Civil Rights Issues in Maine: a Briefing Summary on Hate Crimes, Racial Tensions, and Migrant/Immigrant Workers

A report prepared by the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 1996. Major sections: Hate Crimes and Bias in Maine; Racial Tension and Educating Language Minority Youth; Migrant and Immigrant Workers

Report on Maine: Denial of Equal Opportunity in Rental Housing and its Effect on Negroes in Portland and Bangor, Maine

Introduction Although the Maine State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is concerned with the entire scope of civil rights responsibilities in the State, most of its attention in the last two and a half years has been focused on denial of equal opportunity in housing to Negroes. Investigation of this denial of equal opportunity culminated in two Open Meetings, the first in Portland, Maine on March 25, 1963, and the second in Bangor, Maine on April 27, 1964. It is significant that Maine, geographically remote from the troubled South and temperamentally different from the large industrial centers in the North, should contain this problem. It is possible that many residents of this State, and of other States may be surprised to discover that denial of equal opportunity is not confined to any one section of the country but is to be found even in this New England State which is not traditionally regarded as a site of racial tensions. Unfortunately, the problem is not new in Maine. But it is only now that it has emerged as one that people in the State are recognizing, discussing, and trying to solve.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1369/thumbnail.jp

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian : A Report

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian : A Report. A report of the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights prepared for the information and consideration of the Commission. This report will be considered by the Commission, and the Commission will make public its reaction. In the meantime, the findings and recommendations of this report should not be attributed to the Commission, but only to the Maine Advisory Committee. December 1974.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1021/thumbnail.jp