Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the right to vote, still denied to many Negroes ("a betrayal of the ideal set forth in the Declaration of Independence"), the commission recommended strong new federal action. Items: ¶ A federal law requiring states to preserve registration records for five years, during which they would be subject to...
In housing, the report called for the establishment of biracial committees in cities with large nonwhite populations: "A large proportion of colored Americans are living in overcrowded slums." It urged the President to direct federal agencies to shape their policies to ensure equal opportunity, and recommended that builders using federal...
To many of the recommendations, there were bitter dissents by Southern members and by angry Southern Senators and Congressmen who were tipped in advance about the report. Commission Member John Battle disagreed with the "nature and tenor" of the report, said that in large part it was "an argument in...
All through those years, Conant grew more interested in public schools. In the penny-pinching 19305, he saved Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education (now one of the best) from extinction. In 1936 he ordered a new Harvard degree: Master of Arts in Teaching, uniting education courses with...
Died. Harold Sines Vance, 69, board chairman of Studebaker (1935-53), who with the aid of Studebaker Sales Chief Paul Hoffman, pulled Studebaker out of receivership when it went under in the Depression; of pneumonia; in Washington. Vance served on the Atomic Energy Commission since 1955, where he advocated use...