[Crisis without violence - the story of a hot summer by Alexander F. Miller]

The file contains a copy of the booklet “Crisis without Violence – The story of a hot summer”, written by Alexander F. Miller and published in 1964 by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. The author, a national community relations director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, describes how the crisis following a hitting attack of a policeman against an African-American teenager did not lead to riots, but was solved through means of communication and mediation. Against the background of growing racial tensions in the United States in 1964, the case of New Rochelle is presented as an example of how the tension was eased by the City Council, and mainly, by the work of the newly established New Rochelle Human Rights Commission. The author himself served as a chairman of Commission, and was thus actively involved in the events as well as in the educational and social programs following the incident.