Denver Commission on Community Relations records, 1940-1971 [manuscript].

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Denver Commission on Community Relations records, 1940-1971 [manuscript].

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Collection contains studies, reports, minutes, pamphlets (generated by or collected by the agency) regarding civil rights, discrimination, and minorities in Denver (1948-1971). Collection also includes records for the Rocky Mountain Council on Inter-American Affairs (1940-1944).

5.5 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6821203

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Rocky Mountain Council on Inter-American Affairs

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Denver (Colo.). Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations

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Denver (Colo.). Commission on Community Relations.

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Originally established by Denver, Colo. mayor Quigg Newton in 1948 as the Mayor's Committee on Human Relations. Organization became permanent component of city government in 1949. Under ordinance 77, its powers and duties were revised and name changed to Commission on Community Relations (1959). Name of commission subsequently changed to Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations (1984). Current agency addresses issues affecting race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, elderly people, women, peo...