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A Study In Nondecision: The Human Rights Commission In Huntington, Nancy Potter Matthews
A Study In Nondecision: The Human Rights Commission In Huntington, Nancy Potter Matthews
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Civil Rights was one of the most explosive political issues of the 1960’s. Race relations was a concern to everyone, and a special concern to government at all levels and in all parts of the United States. This paper will show how Huntington, West Virginia, a medium-sized border city with a small minority population, faced the problem. In 1962, the Mayor established a Civil Rights Commission which served to insulate the City Council--the political decision-makers—from facing and resolving the problems of the Negro minority.
Politics is understood here as the distribution of advantages and disadvantages among people. Individuals differ in …