- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Commission on Interracial Cooperation
- Creator:
- Pullen, Ann Ellis
- Date of Original:
- 2004-12-23
- Subject:
- Social movements--Georgia--Atlanta
United States--Race relations
African Americans--Southern States
Commission on Interracial Cooperation - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), founded in Atlanta in 1919, which worked until its merger with the Southern Regional Council in 1944 to oppose lynching, mob violence, and peonage and to educate white southerners concerning the worst aspects of racial abuse. The commission remained based in Atlanta but had state-level committees throughout the South and, in the 1920s, some 800 local interracial committees. Key leaders included Will W. Alexander, executive director; Jessie Daniel Ames, the longtime director of woman's work; Arthur Raper, research director; and Robert B. Eleazer, director of education.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/commission-on-interracial-cooperation/
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Commission on Interracial Cooperation," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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