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Series/Container List
Series I: Dorothy Swisshelm papers.
Box 1
Folder 1: Georgia: Voice of Americus newsletters, 1965 (v.2, no. 1-5,8); Swisshelm
and Koinonia Farm Civil Rights correspondence. 1962-1965.
Folder 2: S.S.O.C. (Southern Student Organizing Committee): newsletters, pamphlets,
and The New South Student. 1964-1966 (scattered
issues).
Folder 3: Omaha, Nebraska: Clippings, etc., before and after violence which
began July 4, 1966.
Folder 4: Letters to and from D. Swisshelm, re: Civil Rights Movement. 1962-1966
(co. 40 pieces).
Folder 5: Permission for use of materials for Six Years Behind the Magnolia
Curtain. 1963-1965 (8 pieces).
Folder 6: Confidential until 1970; Correspondence concerning Back Bay Mission,
Mississippi (July-September, 1963); community organizers in
Gulfport (November, 1964-December 1965); social work in the south, 1965.
Folder 7: Mississippi Back Bay Mission and Mississippi Civil Rights Workers,
1963-1966. Correspondence, clippings, publications (co. 65 pieces).
Folder 8: S.N.C.C. (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee): Student Voice,
and newsletters. 1962-1965 (scattered issues).
Folder 9: The Church and race relations: 1962, 1965-1966. Clippings (10 pieces).
Folder 10: Six Years Behind the Magnolia Curtain unpublished manuscript, 283
p. Restricted.
Folder 11: Professional Social Work and the Civil Rights Organization: 1957,
1963-1965. Correspondence, clippings, publications,
addresses (25 pieces).
Folder 12: Bulletins and newspapers from various civil rights organizations:
"New South", "The Southern Patriot." 1961, 1963-
1966 (scattered issues).
Folder 13: Miscellaneous Clippings: 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966.
Folder 14: Book Reviews on the race question: 1952, 1953, 1957, 1964, 1965,
1966.
Folder 15: Clippings on Negro achievements and improvements: 1965-1966.
Folder 16: Magazine articles, reprints, miscellaneous: 1947, 1948, 1960, 1962,
1963.
Folder 17: Magazine articles, reprints, miscellaneous: 1964-1966.
Folder 18: Information and reports on various cities concerning Civil Rights:
1954, 1962, 1963, 1966.
Series II: Charles A. Haynie papers (Concerning Fayette County, Tennessee)
Box 2
Folder 1: Letters to Haynie concerning the Civil Rights and voter registration
movement in Fayette County, Tennessee. 1963, 1964, 1965.
Folder 2: Newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning Civil rights and voter
registration movement in Fayette County, Tennessee; Fayette
Falcon, League Link, Cornell Daily Sun, Ithacana Journal. 1961-1965.
Folder 3: Appeals, registration lists, affidavits, voting records of Fayette
County, Tennessee 1963-1965. Report of General and Primary Elections
held at Freeland's Store, Civil District #3, Fayette County, August 6. 1964.
Folder 4: Affidavits and sworn handwritten statements regarding the denial
to register and/or vote, and illegal procedures at voting places,
Fayette County, August, 1964.
Folder 5: Haynie's notepads and miscellaneous, newspaper clippings, Trojan
Horse 1963-1964, The Nation, August, 1964.
Tapes and Films: 3 rolls of movie film on Civil Rights, also 1 set of movie
slides on civil Rights.
Series III: Hosea L. Williams papers. (Concerning Negro opportunities)
Folder 6: Pamphlets concerning Head Start, Negro employment opportunities,
war on poverty, economic opportunities, Community Action
Program, 1964-1965.
Folder 7: Pamphlets concerning S.C.L.C. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference),
S.C.L.C. newsletter 1965-1966. SCOPE (Summer
Community Organization and political Education of SCLC), CO-A-OP (Confederation
of Alabama Political Organization), reprint from
Look Magazine., November 1965.
