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Barker, Mary Cornelia, 1879-1963. Mary Cornelia Baker papers, 1912-1971.

Title: Mary Cornelia Baker papers, 1912-1971.

The collection consists of the papers of Mary Barker from 1912-1971. The papers include correspondence, organizational records, printed matter, and clippings related to Mary Barker's involvement in the American Federation of Teachers, Atlanta Public School Teachers Association Credit Union, and Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. In addition, there are subject folders of correspondence, records and printed matter related to organizations and causes that interested Miss Barker (e. g. the. Affiliated Schools for Workers, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta Urban League, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, League of Women Voters, Y.W.C.A.). Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings about and directories of the Atlanta Public Schools and a collection of the publications of Tommie Dora Barker. Six mimeographed papers on the evolution of trade and transportation in various Southern cities, written between 1912 and 1914 by Eugene H. Hinton, Chairman of the Southeastern Freight Association, have been cataloged.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (10 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84567574 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Baldwin, William H. (William Henry), b. 1891. Papers, 1886-1980.

Title: Papers, 1886-1980.

Papers of William H. Baldwin, a noted public relations counsel, consisting of material on both his professional career and his personal interest in various social welfare organizations.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and.20 reels of microfilm (35 mm.); plus.additions of 0.1 c.f. and.63 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692454 View

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Executive Director John L. Tilley files, 1957-1959.

Title: Executive Director John L. Tilley files, 1957-1959.

The series consists of files of John L. Tilley as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1957-1959. The correspondence (1958-1959) includes notices of board meetings, correspondence regarding voting regulations in southern states, and letters concerning SCLC's voter registration efforts. The correspondence (1959) also contains a small group of correspondence with Anne and Carl Braden and James Dombrowski of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), regarding cooperation between the SCEF and the SCLC. The subject files include the SCLC constitution and by-laws (1957), minutes and agendas of the executive committee (1957-1959) and three of the original SCLC "working papers" (1957).

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476603 View

Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Clark Foreman files, 1934-1967.

Title: Clark Foreman files, 1934-1967.

The collection consists of the records of Clark Foreman as Director of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare from 1934-1967. The records reflect the early history and organization of the Conference and include mainly correspondence, lists of national and state committee officers, and reports. Of particular interest are records relating to accusations of Communist domination of the Conference; controversies between Foreman or the SCHW and James Dombrowski, Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution, and Van A. Bittner of the CIO; and the resignation of Lillian Smith and Mary McLeod Bethune from the SCHW Board of Directors.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477301 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Papers of Virginia Foster Durr, 1919-2007

Title: Papers of Virginia Foster Durr, 1919-2007

Biographical materials, correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., of Virginia Foster Durr, civil rights activist.

ArchivalResource: 3 cartons, 2+1/2 file boxes, 1 folio folder, 11 folders of photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00560/catalog View

Durr, Virginia Foster. Papers, 1904-1991.

Title: Papers, 1904-1991.

These papers contain correspondence, letters, clippings, photographs, awards, certificates, ephemera, and printed materials. The primary topics discussed are her family and friends, civil rights and voting in the South, and politics in the U.S. and in Ala. Correspondence and letters constitute one-half of the collection, and clippings one-fourth. Of particular interest is the correspondence with the Harkness Fellows, who were European students studying in the U.S., as well as the correspondence with Hugo L. Black, and his second wife, Elizabeth, and with Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Other prominent correspondents included: Julian Bond, Angus Cameron, William Sloan Coffin, John Doar, James Dombrowski, William O. Douglas, James E. Folsom, Abe Fortas, John Hope Franklin, Helen Fuller, Katherine Graham, Grover Cleveland Hall Sr., Estes Kefauver, Herbert H. Lehman, David E. Lilienthal, Carey McWilliams, Arthur Miller, Drew Pearson, Walker Percy, Claude Pepper, Albert Raines, Richard T. Rives, Pete Seeger, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Sparkman, Harlan F. Stone, Studs Terkel, and William Allen White.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. (4 archives boxes, 1 oversized folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122507748 View

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Executive Director Ella J. Baker files, 1958-1960.

Title: Executive Director Ella J. Baker files, 1958-1960.

The series consists of files of Ella J. Baker as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1958-1960. The correspondence (chronological) includes a series of letters with the Ministerial Improvement Association (Hattiesburg, Miss.), requests for information, meeting notices, and letters regarding speaking engagements and SCLC voter registration campaigns. The correspondence (alphabetical) includes letters with James Dombrowski and Anne and Carl Braden regarding cooperation between the Southern Conference Educational Fund and the SCLC, with Aaron F. Henry regarding activities of civil rights groups in Mississippi, and correspondence relating to the workshop on nonviolence sponsored by SCLC in 1960.

