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Minutes, Mayor's Action Committee
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee1960-04-25/1960-04-25
UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library
Charlotte, United States
Mayor James Saxon Smith formed the Mayor’s Friendly Relationship Committee in response to sit-in protests of lunch counters in Charlotte in 1960. After integration, Mayor Stanford Brookshire renamed it the Community Relations Committee, and the group expended to explore issues of housing, education, equal opportunities for work, crime, and the impact of segregation on communities.
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- Title: Minutes, Mayor's Action Committee
- Creator: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee
- Date Created: 1960-04-25/1960-04-25
- Location Created: Charlotte, North Carolina
- Subject Keywords: African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations
- Type: Document
- Rights: The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.For more information, see (https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en)
- External Link: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee records
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