Anderson-Aiken amendment
When the United States Senate took up the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Anderson-Aiken amendment[1] was passed, which removed Title III from the legislation. The special provisions covered in Part III granted additional powers to the United States Attorney General to seek preventative relief in civil rights cases under the 14th Amendment.[2] The majority of Democrats voted for the weakening measure, while only half of Republicans did.
The two senators who introduced the amendment were Democrat Clinton Anderson and Republican George Aiken.[1] Anderson initially hesitated to spearhead the measure because he did not want to be associated with obstructions towards civil rights, though was successfully urged by then-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to do so by introducing it along with a Republican.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Caro, Robert A. (2003). Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (pp. 910–43). Retrieved September 24, 2021
- ↑ HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. AMENDMENT TO DELETE AUTHORITY FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL TO SEEK PREVENTIVE RELIEF IN CIVIL RIGHTS CASES UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 24, 2021.