Records Relating to Police - Community Relations in Urban Areas, 1957–1966

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Records Relating to Police - Community Relations in Urban Areas, 1957–1966

1957-1966

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1079209

This series consists of records pertaining to police - community relations in various urban areas that document incidents of police brutality, false arrests, police in-action, assault-and-battery, race relations and training programs within police departments. Also included are reports and other records, such as Detroit's Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity report entitled, "Police, Law Enforcement, and the Detroit Community" (Summer, 1965); a report from the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission entitled, "Status Report on Police Training in Intergroup Relations and Workshops on Community Responsibility in Race Relations;" and a "Survey of Minority Group Employment Patterns, City of Minneapolis," created by the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations. Other urban areas documented in this series include Canton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California; Savannah, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri; and Washington, DC. The records also document activities and concerns of various organizations, such as the National Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) about police-community relations.

2 linear feet, 7 linear inches

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...