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Writing the final report
Frazier gradually made clear his desire to write the entire report at meetings of the MCCH in October 1935. After telling the four members present at the meeting on October 9 that the study “will be written in any manner the Commission wishes it,” he asked the larger group at the next meeting, on October 23, for “instructions concerning the kind of report they wanted.” The record of the discussion in the minutes is somewhat garbled, but Frazier’s statement that “he would not want to be part of an amalgamated report” highlighted the issue. Some MCCH members apparently were not immediately ready to give up a role in writing the final report, perhaps in part because Frazier's report on hospitals read earlier in the meeting had met with “some criticism.” Eventually Hubert Delany said in the case of the preliminary report of the subcommittee he chaired on discrimination in employment, he was willing for Frazier “to write the type of report he wants to and in his own way.” Charles Roberts seized on that offer to end the discussion, suggesting that “the Commission hold their judgment in abeyance until the report on discrimination is presented.” Frazier agreed to complete that report by the next week, October 31, and a meeting was set for that date. He likely missed that deadline, as he reported to the MCCH meeting two months later, on December 27, that he was still working on Delany’s preliminary report. There are no records of the meetings in the interim, but by this time Frazier was also writing the final report, so apparently the commission had decided to make him the sole author regardless of their assessment of the report on discrimination. His plan, he told the meeting, was to send the chapters “two at a time so the Committee can read over them and digest them.” One of the first two chapters MCCH members received covered the events of the disorder. It included sections that most members found hard to stomach.
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- "Minutes of the Meeting of the Mayor's Commission on Conditions, Held Wednesday September 11, 1935," Subject Files, Box 383, Folder 10 (Roll 184), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem," October 23, 1935, Subject Files, Box 383, Folder 10 (Roll 184), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem," October 9, 1935, Subject Files, Box 383, Folder 10 (Roll 184), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Minutes of Executive Meeting of the Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem," December 27, 1935, Subject Files, Box 383, Folder 10 (Roll 184), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).