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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 ...
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Series 3, North Carolina Organizations, 1963-1967
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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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1963, 1967
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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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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...
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Series 4, National Organizations, 1963-1965
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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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1963, 1965
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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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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...
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Stanford Brookshire oral history interview 1, 1973 February 16
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Creator
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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Date Created
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1973-02-16
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Subjects--Topical
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Mayors, Mayors--Election, Country life, Depressions, Family farms, Small business, Boards of trade, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Political campaigns, Sexism in political culture, Political candidates, Elections, Nonpartisan, Urban renewal, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Discrimination in public accommodations, Racism, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Civil rights, Bombings
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Stanford "Stan" Brookshire, the former four-term mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1961-1969, talks about his early life and his time as mayor. He describes his hometown, Troutman, North Carolina, and growing up on a farm that employed tenan...
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Stanford R. Brookshire oral history interview 3, 1979 May 22
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Creator
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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Date Created
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1979-05-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Municipal government, Urban renewal, City and town life, Cities and towns--Growth, Civil rights movements, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Business enterprises
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Description
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Stanford R. Brookshire shares his memories of his early years in Charlotte, North Carolina and his time as mayor of Charlotte from 1961 to 1969. He compares the city's size and population during the late 1920s and early 1930s with the late 1970s. ...