Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach had sent in 350 federal observers to guard against last-ditch attempts by white men to keep Negroes from voting, no serious incidents had been reported at week's end. "People voted freely and comfortably," said Katzenbach. "This reflects great credit on all the people involved...
...Ordered Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach to direct a "renewed drive" against organized crime, which, Johnson said, "constitutes one of the most serious threats to a peaceful and prosperous society...
...Murphy Revisited. On the contrary, argued U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach before a House Judiciary Subcommittee, "the construction of homes and apartment buildings, the production and sale of building materials and home furnishings, the financing of construction and purchase all take place in or through the channels of interstate commerce." Maintaining that the housing-discrimination provision fell under the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal protection of the laws, Katzenbach said that this amendment also sanctions the desegregation of residential areas...
...rent to Negroes, the Attorney General predicted widespread compliance comparable to that achieved under the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He conceded that the Administration would not object to a "Mrs. Murphy clause"* exempting owners occupying small houses from any compulsion to rent to Negroes. Katzenbach emphasized nonetheless: "The ending of compulsory residential segregation has become a national necessity. Law must lead and law must protect in this vital area." Congress, he suggested, must now "address itself to the vindication of what is, in substance, the freedom to live...
...more than two hours before releasing the bill, the President, together with Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, went over it with a group of Negro leaders. Among them was Martin Luther King, who left shortly afterward for a barnstorming tour of Alabama, where he urged Negroes to vote as a bloc in this week's Democratic primary-in which, thanks to the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills, their ballots had become a major factor...