ArchivalResource: .33 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476619 View

Lofton, John. John Lofton papers, 1909-1990.

Title: John Lofton papers, 1909-1990.

Correspondence and topical files re Lofton's work with American Civil Liberties Union and the Unitarian Church; free-lance articles and newspaper editorials written while serving on Arkansas Gazette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch; reviews and miscellaneous materials relating to his four published books -- Insurrection in South Carolina (1964), a history of the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy; Justice and the Press (1966); The Press as Guardian of the First Amendment (1980); and Pittsburgh's First Unitarian Church...1820-1960 (1961). Topical files include information re integration of College of Charleston; Vietnam Moratorium; and Lofton's tour of Alabama with Gov. George Wallace in 1965; also contains family correspondence; letters of James F. Byrnes, James A. Dombrowski, J. William Fulbright, Brooks Hays, Hubert H. Humphrey, Burnet R. Maybank, L. Mendel Rivers, Hugh Scott, and Hugo S. Sims, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 ft. (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29697254 View

Tilly, Dorothy Rogers, 1883-1970. Dorothy Rogers Tilly papers, 1868-1970.

Title: Dorothy Rogers Tilly papers, 1868-1970.

The collection consists of the papers of Dorothy Rogers Tilly from 1868-1970. The papers consist of general correspondence (approximately 200 letters, 1936-1970), clippings, biographical information, and other printed material relating to Mrs. Tilly's activities with the Women's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Church, the Southern Regional Council, and the Fellowship of the Concerned and other organizations; records of the Committee on Civil Rights, 1947, on which Mrs. Tilly served; and four bound volumes.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (4 boxes, 4 BV, and 4 OP)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123373628 View

Wilkins, Josephine Mathewson, 1893-1977. Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers, 1920-1977.

Title: Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers, 1920-1977.

The Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers contain correspondence, subject files, minutes, reports, financial records, press releases, clippings, photographs, and miscellany. The earliest records date from 1920s and document the work of the Georgia Children's Code Commission (GCCC) prior to and during Josephine Wilkins' association with the GCCC. The heaviest concentration of material in the collection dates from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Correspondence, minutes, reports, subject files, financial records, clippings, and photos, relating chiefly to Wilkins's work with Georgia Children's Code Commission (1921-1931), Citizens' Fact Finding Movement of Georgia (1937-1950), and Southern Regional Council (1956-1964). Topics include social reform, race relations, child welfare and labor, civil rights movement, and social and economic conditions in Georgia. Correspondents include Jessie Daniel Ames, James McBride Dabbs, James A. Dombrowski, Harold C. Fleming, Frank Porter Graham, Julian LaRose Harris, Charles H. Herty, Clark Howell, James A. Mackay, Ralph McGill, Richard M. Nixon, Arthur Raper, Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard B. Russell, Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Philip Weltner, and Emily Woodward.

ArchivalResource: 48.25 linear ft. (66 boxes, 3 oversized bound volumes (OBV), 4 oversized papers (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80288791 View

James A. Dombrowski papers, 1918-1983

Title: James A. Dombrowski papers, 1918-1983

Papers of the former executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The collection consists largely of correspondence, notes, speeches and writings, and reports post-dating his retirement in 1966 plus some materials from the 1920s and 1930s. Present too are materials collected by Frank Adams and used in an unpublished biography of Dombrowski. Correspondents include Carl and Anne Braden, Ethel Clyde, Virginia Durr, Albert Einstein, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Aubrey Williams. The subject files also reflect Dombrowski's private life and interests including art and his alma mater, Emory University.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999465343102121 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Wilkins, Josephine Mathewson, 1893-1977. Papers, 1920-1977 (bulk 1930-1964).

Title: Papers, 1920-1977 (bulk 1930-1964).

