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- Title
"Citizen[s] with a Difference": The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Native Americans, 1961-1981.
- Authors
Grua, David W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the rights of minorities in the U.S. and the perception of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1961-1981. It offers the history of Native Americans' right problems, Indian citizenship arguments, and racial discrimination. It discusses the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights creation through Executive Order 9808 by former U.S. President Harry Truman and selection of commissioners to conduct hearings and investigate complaints. It presents the first commission report in 1959 which have shown slavery and Jim Crow among racial minorities and the 1961 report which stressed on the legal status and violated civil rights of American Indians. It adds that the 1981 report analyzed events on treaty right gains, western white backlash, and dissimilarities with other minorities.
- Subjects
UNITED States; 20TH century Native American history; LEGAL status of minorities; CIVIL rights; SOCIAL justice; HUMAN security; SLAVERY; RACE discrimination; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; UNITED States Commission on Civil Rights
- Publication
Federal History, 2011, Issue 3, p33
- ISSN
2163-8144
- Publication type
Article