Arthur Brann Caldwell papers, 1912-1975

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Arthur Brann Caldwell papers, 1912-1975

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Correspondence, memoranda, addresses, reports, printed material, photos, and other records (mainly 1950-1970) relating to Caldwell's career as chief, Japanese Section, Military Intelligence Division, U.S. War Department, during World War II, attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and where he served as chief of the Civil Rights Section (1952-57) and as assistant to the Assistant Attorney-General, Civil Rights Division (1967-68). Includes material on the University of Arkansas Glee Club (1927-1928), Arkansas and national politics, Japanese-Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces and U.S. War Relocation Authority relocation centers during World War II, civil rights violations and legislation, especially in Arkansas, school integration crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, Federal Bureau of Investigation, law enforcement, police administration reforms, and investigations of prison brutality in Arkansas and elsewhere, Caldwell's lectures and addresses to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, Fulbright scholar's orientation program, Agency for International Development and various classes, seminars, conferences, and congresses at the Brookings Institution and other institutions. Correspondents include John W. Anderson, Leslie L. Biffle, Herbert Brownell, Jr., William Jennings Bryan, Bruce T. Bullion, John Hamilton Caldwell, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, Thomas Joseph Dodd, J. William Fulbright, William H. Hadley, Brooks Hays, J. Edgar Hoover, Archie F. House, Walter John Lemke, John Little McClellan, Warren Olney III, Joseph Taylor Robinson, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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