2017-18629. Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

AGENCY:

United States Commission on Civil Rights.

ACTION:

Notice of Commission briefing and business meeting.

DATES:

Friday, September 8, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. EST.

ADDRESSES:

National Place Building, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 11th Floor, Suite 1150, Washington, DC 20245 (Entrance on F Street NW.).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brian Walch, phone: [phone]; TTY: [phone]; email: [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This business meeting is open to the public. There will also be a call-in line for individuals who desire to listen to the presentations: 800-310-7032; Conference ID 799-7226.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation should contact Pamela Dunston at [phone] or at [e-mail] at least three business days before the scheduled date of the meeting.

Meeting Agenda

I. Approval of Agenda

II. Business Meeting

A. Discussion and Vote on Report: Working for Inclusion: Time for Congress to Enact Federal Legislation to Redress Workplace Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans

B. Discussion and Vote on Report: Public Education Funding Inequality in an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty and Resegregation

C. State Advisory Committees

• Vote on appointments to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee
• Vote on appointments to the North Dakota State Advisory Committee
• Vote on appointments to the Rhode Island State Advisory Committee

D. Management and Operations

• Staff Director's Report

E. [To begin at 11:00 a.m. EST] Presentations on President Eisenhower's Civil Rights Legacy and the Creation of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by:

a. Dawn Hammatt, Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library

b. David A Nichols, Author of “A Matter of Justice, Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement”

III. Adjourn Meeting

Dated: August 29, 2017.

Brian Walch,

Director, Communications and Public Engagement.