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New Civil Rights Housing Proposal From Johnson Era
President Johnson ready to propose a civil rights bill addressing housing, juries, schools and public facilities. The 1966 measure aims to ban racial discrimination in all housing sales and rentals and to open suburbs to Black buyers. It would also target both state and federal juries to end all white juries in the South.
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Nicholas Katzenbach
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