Red Rock Lake and Dam in Marion County near Pella. Elk Rock State Park is situated on both sides of the lake to the northwest. County road T15 crosses over the dam.
Creating the Commission on Civil Rights. President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957. On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation to be enacted since Reconstruction.Part I of the Act created a Commission on Civil Rights within the executive branch.nitially, the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 did not seem to signal a more vigorous approach to civil rights issues. But other events would compel the involvement of the president and eventually Congress.
Johnson and the Civil Rights Bill. Kennedyâs assassination on November 22, 1963, changed the political dynamics of the impending civil rights legislation. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Kennedy and almost immediately intensified the campaign for a major civil rights bill.resident John F. Kennedy proposed the initial civil rights act. Kennedy faced great personal and political conflicts over this legislation. On the one hand, he was sympathetic to African-American citizens whose dramatic protests highlighted the glaring gap between American ideals and American realities.