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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records, 1960-1969
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Creator
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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Creator (Corporate)
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
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Date Created
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1960, 1969
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
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Description
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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...
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Series 1, Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee, 1960-1961
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Creator
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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Creator (Corporate)
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
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Date Created
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1960, 1961
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
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Description
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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...
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Series 2, Mayor's Community Relations Committee, 1961-1969
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Creator
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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Creator (Corporate)
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
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Date Created
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1961, 1969
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race discrimination, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Municipal government
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Description
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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 ...