Telegram from Executive Director, NAACP

Title: Telegram from Executive Director, NAACP
Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80049704
Date: 1965-07-08
Description: House Republicans proposed a substitute bill, H.R. 7896. Known as the Ford-McCulloch bill, it removed the automatic triggers. Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, sent a Telex message to Congressman Arch Moore expressing strong opposition to the Ford-McCulloch bill. On July 9, 1965, the House rejected the substitute bill by a vote of 166 to 215.
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Source: Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. papers, West Virginia & Regional History Center; https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/resources/965