CSPAN2 Book TV December 23, 2012
Guest well, the Civil Rights Commission started in 1957. President eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the United States is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lynching or some discrimination taking place in the country. So the idea was eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to set up a Civil Rights Commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. Im told by one of the peopl...
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