A shift in the emphasis of state laws against discrimination from education to enforcement was reported by the American Jewish Congress in its fifth biennial survey of state anti-bias legislation issued here today.
Howard M. Squadron, chairman of the organization’s Commission on Law and Social Action, said that more states enacted more laws covering discrimination in employment, education, housing and public accomm odations in 1964 and 1965 than in any two-year period in American history. A “significant development” during the period, he said, was the enactment of procedures aimed at “punishing offenders rather than conciliating complainants. “
The survey noted that 94 percent of the country’s Jewish population lived in states with both public accommodations and fair employment laws; 83.4 percent were covered by state fair housing laws; and 65. I percent by state fair education laws.
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