Immigrant background, Ethical Culture School, Harvard; early interest in civil liberties; Roger N. Baldwin; settlement house work, 1926-1933; work with West Virginia mining families, 1933; teacher and leader at Ethical Culture from 1933; co-chairman, city-wide Committee on Harlem, 1941-1947; job opportunities for blacks; state committee on fair housing, 1949; chairman of board of National Committee on Discrimination in Housing, 1950-1967; black militancy in late 1960s; chairman of Civilian Complaint Review Board of Police Department, New York City, 1966; encampments for citizenship from 1939; writing and broadcasting on ethical issues; internal security investigations
Civil rights workers; Educators; Internal security; Ethical culture movement; Housing; Housing policy; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Segregation; African Americans--Social conditions; Social service; Civil rights--United States; United States Intellectual life; Black, Algernon D. (Algernon David), 1900-1993; Society for Ethical Culture; New York (N.Y.). Police Department Complaints against