White House Conference on Civil Rights

The White House Conference on Civil Rights was held June 1 and 2, 1966.

The four areas of discussion were housing, economic security, education, and the administration of justice.

[1] President Lyndon Johnson had promised this conference in his commencement address at Howard University the year before.

[2] There were over 2,400 participants, representing all the major civil rights groups except SNCC, which boycotted the conference.

[3] Out of the conference came a hundred-page report that called for "legislation to ban racial discrimination in housing and the administration of criminal justice, and...suggested increased federal spending to improve the quality of housing and education.