Correspondence, minutes, reports, subject files, financial records, clippings, and photos, relating chiefly to Wilkins's work with Georgia Children's Code Commission (1921-1931), Citizens' Fact Finding Movement of Georgia (1937-1950), and Southern Regional Council (1956-1964). Topics include social reform, race relations, child welfare and labor, civil rights movement, and social and economic conditions in Georgia. Correspondents include Jessie Daniel Ames, James McBride Dabbs, James A. Dombrowski, Harold C. Fleming, Frank Porter Graham, Julian LaRose Harris, Charles H. Herty, Clark Howell, James A. Mackay, Ralph McGill, Richard M. Nixon, Arthur Raper, Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard B. Russell, Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Philip Weltner, and Emily Woodward.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28419671 View

Durr, Virginia Foster. Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

Title: Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of the Durrs, their FBI files, clippings and photographs. There are also Clifford Durr's files on the Eastland hearings; research notes and drafts of Outside the Magic Circle and other writings; speech notes; and materials collected by Durr. Correspondence with family and friends makes up the bulk of the collection. Most of the letters are to Durr. The letters are about social life, U.S. politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, socialism, pacifism, and the South. There are a few letters from or to Clifford Durr or other family and friends. The collection includes letters from Jessica Mitford; Durr's letters to Mitford are housed with Mitford's papers at the University of Texas at Austin.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008798 View

Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund, 1982-1983

Title: Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund 1982-1983

This project features interviews with civil rights activists. They discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes.

ArchivalResource: 5 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc095 View

Rabin, Jack, 1945-. Jack Rabin collection on Alabama civil rights and southern activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974).

Title: Jack Rabin collection on Alabama civil rights and southern activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974).

The collection is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images. It includes records of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) (1955-1974); photographs and surveillance tapes of Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, and many others involved in sit-ins (early 1960s), the MIA (1963), the Selma March (1965), and the Poor People's Campaign (1968); oral histories of the white activists Clifford and Virginia Durr, John Beecher, and Myles Horton (late 1960s - 1975); and films of the African-American activists Luther Henderson (in Savannah, Georgia, 1964) and Stokely Carmichael (in Montgomery, Alabama, circa 1972). Other individuals represented in the collection include James L. Bevel, Anne Braden, Carl Braden, Ralph J. Bunche, Johnnie Rebecca Carr, James A. Dombrowski, James O. Eastland, James Forman, Charles Gomillion, Lester Hankerson, James A. Hood, John Lewis, Rufus A. Lewis, E.D. Nixon, Rosa Parks, Amelia Boynton Robinson, T.Y. Rogers, Fred Shuttlesworth, Don Slayman, Hosea Williams, Whitney Young, and Bob Zellner. Organizations represented include AFL-CIO, Alabama. Dept. of Public Safety. Investigative and Identification Division. Subversive Unit, American Nazi Party, Congress of Racial Equality, Defense Plant Corporation, Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.), Montgomery Improvement Association, National Socialist White People's Party, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

ArchivalResource: 3.15 cubic feet and 371 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71330033 View

Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.). Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1939-1941.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1939-1941.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from the directors of the Highlander Folk School.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (11 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155890930 View

Kennedy, Stetson,. Stetson Kennedy oral history interview, 1988 Nov. 11.

Title: Stetson Kennedy oral history interview, 1988 Nov. 11.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy on November 11, 1988 in which he discusses the use of folklore for political ends; youth in Jacksonville, Florida; interest in folk speech; experience in newspaper business; training as a writer; early political influences and experiences; Great Depression; "back to the land" ideas; southern regionalism; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; political activism in college; Key West experiences and lifestyle; political education; exposure to Hispanic culture; Cuban community in Key West; Federal Writers Project; Florida Guide; Zora Neale Hurston; turpentine camps; ex-slave interviews; Palmetto County; Robert Cornwell; Bob Edwards; Worker's Alliance; CIO organizing in Florida; Junta des La Cultura Espanola; David Lord; Apopka Chief; Florida Alligator; Pittsburgh Courier; Zora Neale Hurston; George S. Mitchell; CIO organizing; use of folk culture for "anti-folk" purposes; voting restrictions in the South; Eugene Talmadge; Ellis Arnall; Lillian Smith; and South Today. He also discusses Paul Snelling; Senator Theodore Bilbo; race "etiquette" in the South; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Bull Connor; Southern Patriot; Jim Dombrowski; Clark Foreman; House Committee on Un-American Activities; Don West; R.E. Starnes; Henry Wallace campaign; Myles Horton; Highlander Folk School; Operation Dixie; Vann Bittner; folk song and political protest; Pete Seeger; Woody Guthrie; Bob Dylan; appeals to racism in north Florida jury trials; middle class folklorists; Florida Folklife Festival; Friends of Florida Folk; institutionalization of folklore; Ben Botkin; exclusion of ethnic folklore from the mainstream; urban folklore; evolution of folk culture; future of folklore as a discipline; introduction of folklore into the classroom; and relevance of folklore in contemporary life.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (77 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726958 View

Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-. Progressive Party oral history interviews, 1975-1982.

