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(U. S. Senator from Michigan, 1959-1976, a conscientious supporter of civil rights, consumer protection and environmentalism, Hart served as floor manager of the 1965 civil rights act and 1968 Open Housing Act, introduced legislation to create Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rock National Lakeshores and sponsored important consumer legislation. (Undated).)

(Civil rights legislation; discussion, Hart and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall on national parks, Cape Cod seashore and Sleeping Bear)