Governor Robert D. Holmes signs House Bills 646 and 647 which expanded Oregon civil rights statutes. Standing, left to right: Milton Goldsmith, chairman, FEP Advisory Committee; Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen; Dr. John Rademaker, professor, Willamette University; R. P. Gantenbein, Chairman, Oregon Committee for Equal Rights; and Phil Reynolds, president, Portland Chapter, NAACP.
Governor Robert D. Holmes, issues the 1958 Urban League Week proclamation to Urban League's Executive Director William H. Boone, right, and President George D. Dysart. April 21-27 had been set aside in proclamations issued by the Governor and by Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk, in observance of the 13th anniversary of the local race relations agency.
Bill Berry, Director of the Urban League of Portland, talks with Oregon Governor Douglas McKay and Tom McCall, Executive Secretary to the Governor, about the Annual Report on Fair Employment Practices Law in Oregon.
