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Title: Brooks Votes For Rights Bill
Identifier: camh-dob-002407
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newspaper clipping attached to a constituent note regarding the vote on the Civil Rights Bill of 1966. The clipping does not indicate the date or the newspaper.

Title: It's up to the Senate, Beaumont Enterprise, Thursday, August 11, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002408
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-08-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newspaper clipping attached to a constituent note regarding the vote on the Civil Rights Bill of 1966.

Title: Keynote address by Hans G. Tanzler, Jr. to National League of Cities - U.S. Conference of Mayors congressional city conference, March 15, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001963
Topic: Revenue sharing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-03-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Hanz Tanzler, the Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, criticizes Jack Brooks during the National League of Cities - U.S. Conference of Mayors Congressional City Conference. Tanzler expresses frustration regarding Brooks's steadfast support for the suspension of the revenue sharing program. The program was being considered within the Government Operations Committee, which Brooks was chairman of. The speech discusses Brooks's personality and reputation, as well as his relationships with colleagues like Carl Albert, Lyndon B. Johnson and the mayors within his district.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, August 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002406
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An unsigned note card mailed from Port Arthur criticizing Jack Brooks for his support of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his policies, including the Civil Rights Acts. The envelope is dated August 12, 1966, and it was received by Brooks's office on August 15, 1966. The constituent attached two newspaper clippings regarding the vote on the Civil Rights Bill of 1966.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002414
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from constituent L. A. Darnall of Port Arthur, Texas, expressing his opposition to the Civil Rights Bill of 1966.

Title: Letter from a White House staffer to Jack Brooks, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001132
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Jacobsen, Legislative Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson, sends Jck Brooks one of the pens used by President Johnson to sign H.R. 14888, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate in screw-worm eradication in Mexico.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a Mexican business official, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001133
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks sends Octavio Ochoa Ochoa, President of Confederacion Nacional Ganadera of Mexico, a pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign H.R. 14888. This legislation authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate in screwworm eradication with Mexico. Brooks mentions that their mutual friend, Dolph Briscoe, Jr., was present at the signing.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to Dolph Briscoe, Jr., March 27, 1957
Identifier: camh-dob-001127
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Briscoe, Dolph
Topic: Loans, Cattle
Dates: 1957-03-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Jack Brooks telling Dolph Briscoe he is checking on the prospects of new loans for Mexico. He encloses Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's latest information on a deferred grazing bill. Brooks says he will keep checking in because he knows the topic is important to Briscoe.

Title: Letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Jack Brooks, November 3, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001582
Creator: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Gratitude, Legislation
Dates: 1965-11-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Jack Brooks enclosing a newly minted quarter as a memento of recently passed coinage legislation.

Title: Letter from the director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP to Jack Brooks, August 15, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002410
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-08-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Clarence Mitchell, Director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP thanking Jack Brooks for voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1966.

Title: Letter from the director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP to Jack Brooks, May 12, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002412
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-05-12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Clarence Mitchell, Director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP thanking Jack Brooks for the swift passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1966 through the House Judiciary Committee.

Title: News release, August 11, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-002409
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1969-08-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks regarding his support for amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1966.

Title: News release copy, october 22, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-002073
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Electronic data processing
Dates: 1965-10-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Carbon copy of a news release announcing that H.R. 4845, legislation introduced by Jack Brooks that authorized Federal agencies to purchase or lease data processing equipment, passed the Senate and would be signed by the President.

Title: News release, June 16, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002413
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-06-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks regarding amendments Brooks felt would be necessary to the Civil Rights Act of 1966.

Title: News release, June 29, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002411
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-06-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks regarding the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1966 through the House Judiciary Committee. Brooks sent copies of this statement along with responses to constituent correspondence on the subject.