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West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives

2.9 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 11 in. (7 document cases, 5 in. each)
Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia Advisory Commission to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, statement to the West Virginia Board of Education from a committee of the West Virginia State NAACP on 2 September 1964, First Governors Conference on Human Rights in Charleston on 16 December 1965, special report on the New Year's Eve incident in Huntington on 14 January 1966, the special hearing at Lakin State Hospital on 21 April 1966, and the resignation of Howard McKinney. Correspondents include Governor W.W. Barron, Rabbi Samuel Cooper, Paul Crabtree, Rev. C. Anderson Davis, Thomas W. Gavett, Ken Hechler, Senator Paul Kaufman, Paul A. Miller, Julius W. Singleton, and Governor H.C. Smith.
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West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives 2.9 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 11 in. (7 document cases, 5 in. each)

West Virginia. Human Rights Commission
Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia Advisory Commission to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, statement to the West Virginia Board of Education from a committee of the West Virginia State NAACP on 2 September 1964, First Governors Conference on Human Rights in Charleston on 16 December 1965, special report on the New Year's Eve incident in Huntington on 14 January 1966, the special hearing at Lakin State Hospital on 21 April 1966, and the resignation of Howard McKinney. Correspondents include Governor W.W. Barron, Rabbi Samuel Cooper, Paul Crabtree, Rev. C. Anderson Davis, Thomas W. Gavett, Ken Hechler, Senator Paul Kaufman, Paul A. Miller, Julius W. Singleton, and Governor H.C. Smith.

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