, it is clear to me that American cities require a program that will: Concentrate our available resources — in planning tools, in housing construction, in job training, in health facilities, in recreation, in welfare programs, in education — to improve the conditions of life in urban areas...
Page 68 - ... departments, and other operations, the Federal Government should require racial and income inclusiveness of the community. The Federal Government should also contract solely with employers located in communities which provide housing and other amenities for all races and income groups in all neighborhoods. 4. HUD should be empowered to purchase, lease, and sell land to assure that its development and occupancy, now and in the future, will provide housing, facilities and services for persons of...
Page 68 - In areas in which local governing bodies are not meeting their responsibility to provide housing for all segments of the population, the nonwhite and the poor, the Federal Government should take direct action to provide the housing needed. 3. In locating, transferring or expanding governmental agencies, departments, and other operations, the Federal Government should require racial and income inclusiveness of the community. The Federal Government should also contract solely with employers located...
Page 35 - As educators, there can be do doubt in our minds that segregated education is inferior education. The wisest minds in our profession have joined the Supreme Court in making that clear. What is sadly lacking is the clear public expression of these facts of our professional life. The educator must speak out and he must act. He must help parents understand that all-white and all-Negro schools harm both races.
Page 84 - And now we are considering a proposal designed to deter and punish interference by force or threat of force with activities protected by Federal law.