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Region 12 records., 1956-1997 (bulk 1986-1996).

Title: Region 12 records. 1956-1997 (bulk 1986-1996).

Records of a Minnesota-based AFL-CIO regional office (1986-1997) that oversaw state federations and central labor councils in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota. Includes subject files, correspondence and memoranda, newspaper clippings, newsletters, annual reports, financial information, speeches, constitutions, minutes, and assorted printed material.

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Thelma McDaniel Collection, 1935-1989.

Title: Thelma McDaniel Collection, 1935-1989.

The Thelma McDaniel collection consists of printed materials, ephemera, and other items from 1935 to 1989 spanning the breadth of the civil rights and black power movements in Philadelphia. This small collection documents the ways in which African Americans and whites participated in the radical movements against inequality in the United States. The bulk of the material is specifically related to organizations and political activism in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes, 237 folders, 1 flat file, ( 3.5 lin. feet)

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Executive Director Andrew Young files, 1960-1970.

Title: Executive Director Andrew Young files, 1960-1970.

The series consists of files of Andrew Young as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960-1970. The correspondence (chronological) contains mostly letters regarding Young's numerous speaking engagements, but also includes correspondence regarding the Georgia General Assembly's refusal to seat Julian Bond and SCLC's opposition to the Vietnam War. The correspondence (alphabetical) includes minutes of the A. Philip Randolph Institute; correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, American Jewish Committee, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, National Council of Churches of Christ, and the Delta Ministry; and correspondence between Fred D. Gray and the mayor of Montgomery regarding the Selma-Montgomery March. The subject files consist of records relating to various SCLC projects, SCLC administration, and organizations which were affiliated with the SCLC. Includes records on the American Foundation on Nonviolence, the Chicago Project, and the SCLC Foundation; minutes of staff meetings and retreats; and articles, speeches, and sermons written by Young.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476624 View

Herman Wolf Papers, undated, 1926-1981.

Title: Herman Wolf Papers undated, 1926-1981.

Born in New York in 1912; graduated in 1933 with a B. A. in Economics from the University of Chicago; was actively involved in political journalism from 1934 to 1941; operated several public-relations firms, including Herman Wolf Associates; served as a chief campaign aide for many successful campaigns for offices; member of the National Press Club, the Public Relations Society of America, and the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce.

ArchivalResource: 117.0 Linear feet

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Bloomstein, Charles. Bayard Rustin memorial service, the Community Church, NYC, Oct. 1, 1987 [videorecording].

Title: Bayard Rustin memorial service, the Community Church, NYC, Oct. 1, 1987 [videorecording]. [1987]

Includes speeches of Charles Bloomstein, Norman Hill, Lane Kirkland, Liv Ullmann, Vernon Jordan, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57448285 View

Social Democrats, USA Records, 1937-1994, (Bulk 1970-1994)

Title: Social Democrats, USA Records, 1937-1994 (Bulk 1970-1994)

ArchivalResource: 101.9 Linear Feet; 60,551 Items

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

A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1909-1979, (bulk 1941-1968)

Title: A. Philip Randolph Papers 1909-1979 (bulk 1941-1968)

Labor union official and civil rights leader. Correspondence, documents relating to presidential executive orders, memoranda, notes, printed matter, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and other material reflecting Randolph's role in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, marches on Washington for employment and equal rights for African Americans, and the civil rights movement.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items; 56 containers plus 4 oversize; 23.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005004 View

A. Philip Randolph Institute. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1969-1983.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1969-1983.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (6 l. and 3 pamphlets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63557947 View

Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002. Isaiah Bennett papers, ca. 1932-2002.

Title: Isaiah Bennett papers, ca. 1932-2002.

The Isaiah Bennett Papers contain five small series. The first series consists of biographical documents regarding Isaiah Bennett's life. They include an album regarding Bennett's campaign for Charleston County Council in 1980, with a letter from Rosalynn Carter; an obituary and funeral program, and the finding aid for the collection he donated to the Georgia State University archives pertaining to his involvement with the local 1199 Union. The second series consists of primary and secondary source material on the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969 and includes correspondence between Bennett and other leaders of the strike, memorabilia, photographs, and news clippings. The third series contains original items donated to the Avery Research Center for inclusion in the Isaiah Bennett Papers from Georgia State University archives collection on the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). These include strike bulletins, correspondence, and news releases regarding the national 1945 Tobacco Workers' Strike. Materials regarding the local South Carolina chapter and National A. Philip Randolph Institute constitute the fourth series. Included is correspondence, minutes, and bylaws. The miscellaneous series includes resolutions from the AFL-CIO on Civil Rights and the S.C. Democratic Party regarding state minimum wage, voter registration, and election reform as well as other material.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228425095 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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International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen. Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.). Records of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1899-1990.

Title: Records of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1899-1990.

Collection contains records, correspondence, and memorabilia of Local No. 1 of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen. Records include membership cards, minutes of meetings, dues books, apprenticeship applications, membership applications, financial information, and miscellaneous items. Correspondence is between Local No. 1 and other unions, union headquarters, government agencies, businesses, and individuals. Topics include the cost of labor and materials for jobs, work requests, labor disputes, disability claims, and the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Financial records include monthly reports, checks, duplicate cash receipt records, and receipt books. Miscellaneous items include constitutions and rules of order, clippings, business agent's reports, work permits, pamphlets, and issues (1914-1970) of "The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer," the official journal of the Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Memorabilia includes a framed resolution (1937) commemorating the death of William H. Ferguson, a president's ribbon (n.d.), the framed membership certificate (1904) of Reverend B.H. Williams, and a handpainted memorial (n.d.) honoring Charleston union members who served in World War II.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (11.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31734278 View