U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVE FOR LEGISLATION CURB ON VIOLENCE. RACIAL HATRED (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. President Truman has established a civil rights committee “to combat organised groups which fan hatred and intolerance, causing mob violence.” The committee, with its chairman, Mr. Charles Erwin Wilson, president of the General Electric Company, has been directed to recommend new civil rights legislation and other measures to protect all parts of the population.
The United PreSs says that President Truman’s action follows a storm of protest from minority groups that, the Government should combat the wave o£ lynchings and racial prejudice. These groups deplored the failure to effect arrests in recent lynchings of four negroes in Georgia and activities of .the revived Klu Klux Klan.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 7
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