Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota concept; the commission and federal agencies; effect of Vietnam War; the Watts riot; strengthening of the EEOC; overlapping between Community Relations Service and the Civil Rights Commission; focus on the South and on discrimination against blacks rather than Hispanics; leaving the Commission
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 6, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-cikinsw-19860512-1-87-47