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Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Commission on Interracial Cooperation administrative records, 1918-1944.

Title: Commission on Interracial Cooperation administrative records, 1918-1944.

The series consists of the administrative files of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC) from 1918-1944. Includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, article reprints, writings, speeches, newsletters, and minutes. The records document many aspects of the Commission's work from the time of its inception until its transformation into the Southern Regional Council. Includes correspondence of several people who played key roles in the Commission's work including Will W. Alexander, Jessie Daniel Ames, Horace Mann Bond, John J. Eagan, Robert B. Eleazer, John Hope, Howard W. Odum, W.D. Weatherford, and Monroe N. Work. Other files reflect the Commission's relationship with several denominational organizations; research material regarding the quality of life for African Americans in the South; newspaper clippings relating to Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge's intervention into the state's educational system and his 1942 gubernatorial campaign; and the transformation of the CIC into the Southern Regional Council. Of particular interest, the records contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to various court cases involving racial discrimination and violence, especially during the 1930's. There is a significant set of files on the Scottsboro case, in which the CIC joined the NAACP in trying to secure an adequate legal defense for the defendants. The series also contains pamphlets and leaflets relating to the interracial movement, various publications including manuscripts, articles, and speeches of interest to the CIC, and issues of several black newspapers.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft.19 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen, 1888-1973. Papers, 1938-1950.

Title: Papers, 1938-1950.

Letter to W.W. Alexander on employment of youth; letter to Alexander Kinnan Laing; review by Alexander Meiklejohn of Rosenstock-Huessy's book, Out of revolution.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (13 p.) ; 30 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360111 View

Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972. Jessie Daniel Ames papers, 1866-1972.

Title: Jessie Daniel Ames papers, 1866-1972.

Correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, autobiographies, school materials, photographs, and other papers relating to the public service and private life of Jessie Daniel Ames. Organizational papers document Ames's work as officer of the Texas Interracial Commission and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta and as founder of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Subjects include education, lynching, domestic servants, conferences, public opinion, and other dimensions of race relations. Correspondents include Howard Odum, Guy B. Johnson, Will W. Alexander, and George Washington Carver. Included is a 1930 color poster from the Soviet Union that uses lynching to denounce both Christianity and the United States. Family papers document Ames's efforts as a single parent to raise and educate three children. Letters show that Frederick (1907-1959) became a pediatrician with a private practice in Houston, Tex., and served as a Navy physician during World War II; Mary became a pediatrician in Harrisburg, Pa., and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Lulu, crippled by polio as a child, became a successful editor.

ArchivalResource: About 3600 items (7.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43927312 View

Columbia University Oral History Collection. Collection. 1952-1960.

Title: Collection. 1952-1960.

36 microcards of interviews with men prominent in race relations and civil rights work, taped under the auspices of the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University. Persons interviewed were Will W. Alexander (Dean Albertson, interviewer), 1952, 8 cards; Roger Nash Baldwin (Dr. Harlan B. Phillips, interviewer), 1953-54, 11 cards; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 2 cards; George Schuyler (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 8 cards; J. Waties Waring (Dr. Harlan Phillips, interviewer -- 1955 and Louis M. Starr, 1956-57), 5 cards; and Roy Wilkins (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 2 cards. Included among the numerous subjects of the set were American Civil Liberties Union, American Communist Party, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Harlem Renaissance, National Urban League, Rosenwald Fund, NAACP, Ku Klux Klan, Rockefeller Foundation, and Universal Negro Improvement Association. Publications represented, among others, were the Crisis, Call, Messenger, and Pittsburgh Courier. Personal names are numerous and among them are the following: Jessie Daniel Ames, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Mrs. George Haynes, Marcus Garvey, and A. Philip Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 36 Microcards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18976390 View

Baldwin, Calvin Benham, 1902-1975. Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

