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The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission
The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission
A History, 1943–2013
Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner
Foreword by Michael E. Maloney
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Obermiller, Phillip J., author. | Wagner, Thomas E., author.
Title: The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission : a history, 1943-2013 / Phillip J. Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner ; foreword by Michael E. Maloney.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017026386| ISBN 9780821422991 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821446218 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Cincinnati Human Relations Commission—History. | Civil rights—Ohio—Cincinnati—History. | Minorities—Political activity—Ohio—Cincinnati—History. | Cincinnati (Ohio)—Social policy—History. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
Classification: LCC JC599.U52 O46 2017 | DDC 323.09771/7809045—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026386
This book is dedicated to those,
past and present, determined to
“safeguard the rights of all citizens.”
Contents
Responding to the “Calamity in Detroit”
Intervening “in and between Crises”
Working with “Social Dynamite”
Moving from Stability to “Complete Disarray”
Starting the Decade Well, Ending with Difficulty
Completing Seventy Years of Service
