On December 5, 1946 President Harry Truman established The President’s Committee on Civil Rights to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens. In October 1947 the Committee submitted its findings to President Truman in the form of a 178-page report titled To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. The report narrowed down the main rights of American citizens to four: The Right to Safety and Security of the Person, The Right to Citizenship and its Privileges, The Right to Freedom of Conscience and Expression, and The Right of Equality and Opportunity. The report found that the American reality was falling incredibly short of the American ideal in the realm of civil rights. The Committee found numerous instances in the country where people’s four main rights where violated as a result of race, color, religion, or social position. At no point does the document mention a violation of the four basic rights due to gender. While To Secure These Rights is a momentous document in our history and one of the rare instances when our flaws and hypocrisies were put in front of us at the behest of our president, we find that the document is only useful to us as a starting point when investigating the development and impact of Title IX.