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June 10, 1964
STAFF MEMORANDUM
Subject: Civil Rights Issues - A Task Force Agenda
How far and how fast can the Administration go in the field of civil
rights during the next 2-3 years? We use the term "can" because, in
our view, the charter of a civil Rights Task Force should be based on
assessment of the intensity of pressures for change and the feasible
steps which can be taken in response to them.
As a fundamental prenise, we are doubtiful that enactment of the pending
civil Rights bill will stave off the pressures for further formal and
binding action for more than a brief period. Mach will depend on how
the law is implemented, and much. will depend on the Negroes' acceptance
of inevitably slow and limited gains, as for example in education.
In these circumstances, we believe that the Task Force should concern
itself with three broad areas:
1. The implementation of the bill,
2. Additional measures which might be taken to speed the pace
of change, and
3. More far-reaching and far-out measures which would anticipate
and prepare for a possible acceleration in the rate of change in an
already dynamic situation.
I. The 1964 Civil Rights Legislation and its Implementation
Will this legislation sufficiently placate protests and assuage the
emotions of the Negro comminity?
1. A slow process
We doubt that the bill will make for sufficient or sufficiently
rapid progress as far as the Negro and a good part of the white com-
munity is concerned. to placate the forces that have gathered over the
past years. It relies on the courts to enforca civil rights. Court
machinery is inherently slow, even with devices to expedite action
such as the bill provides. The process requires a great deal of local
cooperation and complianca - cooperation from the local judiciary
and law enforcement agencies, compliance by the thousands of those who
are in a position to break the law.
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