Community Affairs Committee

Birmingham's Community Affairs Committee was formed on July 16, 1963 and charged with improving race relations in Birmingham following the Birmingham Campaign of the previous spring. The group was later merged into Operation New Birmingham.

As initially formed, the committee consisted of 212 members, of whom 23 were African-American. Southern Bell vice-president Frank Newton was the first chair.

Charter members

• Joseph Apolinsky, chair of the Downtown Birmingham Display Association
• Theodore Jones, Birmingham Progressive Education Association
• Herbert Levy, Levy's Department Store
• Don Levy, president of the West End Chamber of Commerce
• Robert Gordon, attorney
• Raiford Ellis, realtor
• Frederic Ellis, district manager for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
• Jack Boswell, engineer for Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
• Sallie Anderson, Birmingham Council of Colored PTAs
• Katie Jefferson, retired educator
• J. Mason Davis, attorney
• Harold Long, pastor of First Congregational Church
• Herschell Hamilton, physician
• Eugene Goldstein, president of the Ensley Kiwanis Club
• Donald Cromer, president of United Auto Workers Local 1155
• James Head, co-chair of the executive committee of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
• J. H. Berry, realtor
• John Barnett, international representative of United Auto Workers Local 1155
• Letitia Arant, Nineteenth Century Club
• Samuel Cole, president of the Sales and Manufacturing Executives Club
• James S. Crow, vice president of First National Bank of Birmingham
• W. S. Lucas, district governor of Lions International
• C. T. Hunter, division vice-president for Alabama Power Company
• Buford Word, physician
• Hollis Thompson, president of Huffman-Roebuck Lions Club
• James Scogin, president of Northside Lions Club
• John Poer, president of Alabama Cleaning Service & Supply Co.
• Wallace Withers, business representative for Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 48
• Fred Sington, Fred Sington Sporting Goods
• Mervyn Sterne, Sterne, Agee & Leach
• Dan Gaylord, president of Woodlawn Chamber of Commerce
• Carl C. Brown, president of Birmingham Real Estate Board
• Joseph Durick, Bishop, St Francis Xavier Catholic Church
• Howard Higgins, Birmingham manager for Alabama Gas Corporation
• John Hendon, president Birmingham Parking Association
• Willard Hurley, Exchange Security Bank
• Thormon Phillips, staff representative United Steelworkers District 36
• R. A. Puryear Jr, president of Alabama Gas Corporation
• Thomas Surtees, Surtees Jewelry Co.
• Lucius Pitts, president of Miles College
• E. A. Wilson, vice president of Alabama Power Company
• Joe K. Taylor, president of Birmingham Sertoma Club
• Don York, accountant
• Harold Moore, dentist
• Homer McClure Jr, junior director of Birmingham Electrical Joint Industrial Board & Apprenticeship Committee
• Robert Washington, United Steelworkers Local 1631
• Lucinda Robey, principal of Dudley School
• Abraham Woods, pastor of First Metropolitan Baptist Church
• Mathew McNulty Jr, administrator of University Hospital and Hillman Clinic
• Edith Underwood, housewife
• Mrs John E. Roberts, vice-president of Osce Roberts Stamp & Printing Co.
• Mrs Benjamin Roth, housewife
• James Montgomery, physician
• Sanders Rowland III, Rust Engineering
• Bruce Thrasher, international representative of United Steelworkers of America
• C. H. Erskine, attorney
• John Steger, executive vice president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
• Daniel Price, president of Jefferson County Literary Movement
• Mrs John Patterson, president of Birmingham Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary
• Charles Spier, attorney
• Hugh Pemberton, president of Five Points South Lions Club
• Walter Nielson, superintendent for U.S. Pipe & Foundry
• Sidney Smyer, president of Birmingham Realty Company
• H. M. Phillips, president of Birmingham-Southern College
• Charles Zukoski Jr, retired banker
• Fred Short, secretary of Typographical Union Local 104
• Carlton McArthur, president Birmingham Junior Chamber of Commerce
• Max Spivey, president of West End Lions Club