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Branch, Taylor. Taylor Branch papers, 1865-2009 (bulk 1958-2009).

Title: Taylor Branch papers, 1865-2009 (bulk 1958-2009).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal material, subject files, pictures, and audio and video material, much of which relates to Branch's trilogy on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement ("Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63" (1988); "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65" (1998); and "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68" (2006)) and to "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President" (2009), his book about working with President Bill Clinton. Correspondence includes letters and some printed emails to and from Branch related to the research, writing, and publishing of his books about King and the civil rights movement; pamphlets, notes, clippings, and other printed material are interfiled. Some letters relate to Branch's attempts to acquire research files through the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FOI/PA). There is also some correspondence about speaking engagements and personal correspondence related to friends and family. Writings chiefly relate to Branch's civil rights books and include drafts, notes, clippings, articles, correspondence, advertisements, and data compact discs containing bibliographic and research databases. There is also some information about a proposed television miniseries based on the first two books of the King trilogy (not available for research). Legal material chiefly concerns a 1964 California case involving a violent confrontation in 1962 between police officers and several black men. Subject files include research files on King and civil rights, particularly in Selma and Montgomery, Ala. Topics include John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., the National Council of Churches, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael, Nation of Islam, and the Vietnam War and anti-war groups. There are also files relating to Branch v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in which Branch successfully sued for access to FBI files on J. Edgar Hoover, several FBI informants, Communism, the Ku Klux Klan, and other topics. Audio material includes interviews conducted by Branch and copies of material used in his research. Among the interviewees are Ralph Abernathy, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, James L. Bevel, John Bevel, Stokely Carmichael, Marion Cheek, Septima Clark, William Sloane Coffin, S.K. De, John Doar, Vernon Dobson, James Farmer, Alex Haley, Michael Harrington, Meree Harris, Rutha Mae Harris, Timothy Jenkins, Charles Jones, Clarence Jones, Edward Kennedy, S.B. King, Barnard Lee, John Lewis, Burke Marshall, Louis Martin, Robert McNamara, Richard Morrisroe, Bob Moses, Diane Nash, Sheriff Nichols, Edgar Daniel Nixon, Silas Norman, Joseph Rauh, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bayard Rustin, Charles Sherrod, Sargent Shriver, Harry Wachtel, Wyatt Tee Walker, S.B. Wells, and Andrew Young. There are also speeches and/or sermons of Ralph Abernathy, James Bevel, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. Video material includes documentaries and news programs about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and Malcolm X. Materials relating to Bill Clinton include audio recordings and transcripts of Taylor Branch's recollections and notes of interviews with Clinton during and after his presidency; editing and publishing materials for "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President" (2009), the book Branch wrote based on these interviews; correspondence between Branch and staff at the White House; articles and memos sent to Branch by White House staff; drafts of Clinton's speeches annotated by Branch, including the second inaugural address; printouts from news websites; clippings; and copies of other speeches given by Clinton and by other public figures; notebooks, seemingly from Branch's interviews with Clinton; two binders from a presidential trip to Haiti on which Branch traveled; and other items. Other materials in the collection include class notes from a course Branch taught, 2000; biographical information; and speeches, 1998-2000.

ArchivalResource: About 60000 items (87.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52872663 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

Durr, Virginia Foster. Papers: Series II, 1929-1991 (inclusive).

Title: Papers: Series II, 1929-1991 (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 friends and family makes up the bulk of the collection. Most are letters 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: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008799 View

Baskin, Inez Jesse, bca.1916. Papers, 1929-1995.

Title: Papers, 1929-1995.

The papers consist of correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, brochures, etc. These materials document black churches in central Alabama, as well as a variety of other activities within the local black community. The most significant materials relate to the activities of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956. These items include speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph D. Abernathy; a list of concerns presented by the local black community that eventually led to the boycott; and a list by King, as President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, on how blacks should behave on integrated buses. There are also items that relate to voter registration of Montgomery blacks in the mid 1960s as well as other activities within the Civil Rights Movement.

ArchivalResource: 5 cubic ft. (8 archives boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 1 microfilm reel).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562686 View

Taylor Branch Papers, (bulk, ), 1865-2013, 1958-2009

Title: Taylor Branch Papers, (bulk ) 1865-2013 1958-2009

Taylor Branch, journalist and historian, is best known for his research and writing on Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Taylor Branch Papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal material, subject files, pictures, and audio and video material, most of it relating to Branch's trilogy on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and his book about working with President Bill Clinton. Topics pertaining to the 1960s include King and civil rights, particularly in Selma and Montgomery, Ala.; individuals and organizations who supported and opposed the civil rights and anti-war movements; and a 1964 California case involving a violent confrontation in 1962 between police officers and several black men. Also of note are Branch's extensive efforts to acquire Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on J. Edgar Hoover, FBI informants, Communism, and the Ku Klux Klan through the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. Research materials relating to Bill Clinton include audio recordings and transcripts of Branch's recollections and notes of interviews with Clinton during and after his presidency; correspondence, articles, and memos exchanged between Branch and White House staff; drafts of Clinton's speeches annotated by Branch; printouts from news websites; clippings; and copies of other speeches given by Clinton and by other public figures; two binders from a presidential trip to Haiti for the inauguration of Rene Preval on which Branch traveled; and other items. Other materials in the collection include biographical information about Taylor Branch and his speeches, 1998-2000. The Addition of April 2013 is the professional website of Taylor Branch.

ArchivalResource: 60,000; 87.0

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