The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was created through the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as an independent, bipartisan federal fact-finding agency. It largely functions through its State Advisory Committees, which identify and report on local issues. In 1968, CBS News aired a documentary called Hunger in America that portrayed with sympathy the residents of, among other locations, the depressed Chicano neighborhoods of San Antonio. After its airing, national attention was drawn to allegations of regular discrimination and violations of Mexican American civil rights in education, employment, economic security, and administration of justice.