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Ca. 31 ft. which contain the complete files of this volunteer organization. Included are correspondence, research data, clippings, financial records, etc. which were generated by the Committee in its projects to eliminate racial discrimination in restaurants in East Manhattan, and later in other sections of the city. Later, a program for the desegregation of housing was initiated. After the Committee went out of existence in 1966, several histories of the group's activities were written. They remain unpublished, but the manuscripts are included in the collection. Collection also includes other correspondence to and from prominent figures including Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, Rev. James H. Robinson, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Roy Wilkins, Vincent Sardi Jr., Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

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  • "Ca. 31 ft. which contain the complete files of this volunteer organization. Included are correspondence, research data, clippings, financial records, etc. which were generated by the Committee in its projects to eliminate racial discrimination in restaurants in East Manhattan, and later in other sections of the city. Later, a program for the desegregation of housing was initiated. After the Committee went out of existence in 1966, several histories of the group's activities were written. They remain unpublished, but the manuscripts are included in the collection. Collection also includes other correspondence to and from prominent figures including Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, Rev. James H. Robinson, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Roy Wilkins, Vincent Sardi Jr., Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller."@en
  • "Leading figures who were prominent in the organization from its beginning were Kenneth B. Clark, then Asst. Professor of Psychology at City College of New York; Samuel H. Flowerman, Director, Dept. of Scientific Research, American Jewish Committee; Sophia M. Robison, New York School of Social Work; Patricia Kendall, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University; and Claire Selltiz, Research Center for Human Relations, New York University. Some cooperating organizations of note were East Harlem Council for Community Planning, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, N.Y. Chapter; National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Urban League of Greater New York."@en

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