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Article: PRESIDENT, CEO OF LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS HENDERSON TESTIFIES ON CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT BEFORE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 21, 2007
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The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following hearing testimony:
Good Morning. My name is Wade Henderson and I am the President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. The Leadership Conference is the nation's premier civil and human rights coalition, and has coordinate
d the national legislative campaigns on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957, including the work to pass the historic 1957 Civil Rights Act which created the Civil Rights Division 50 years ago this fall. The Leadership Conference's almost 200 member organizations represent persons of color, women, children, organized labor, individuals with disabilities, older Americans, major religious ...