Title: Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

The papers of C.B. Baldwin document his career in government and politics. A political liberal, Baldwin supported the New Deal's most radical programs and was often accused of being a communist sympathizer. The general subject files include such topics as Henry Wallace, presidential elections, Farmers' Union and correspondence. There are speeches by Baldwin, Wallace, and others. The CIO-PAC grouping includes news releases, memos, and publicity while the NCPAC series contains notes from trips, correspondence, and more publicity. The PCA documents contain minutes, leaflets, foreign policy papers, and information on state chapters. The Progressive Party papers include fact sheets, platform statements, and convention materials. A series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture contains information about the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The last four series consist of photographs, tape recordings of interviews, news clippings, and scrapbooks dating from 1945 to 1948. The correspondence is not confined to one series, rather it is scattered throughout the collection. The correspondents include: Will W. Alexander, Paul H. Appleby, Charlotta A. Bass, Elmer A. Benson, Anita McCormick Blaine, Jo Davidson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Elinor Gimbel, Vincent W. Hallinam, Robert E. Hannegan, Moss Hart, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Kingdon, Fiorello La Guardia, Fulton Lewis, Vito Marcantonio, Henry Morganthau, Dorothy Parker, and James G. Patton. More correspondents include: Claude Pepper, Gifford Pinchot, Eslanda Robeson, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred W. Stover, Glen Taylor, Theodore O. Thackrey, Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry A. Wallace, and Alexander F. Whitney.

ArchivalResource: Papers, 30 linear ft. (61 boxes)Photographs, 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)Scrapbooks, 3 items.Tape recordings, 8 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233105821 View

Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956. The reminiscences of Will W. Alexander [microform].

Title: The reminiscences of Will W. Alexander [microform]. [1952]

Authority on race relations. Topics include: childhood and education; Vanderbilt University; ministry, Methodist Church South, 1901-17; WWI; race riots; beginning work in race relations, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1919-30; lynching; Ku Klux Klan; Atlanta University merger; Dillard University, acting president, 1931-35; Resettlement Administration, 1935-36; Greenbelt towns; Great Plains; subsistence homesteads; Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Farm Security Administration, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fair Employment Practices Committee; organizing the American Council on Race Relations; impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace, and others.

ArchivalResource: 733 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58449163 View

Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), 1875-1970. Willis D. Weatherford papers, 1911-1969.

Title: Willis D. Weatherford papers, 1911-1969.

Correspondence, financial records, printed material, reports, writings, speeches, photos, and other material relating to the professional and personal life of Willis D. Weatherford. Many items are records, 1917-1944, of the YMCA Graduate School and of the Blue Ridge Assembly. Other papers document Weatherford's involvement, 1911-1943, in the YMCA at the regional and national level; his tenure, 1936-1946, as a professor at Fisk University; his involvement in the Commission for Interracial Cooperation and other interracial organizations, 1923-1969; his position on the board of trustees and as assistant to the president of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1924-1969; his role as initiator and director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; his membership on the North Carolina Governor's Coordinating Council on Aging; and his service on the board of directors of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company of Birmingham, Ala., which supported the Blue Ridge Assembly. Individuals important in the collection include Thomas Elsa Jones, president of Fisk University; William J. Hutchins and his son Francis S. Hutchins, both presidents of Berea College; playwright Paul Green; Tennessee congressman John Sparkman; writer and Weatherford biographer Wilma Dykeman; individuals involved with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, including director Will W. Alexander, secretary James D. Burton, women's work director Jessie Daniel Ames, educational director Robert B. Eleazor, Arthur F. Raper, and Howard W. Odum; Roy Rowe; North Carolina Governor Dan K. Moore; and Fletcher Sims Brockman of the YMCA.

ArchivalResource: About 60000 items (75.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25422545 View

Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956. The reminiscences of Will Winton Alexander, 1952 [microform].

Title: The reminiscences of Will Winton Alexander, 1952 [microform].

