# Executive Order 11247 *Executive order of September 24, 1965, transferring federal civil-rights coordination from the Vice President's council to the Attorney General.* Executive Order 11247 is a United States presidential executive order dated September 24, 1965. It revoked [[Executive Order 11197]] of February 5, 1965, effective thirty days from its own date, and transferred records to the Attorney General.[^1] EO 11197 had created the [[President's Council on Equal Opportunity]] and made the [[Vice President of the United States]] its chairman. EO 11247 moved the Council's [[Title VI]] coordination function and its records to the Attorney General.[^2] The order gives its own reason for the change. The issues "will be predominantly legal in character," and the Attorney General is "the chief law officer of the Federal Government."[^3] The documented output was the move of the coordinating function from a council chaired by an elected officer to an appointed one. The move came 231 days after EO 11197 was issued.[^4] The project's at-issue record pairs the order with a 2025 White House presidential action, *Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy*.[^5] Its Minnesota file traces the attorney-general enforcement structure at issue in [[Minnesota]] to the two 1965 orders.[^2] ## Who Under EO 11197, issued by President Johnson, the Vice President chaired the President's Council on Equal Opportunity. The dossier compiled for this record identifies that Vice President as Humphrey. It describes him as, by that order's text, the federal government's civil-rights coordinator.[^2] EO 11247 placed the coordinating function, and the Council's records, with the Attorney General of the United States.[^1][^2] ## What EO 11247 did two things. It revoked EO 11197, and it transferred the Council's records to the Attorney General.[^1] The function transferred was the coordination of Title VI enforcement.[^2] ## When EO 11197 is dated February 5, 1965. EO 11247 is dated September 24, 1965.[^4] The two dates are 231 days apart.[^4] The revocation of EO 11197 took effect thirty days after September 24, 1965.[^1] ## Why The order's stated rationale is that the issues "will be predominantly legal in character." It names the Attorney General as "the chief law officer of the Federal Government."[^3] The order text does not mention the Watts riots of August 11–16, 1965. A causal link to those events is the standard secondary reading; the order does not assert it.[^6] ## How The change was made by executive order, not by statute. The revocation clause reads: "Effective 30 days from the date of this Order, Executive Order No. 11197 of February 5, 1965, is revoked."[^1] The Council's records went to the Attorney General with the function.[^1][^2] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue record carries two entries on EO 11247. Both pair it with the April 2025 White House presidential action *Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy*.[^5] The record's stated basis for the first pairing is that the 2025 order relocates the same function again, sixty-one years later, by the same instrument type. Its stated basis for the second is that the 2025 order directs the same office EO 11247 empowered.[^5] The record does not establish the 2025 order's terms beyond its title and date. ## In the Minnesota record ### Who The dossier states the enforcement structure for [[§43A.191]] as follows: the [[Attorney General of Minnesota]] defends the statute and the U.S. Attorney General attacks it.[^2] The record compiled for this article carries no docket, filing date or status for that federal action. ## Notes [^1]: The American Presidency Project, *Executive Order 11247* (Sept. 24, 1965) — establishes the revocation of EO 11197, effective 30 days from the order's date, and the transfer of records to the Attorney General. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11247-providing-for-the-coordination-the-attorney-general-enforcement [^2]: Project dossier, *HHH Waverly Apex Dossier* §IV.6 (Sept. 2, 2026) — describes EO 11197 (Feb. 5, 1965) naming the Vice President as chairman of the President's Council on Equal Opportunity, and Humphrey's role under it. It also describes EO 11247's transfer of the Title VI coordination function and the Council's records to the Attorney General, and states the Minnesota and U.S. Attorneys General's positions on §43A.191. The pack carries no URL for this dossier. [^3]: The American Presidency Project, *Executive Order 11247* (Sept. 24, 1965) — states the order's rationale: that the issues "will be predominantly legal in character," and that the Attorney General is "the chief law officer of the Federal Government." https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11247-providing-for-the-coordination-the-attorney-general-enforcement [^4]: The American Presidency Project, *Executive Order 11247* (Sept. 24, 1965) — establishes the dates of EO 11197 (Feb. 5, 1965) and EO 11247 (Sept. 24, 1965), which are 231 days apart. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11247-providing-for-the-coordination-the-attorney-general-enforcement [^5]: The White House, *Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy* (April 2025) — the presidential action the at-issue record pairs with EO 11247. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy [^6]: The American Presidency Project, *Executive Order 11247* (Sept. 24, 1965) — order text, which does not mention the Watts riots of August 11–16, 1965. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11247-providing-for-the-coordination-the-attorney-general-enforcement