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‘4 Hone Barry 8,5 Trumsn White House ° _ ia Washington, De Ce -. Dear Mre President? We address you as a group of citizens of differtn.: political Views who @re united in our concern for civil libertiuse Your ,ferth- right stand on oxtending civil rights legislation has mot with” thy enthusiastio response of a mjority of tho American poophos Tho “pre aWatetiose-in our nation of the need to implonont vasic rien t es _ With construotive Botton wii, we hope, absure Prompt onactmont o your olvil rights progrome _ * In ordér that your program may mako hefdway with dispatch, may We suzcest that initially attention bo directed to estcbiish the machinery by which,tho legisletiva proposals you have modo can de both heard, considered and enforced. Thus at the outset, we trust thet offorts will -bo made to change tho Senute rules to overcome fili- busterse We trust also that steps will bo taken-ty sgt u> a Purma- ‘nent Prosidential Commission on Civil Rights, en Expanded Civil Rights Division in the Department of Juctice, end a joint Civil Liberties Committee of Congress *= 411 of which were recommended by your Com- mittos on Civil Rights. ‘ The enactment of the bills in your civil rights progr’an would give to the pooples of the world a conerete example of our cbility to makc our legislation square with our democratic profess1 nse Tho creation of a moro favorable atmosphere for the accaptanec of Amemiran domocratic policy abroad would be an fnovitablo rostulte 7 Wo assume that those mottors will be omong the first in the next Congress so thot the olear mandsts of the electorate may. bg trensicted into lowe - - | With assurances of our wholehearted support for your civil rights _ Bhogram, A : Wo ara, : sincerely yours, eee nee, horized sicnetures) Francia Ps Mothows - Mombcr Prosidentts Committee on Civil Rights _ Omaha, Nobraska ; evd ¥#. Gorriseony, formor chair- , . . Notional Labor Rolettons Newbold Morris, formor Prese, Qo. of the NeYs, City Couneil New York City ~ to eet | - a ae me