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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

Durr, Virginia Foster,. Virginia Foster Durr oral history interview, 1990 Mar. 9.

Title: Virginia Foster Durr oral history interview, 1990 Mar. 9.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Virginia Foster Durr on March 9, 1990 in which she discusses the Southern Conference For Human Welfare; Lucy Randolph Mason; John L. Lewis; Congress of Industrial Organizations; Joe Gelders; Southern Policy Committee; Frank Graham; Eugene "Bull" Connor; Hugo Black; red-baiting; race-baiting; changing nature of race relations in the South; Lillian Smith; Killers of a Dream; and anti-Communist forces at the Southern Conference.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (12 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726947 View

National Committee for People's Rights. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1936-1939.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1936-1939.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Gifford A. Cochran and Eleanor Weinstock, secretaries, and Joseph S. Gelders, Committee Member, National Committee for People's Rights.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (18 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892558 View

Stone, Olive M. (Olive Matthews), 1897-1977. Olive M. Stone papers, 1838-1977.

Title: Olive M. Stone papers, 1838-1977.

Papers reflect Stone's interests in social welfare, race relations, southern farmers, the training of social workers, and her own family history. Included are materials pertaining to a study of various aspects of the lives of African Americans in Gee's Bend, Wilcox County, Ala.; observations on group relations and tensions in India, China, and Japan from a trip she took under the auspices of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1931-1932; anti-lynching efforts; and Stone's involvement in the Southern Committee for People's Rights (originally called the Southern League for People's Rights), the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and several biracial conferences on race relations, including the Institute of Race Relations held at Swarthmore College and the Shaw University conference, both in 1934. Prominent correspondents include Howard Kester, Joseph S. Gelders, George Stoney, Josephus Daniels, various officers of the American Friends Service Committee regarding the Institute of Race Relations, Katharine D. Lumpkin, Sam H. Franklin Jr. of the Delta Cooperative Farm; Virginia Durr; C. Vann Woodward; Clyde Johnson; and Arthur Raper. Also included are correspondence about other matters, financial and legal materials, writings, clippings, certificates, some nineteenth-century family items, genealogical materials, printed items, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: About 1000 items (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25723774 View