Commission on Civil Rights, 1958-1975

1958-1960, 1963, 1974-1975. Correspondence with Gordon M. Tiffany, Staff Director, with enclosures relating to Konvitz's plans to attend the Commission's hearings on housing in New York City as a member of the New York State Advisory Committee (January 7, 1959). In a memorandum to President Malott, Provost Atwood, Dean Catherwood, and Dean Thoron, Konvitz informs them of his appointment to the New York State Advisory Committee of the Federal Commission on Civil Rights and that the New Jersey State Civil Rights Commission has approved the report that Konvitz drafted as the chairman of the State commission that investigated administrative and enforcement procedures under the New Jersey Fair Employment Practice and Civil Rights Acts (November 20, 1958). Letter from Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Junior, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, asking Konvitz for a statement of his views regarding legal or constitutional questions or problems that are raised by present-day methods and uses of wiretapping and eavesdropping. Hennings comments that with Konvitz's permission the statement would probably be incorporated into the record of future wiretapping and eavesdropping hearings (October 2, 1958). Also routine correspondence from the New York State Advisory Committee of the Federal Civil Rights commission on which Konvitz served.