Scope and Contents The collection includes architectural drawings, correspondence, directories, financial records, legal documents, minutes, maps, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, reports, and tables generated during Mr. Levin’s seven year tenure as a Detroit councilmember. Topics covered under the city council files include inner city and ethnic relations and real estate management, particularly racial discrimination in housing and rehabilitation of residential and commercial property in...

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...