Mrs. Caroline K. Simon, Secretary of State of New York and a national vice president of the American Jewish Committee, today urged “heightened community awareness and protection” of New York State’s great civil rights achievements.
Mrs. Simon listed five pioneering “firsts” by New York State and New York City in combating discrimination: The first state to pass a Fair Employment Practices Law; the first state to enact a Fair Educational Practices Law; the first state to ban discrimination in publicly aided housing; one of the first states to extend the administrative procedures of the law Against Discrimination to places of public accommodation; the first city to ban by law discrimination in private housing.
The New York Secretary of State, appointed last January by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, spoke at the closing session of a conference here of the American Jewish Committee. At the session, Mrs. Simon was tendered a citation for her contributions to the strengthening of human rights and human relations.
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