Authorization Request for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Fiscal Year 1988: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, February 26, 1987, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 61 páginas |
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Página 16 - In addition, it represents the Department of Education in certain suits filed against and on behalf of the Secretary of Education. The Section closely monitors approximately 400 school districts operating under desegregation court orders. Employment Litigation Section The Employment Litigation Section...
Página 7 - ... and familial status. The act allows the Section to bring cases on behalf of individuals where a complaint is filed with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Additionally, the Section enforces the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which prohibits discrimination in credit transactions...
Página 28 - OBJECTIVES: To provide protection of an individual's right to register and vote in all local, State and Federal elections without discrimination on account of race, color, membership in a language minority group, or age, to assure the rights of persons who are disabled or are unable to read or write to receive assistance in voting for a person of their choice, to assure the right to vote in Federal elections to...
Página 6 - In 1957, three years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, 347 US 483, 47 S.Ct.
Página 48 - With that, the hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 11 am, the subcommittee adjourned, to reconvene, subject to the call of the Chair.] [The prepared statement submitted by Mr. Bray follows:] TESTIMONY BEFORE CIVIL SERVICE SUBCOMMITTEE APRIL 30, 1980 LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT of BUN B. BRAY, JR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - FEDERAL MANAGERS•...
Página 6 - Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, and national origin, were important catalysts for change. The PCSW, with Eleanor Roosevelt as chair, was charged with the task of documenting the position of American women in the economy, legal system, and the family. Its 1964 report uncovered such pervasive sex discrimination that...
Página 4 - Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you are about to give in this case shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Página 25 - ... commerce. It took a broad view of the term commerce. Significance: Marshall, dealing a blow to the arguments of states' rights advocates, established the superiority of federal authority over states' rights under the Constitution. This ruling, which enlarged the definition of commerce, became the basis of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations.
Página 41 - ... and four guns. Seven persons were arrested on local charges by the sheriff's office and the eighth subject wanted on similar charges was arrested by the FBI in Chicago on September 13, 1970, for unlawful flight to avoid local prosecution. Results of our investigation of this matter were furnished to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice for a determination as to whether any Federal action is warranted. Cairo, 111., a community of 6,200 (40 percent black), has been the scene of...
Página 36 - I am proud to be associated with the men and women of this Division who have devoted their professional lives to this critical effort.