Collection: George Schemer papers | Amistad Research Center

Content Description

Correspondence, bylaws, minutes, lists, newsletters, books, reports, speeches, pamphlets, and clippings. Most correspondence covers Schermer's period as executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Subjects include equal access to housing, Detriot and Philadelphia, fair employment practices, police-community relations, riot and crowd control in the early 1960s Philadelphia, and desegregation of Philadelphia city and neighborhood schools. Also mentioned are the 1940s Detriot riots, the Philadelphia housing demonstrations, industrial boycotts, and picketing in the early 1960s.