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CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG COMMUNITY
RELATIONS COMMITTEE
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RECORDS, 1960-1969
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UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 101
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Collection
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Historical Note |
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Scope and
Content Note/Container List |
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Size:
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1 linear foot (1,800 items). |
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| Locales: |
Charlotte (N.C.). |
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Mecklenburg County (N.C.). |
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| Bulk Dates: |
1961-1969. |
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| Languages: |
English. |
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| Summary: |
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 predecessor, the Friendly Relations Committee.
Also contains material from state and national groups, including the North
Carolina Mayor's Cooperating Committee, North Carolina Good Neighbor Council,
National Citizens Committee for Community Relations, and the United States
Conference of Mayors Committee on Community Relations. |
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| Index Terms: |
Brookshire, Stanford R. (Stanford Raynold),
1905-1990. |
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Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Community Relations Committee. |
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Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee. |
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Charlotte (N.C.)--History. |
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee--Archives. |
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Desegregation--North Carolina--Charlotte. |
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Johnson C. Smith University--History. |
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National Citizens Committee for Community Relations (U.S.). |
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North Carolina Mayor's Cooperating Committee. |
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North Carolina Good Neighbor Council. |
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Race relations--North Carolina. |
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Race relations--North Carolina--Charlotte. |
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Race relations--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County. |
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Smith, James S. (James Saxon). |
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United States Conference of Mayors. Committee on Community
Relations. |
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| Sources: |
Gift of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee,
1985. |
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Unrestricted. |
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| Copyright: |
Not held by UNC Charlotte Library. |
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| Citation: |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library. |
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| Contact Information: |
For more information about this collection, please contact:
Special Collections Department
J. Murrey Atkins Library
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
E-mail: speccoll@email.uncc.edu
Telephone: (704) 687-2449
Fax: (704) 687-2232 |
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| Related Collections: |
Fred
D. Alexander Papers (Mss 91). |
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John
M. Belk Papers (Mss 60). |
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Stanford
R. Brookshire Papers (Mss 41). |
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Harry Golden Papers (Mss 20). |
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Kenneth
R. Harris Papers (Mss 89). |
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| The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations
Committee was established by mayor Stanford R. Brookshire (1961-69) as the
Mayor's Community Relations Committee in 1961 in order to ease racial tensions
and gradually implement desegregation in Charlotte. The committee assumed
its present name in 1969 to reflect the broader membership through appointments
by the chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. |
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| The Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Relations
Committee is composed of 60 members who are appointed for three year terms.
The appointments are made by the mayor of Charlotte and the chair of the
Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. The Committee's responsibilities
include studying problems in the areas of human and community relations
and to make the results hereof available to the public and promoting the
quality of opportunity for all citizens. |
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SCOPE
AND CONTENT NOTE/CONTAINER LIST
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| This collection includes correspondence, minutes,
and clippings of the Mayor's Community Relations Committee and the Mayor's
Friendly Relations Committee. Related series document state and national
community relations committees, which include the North Carolina Mayor's
Cooperating Committee, the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, the National
Citizens Committee for Community Relations, and the United States Conference
of Mayors Committee on Community Relations. Organized by committee. |
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Contents |
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MAYOR'S FRIENDLY RELATIONS COMMITTEE (1960 1961): includes
correspondence, minutes, and clippings of the committee appointed by Charlotte
mayor James S. Smith (1957 61) in 1960 in response to racial tensions caused
by the demonstrations by Johnson C. Smith University students against segregated
lunch counters. The committee was chaired by John R. Cunningham, director
of the Presbyterian Foundation and retired president of Davidson College.
James F. Wertz, pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church, served as vice chair.
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MAYOR'S COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE (1961 1969): includes
correspondence and minutes of the bi racial committee established by Brookshire
in 1961. Much of the correspondence is laudatory of the committee's efforts,
although some is vitrolic in nature. Cunningham also served as chair of
this committee. He 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 executive director in 1968. Includes items relating
to the 1965 bombings of the homes of prominent black Charlotteans Fred Alexander,
Kelly Alexander, Sr., Reginald Hawkins, and Julius Chambers. Correspondents
include George C. Wallace (4/5/65) and Robert F. Kennedy (6/24/63, 7/8/63).
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NORTH CAROLINA MAYORS COOPERATING COMMITTEE (1963 1965):
Brookshire chaired this committee appointed by Governor Terry Sanford in
1963 to help resolve racial problems in North Carolina. In 1964, the committee
published The Negro in North Carolina, which furnished guidelines for dealing
with racial problems at the local level. |
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NORTH CAROLINA GOOD NEIGHBOR COUNCIL (1965, 1967): Brookshire
served as a member of this committee initiated by Sanford in 1963 with the
two fold mission of "encouraging employment of qualified people without
regard to race and urging youth to become better trained and qualified for
employment." |
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NATIONAL CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS (1964
65): Brookshire served as a member of this committee appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to augment the work of the Community Relations
Service established by the Civil Rights Bill. |
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UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY
RELATIONS (1963 64): Brookshire served as a member of this committee that
was formed in 1963 to implement Conference policy objectives of easing inter
group tension in the nation's cities. |