Series IV: Rev. Claude Williams papers. (Concerning the People's Institution
of Applied Religion)
Folder 8: Large groups of pictures from the People's Institution of Applied
Religion, of Rev. Claude Williams. Commonwealth College, Mena,
Arkansas, 1930's, and Arkansas Boy's Reform Industrial School, 1934. Miscellaneous
papers and letters of Rev. C. Williams dealing with the
People's Institute of Applied Religion, Detroit, Michigan.
Folder 9: The Presbyterian Church, prosecutor vs. Rev. Claude Williams, accused;
3 vol. of proceedings and testimony, January 4,12, 13, 1954.
Oversized rolls: Two certificates from the Institute of Applied Religion and
over-sized posters of teaching in the People's Institute of Applied
Religion.
Flat Files: Collection of Civil Rights posters.
Tapes and Films: 1 audio tape roll, a speech by the Rev. Claude Williams on
Black Power & Power Structure.
Series V: Jane E. Hodes papers. (Concerning SNCC)
Folder 10: S.N.C.C. (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee), Mississippi
Freedom Summer (1964); Southern Student Organizing
Committee - Officers, goals and programming, by-laws, reports, budget, history,
newsletter etc., concerning Civil rights workers in Mississippi,
1963-1966 (co. 75 pieces); 11 letters from Bill Hodes in Mississippi, June-August,
1964.
Series VI: Walter and Elizabeth Rogers papers. (Concerning North Carolina
civil Rights)
Folder 11: Newspaper articles by Chester Davis on negro-white relationship
in North Carolina from the Journal-Sentinel (Winston Salem, North
Carolina) 1947, 1949, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1966. Clippings on negro controversy,
pamphlets on hurricane Betsy's Flood Victims, other news
releases.
Series VII: Roy Self papers. (Concerning SCLC)
Folder 12: S.C.L.C. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) 10th annual
convention, August 8-11, 1966. Jackson, Mississippi, Civil Action
Suit: Self's correspondence, S.C.E.F. ( Southern Conference Education Fund)
reports, pamphlets, news clippings.
Folder 13: Pamphlets on SCLS, Montgomery Improvement Association (Alabama,
December 1965), The American Rationalist, 1966.
Folder 14: Court briefs of cases against the city of Birmingham (1963-1964),
"SCLC" material, Rev. C. Williams news clippings, 1965.
Folder 15: SCLC president's Annual Report (August 10, 1966), reports on Civil
Rights and the C.R. workers, news clippings on desegregation
in North Carolina and Rev. C. Wiliams. The Appalachian South, 1965.
Series VIII: Buford W. Posey papers.
Box 3
Folder 1: Correspondence: from Posey to U-T Special Collections, regarding
the Special Collections' Civil Rights Collection, lists of contacts, etc.
Folder 2: Reprints of letters, news releases and clippings concerning Danville,
Virginia trouble of Summer 1963, and SNCC (Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee) involvement; desegregation actions and trouble in
Knoxville, Tenn. Summer 1963.
Folder 3: Liberal Mississippi newspapers: Petal Paper (Petal, Miss.) 1957,
1959, 1962-1964.; Mississippi Free Press (Jackson, Miss.) 1962-1964.
Folder 4: Reprints of newspaper articles on Southern Civil Rights: 1954, 1957,
1958, 1960-1967.
Folder 5: S.C.E.F. (Southern Conference Education Fund) news releases, 1961,
1966, 1967.
Folder 6: Booklets, pamphlets, etc. from SCEF.
Folder 7: SCEF memos, newsletters, policy statements, miscellaneous, 1957-1959,1962,
1965-1967.
Folder 8: Miscellaneous newspaper and reprinted articles concerning Civil
Rights.
Folder 9: Posey correspondence and newspaper clippings and miscellaneous.