A transcript of Will Winton Alexander's oral history interviews. Alexander discusses his childhood education, his years as a minister at the Methodist Church South, race relations, the Klu Klux Klan, his work with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the American Council on Race Relations, the Atlanta University merger, his term as Acting-President at Dillard University, New Deal legislation, and his impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace, and others. Forms part of Columbia University Oral History Collection (Part One).

ArchivalResource: 8 microfiches.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386753 View

Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956. Oral history interview with Will Winton Alexander, 1952.

Title: Oral history interview with Will Winton Alexander, 1952.

Childhood and education; Vanderbilt University; ministry, Methodist Church South, 1901-1917; World War I; race riots; beginning work in race relations, Commission in Interracial Cooperation, 1919-1930; lynching; Ku Klux Klan; Atlanta University merger; Dillard University, Acting President, 1931-1935; Resettlement Administration, 1935-1936; Greenbelt towns; Great Plains; subsistence homesteads; Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Farm Security Administration, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fair Employment Practices Committee; organizing the American Council on Race Relations; impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace and others.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 756 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309722753 View

Moton Family Papers, 1850-1991, (bulk 1930-1940)

Title: Moton Family Papers 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940)

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to efforts in the 1930s by the Moton Family to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations.

ArchivalResource: 8,700 items; 25 containers plus 1 classified; 11.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998025 View

Neighborhood Union (Atlanta, Ga.). Lugenia Burns Hope files, 1908-1933.

Title: Lugenia Burns Hope files, 1908-1933.

The collection consists of the personal papers of Lugenia Burns Hope from 1908-1933. These records document Mrs. Hope's activities outside of the Neighborhood Union. Includes correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, programs, clippings, speeches and lectures, printed material, and rosters. Of particular interest are materials relating to her work with the Red Cross Colored Advisory Commission during the 1927 Mississippi Valley Flood and the YWCA's War Work Council's Hostess House program during World War I. Notable correspondents include Jane Addams, Will W. Alexander, Eva Bowles, W.E.B. Du Bois, Herbert Hoover, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary E. McDowell, Robert R. Moton, and Margaret Murray Washington.

ArchivalResource: 28 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477416 View

United Church Board for Homeland Ministries. Race Relations Dept (1943-1970). Archives. 1943-1970.

Title: Archives. 1943-1970.

Established by the American Missionary Association at Fisk University. Staged annual Race Relations Institutes. Conducted community self studies of human relations and research on restrictive housing covenants and segregation in interstate transportation. The collection includes correspondence, reports, biographical data, field notes, research materials, publications of the department or its staff, photographs, survey forms, etc. generated in the course of the activities conducted by the department. [These activities were the annual Race Relations Institute, Self-Study surveys by communities, numerous other surveys and studies.] Names in the collection are those of directors of the department, Charles S. Johnson, Herman Hodge Long, and Clifton Herman Johnson. Other staff members were Carroll Barber, Vivian Henderson, John Hope, II, Grace Jones, Lewis Wade Jones, Margaret McCulloch, Hattie M. Perry, and others. Other names in the collection include Will W. Alexander, Horace Mann Bond, Julian Bond, Arna Bontemps, John A. Buggs, Frederick L. Brownlee, L. Maynard Catchings, Edwin R. Embree, John Hope Franklin, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Charles H. Houston, Frayser T. Lane, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Jesse C. Thomas, Charles H. Thompson, Galen R. Weaver, Robert C. Weaver, and Whitney M. Young, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 88.8 linear ft. 222 Boxes; 3 OS Boxes; 1 OS item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20287486 View

Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899- . Interview, 1971.

Title: Interview, 1971.

Recorded interview and transcription, April 23, 1971, by historian Morton Sosna with Arthur F. Raper, sociologist and student of American race relations.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and1 tape recording.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692779 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-A.xml View

Harmon Foundation, Inc., Records, 1913-1967, (bulk 1925-1933)

Title: Harmon Foundation, Inc., Records 1913-1967 (bulk 1925-1933)

Correspondence, biographical notes, catalogs, scrapbooks, and other material relating to the organization and its founder, William Elmer Harmon. Included are records of the foundation's award programs, biographical notes on African and African-American artists, and correspondence with African art centers.

