President's Committee on Civil Rights

President's Committee on Civil Rights
History
Established by	Harry Truman on December 5, 1946
Disbanded	December 1947
Related Executive Order number(s)	9808, 9980, 9981
Membership
Chairperson	Charles Edward Wilson
Other committee members	Sadie T. Alexander ; James B. Carey ; John Sloan Dickey ; Morris Ernst ; Roland B. Gittelsohn ; Frank Porter Graham ; Francis J. Haas ; Charles Luckman ; Francis P. Matthews ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. ; Henry Knox Sherrill ; Boris Shishkin ; Dorothy Rogers Tilly ; Channing Heggie Tobias
Jurisdiction
Purpose	Investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them
Policy areas	Civil rights
Summary
	Establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission, Joint Congressional Committee on Civil Rights, and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice; Develop federal protection from lynching; Establish a permanent fair employment practice commission; Abolish poll taxes; Other measures;

The President's Committee on Civil Rights was a United States presidential commission established by President Harry Truman in 1946. The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946, and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them. The committee submitted the report of its findings, entitled To Secure These Rights, to President Truman in December 1947, and Truman proposed comprehensive civil rights legislation to Congress, and ordered antidiscrimination and desegregation throughout the government and armed forces.

The committee included business, labor, and religious leaders, in addition to scholars.