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Lyndon Johnson Civil Rights Commission document signed as President, dated 11 August 1965. The thirty sixth President appoints William Taylor to the post of Staff Director for the Commission on Civil Rights by signing: ''Lyndon B. Johnson''. The Staff Director is appointed by the President with the approval of the majority of the eight Commissioners. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, countersigns. The Commission on Civil Rights was signed into law in 1957 by President Dwight Eisenhower when Johnson was still a Senator from Texas. ''The civil rights watchdog'' agency was involved in many high profile investigations of civil rights violations throughout the 50's and 60's, such as racial discrimination in voting rights in Montgomery, Alabama and implementation of school desegregation in the wake of the 1954 landmark Brown v Board of Education decision. Taylor earned his law degree from Yale the year of that decision and worked on the NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund's brief for the Supreme Court case that ended segregation of Little Rock's public schools. He was involved in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and served as general counsel to the Commission. An embossed Presidential Seal is affixed to the 23'' x 19'' document which has been mounted to a board for framing. Moderate fading to signature, else very good condition.
Lyndon Johnson Document Signed as President -- 1965 Appointment of Civil Rights Champion William Taylor to Civil Rights Commission -- Scarce
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