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Seymour Samet Papers

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Date of Original
1940/1989

Subject
Civil rights--United States--History--20th century
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee. Miami Chapter
Metropolitan Dade County (Fla.). Community Relations Board
Miami (Fla.)--Race relations

People
Samet, Seymour, 1919-2014

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami, 25.77427, -80.19366

Type
Text

Description
The Seymour Samet Collection documents Mr. Samet’ s civil rights work for the American Jewish Committee, the Dade County Community Relations Board, and the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service from the 1940s to the 1980s. The correspondence, speeches, reports, brochures, and other materials articulate issues of discrimination, desegregation and general human relations from various group and geographical perspectives.

Metadata URL
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0656

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

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1. Ramsey Clark, Attorney General reported the Department of Justice intensified and expanded fight against crime in 1967, January 14, 1968

Date of Original:: 1968-01-14
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

2. Roger W. Wilkins was named to head the government's Community Relations Service by President Johnson

Date of Original:: 1965-12-17
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

3. Calvin Kytle, Acting Director, Community Relations Service, who resigned from office, was asked to quit

Creator:: Nicodemus, Charles
Date of Original:: 1965-12-15
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

4. Calvin Kylte, Acting Director, Community Relations Service, resigns effective January 1, 1966

Date of Original:: 1965-12-14
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

5. Text of remarks by LeRoy Collins, Director, Community Relations Service to Alabama Council on Human Relations, January 30, 1965

Date of Original:: 1965-01-30
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

6. LeRoy Collins chosen by President Johnson as new Undersecretary of Commerce

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

7. Seymour Samet of Miami, Florida, named special assistant to former Governor LeRoy Collins, Director, new federal Community Relations Service

Date of Original:: 1964-11-05
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

8. Seymour Samet, Florida Director, American Jewish Committee becomes special assistant to former Governor LeRoy Collins, Director of new Federal Commmunity Relations Service

Date of Original:: 1964-10-23
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

9. Story behind Dade's Community Relations Board

Date of Original:: 1963-08-02
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

10. American Jewish Committee press release, May 28, 1954

Date of Original:: 1954-05-28
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

11. Jewish Floridian New Year edition, 1954

Date of Original:: 1954
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

12. Abraham S. Venable, business executive named as Community Relations Service field conciliator

Date of Original:: 1940/1990
Collection:: Seymour Samet Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

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