Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR) / Human Rights Department Records

Posted October 16th, 2008 by drice
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155 linear feet (122 SB, 66 MB), 3 OS, 1 Scrapbook
Date: 
1940-1984
Accession Number: 
UR000267

The Commission on Community Relations evolved from the City of Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee in1953 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, the Coordinating Council on Human Relations, discrimination in housing, health care, the 1943 & 1967 race riots, southern migration into Detroit, police-community relations, welfare, and school redistricting.

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