He visited the United States and Canada in November 1966 to draw lessons from the experiences of North America in handling racial discrimination.
[5] Geoffrey Bindman, QC was the legal advisor to the board throughout its existence[6] and subsequently with the Commission for Racial Equality.
The Board set up and co-ordinated 7 regional conciliation committees whose role was to deal with complaints of discrimination.
These committees set out reach a settlement of the difference between the complainant and the discriminator with an assurance from the latter that the problem would not arise again.
However if no settlement was obtained, the matter would then be referred to the RRB and, if necessary, to the Attorney-General.