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1961

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records, 1960-1969

Series 1, Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee records include 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. The collection is organized by committee.

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 Charlotte on February 12, 1960. 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.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)

Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

manuscripts (documents)
clippings (information artifacts)

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Cunningham, John R. (John Rood), 1891-1980
Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Smith, James Saxon

Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Friendly Relationship Committee
Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Community Relations Committee
Charlotte (N.C.) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee

African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights
Discrimination in public accommodations
Race discrimination
Race relations
Civil rights movements
Municipal government

North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Mecklenburg County

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee records

Manuscripts--10th Floor, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Manuscript 101

Box 1, Folder 3

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