Papers. 1949-1973.

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Schermer, George, 1910-1989. Papers. 1949-1973.

Papers. 1949-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20312326

Director of Detroit, Mich., and Philadelphia, Pa., commissions on human relations, founder of National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials, and head of George Schermer Associates, Washington, D.C., a consulting firm specializing in urban social problems. Primarily articles, reports, and speeches; together with correspondence (1957-1973), autobiographical notes, transcripts of tape-recorded interviews for Civil Rights Documenatation Project (1967), bylaws, minutes, resolutions, lists, newsletters, and clippings. Includes material relating to housing and employment of minorities and historical background on inner city conditions in Chicago, Ill., Detroit, and Philadelphia; Detroit and Philadelphia human relations commissions; theory and practice of intergroup relations; housing studies of Baltimore, Md., Boston, Mass., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pa., Philadelphia school desegregation, police-community relations, selective patronage program of the black community (1961-1963), and riot (1964); and Detroit riots (1942, 1943, 1967).

2.4 linear ft. (ca. 1800 items). 6 Boxes.

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center