Wilson Record papers, 1946-1990.

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Wilson Record papers, 1946-1990.

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Wilson Record, including correspondence, research files, manuscripts, and printed material. Correspondents include scholars and political leaders involved with issues of race, such as Horace Cayton, Ralph Bunche, C. Eric Lincoln, A. Philip Randolph, Victor Riesel, Roi Ottley and others. The collection provides extensive documentation on the emergence of the Black Studies movement and black and white women's caucuses.

41 linear ft. (41 boxes)

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Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979

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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...

Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970

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African American author and sociologist. From the description of Horace Cayton collection, 1965. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965364 Afro-American author. From the description of Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86118280 Horace R. Cayton, Jr. was born in Seattle, WA. on April 12, 1903 to Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (newspaper owner, editor, publisher), and Susie Cayton (j...

Ottley, Roi, 1906-1960

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Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000

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C. Eric Lincoln (1924- ), author, minister, and educator, born in Athens, Alabama. From the description of C. Eric Lincoln collection, 1909-1994. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477108 From the description of C. Eric Lincoln correspondence, 1959-1993. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477114 From the description of C. Eric Lincoln biographical-family f...

Record, Wilson, 1916-1998

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Wilson Record (1917-1998), was a sociologist who worked with issues of race relations. From the description of Wilson Record papers, 1946-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79462955 ...

Riesel, Victor

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Victor Riesel (1917-1995) was a nationally syndicated labor journalist, and an advisor to labor leaders and politicians. A product of New York's Lower East Side Jewish community, Riesel graduated from City College, and from its progressive political milieu to become a knowledgeable and militantly anti-communist social democrat. After work for a news service and writing for various publications, including a stint as managing editor of the New Leader (a social democratic weekly), in 1946 he began ...