 During his tenure as minister, he served on the Dade County Senior Citizens Board, and headed Miami's Peaceful Integration committee.Culmer also was chairman of the Fact-Finding Committee of the Greater Miami Negro Civic League, where he brought national attention to the deplorable housing and sanitation conditions of African Americans in Miami; this led to the building of the Liberty Square housing project, which opened in 1937.Culmer died on June 18, 1963.