Job Bias Meeting Set At Boston
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr will head a panel of experts meeting New England industrial leaders at a October 29 conference on employment discrimination. Three workshops will cover the social illegal and economic aspects of the Civil Rights Act. Roosevelt, former New York congressman and Kennedy era commerce undersecretary, chairs the EEOC and led the Appalachian Regional Commission plan.
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Ex Klansman Tells All to House Unit
A former Klansman testified for five hours to the House Un American Activities Committee, giving an inside view of the Klan. Rep. Weitner said the witness would be valuable at hearings set for early October examining violence and internecine power struggles within Klans. The investigation aims to expose finances and operations of the Klan. In other news, a White House report cites fiscal 1965 timber harvest at 11.24 billion board feet, up from 10.95 billion the prior year.
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Roosevelt Led Civil Rights Roles in Government and City
The subject served as vice chairman of the 1964 President Truman Commission on Civil Rights and was the first chairman of the New York City Commission on Human Rights from 1947 to 1949. An attorney, he earned degrees from Harvard and the University of Virginia.
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