recommendations often lead to action in Congress. Commissioners hold monthly daylong meetings, including six briefings on subjects, chosen by the commissioners, that involve possible discrimination. Ahead of these meetings, commission staff prepares reports on those subjects and schedules appearances by witnesses. Each year the Commission drafts recommendations that are sent to Congress by September 30. References Further reading Books , New York: Random House Digital, 2009 Gabriel J. Chin ed., U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Asian Pacific Americans (2005) Gabriel J. Chin ed., U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on the Police (2005) Gabriel J. Chin & Lori Wagner eds., U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Voting (2005) Urofsky, Melvin I. The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History From Reconstruction to Today (2020); online review Chapter 7 of Golland, David H. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican. (2019). University Press of Kansas. Journals The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 22 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 447 (1987) SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, "50 Years of Struggle", New York Times, 12 February 2009 External links Memphis Civil Rights Digital Archive's Collection of Transcripts from hearing on Civil Rights in 1962 Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a project of the University of Maryland School of Law, Thurgood Marshall Law Library Legislative History of the Commission Proposed and finalized federal regulations from the United States Commission on Civil Rights Sex Bias in the U.S. Code (1977 report issued by the commission) Civil rights movement United States national commissions