George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives

George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives

Discrimination in employment--Michigan--Detroit | Discrimination--Law and legislation

George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate economic discrimination, which is the basis of many of the problems afflicting Detroit's Black community. The Mayor’s Interracial Committee was established to improve race relations following the 1943 Detroit Race Riot. April 18, 1951. Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR)/Human Rights Department Records, Part 3, Box 74, Folder 8. Click the image to read the first two pages of Schermer's testimony.

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

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.

April 18, 1951

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