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Civil Rights. FOR: abolition of the poll tax. AGAINST: compulsory FEPC...
Since World War II, the council has lobbied in Washington for compulsory health insurance, federal aid to education, Point Four and FEPC. Council members concede that they do not speak officially for the church membership (1,204,789), but Congressmen often miss this fine distinction...
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that "interfering" Northerners don't understand the problem, he once proposed that the South trade 1,500,000 Negroes for an equal number of Northern whites to "equalize" the racial problem. "My idea is that a good deal of civil-rights legislation should be called 'civil-wrongs' legislation...
During '45 and '46 Leuchtenberg was the New England representative on the "FEPC lobby" in Washington. "With a staff of almost all Negroes, I realized for the first time what Negro segregation meant. My most disappointing experience was the sudden departure of one of the legislators who sponsored the FEPC bill. He had been warned that if he voted for the bill, his state would not get allocation of funds for an essential dam. He was a thousand miles away on the day when the bill was taken...
...Minnesota's fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, not yet a Senator, who insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that...