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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0363-001
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, a newspaper article, and correspondence between various members of the White House staff, individual citizens, and Congressional representatives concerning civil rights legislation, the desegregation of educational institutions, and commemorative events for the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0362-005
Materials in this folder include memoranda, a newspaper article, a petition for legislative civil rights initiatives, and correspondence between various members of the White House staff and individual citizens concerning segregated housing facilities used for visiting dignitaries and an objection to the use of the term “mafia” made by The Order of the Sons of Italy in America.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0374-011
Materials in this folder include telegrams, petitions, memoranda, a newspaper article, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning incidents of voter intimidation, the pending 23rd Amendment to the Constitution permitting citizens of Washington, D.C. to vote in federal elections, and the pending 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on the payment of a poll tax, and incidents of racially motivated violence, with specific emphasis on violence against voter registration workers in Mississippi.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0374-009
Materials in this folder include a telegram, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President Frank D. Reeves, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning incidents of racially motivated voter intimidation in Tennessee and the pending 23rd Amendment to the Constitution permitting citizens of Washington, D.C. to vote in federal elections.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-003
Materials in this folder include outgoing letters from Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer Feldman to various persons regarding a proposal by the Maryland Committee for Democratic Rights to investigate problems inherent in the McCarran Act, and letters concerning claims of civil rights violations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0916-006
This folder contains correspondence between members of the White House staff and the public regarding President John F. Kennedy's Special Messages to the Congress on civil rights issues, including the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0916-005
This folder contains press release copies and drafts of President John F. Kennedy's Special Messages to the Congress on civil rights issues, including civil rights legislation. The folder also contains the text of a bill titled The Civil Rights Act of 1963, as well as correspondence between members of the White House staff and the public regarding both the messages to Congress and civil rights legislation.