In the summer of 1943, as World War II raged overseas, the United
States also faced internal strife. Earlier that year, Detroit had
erupted in a series of race riots that killed dozens and destroyed
entire neighborhoods. Across the country, mayors and city councils
sought to defuse racial tensions and promote nonviolent solutions
to social and economic injustices. In Cincinnati, the result of
those efforts was the Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee, later
renamed the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission (CHRC). The
Cincinnati Human Relations Commission: A History, 1943-2013, is a
decade-by-decade chronicle of the agency: its accomplishments,
challenges, and failures. The purpose of municipal human relations
agencies like the CHRC was to give minority groups access to local
government through internal advocacy, education, mediation, and
persuasion-in clear contrast to the tactics of lawsuits, sit-ins,
boycotts, and marches adopted by many external, nongovernmental
organizations. In compiling this history, Phillip J. Obermiller and
Thomas E. Wagner have drawn on an extensive base of archival
records, reports, speeches, and media sources. In addition,
archival and contemporary interviews provide first-person insight
into the events and personalities that shaped the agency and the
history of civil rights in this midwestern city.
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