TheWhite House Conference on Civil Rights was held June 1 and 2, 1966. The aim of the conference was built on the momentum of theCivil Rights Act of 1964 and theVoting Rights Act of 1965 in addressing discrimination against African-Americans. The four areas of discussion were housing, economic security, education, and the administration of justice.[1]
President Lyndon Johnson had promised this conference in his commencement address atHoward University the year before. Like that address, the conference was named "To Fulfill These Rights." The title was a play on "To Secure These Rights," a report issued byTruman's civil rights commission in 1947.[2] There were over 2,400 participants, representing all the major civil rights groups exceptSNCC, which boycotted the conference.[3] Out of the conference came a hundred-page report that called for "legislation to ban racial discrimination in housing and the administration of criminal justice, and...suggested increased federal spending to improve the quality of housing and education."[4]
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