Papers, 1942-1987 (bulk 1963-1980).

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Papers, 1942-1987 (bulk 1963-1980).

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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, press releases, financial records, agendas, printed materials, and other papers, documenting Rustin's leading role as a Quaker activist in the African American civil rights movement, advocate of international human rights and social reform, and pacifist. Includes materials pertaining to African anti-imperialist movements in the 1950s, African American relations with Jews, alienation of African American youth, Rustin's sentencing to and exposé of chain gangs following his arrest for participation in freedom rides (1947), incarceration as a conscientious objector for his refusal to register for the draft during World War II, Israeli investigation of Black Hebrew Israelite Nation and its leader, Ben Ammi-Carter, black nationalism, civil rights marches, including the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the Fellowship of Reconciliation, observation of elections by Freedom House, Haitian refugees, gay rights, integration of schools, work of the International Rescue Committee assisting Indochinese refugees (1978-1987), poverty, nuclear war protests, race riots of the 1960s, racism, and trade-unions. Correspondents include Nnamdi Azikiwe, Menachem Begin, Hugo L. Black, Hyman H. Bookbinder, Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Eldridge Cleaver, Ralph DiGia, Dorothy I. Height, Benjamin L. Hooks, Jacob K. Javits, Kivie Kaplan, Edward M. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, George Meany, Daniel P. Moynihan, Abraham J. Muste, Kwame Nkrumah, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Selma Platt, Anita Poole, A. Philip Randolph, Elie Wiesel, and Roy Wilkins.

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