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handle is hein.cbhear/cblhaaoo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 85TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 1st Session No. 291 CIVIL RIGHTS APRIL 1, 1957.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. R ODINO, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 6127] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 6127) to provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amend- ment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The bill is designed to protect the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States. In order to accolmplish that objec- tive, the bill provides the establishment of a bipartisan commission to investigate asserted violations of law in the field of civil rights which involve the right to vote and to make studies and recommenda- tions of the legal developments and policies of the Federal Government with respect to the equal protection of laws under the Constitution of the United States. It also provides for an additional Assistant Attorney General, who would be in charge of a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. The bill amends existing law so as to permit the Federal Government to seek from the civil courts pre- ventive or other necessary relief in civil-rights cases. Finally, it proposes the enactment of new laws to assist in the enforcement of the right to vote. HISTORY OF THE LEGISLATION The Committee on the Judiciary had referred to it 60 bills dealing with civil rights; these bills touched upon the various aspects of the subject matter, including such topics as antilynching, peonage, kid- naping, crimes involving civil rights, segregation, voting, fair-employ- ment practices, creation of a Civil Rights Commission, of a Joint 86006-57-1

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