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OCR Page 1 of 10CIVIL RIGHTS ARE NOT STANDING STILL
Although the House passed an anti-poll tax bill in the 81st
Congress, none of the civil rights measures have passed the Senate.
Nevertheless, the effect of keeping these bills before the Congress
and before the country has stimulated the states to a degree of action
undreamed of a few years ago; and both the courts and the Executive
Branches of the state and Federal Governments have been moving ahead
rapidly. Here are some of the highlights:
1. Seven legislatures have recently adopted Fair Employment
Practice statutes, bringing to ten the total number of
states with fair employment codes.
2. Two states have recently adopted legislation prohibiting
segregation in their school systems. Wisconsin is one
of them; the other is Indiana. New Jersey's new
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Constitution prohibits segregation in schools. Together
with New York, which has adopted a fair educational
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practice code, the states are rapidly recognizing their
responsibility actively to prevent discrimination as
long as they retain sole responsibility for public
education.
3. The states have begun to take responsibility for
eliminating discrimination in their own National Guard
units. Eight states have voted this year to abolish
segregation in the National Guard: Wisconsin,
California, 'onnecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania.
4.
Two states have moved to prevent discrimination in
housing. Wisconsin adopted a statute to prohibit
discrimination because of race or color, creed or
national origin against veterans otherwise qualified
for certain types of housing; and Connecticut outlawed
segregation and discrimination in all publicly
supported housing.
5. The Western states, which have had restrictive legislation
for many years designed to limit the rights of Japanese-
Americans, began to lift them. California, Oregon and
Utah lifted restrictions on the ownership of land and
the right to commercial hunting and fishing.
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