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Created in 1946 as the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), the commission was expected to fill the gap left by the demise of a similar federal program in the aftermath of World War II. Previously--in 1943--the state had approved the Massachusetts Committee on Racial and Religious Understanding in response to racerelated violence around the country...
When, in 1950, Massachusetts outlawed segregation and discrimination in public housing, it gave the FEPC power over this area, renaming it the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Since that time, both the state and the federal government have expanded their antidiscrimination laws, so MCAD's responsibilities have steadily grown...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. The civil rights bill is "like a three dollar bill-it's a phony." Goldwater opposes the public accommodations and FEPC sections of the pending civil rights bill, says that they are unconstitutional because they infringe on the rights of private property. He believes that "there are too many old laws which aren't even working. And there is this above all, the oldest law of all: you cannot pass a law that will make me like you or you like me. This is something that can only happen in our hearts. This is a problem...
...give incentive for less biased employers to hire more Negroes. In this context, Professor Friedman is saying that the Negro will receive lower wages than his white counterpart. It must be seen, however, that this is the case today in most industries even under the various forms of FEPC statues already operative in several states, and that the realization of Friedman's suggestion for total withdrawal of governmental jurisdiction in this area would represent no loss of income for the Negro, while making more jobs available to the Negro minority whose most pressing problem today is indeed a serious disproportion...
...appointed Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, a longtime champion of civil rights,* as floor manager of the bill. Humphrey will have one Democratic deputy for each of the bill's three major sections: Washington's Warren Magnuson on public accommodations, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark on FEPC, Michigan's Philip Hart on new judicial procedures...