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Rankin, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1899-1976. Papers, 1956-1976.

Title: Papers, 1956-1976.

Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Also includes all of Dr. Rankin's personal correspondence from 1956-1976, and studies of the Durham City-County Consolidation movement in which Dr. Rankin was active.

ArchivalResource: ca. 14,400 items.

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Rankin, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1899-1976. Robert S. Rankin papers, 1957-1973.

Title: Robert S. Rankin papers, 1957-1973.

Collection documents Rankin's work on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1960-1973 and consists of agendas and minutes for the monthly meetings of the commission, 1959-1973, and material on special meetings; memoranda, correspondence, statements, and news clippings dealing with the operational aspects of the commission; background studies; transcripts of proceedings; news clippings from fact finding investigations, 1960-1973; statements of commissioners; and transcripts of testimony before congressional committees. The commission's areas of study included education, employment, political participation, housing and urban development, administration of justice, public accommodations, health and welfare, federal programs, minority groups, federal enforcement, and civil liberties and human rights. An addition (2001-0047) contains 27 loose black-and-white prints and 2 binders containing 89 black-and-white prints, as well as 35 items of correspondence (1963-1977) relating to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Includes group pictures of the commissioners and other political figures (1960-1969) and photographs from the National Conference on Equal Opportunity in Federally Assisted Programs (1965) and an Open Hearing in Jackson, Mississippi (1965). The open hearing includes a list of witnesses. Those represented in the photographs include Burke Marshall, Hubert H. Humphrey, Robert F. Kennedy, Sheriff Jack Purvis, Charles Evers, Aaron Henry, Spottswood Robinson, and Roy Wilkins.

ArchivalResource: 67.6 lin. ft (17,000 items.)

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Robert S. Rankin Papers, 1957-1973

Title: Robert S. Rankin Papers, 1957-1973

Robert S. Rankin was a professor of Political Science at Duke University and member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Collection documents Rankin's work on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1960-1973 and consists of agendas and minutes for the monthly meetings of the commission, 1959-1973, and material on special meetings; memoranda, correspondence, statements, and news clippings dealing with the operational aspects of the commission; background studies; transcripts of proceedings; news clippings from fact finding investigations, 1960-1973; statements of commissioners; and transcripts of testimony before congressional committees. The commission's areas of study included education, employment, political participation, housing and urban development, administration of justice, public accommodations, health and welfare, federal programs, minority groups, federal enforcement, and civil liberties and human rights.

ArchivalResource: 67.6 Linear Feet; 17,000 Items

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Gosnell, Cullen Bryant. Cullen Bryant Gosnell papers, 1919-1964.

Title: Cullen Bryant Gosnell papers, 1919-1964.

This collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, memoranda, pamphlets and other material relative to the professional career of Cullen B. Gosnell. There are approximately 1580 letters, notes, telegrams and interoffice memoranda of which the largest part falls into the period 1949-1963. Materials relate to Gosnell's book, FUNDAMENTALS OF AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, and other publications; the Institute of Citizenship and other organizations in which Gosnell was involved; Wofford College; the county unit system of state government; the Georgia state constitution; and the book fund established in his name at the Emory University Library. Correspondents include Emory faculty and students, publishers, educators, and Georgia and national political figures. Photographs are of Gosnell.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear ft. (9 boxes, 1 oversized paper (OP) and 7 oversized bound volumes (OBV))

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Rankin, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1899-. Robert S. Rankin papers, 1898-1977 (bulk 1927-1976).

Title: Robert S. Rankin papers, 1898-1977 (bulk 1927-1976).

The collection includes departmental records, correspondence, reports, notes, student papers, questionnaires, publications, and other materials of Robert S. Rankin and the Duke University Department of Political Science. Also included are Rankin family papers, primarily those of Rankin's wife, Dorothy Newsom Rankin (1911-2002), and her father, Dallas W. Newsom (1873-1949).

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items (30.0 linear ft.)

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Robert S. Rankin Papers, ., 1898 - 1977, (bulk 1927 - 1976)

Title: Robert S. Rankin Papers, . 1898 - 1977 (bulk 1927 - 1976)

Robert Stanley Rankin (1899-1976) taught political science at Duke beginning in 1927 and was chairman of the political science department from 1949 to 1964. He retired from teaching in 1969. The collection includes departmental records, correspondence, reports, notes, student papers, questionnaires, publications, and other materials of Robert S. Rankin and the Duke University Department of Political Science.

ArchivalResource: 30 Linear Feet,; 20,000 Items

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