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Board and Committees. Ad Hoc Committees. Race Relations Committee. Commission on Interracial and Inter-cultural Relations. Source Material. (Box 33, Folder 8)

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National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers

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This folder contains records created/collected by the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, now United Neighborhood Centers of America, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, and other documents. The Federation, which was founded in 1911, included local settlement houses and neighborhood centers from across the United States and Canada. The records document the programs, methodology, member agencies, and administration of the Federation, which was known as the National Federation of Settlements from 1911 to 1949; National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers from 1949 to 1979; and United Neighborhood Center of America beginning in 1980. Information about issues and individuals makes this a key resource for the study of social welfare in twentieth century America. This folder contains records relating to Race Relations Committee's National Interracial Conference. Race relations, a matter of abiding concern to some NFSNC members and staff, provided the focus for a sequence of programs and activities operating under a variety of committee names. Minutes and correspondence dating from 1926 to 1931 reflect this concern, which returned to the forefront in response to discrimination at a 1934 settlement conference and appeared once again during the 1940s in the activities of an NFSNC ""interracial and inter-cultural commission."" The records contain scant evidence of Federation interracial concerns in the 1950s, but by the 1960s, it made massive commitment to racial and economic justice. Settlements participated in the 1963 March on Washington and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. They lobbied energetically for the 1964 Civil Rights Bill...
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