The State Legislature last night voted final approval of a bill sponsored by Governor Rockefeller, changing the name of the State Commission Against Discrimination to the State Commission on Human Rights. Ogden Reid, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, is Commission chairman.
(In New York City, today, the City Council formally changed the name of the city’s Commission on Intergroup Relations to the city’s Commission on Human Rights. Declaring that the original name of the body, first established in 1955, “did not properly describe the commission’s scope of operations,” Stanley H. Lowell, chairman of the group, said today: “Equal rights are human rights, and that is the name by which we wish to be known.”)
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