Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of the role, operation, and contribution of the device most often relied on by local and state governments for dealing with intergroup problems—the human-relations commission.
Table of Contents
- Part I
- 1. The Challenge of Federal Civil-Rights Policy to Our Federal System
- 2. The Civil-Rights Problem from the Legislator’s Point of View
- 3. The Emergence of Modern Civil-Rights Legislation
- 4. Commission Experience in Processing Complaints of Discrimination
- 5. The Need for Effective Law and Law Enforcement
- 6. Dealing Effectively with Intergroup Relations at the Local Level
- 7. Allocation of Optimum Roles for Implementation of Civil Rights in Our Federal System
- Part II
- 8. The Alpha Model State Civil-Rights Act, with Comments
- 9. The Alpha Model State Act on Local Human-Relations Commissions, with Comments
- 10. The Alpha Model Federal Civil-Rights Act, with Comments
- 11. The Alpha Model Local Civil-Rights Ordinance, with Comments
- Appendices
- A. State Human-Relations Commissions or Agencies Operating under Statutes Giving Them Authority to Enforce Civil-Rights Law
- B. State Human-Relations Commissions or Similar Agencies Operating under Statutes or Executive Orders without Authority to Enforce Civil-Rights Law through Issuance of Orders Enforceable in the Courts
- C. A Selected List of Local Human-Relations Commissions Operating under Ordinances or Laws Giving Them Authority to Enforce Prohibitions against Discrimination, as Well as Other Authority
- D. A Selected List of Local Human-Relations Agencies Which Have Principally Operated without Enforcement Authority
- E. A Timetable of Passage of Civil-Rights Laws Enforced by Human-Relations Commissions or Divisions of Agencies
- F. States with Civil-Rights Laws Enforced Only by the Courts
- Index
