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...Farge, who championed the cause of the Indian, was his nephew); in Manhattan. Father La Farge became interested in the problems of the Negro when assigned in 1911 to rural Maryland, from then on waged a relentless campaign for racial equality in books and articles, stumped for a federal FEPC, helped found the 60 Catholic Interracial Councils, described it all in 1954 in a wise and delightfully understated autobiography, The Manner Is Ordinary...
...Washington a House Judiciary subcommittee approved its own version of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. It expanded and even liberalized the Administration's package. Under the leadership of Brooklyn's civil-rights drumbeating Congressman Emanuel Celler, the committee added a provision for a powerful FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission); ballooned the public-accommodations clause beyond Administration-set limits to include almost every establishment offering goods and services to the public; greatly expanded the injunctive powers requested for the Attorney General; boosted voting-rights guarantees to include not only antidiscrimination in federal elections but in state voting...
From the Capitol Hill leaders, and from the President and the Vice President, the visitors got polite words-and polite refusals. And as they left Washington they knew that there would be no FEPC, no authorization for the Justice Department to step into every sort of civil rights case. Most frustrating of all, they knew that the public-accommodations section of the Administration's package was quite unlikely to pass the Senate...
California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals, and came through with banners waving. He pushed through a state FEPC, abolished the oddball cross-filing system for party primaries, organized down-to-smokestack antismog attack, raised taxes enough to trim a threatened $201 million deficit to $5,000,000, launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting...
...NAACP has followed this course with notable success. In the North, NAACP groups have led civic campaigns to lessen race tension, using noise as a key weapon. Numerous state and municipal FEPC laws have followed NAACP-inspired pressure. The supreme court cases on segregation in education, transportation, and recreational facilities were argued by Association lawers, and pending Congressional legislation includes bills for national unsegregated public housing, medical care, and sanitation, sponsored by the NAACP...