...legislation now. I believe the President's Committee on Civil Rights was completely justified when it stated, "The pervasive gap between our aims and what we actually...moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rationl bases of democrtic beliefs." Where disenfranchisement, political coercion, and intimidation...

...to equality of opportunity. 67 The committee echoed Myrdal's prescription for the American dilemma: gap between our aims and what we actually do is creating...at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs," The committee report reflected a burgeoning national consensus that developed during the...

...authors stated, "than the need to reaffirm our faith in traditional American morality." They found that "the pervasive gap between our aims and what...at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs." Americas "civil rights transgressions," they insisted, caused "moral damage" not only to...

...segregation. "The pervasive gap between our aims and what we actually do/' the committee concluded, "is a kind of moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs." 10 Truman embraced the report, calling it "an American charter of human freedom." South of...

...inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record."248 242. According to the Comminee, "[t]he pervasive gap between our aims and what we...actually do is creating a kind of moral dry rot which rats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs." PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE, supra...

...simply the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint. The report rather strongly states, for example, "The pervasive gap between our aims and what we actually...at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs" (PCCR 1947, 139). At the least, stating the moral reason first reassured African- American...

...These Rights noted that the federal government's failure to guarantee equal rights had resulted in "a kind of moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs." The President's Committee on Civil Rights made thirty-five specific recommendations including...

...similarly claimed that morality was the foremost reason for national action on civil rights, condemning "a kind of moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs."'73 Both studies drew a portrait of sharp and unflattering contrast between ideals and practice...

...immediate [civil rights] program than the need to reaffirm our faith in the traditional American morality. The pervasive gap between our aims and what we actually...at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs. . . . The United States can no longer countenance these burdens on its common conscience,...

...and its behavior, especially toward blacks. This grievous shortcoming, it asserted, had resulted in "a kind of moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs." Furthermore, it said, with an eye toward the Cold War, the United States "is not so strong,...