ArchivalResource: 37,800 items; 121 containers; 48.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010300 View

Bernd, Aaron, 1894-1937. Aaron Bernd papers, 1919-1937.

Title: Aaron Bernd papers, 1919-1937.

The collection contains the papers of Aaron Bernd from 1919-1937. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, legal documents, and financial records. Correspondence primarily documents Bernd's professional activities as a literary editor and writer for The Macon Telegraph as well as his freelance literary endeavors. A large collection of personal letters from scholar and educator John Donald Wade concern faculty tenure negotiations at the University of Georgia in the 1920s. The correspondence also includes letters to and from Walter F. White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1924-1934 concerning racial prejudice in the South, lynching, and contemporary literature. Additional correspondents include Clark Foreman, Julia and Julian Harris, James Weldon Johnson, H.L. Mencken, Howard W. Odum, Arthur B. Spingarn, Laurence Stallings, Hank Fuller of the International Labor Defense, and Will W. Alexander and Robert B. Eleazer of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. The writings in the Bernd papers include drafts of Bernd's columns and reviews and an unpublished book draft co-authored by Susan Myrick entitled "We Get Along: A Primer for Yankees About Relations of Whites and Blacks in the South". Scrapbooks primarily contain columns and articles by Bernd for The Macon Telegraph and additional correspondence. Other materials of interest in this collection include Bernd's will, photographs from the Signal Corps USA, and printed material from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the NAACP.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes, 25 oversized papers (OP), and 2 oversized bound volumes (OBV))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434456951 View

John F. Slater Fund. James Hardy Dillard correspondence and administrative records, 1904-1940.

Title: James Hardy Dillard correspondence and administrative records, 1904-1940.

The series consists of records of James Hardy Dillard as President of the Negro Rural School Fund, Inc. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation) from 1908-1931 and as director of the John F. Slater Fund from 1910-1930, consisting mostly of correspondence generated as a result of his work in both organizations, although records relating to the Negro Rural School Fund far outweigh those of the Slater Fund. Also included in this series are a variety of other types of records amassed due to his service in these organizations and from outside activities. Most of the correspondence consists of incoming letters from members of the Board of Trustees of the Funds, education officials and specialists from Southern States, teachers, executives, and clergy. Among the notable correspondents are Will Alexander, Trevor Arnett, Benjamin Brawley, Virginia Randolph, William A. Slater, and Booker T. Washington. The correspondence and administrative records mostly relate to financial matters of both Funds and educational issues in specific states such as industrial education for African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727712 View

Robert Watts Hudgens Papers, 1925-1973

Title: Robert Watts Hudgens Papers, 1925-1973

Robert Watts "Pete" Hudgens (1896-1973), an investment banker, government official, corporation executive and amateur printer, was born in Laurens County, South Carolina. Personal and professional correspondence, writings, speeches, topical publications and notes, and other papers, relating to rural development programs in the U.S. and other countries, especially Latin America, U.S. Farmers Home Administration, Chapel Hill, N.C., The Citadel, Cosmos Club, Faith at Work, International Development Services, Society for International Development, Southeast Public Health Foundation, National Sharecroppers Fund, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, and Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 6,400 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/hudgens/ View

General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

Title: General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

The university's earliest , adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended adopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings. Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The , originally titled , was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times. In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the Faculty Council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees. Laws and Regulations Laws of the University Faculty Code of University Government Faculty Legislation Records include minutes of meetings of the General Faculty, 1799-2011, and of the Faculty Council, 1951-2011; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. There are also recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings, 1984-2010, on 283 audiocassettes, 31 data compact discs, and three digital video discs.

ArchivalResource: About 43,000 items (71.0 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40106/ View

Moton family. Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940).

Title: Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940).

