The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V
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The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V

The Struggle to Pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act, 1955–1958

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The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V

The Struggle to Pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act, 1955–1958

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Volume V of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. records the successful effort to pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act: the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875.

Prior to the US Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP had faced an impenetrable wall of opposition from southerners in Congress. Basing their assertions on the court's 1896 "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, legislators from the South maintained that their Jim Crow system was nondiscriminatory and thus constitutional. In their view, further civil rights laws were unnecessary. In ruling that legally mandated segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, the Brown decision demolished the southerners' argument. Mitchell then launched the decisive stage of the struggle to pass modern civil rights laws.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first comprehensive lobbying campaign by an organization dedicated to that purpose since Reconstruction. Coming on the heels of the Brown decision, the 1957 law was a turning point in the struggle to accord Black citizens full equality under the Constitution. The act's passage, however, was nearly derailed in the Senate by southern opposition and Senator Strom Thurmond's record-setting filibuster, which lasted more than twenty-four hours. Congress later weakened several provisions of the act but—crucially—it broke a psychological barrier to the legislative enactment of such measures.

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. is a detailed record of the NAACP leader's success in bringing the legislative branch together with the judicial and executive branches to provide civil rights protections during the twentieth century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Series Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Foreword: The NAACP’s Lobbying Role
  10. Preface: Establishing the Role of Advocacy Groups in the Legislative Struggle
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Introduction: Establishing Presidential Leadership in the Modern Civil Rights Movement: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
  13. Editorial Method and Abbreviations
  14. Civil Rights Chronology, 1955–60
  15. Glossary
  16. In Their Own Words on Civil Rights: Presidents, Congress, and Party Platforms
  17. Headnotes
  18. Halftitle Page 1
  19. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, February 8, 1955
  20. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, March 8, 1955
  21. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, April 6, 1955
  22. Proposed Amendments to Federal Aid for School Construction, April 14, 1955
  23. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, May 2, 1955
  24. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, June 6, 1955
  25. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, September 8, 1955
  26. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, October 6, 1955
  27. Federal Aid for School Construction Bills, October 20, 1955
  28. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, November 9, 1955
  29. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, December 7, 1955
  30. 1955 Annual Report of the NAACP Washington Bureau, December 23, 1955
  31. Attachment to December 23, 1955, Annual Report—Mississippi and the Pending Civil Rights Bills, November 30, 1955
  32. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, February 9, 1956
  33. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, March 8, 1956
  34. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau—Status of Civil Rights Bills, March 20, 1956
  35. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, April 5, 1956
  36. Pending Civil Rights Legislation, April 18, 1956
  37. Washington Bureau Monthly Report, May 4, 1956
  38. Washington Bureau Monthly Report, June 7, 1956
  39. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, September 7, 1956
  40. Attachment to September 7, 1956, Monthly Report—NAACP Supplemental Report on Voting Records and Issues, August 31, 1956
  41. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, October 4, 1956
  42. Special Report: The Eighty-Fourth Congress, October 31, 1956
  43. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, November 7, 1956
  44. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, December 6, 1956
  45. 1956 Annual Report of the Washington Bureau, December 31, 1956
  46. Action on Civil Rights, January 29, 1957
  47. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, February 8, 1957
  48. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, March 7, 1957
  49. Further Amendments to the Civil Rights Bill, March 22, 1957
  50. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, April 4, 1957
  51. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, May 9, 1957
  52. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, June 7, 1957
  53. Civil Rights Legislation in the 85th Congress, June 21, 1957
  54. Resolution: NAACP Annual Convention, June 27, 1957
  55. Statement on Negro Voting in Macon County, Alabama, July 30, 1957
  56. Monthly Report: Dates of Important Votes on Civil Rights Bill, August 2, 1957
  57. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, September 6, 1957
  58. Attachment to September 6, 1957, Monthly Report—Analysis of H.R. 6127, as Passed by Congress, September 6, 1957
  59. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, October 10, 1957
  60. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, November 8, 1957
  61. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, December 6, 1957
  62. 1957 Annual Report of the Washington Bureau, December 31, 1957
  63. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, February 5, 1958
  64. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, March 6, 1958
  65. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, April 11, 1958
  66. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, May 9, 1958
  67. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, June 5, 1958
  68. Civil Rights and the Filibuster Rule in the 85th Congress, July 9, 1958
  69. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, September 4, 1958
  70. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, October 9, 1958
  71. Attachment III to October 9, 1958, October 8, 1958
  72. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, November 6, 1958
  73. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, December 4, 1958
  74. Monthly Report of the Washington Bureau, December 31, 1958