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    "ocrText": "Special Supplement - 3 -\n8-19-64\nThe Division is responsible for enforcing Federal statutes relating\nto civil rights through both criminal prosecutions and civil remedies. The\nDivision is also responsible for actions necessary to protect the integrity\nof orders of Federal courts in other civil rights cases instituted by private\ncitizens. In addition, it is responsible for enforcement of Federal civil\nand criminal statutes dealing with intimidation and discrimination against\nvoters, obstructions of justice, peonage and slavery and the illegal use of\nsearch varrants. It institutes investigations and prosecutions of Federal,\nState and local law enforcement officers who misuse their authority by de-\nliberately depriving citizens of their constitutional rights.\nThe Division's report is published as part of the annual report of the\nDepartment of Justice.\nIn summary, the Civil Rights Commission studies civil rights problems\non which it makes recommendations to the President and the Congress and acts\nas a civil rights information clearing house; the President's Committee on\nEqual Employment Opportunity deals with employment discrimination in the\nFederal service and on government contracts; the President's Committee on\nEqual Opportunity in Housing concerns itself with discrimination in Federal-\nly-owned and Federally-assisted housing; the Equal Employment Opportunity\nCommission deals with discrimination in all the types of employment covered\nunder the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Community Relations Service handles\npublic accommodations complaints under the Civil Rights Act and acts as a\nmediation and conciliation agency in community problems; and the Civil Rights\nDivision of the Department of Justice is responsible for enforcing the civil\nrights laws through criminal prosecutions and civil remedies.\nTwo of the agencies were created by the 1957 Civil Rights Act (the\nCivil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Depart-\nment) ; two were created by Presidential Executive Order (the two President's\nCommittees on employment and housing) ; and two were created by the 1964 Civil\nRights Act (the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Community\nRelations Service)\nOf the four agencies created by statute, three are permanent. The\nfourth, the Civil Rights Commission, expires on January 31, 1968; however,\nin the past its life has been extended at the eleventh hour by Congressional\nenactment.\nThree of the agencies have citizen groups in an auxiliary capacity\n(the Civil Rights Commission, the President's Committee on Equal Employment\nOpportunity and the Community Relations Service). Both President's Commit-\ntees have public members.\nThese then are the six Federal agencies working principally in the\nfield of civil rights. There are other agencies, of course, which devote\nonly a part of their efforts in this direction; for example, the Housing\nand Home Finance Agency (HHFA) has in the Office of the Administrator an\nIntergroup Relations Service. with the passage of time, the form and func-\ntions of these agencies will change through law, executive action and prac-\ntice (including the operations of Parkinson's Law). The problems with which\nthey deal are constantly changing, too, and it is hoped that changes in prob-\nlems are adequately paced by changes in the institutions created to meet them.\nRHMillenson"
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