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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: Interview transcript, KFDM-TV, undated [September 1963]
Identifier: camh-dob-001312
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Topic: Legislation, Foreign affairs
Dates: 1963-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A transcript, with handwritten edits, of a radio interview conducted by Jack Brooks during Vice President Lyndon Johnson's visit to the Second Congressional District of Texas. Brooks asks Johnson about foreign allies, tax cut legislation, and Johnson's long political career.

Title: Introduction of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, By Congressman Jack Brooks, Brooks Farm, Jasper County, September 29, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-001528
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Legislation
Dates: 1963-09-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks introduces Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at his family farm in Jasper. In this speech, Brooks commends Johnson for his help securing the legislation for the Sam Rayburn Dam.

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: 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, January 24, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001602
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1968-01-24
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Frank M. Genstch, a former constituent, expresses his disdain for the Democratic Party's policies, specifically those of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He explains he is no longer a Democrat as a result and will support Nelson Rockefeller in the 1968 presidential election. Offensive language and racial slurs are used in the letter.

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 Allen J. Ellender to Lyndon B. Johnson, May 22, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001465
Creator: Ellender, Allen J., 1890-1972
Contributor: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-05-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Works, lets Senator Lyndon B. Johnson know that he received Johnson's letter and the enclosed statements from Jack Brooks regarding the McGee Bend Dam and the Sabine-Neches Waterway. He says that the statements from Brooks will be made a part of the hearings on the Public Work Appropriations bill.

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 Lyndon B. Johnson to Jack Brooks, May 28, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001464
Creator: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-05-28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate majority leader, writes to Jack Brooks to let him know that his statements on the McGee Bend Dam and the Sabine-Neches Waterway, which Johnson sent to the Committee on Appropriations, will be heard as part of the hearing on the Public Works Appropriations bill.

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.

Title: Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson, July 2, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-002504
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1964-07-02
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Black and white photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A large crowd of officials looks on. Jack Brooks is seated in the back on the left side.

Title: Telegram statement from Jack Brooks regarding McGee Bend Dam and Majority Leader Johnson's role
Identifier: camh-dob-001055
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A telegram statement from Jack Brooks to local media regarding Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson's role in McGee Bend Dam funding legislation.

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