Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997

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Noted economist who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. cabinet. In 1960 President John F. Kennedy appointed Weaver to head the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson named him head of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development. -- Encyclopedia Britannica

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Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997

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AFL-CIO Civil Rights Committee, correspondence and printed materials, 1966-1977

Creator:: AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E.T., 1921-1996
Meany, George, 1894-1980
Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013
Slaiman, Donald, 1919-2000
Sayre, Harry D.
Brown, William H., III
O'Neal, Frederick
Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997
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Collection:: AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997

AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records