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1.Civil-Rights Football
Mitchell, Clarence | July 7, 1956 issue

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On June 14, 1956, a forty-year-old Missouri Congressman, Richard Bolling with one of the brightest futures in American politics, dropped the legislative in the House Rules Committee. He made a motion to take up a bill that the seventy-three-year old chairman Howard Smith intended to pigeon-hole. The bill was H.R. 627, a civil-rights measure jointly backed by Democrats and Republicans. Richard Boiling, the maker of the motion, was risking the wrath of chairman Howard Smith, uncompromising foe of civil rights, who openly admits that he uses all of his powers and skills to destroy civil-rights bills.

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CIVIL rights; HUMAN rights; BOLLING, Richard; BILLS, Legislative; UNITED States -- Politics & government; UNITED States
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