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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 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.

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Title
Correspondence, 1960-1961
Creator
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (N.C.)
Contributor
Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990, contributor
Date (Text)
1960 - 1961
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 folder
System Control No.
cmcrcr-ms0101-010101
Subject (Person)
Cunningham, John R. (John Rood), 1891-1980
Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Smith, James Saxon
Subject (Corporate)
Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Friendly Relationship Committee
Charlotte (N.C.). Mayor's Community Relations Committee
Charlotte (N.C.) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee
Subject (Topic)
African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights
Discrimination in public accommodations
Race discrimination
Race relations
Civil rights movements
Municipal government
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Mecklenburg County
Type
Text
Format
manuscripts (documents)
correspondence
Language
English
Grant Information
Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Copyright Holder
Copyright is held by J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Record Appears in
Manuscript Collections > Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records, 1960-1969 > Series 1, Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee, 1960-1961
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Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
2015-10-23
System Details Note
Master digitized using a Phase One IQ180 as 400 or 500 ppi, 24-bit .tif; display derivative is a compressed .jp2.
Source Note
This collection is part of Living Charlotte (http://livingcharlotte.uncc.edu/), a digital project that documents economic growth and social change in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the decades following World War II.

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