Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

39

Description:

Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota concept; the commission and federal agencies; effect of Vietnam War; the Watts riot; strengthening of the EEOC; overlapping between Community Relations Service and the Civil Rights Commission; focus on the South and on discrimination against blacks rather than Hispanics; leaving the Commission

Contributor:

Cikins, Warren I., 1930-2014

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Warren I. Cikins

Subject:

Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details