The President’s Committee on Civil Rights, meeting in its second session at the White House within a month, today announced the appointment of three sub-committees to explore the civil liberties problem, and confered with representatives of the Department of Justice concerning the department’s activities in the civil rights field.
Charles E. Wilson, chairman of the committee, and president of the General Electric Company, announced the sub-committees and their members as follows:
1. A committee to consider and determine the adequacy of existing federal legislation and to recommend proposed new legislation: The Right Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill, Francis P. Matthews, Dr. Frank P. Graham, John S. Dickey and Mrs Sadie T. Alexander.
2. A committee to consider the broader social, economic and educational aspects of promoting the cause of civil liberties throughout the country: Charles Luckman, the Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, James B. Carey, Channing H. Tobias and Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn.
3. A committee to consider the work of private organizations whose activities affect civil rights: Morris L. Ernst, Mrs. M. E. Tilly, Boris Shiskin and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
The appointment of Mr. Dickey, president of Dartmouth College, and Mr. Roosevelt as vice-chairman of the committee and as an executive committee to serve with him, was also announced by Mr. Wilson. Professor Robert K. Carr, chairman of the government department at Dartmouth College, was appointed by the committee as executive secretary.
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