Theodore Hesburgh Civil Rights
Appointed to the u s.
Theodore hesburgh civil rights. Updated march 17 2010 7. Father hesburgh was appointed by president dwight d. I believe that civil rights were not created but only recognized and formulated by our federal and state constitutions and charters. Martin luther king jr president and founder of the southern christian leadership conference and rev.
The commission was intended to terminate the south s filibuster which was blocking civil rights legislation especially that which regarded voting rights from passing and becoming law. A setback for educational civil rights i cannot believe that a democratic administration will let this injustice of killing d c. Hesburgh emerged as a civil rights advocate and spokesperson for the commission. In 1963 a campus group invited alabama.
Commission on civil rights in 1957 father hesburgh helped to compile reports on racial discrimination and the denial of voting rights that resulted in the omnibus civil rights act of 1964. While hesburgh championed civil rights he was also an advocate for free speech and the exchange of ideas even if those ideas clashed with his own. On june 21 1964 soldier field in chicago hosted the illinois rally for civil rights. Hesburgh took a relatively hard line against protests at notre dame in the late 60s even as he opposed the expansion of the vietnam war and continued his civil rights work but hesburgh is.
Nixon praised hesburgh in naming him to head the civil rights commission but the two men soon fell out as hesburgh began to criticize the administration for its policies on both civil rights and. From the exhausting fact finding missions to the final deliberations over wording father hesburgh was acknowledged as the principal architect of the civil rights act and served on the civil rights commission from its inception in 1957 until 1972 when president nixon replaced him after he criticized that administration s civil rights record. Hesburgh president of the university of notre dame. He was awarded the presidential medal of freedom the same year and he later founded the center for civil and human rights at notre dame.
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