Title: Progressive Party oral history interviews, 1975-1982.

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Patricia Sullivan from 1975-1982. Most of the subjects were southerners, black and white, who had been active in the civil rights struggles of the 1930s and 1940s; many worked in Henry Wallace's 1948 third party campaign for the presidency which built on earlier efforts in the South to challenge segregation and promote voting rights and participation. The interviews were used for her dissertation, Gideon's Southern Soldiers and later for her book-length, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Interviewees include John Abt, Randolph Blackwell, William Holmes Borders, James Dombrowski, Virginia Durr, Floyd Hunter, Curtis MacDougall, Claude Pepper, John Popham, Glenn Rainey, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel, Strom Thurmond, and F. Palmer Weber. The collection also includes transcripts of portions of the interviews.

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear ft. (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863205 View

Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Title: Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Alexander Worth McAlister was founder and president of Pilot Life Insurance Company and a leader in the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other material of Alexander W. McAlister chiefly includes correspondence with associates in business and civic organizations and versions of published and unpublished writings by McAlister. Most items date from 1930 through 1943, although there is some earlier correspondence and some writings from as early as the 1880s. Well-documented in these papers are McAlister's activities as a member of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, as well as his association with various civic organizations in Greensboro. Much of the correspondence and many writings relate to particular concerns of McAlister, including prohibition, the New Deal, golf, child welfare, prison reform, the Community Church in Greensboro, and education. Although there is some material relating to McAlister's business activities, documentation in these papers of his work as an insurance executive and in other business ventures is incomplete. There also is little personal material regarding McAlister's family and close friends.

ArchivalResource: About 8500 items (15.0 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McAlister,Alexander_W.html View

William W. Finlator Papers

Title: William W. Finlator Papers

Papers of a North Carolina Baptist minister concerned with civil rights, civil liberties, ecumenism, and the Vietnam War, mainly consisting of correspondence, writings, and an alphabetical subject file. Correspondence, which is chiefly outgoing, forms two-thirds of the collection and dates primarily from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Much of it is routine pastoral mail, but there are letters which touch on Finlator's social and political activism. Writings include articles, addresses, book reviews, invocations, letters to editors, broadcast commentaries, a few sermons, and related correspondence and clippings. These deal with ecumenism, labor relations, prison reform, prayer in public schools, prohibition, and Billy Graham. Most noteworthy among the subject files which are made up of additional correspondence, clippings, reports, writings, and printed matter, are those pertaining to the Baptist State Convention, the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, the North Carolina Council of Churches, and North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, prisoners, and the Raleigh Committee of Clergymen Concerned with Vietnam.

ArchivalResource: 21 reels of microfilm (35 mm.); plus.additions of 9.1 c.f.

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0822 View

McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969. Ralph McGill papers, 1853-1971.

Title: Ralph McGill papers, 1853-1971.

The collection consists of the papers of Ralph McGill of Atlanta, Georgia from 1853-1969. The collection documents McGill's personal life and his career as a sports journalist in Nashville, Tennessee; as an author of books and prize winning articles; and as an columnist; editor; and editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Constitution. The papers include correspondence (1919-1975) pertaining to personal and professional issues; McGill's writings (1913-1969) which includes books, articles, speeches, and interviews; subject files (circa 1938-1969) ; records relating to committees and foundations on which he served (1947-1969); records of travels and speaking engagements (1945-1969); financial business, and legal papers (1941-1969); scrapbooks (1912-1970) including copies of his daily editorials in the Atlanta Constitution; photographs (ca. 1920s-1970s); memorabilia; and posthumous additions.

ArchivalResource: 63.5 linear ft. (127 boxes, 75 bound volumes (BV), 33 oversized papers (OP), 30 framed items (FR), and 7 reels of microfilm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122385863 View

Braden, Carl, 1914-1975. Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006.

Title: Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006.

