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
• Mrs Douglas Arant, housewife
• Samuel Cole, president of the Sales and Manufacturing Executives Club