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Title: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records, 1960-1969
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Date Created: 1960, 1969
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
Description: Records of a committee established in 1961 by the mayor of Charlotte to help ease racial tensions and to assist in the gradual desegregation of public facilities. Includes correspondence, minutes, and clippings relating to the committee and its pr...

Title: Series 1, Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee, 1960-1961
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Date Created: 1960, 1961
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
Description: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee was first established by Mayor James Saxon Smith as the Mayor's Friendly Relationship Committee in 1960 in response to sit-ins at lunch counters led by Johnson C. Smith students in uptown Cha...

Title: Series 2, Mayor's Community Relations Committee, 1961-1969
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Date Created: 1961, 1969
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
Description: John Cunningham served as the first chair of the Mayor's Community Relations Committee, and was succeeded by Warner L. Hall, senior minister of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, in 1965. Jack L. Bullard was hired as the committee's first ...

Title: Series 3, North Carolina Organizations, 1963-1967
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Date Created: 1963, 1967
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
Description: Governor Terry Sanford appointed Stanford Brookshire as chair of the North Carolina Mayors Cooperating Committee in 1963 to help resolve racial problems in North Carolina. In 1964, the committee published The Negro in North Carolina, which furnish...

Title: Series 4, National Organizations, 1963-1965
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Date Created: 1963, 1965
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Stanford Brookshire to the National Citizens Committee For Community Relations in 1964 to augment the work of the Community Relations Service established by the Civil Rights Bill. Brookshire served as a member...