Report Outline
Postwar Dangers to Civil Liberties
Development of Federal Civil Rights
Extent of Federal Enforcement Power
Postwar Dangers to Civil Liberties
Increase in Civil Rights Cases Since War
Expansion of federal power and authority to curb violations of rights guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution of the United States will shortly be asked of Congress by the Executive Branch of the government. And independent measures will be pressed by Republican members of the House and Senate at the present session to prohibit certain specific abuses in the broad field covered by the term “civil liberties.”
Since the close of World War II, there has been an increase in the number of Klan-like “hate” groups and a rising tide of incidents involving mob violence and police brutality. Yet state-local law enforcement agencies in some areas have shown inability or unwillingness to safeguard the civil rights of citizens, and the Department of Justice at Washington at present has only meager authority to prosecute criminal violations of constitutional guarantees.
The outstanding case of mob violence to go unpunished in 1946 was the shotgun lynching, July 25, of four Negroes in Walton County, Georgia. State officials professed an inability to obtain sufficient evidence for trials on murder charges. The Justice Department conducted a separate inquiry in which agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned more than 2,500 persons. The facts were then presented to a federal grand jury in an effort to obtain indictments under federal civil rights statutes. |
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African Americans and the Civil Rights Movement |
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Jul. 22, 2022 |
Black Hairstyles |
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Nov. 15, 1985 |
Black America Long March for Equality |
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Aug. 12, 1983 |
Black Political Power |
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Jan. 18, 1980 |
Black Leadership Question |
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Aug. 15, 1973 |
Black Americans, 1963–1973 |
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Nov. 26, 1969 |
Racial Discrimination in Craft Unions |
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Sep. 11, 1968 |
Black Pride |
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Feb. 21, 1968 |
Negro Power Struggle |
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Mar. 08, 1967 |
Negroes in the Economy |
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Jan. 19, 1966 |
Changing Southern Politics |
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Oct. 27, 1965 |
Negroes in the North |
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Jul. 21, 1965 |
Negro Revolution: Next Steps |
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Oct. 14, 1964 |
Negro Voting |
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Sep. 21, 1964 |
Negroes and the Police |
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Jul. 03, 1963 |
Right of Access to Public Accommodations |
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Jan. 23, 1963 |
Negro Jobs and Education |
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Mar. 25, 1960 |
Violence and Non-Violence in Race Relations |
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Aug. 05, 1959 |
Negro Employment |
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Apr. 18, 1956 |
Racial Issues in National Politics |
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Apr. 18, 1951 |
Progress in Race Relations |
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Dec. 17, 1948 |
Discrimination in Employment |
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Jan. 10, 1947 |
Federal Protection of Civil Liberties |
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Aug. 25, 1944 |
The Negro Vote |
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Jul. 01, 1942 |
Racial Discrimination and the War Effort |
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Mar. 25, 1939 |
Civil and Social Rights of the Negro |
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Jul. 22, 1927 |
Disenfranchisement of the Negro in the South |
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