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, printed materials, and other papers, relating chiefly to efforts in the 1930s by the Motons to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations. Documents Robert Moton's work with African American businesses and institutions and civil rights organizations, including the Colored Merchants Association, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Hampton Institute, National Negro Business League, National Urban League, Negro Rural School Fund, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Tuskegee Institute, Veterans Administration Hospital (Tuskegee, Ala.), and Colored Work Dept. of the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America; Jennie Moton's activities as field agent for the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration's southern division, as president of the National Association of Colored Women, and as director of women's industries at Tuskegee Institute; and Charlotte Moton Hubbard's service as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Correspondents include Will Winton Alexander, Jessie Daniel Ames, Tom M. Blanton, Susie V. Bouldin, Thomas M. Campbell, George Washington Carver, Jackson Davis, Ada B. DeMent, Helen M. Hewlett, Albon L. Holsey, Bertha L. Johnson, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Thomas Jesse Jones, R. Hayne King, Frederick D. Patterson, C.C. Spaulding, Ella P. Stewart, Sallie W. Stewart, Anson Phelps Stokes, Lyman Beecher Stowe, Robert R. Taylor, Jesse O. Thomas, Channing H. Tobias, Mary F. Waring, Walter Francis White, L. Hollingsworth Wood, and Arthur D. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31816499 View

McDonald, Robert. The Negro's relation to organized labor in Florida.

Title: The Negro's relation to organized labor in Florida. [1950?]

ArchivalResource: 16, 4 leaves ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17961854 View

Bankhead, John Hollis, 1872-1946. Papers, 1880-1947 and n.d.

Title: Papers, 1880-1947 and n.d.

Papers, 1880-1947 and n.d., containing correspondence, letters, telegrams, biographical records, genealogical records, financial records, invitations, photographs, a diploma, campaign records, speeches, a script, voting records, bills and resolutions proposed by the U.S. Congress, hearings, reports, clippings, memoranda, subject files, diagrams, press releases, and other materials. This collection documents the life of Bankhead (1872-1946), particularly that part of his career in the U.S. Senate involving agriculture and farm tenancy. Other aspects of his senatorial career are not as well documented. His personal life and political campaigns also are represented, as is his work in 1940 with the Democratic National Committee. There are several good photographs of the former Senator, however, as well as other family members. Of interest are the folders of correspondence between Bankhead (1872-1946) and his sister, Marie B. Owen. U.S. and Ala. political, economic, and social issues are discussed in great detail, as is the Ala. Dept. of Archives and History. Also of interest are the "turtle" letters to his granddaughter Louise B. Davis, written while Bankhead (1872-1946) recovered from illness in 1936-1937.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft. (17 archives containers, 1 oversized box, and 6 oversized scrapbooks)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568117 View

Crow, Charles B. (Charles Brandon), 1897-1955. Papers, 1920-1949.

Title: Papers, 1920-1949.

Papers, 1920-1949, that contain correspondence, letters, telegrams, financial records, estate records, applications, subject files, military records, lists, photographs, clippings, printed records, licenses, and other records. The most important series in this collection are the correspondence and letters, the subject files, and the patronage, political. In all of those series the political career of John H. Bankhead (1872-1946), and to a lesser extent, Lister Hill and Hugo L. Black are discussed. U.S. and Ala. politics receive much attention, especially the New Deal, unemployment, and the search for jobs through the patronage system. Aspects of the New Deal covered especially well include farm tenancy and the Farm Security Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the court packing scheme of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the National Labor Relations Board. Ala. subjects and political subjects covered especially well include: the beginning of radio station WSGN, U.S. political patronage in Ala., the grooming of Jim Simpson to unseat John H. Bankhead (1872-1946) in 1942, the campaign of William B. Bankhead for the presidency, 1940; and a plan to create the Ala. Medical College in Birmingham. Race relations in the U.S. Army, and the World War, 1939-1945, received extensive treatment also.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 cubic ft. (5 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441781 View