Records, ca. 1956-1968.

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Records, ca. 1956-1968.

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Summary: Correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and reports concerning civil rights in Tucson, ca. 1956-1968. Commission members and correspondents include Roy Twitty, Morgan Maxwell, Jr., George and Alice Papcun, and Rev. P. David Sholin. Organizations represented include the Committee for Economic Opportunity, the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.), Ecumenical Council, and others. Some subjects addressed by the commission include poverty, housing discrimination, and education. In some cases, individuals are interviewed. There is one report from a study concerning discrimination in the establishment of the Pascua Yaqui neighborhood.

1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7448562

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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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...

Tucson Commission on Human Relations

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Historical note: Commission established by Mayor Don Hummel in 1955 to encourage mutual respect and understanding among all ethnic and religious groups, and to discourage all manner and manifestations of discriminatory practice. Although the dates of the Commission corresponded to the African American civil rights movement, the group also advocated for women, Mexicans, Jewish citizens and other minority or underrepresented people. From the description of Records, ca. 1956-1968. (Ari...