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Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR) / Human Rights Department Records
Collection
Identifier: UR000267
Abstract
The Commission on Community Relations evolved from the City of Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee in 1953 and was renamed in 1974 as the Human Rights Department. All three iterations served a common purpose: to make recommendations to improve governmental services affecting racial relations, and to promote understanding between the races. Minutes, correspondence, and case studies document the Commission's efforts to achieve these goals.Topics covered include affirmative action,...
Dates:
1940 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wade H. McCree, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000822
Abstract
Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. began his career as a lawyer in the Detroit law firm of Harold E. Bledsoe and Hobart Taylor. He later served on the state’s Workmen’s Compensation Commission and as a judge in the county and U.S. court system. During his tenure on the bench, McCree took part in a number of school desegregation cases iand as the government’s lawyer, he argued a number of significant cases before the Supreme Court. He resigned in 1977 to accept appointment as U.S. Solicitor General in the...
Dates:
1937 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1987
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- Civil rights--United States--Cases 1
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- Detroit (Mich.) 1
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- Detroit (Mich.)--Riot, 1943 1
- Detroit (Mich.)--Riot, 1967 1
- Discrimination in employment 1
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- Discrimination in medical care 1
- Education, Higher 1
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- Detroit (Mich.). Mayor's Interracial Committee 1
- Detroit. Commission on Community Relations 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Schermer, George, 1919-1989 1
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