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Giles Brothers case for justice, so that all over this
state in human relations commissions and in county
councils, decent, fair-thinking citizens of good will of
both races are sitting down together to work on this
common problem which is not the Negro probier" but is "ary-
land's problem, because it affects us both alike.
And therefore, we feel that this anti-discrimi-
nation language is important both for the guidance of our
courts and for the guidance of the General Assembly as
we move to a future of progress, we hope.
Now, some say that the anti-discrimination clause
is redundant and that the equal protection clause em-
braces the prohibition and as the majority report puts it,
that because of recent Supreme Court decisions, the equal
protection clause may provide broader protection against
state-sponsored, state-inspired discrimination.
We reply that the 14th Amendment to the Federal
Constitution should not be the sole reliance of this
state for protecting human rights. In 1867 when the
Convention met here, the Constitutional Convention met
here in Annapolis, slavery had already been abolished, lut