President's Committee on Civil Rights
United States Committee on the issue of Civil Rights / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The President's Committee on Civil Rights was a United States presidential commission established by President Harry Truman in 1946. The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946, and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them.[1][2] The committee submitted the report of its findings, entitled To Secure These Rights, to President Truman in December 1947,[3] and Truman proposed comprehensive civil rights legislation to Congress, and ordered antidiscrimination and desegregation throughout the government and armed forces.
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Established by | Harry Truman on December 5, 1946 |
Disbanded | December 1947 |
Related Executive Order number(s) | 9808, 9980, 9981 |
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Chairperson | Charles Edward Wilson |
Other committee members | Sadie T. Alexander James B. Carey John Sloan Dickey Morris Ernst Roland B. Gittelsohn Frank Porter Graham Francis J. Haas Charles Luckman Francis P. Matthews Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Henry Knox Sherrill Boris Shishkin Dorothy Rogers Tilly Channing Heggie Tobias |
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Purpose | Investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them |
Policy areas | Civil rights |
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