Papers, 1928-2006, of Louisville, Kentucky, civil rights activists Carl and Anne Braden, primarily documenting their work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1954-1974, and the Social Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), 1974-2006. Additional records of SCEF and its predecessor, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (1938-1948) are also included and were once in the possession of James Dombrowski, who headed both organizations before the Bradens. Dombrowski's early records include executive board minutes; subject files; and correspondence (some available only on microfilm) with leaders such as James Aronson, Leonard Boudin, Virginia and Clifford Durr, James Forman, and William Howard Melish; Harvey and Jessie O'Connor, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frank Wilkinson, and Aubrey Williams. The collection includes a large number of chronologically-arranged sound recordings of the Bradens' speeches and interviews, and SCEF and SOC activities and meetings. Among the individuals documented in this manner are Ralph Abernathy, Stokely Carmichael, Ben Chavis, Ron Chisholm, Walter Collins, James Dombrowski, Jesse Jackson, Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, Maurice McCrackin, William Howard Melish, Amzie Moore, Robert Moses, Jack O'Dell, Anne Romaine, Pete Seeger, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Howard Zinn. The photographs include portraits and snapshots of the Bradens, events in their careers, a historical exhibit, and photographs of demonstrations, union activities, and conferences submitted for publication in the Southern Patriot and Fight-Back. Pictured are Ben Chavis, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian, and Aubrey Williams.

ArchivalResource: 14 disc recordings,5 reels of microfilm (35mm),2 films, and5 videorecordings

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370445785 View

Highlander Research and Education Center. Highlander Research and Education Center records, 1917-2005.

Title: Highlander Research and Education Center records, 1917-2005.

Records of the Highlander Research and Education Center, 1917-2005, an adult education center and its predecessor, the Highlander Folk School, documenting its programs and workshops including labor, civil rights, and Appalachian poverty, and the harassment of Highlander by government agencies. Files include: correspondence; minutes; annual reports; financial records; workshop materials; legal papers; play scripts and song books; clippings; speeches, writings and publications; tape recordings of meetings, interviews, addresses and speeches, workshops, etc.; and photographs of meetings, workshops and the grounds. Intended as a workers' education school and community center, the Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 near Monteagle, Tennessee, by Myles Horton and Don West. Within a short time, however, staff and students initiated direct action through participation in a coal strike at Wilder, Tennessee. Among the early staff members were James Dombrowski, Zilla Hawes, John Thompson, Leon Wilson, Ralph Tefferteller, and Zilphia Horton. During the 1930s and 1940s Highlander organized workshops sponsored by the CIO and individual labor unions, and worked closely with the National Farmers Union and the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Following the withdrawal of CIO support in 1949 because of alleged communist influence at Highlander, the School became involved with the civil rights movement in the South. Under the leadership of Esau Jenkins and Septima Clark, Highlander developed programs for training local black community leaders. From 1958 to 1965 citizenship programs and voter registration efforts were important Highlander activities. Beginning in 1965, however, civil rights work was deemphasized, and Highlander turned to contemporary problems of Appalachia, including poverty, strip mining, misuse of land and natural resources, and a lack of political organization. The administrative files of Highlander contain records of its history and administration, such as charters and constitutions, policy statements, reports, minutes of executive council and staff meetings, memoranda, financial reports, and personnel records. Correspondence includes staff memoranda as well as letters from labor leaders, civil rights activists, former students, and friends of Highlander. The large number of correspondents who were active in other organizations indicates how widespread was Highlander's influence. A major portion of the collection consists of subject files, including correspondence, reports on workshop sessions, class materials and student projects, alumni lists and questionnaires, addresses and speeches, trial transcripts and legal papers, clippings, labor scripts, song books and sheets, field trip reports, conference programs, news releases, writings about Highlander, and writings by staff members. The majority of the subject files are also available on microfilm. Also available on microfilm are clippings about Highlander. Publications of Highlander include instructional materials, articles and speeches of Myles Horton and others, song books, the "Highlander Fling" and the "Summerfield News.". The audio recordings in the collection include: executive council meetings; letters dictated by Myles Horton; addresses and speeches; the Appalachian project; attacks on and investigations of Highlander, including the court hearings at Altamont, Tennessee; citizenship and community leadership programs; the Farmers Union; fund raising; the Harlan, Kentucky, coal strike; Koinonia Farm; labor workshops; music and poetry; recordings from the film "Highlander Story '53"; workshops; desegregation; leadership training; voter registration; and recordings relating to Highlander's 50th Anniversary. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1917-1978, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1935-1999 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 41.2 c.f. (104 archives boxes),50 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and258 tape recordings; plusadditions of 96.7 c.f.,approximately 1635 tape recordings,4 disc recordings,11.0 c.f. of photographs, negatives and transparencies,403 videorecordings,29 film reels,5 drawings, and1 poster.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613705063 View

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