Record: Our Struggle for Freedom, a sermon, They Chose Freedom , a narrative.-
regarding Haywood and Fayette Counties (Tennessee) struggle
to register the negro for the vote.
Series IX: Edwin M. Hoffman papers.
Folder 10: Correspondence, miscellaneous Civil Rights and Liberties.
Folder 11: Material on Berea college (Berea, Kentucky). "Hi-y"(Young
Men's Christian Association).
Folder 12: News articles, bulletins, pamphlets, miscellaneous concerning Civil
Rights.
Folder 13: SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund) material.
Series X: Arthur W. Calhoun papers.
Folder 14: Pamphlets on various Civil Rights Organizations: Core, SECF, Commission
on Interracial Cooperation.
Folder 15: Newsletters, news reports from various Civil Rights Organizations:
Committee of 100, NAACP, Core, Highlanders.
Folder 16: Papers written by A.W. Calhoun, material concerning Rev. C. Williams,
news clippings.
Folder 17: News clippings on Civil rights: 1913, 1915, 1956, 1957, 1958.
Series XI: Sidney R. Redmond papers.
Folder 18: Redmond correspondence pertaining to Missouri School desegregation
trials, 1945-1950.
Folder 19: Petitions and court rulings on Missouri Board of Education desegregation
trials (pertaining to high schools), 1950.
Folder 20: Petitions and court rulings on Missouri College desegregation trials,
1949, news clippings and pamphlets on aviation.
Audio Tapes: Two tapes regarding CORE, and Civil Rights court cases in Missouri.
Series XII: American Civil Liberties Union ACLU.
Box 4
Folder 1: 1963 news releases.
Folder 2: 1964 news releases.
Folder 3: 1965 news releases.
Folder 4: 1966 news releases.
Series XIII: Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
Folder 5: Progress reports: 1961, 1965: an Annual Address: 1966 (Birmingham,
Alabama)
Series XIV: National Urban League.
Folder 6: Urban League Newsletter, reprinted news articles, 1966, 1967, 1968-1970.
Series XV: Did You Know?
Folder 7: A Civil Rights Newsletter (Monroe, North Carolina) 1966-1967.
Series XVI: Congress of Racial Equality CORE.
Folder 8: CORE fact-sheets, policy papers, news clippings.
Series XVII: Southern Regional Council Inc. (SRC).
Folder 9: SRC reports and news releases, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961.
Folder 10: SRC reports and news releases, 1962. 1963, 1964, 1966.
Folder 11: SRC project report, Southern voter registration charts, negro populated
area map.
Series XVIII: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Folder 12: SCLC Newsletter, 1963, 1964.
Series XIX: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Folder 13: Directory of Civil Rights programs, reading lists.
Series XX: Washington Lobby.
Folder 14: The National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American
Activities (HUAC), literature, 1969-1970.
Series XXI: Miscellaneous.
Folder 15: Civil Rights reprinted articles.
Folder 16: Civil Rights news clippings.
Folder 17: Civil Rights circulars, etc.
Series XXII: Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF).
Folder 18: News releases, reprints, memos, reports from SCEF (Louisville,
Kentucky). 1949, 1958, 1966.
Folder 19: News releases, etc. 1967.
Folder 20: News releases, etc. 1968.
Folder 21: News releases, etc. 1969-
Series XXIII: Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC).
Folder 22: Tennessee branch of SSOC, newsletters for 1968.
Series XXIV: Southern Regional Council Literature.
Box 5
Refer to Civil Rights Card File for contents of Box 5.
Series XXV: Misc. Lit. A-R.
Box 6
Refer to Civil Rights Card File for contents of Box 6
Series XXVI: Misc. Lit. S-Z.
Box 7
Refer to Civil Rights Card File for contents of Box 7
Series XXVII: Civil Rights Newspapers.
Box 8
Refer to Civil Rights Card File for contents of Boxes 8 and 9
Box 9
Civil Rights Newspapers.
