McCormack has also worked on behalf of [[civil rights]] matters. He served on Shreveport's Human Relations Commission, the Black History Committee, the [[Martin Luther King]] Birthday Committee. For two years, he chaired the Human Rights Conference.<ref name=race>{{cite web|url=http://demo.openlogicsys.com/cc/blog/we%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2ve_come_long_way_baby_race_relations|title=We've Come a Long Way, Baby, in Race Relations, March 16, 2008|publisher=demo.openlogicsys.com|accessdate=June 6, 2012}}</ref>
In the 1950s, McCormack, along with the controversial "Radical Right" publisher [[Ned Touchstone]], had been an aide to [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[Thomas Overton Brooks]], for whom the Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport is named.
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