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Marshall, George, 1904-2000. George Marshall papers, 1933-1955.

Title: George Marshall papers, 1933-1955.

The collection documents George Marshall's involvement in the 1940s with civil rights issues, his legal defense for a contempt citation from the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his management of the Robert Marshall Foundation's grant-making program. Samplings of his correspondence and writings during that period are grouped under Personal papers. His Contempt of Congress files constitute a densely documented archive on the use of subpoena power and contempt citations, and on legal and political opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His National Federation for Constitutional Liberties files are organized into 13 subseries: Administrative; Action Letters; Conferences and Testimonial Dinners; Activities, including an emergency campaign, The Menace of the F.B.I.," chaired by Franz Boas (1940), and a campaign in favor of federal legislation for a voting program for absentee soldiers; Fair Employment Practice Committee; Labor; Poll Tax; Legal Cases; Discrimination; Anti-Semitism; HUAC, which subdivides into Dies Committee and Rankin Committee files, Correspondence and Printed Matter; and Publications. Marshall's Civil Rights Congress and CRC Bail Fund files comprise the following subseries: Administrative, Conferences, Legal Cases, Subject Files and Printed Matter. Outstanding case files include the Columbia, Tennessee Riot of 1946, the German Communist Gerhart Eisler, Willie McGee, the Martinsville 7 and the Trenton Six. Other organizations in the collection include the International Labor Defense Fund; the American League for Peace and Democracy; the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, chaired by Franz Boas; the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners; the Contributors' Information Service founded by Corliss Lamont, and the Council on African Affairs. Correspondents include Joseph Gelders, Dashiell Hammett, Max Yergan, Charles Lafollette and Louis Burnham. The Robert Marshall Foundation awarded grants to trade-unions and labor advocacy groups, progressive research groups and schools, alternative newspapers and civil rights organizations. Its files consist for the most part of correspondence between George Marshall and the funded groups, grant proposals and grant tracking sheets, activity reports, and general information about the organizations involved.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 lin. ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433579711 View

Mason, Lucy Randolph, 1882-1959. Papers, 1917-1954.

Title: Papers, 1917-1954.

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, printed material, clippings, and miscellany, relating to the development of labor unions in the South, attitudes of churches toward labor, the Southern Regional Council, the Highlander School in Monteagle, Tenn., the Southern School for Workers in Richmond, conditions in textile mills, and blacks in the labor movement. Correspondents include Jonathan Daniels, Allan S. Haywood, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, George Sinclair Mitchell, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 6,532 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20019172 View