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Elmer A. Carter (1890-1973), editor
and a prominent Republican, was the first chairman of the New
York State Commission Against discrimination (the predecessor of
the State Division of Human rights) and first director of the
State Human rights Division until his resignation in 1961. He
then served for two years as special assistant to Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller on issues of race relations. In 1937,
while editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the Urban
League, Carter was appointed by Governor Herbert Lehman to the
Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. |
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He thus began a career in
public service devoted to eliminating racial bias in housing,
employment, and public accommodation. Carter's wife, the former
Thelma Johnson, died just a few weeks before her husband. the
carters lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue from the 1940s until their
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| OPPORTUNITY -- Journal of Negro Life, the
official organ of the National Urban League, completing in
December thirteen brilliant years under the able editorship of
distinctive contribution to the literature dealing with the
problems of interracial contacts in America. Dispassionate,
factual data and illuminating articles from the pens of some of
America's most distinguished students and writers graced the
columns of the magazine -- establishing it in the minds of
discriminating readers as one of the indispensable sources of
light on "America's most baffling problem." Opportunity
Journal, thanks to its perceptive, broad-minded editors,
first, Charles S. Johnson, and then Elmer A. Carter,
was a leading venue for the work of African-American artists. |
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