Papers of the Virginia Council on Human Relations, Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter, 1956-1970.

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Papers of the Virginia Council on Human Relations, Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter, 1956-1970.

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The records consist of the files of the successive presidents of the chapter: David Cole Wilson, Mildred Brown, Katherine Kilpatrick Makielski, Lambert Molyneaux, Thomas Taylor Hammond, Henry B. Mitchell, Calvin Murry Kunin, Roger Pattrell Bristol, Daniel Nathan Mohler, Eugene Abram Foster, Francesca Vidale Langbaum, and Robert S. Merkel. With these files are minutes, by-laws, some correspondence, financial records, treasurers' reports, memoranda, membership lists, speeches, pamphlets, surveys, press releases, newsletters, clippings, and resolutions issued by the State Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Most of the early material centers on the desegregation of the Charlottesville city school system. Later material is concerned with discrimination in housing and employment, and the fostering of better community relations. The council's special projects constitute a large portion of the collection, which includes fair housing, fair employment, Homeward Bound for returning Vietnam veterans, suffrage, and aspects of education, such as desegregation, improved curricula and local budgets. There are also reports and pamphlets from other organizations about the same problems particularly the Virginia Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, the Southern Regional Council, the Citizens for Superior Albemarle Schools and the P.T.A. The records also concern the activities of several committees including education, voter registration, and fair housing. Material, 1959-1964, for the Job Opportunity Committee comprises a large portion of the collection and consists of minutes, correspondence, clippings, and especially, reports of interviews with Charlottesville employees on the hiring of blacks. With these are a 1961 report The Charlottesville employer, his attitude and policies relevant to the employment of Negroes of this city and a 1963 speech The 1963 revolution comes to Charlottesville, containing grievances and recommendations of the NAACP. There is correspondence with the Southern Regional Council and the Virginia Council on Human Relations State Board in Richmond. In the correspondence are brief letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Thurgood Marshall, Absalom Willis Robertson and Howard Worth Smith. Also in the correspondence are letters from members of the U.S. President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity including two form letters from Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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