Finding Aid for the Civil Rights Collection, 1913-1970 (Bulk 1934-1970)


MS-0334

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, September 12, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Civil Rights Collection

Date/Date Range :   1913-1970 (Bulk 1934-1970)

Extent: 9.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection contains pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, certificates, and other materials documenting the struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern States between 1913 and 1970.

Call number: MS-0334

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Civil Rights Collection, MS-0334. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of nine boxes divided into twenty-seven series: Series I: Dorothy Swisshelm Papers; Charles A. Haynie Papers; Hosea L. Williams Papers; Rev. Claude Williams Papers; Jane E. Hodes Papers; Walter and Elizabeth Rogers Papers; Roy Self Papers; Buford W. Posey Papers; Edwin M. Hoffman Papers; Arthur W. Calhoun Papers; Sidney R. Redmond Papers; American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; National Urban League; Did You Know?; Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Southern Regional Council Inc. (SRC); Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Washington Lobby; Miscellaneous; Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF); Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC); Southern Regional Council Literature; Miscellaneous Literature; Miscellaneous Literature; and Civil Rights Newspapers.


Biography / History

No biographical information is available.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, certificates, and other materials documenting the struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern States between 1913 and 1970.

Subject Terms

  • Swisshelm, Dorothy.
  • Haynie, Charles.
  • Williams, Hosea L.
  • Williams, Claude.
  • Hodes, Jane E.
  • Rogers, Walter.
  • Rogers, Elizabeth.
  • Self, Roy.
  • Posey, Buford W.
  • Hoffman, Edwin M.
  • Calhoun, Arthur W.
  • Redmond, Sidney R.
  • Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
  • African Americans -- Southern States -- Civil rights.
Contents List
   

Series I: Dorothy Swisshelm Papers, 1947-1966

Box   1     Folder   1    
Georgia: Voice of Americus newsletters and Swisshelm and Koinonia Farm Civil Rights correspondence, 1962-1965

Box   1     Folder   2    
S.S.O.C. (Southern Student Organizing Committee): newsletters, pamphlets, and The New South Student , 1964-1966

Box   1     Folder   3    
Omaha, Nebraska: Clippings, etc., before and after violence which began 4 July 1966, 1966

Box   1     Folder   4    
Letters to and from D. Swisshelm, regarding the Civil Rights Movement, 1962-1966

Box   1     Folder   5    
Permission for use of materials for Six Years Behind the Magnolia Curtain , 1963-1965

Box   1     Folder   6    
Correspondence concerning Back Bay Mission, Mississippi (July-September 1963); community organizers in Gulfport (November 1964-December 1965); social work in the south (1965), 1963-1965

Box   1     Folder   7    
Mississippi Back Bay Mission and Mississippi Civil Rights Workers (correspondence, clippings, and publications), 1963-1966

Box   1     Folder   8    
S.N.C.C. (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee): Student Voice and newsletters, 1962-1965

Box   1     Folder   9    
The Church and race relations clippings, 1962-1966

Box   1     Folder   10    
RESTRICTED: Six Years Behind the Magnolia Curtain (283 page unpublished manuscript), undated

Box   1     Folder   11    
Professional Social Work and the Civil Rights Organization (correspondence, clippings, publications, and addresses), 1957-1965

Box   1     Folder   12    
Bulletins and newspapers from various civil rights organizations: New South and The Southern Patriot (scattered issues), 1961-1966

Box   1     Folder   13    
Miscellaneous Clippings, 1960-1966

Box   1     Folder   14    
Book Reviews on the race question, 1952-1966

Box   1     Folder   15    
Clippings on Negro achievements and improvements, 1965-1966

Box   1     Folder   16    
Magazine articles, reprints, miscellaneous, 1947-1963

Box   1     Folder   17    
Magazine articles, reprints, miscellaneous, 1964-1966

Box   1     Folder   18    
Information and reports on various cities concerning Civil Rights, 1954-1966

   

Series II: Charles A. Haynie Papers (Concerning Fayette County, Tennessee), 1961-1965

Box   2     Folder   1    
Letters to Haynie concerning the Civil Rights and voter registration movement in Fayette County, Tennessee, 1963-1965-

Box   2     Folder   2    
Newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning Civil rights and voter registration movement in Fayette County, Tennessee, 1961-1965.

Box   2     Folder   3    
Appeals, registration lists, affidavits, voting records of Fayette County, Tennessee (1963-1965) and Report of General and Primary Elections held at Freeland's Store, Civil District #3, Fayette County (6 August 1964), 1963-1965

Box   2     Folder   4    
Affidavits and sworn handwritten statements regarding the denial to register and/or vote, and illegal procedures at voting places, Fayette County, 1964 August

Box   2     Folder   5    
Haynie's notepads and miscellaneous, newspaper clippings, 1963-1964

Box   2      
3 rolls of movie film on Civil Rights, also 1 set of movie slides on Civil Rights, undated

   

Series III: Hosea L. Williams Papers (Concerning Negro opportunities), 1964-1966

Box   2     Folder   6    
Pamphlets concerning Head Start, Negro employment opportunities, war on poverty, economic opportunities, and Community Action Program, 1964-1965

Box   2     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), 1965-1966

   

Series IV: Rev. Claude Williams Papers (Concerning the People's Institution of Applied Religion), 1934-1954

Box   2     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, 1934

Box   2     Folder   9    
The Presbyterian Church, prosecutor vs. Rev. Claude Williams, accused; 3 vol. of proceedings and testimony, 1954 January 4-1954 January 13

Box   2      
Two certificates from the Institute of Applied Religion and over-sized posters of teaching in the People's Institute of Applied Religion

Box   2      
Collection of Civil Rights posters

Box   2      
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), 1963-1966

Box   2     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; 11 letters from Bill Hodes in Mississippi, (June-August, 1964), 1963-1966

   

Series VI: Walter and Elizabeth Rogers Papers (Concerning North Carolina civil Rights), 1947-1966

Box   2     Folder   11    
Newspaper articles by Chester Davis on negro-white relationship in North Carolina from the [Winston-Salem, NC] Journal-Sentinel (1947-1966); Clippings on negro controversy, pamphlets on hurricane Betsy's Flood Victims, and other news releases, 1947-1966

   

Series VII: Roy Self Papers (Concerning SCLC), 1963-1966

Box   2     Folder   12    
S.C.L.C. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) 10th annual convention (8-11 August 1966). Jackson, Mississippi, Civil Action Suit; Self's correspondence, S.C.E.F. ( Southern Conference Education Fund) reports, pamphlets, and news clippings, 1966

Box   2     Folder   13    
Pamphlets on SCLS, Montgomery Improvement Association (Alabama, December 1965) and The American Rationalist (1966), 1965-1966

Box   2     Folder   14    
Court briefs of cases against the city of Birmingham (1963-1964), "SCLC" material, Rev. C. Williams news clippings (1965), 1963-1965

Box   2     Folder   15    
SCLC president's Annual Report (10 August 1966), reports on Civil Rights and the C.R. workers, news clippings on desegregation in North Carolina, Rev. C. Wiliams, and The Appalachian South (1965), 1965-1966

   

Series VIII: Buford W. Posey Papers, 1954-1967

Box   3     Folder   1    
Correspondence from Posey to U-T Special Collections, regarding the Special Collections' Civil Rights Collection, lists of contacts, etc.

Box   3     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., 1963

Box   3     Folder   3    
Liberal Mississippi newspapers: Petal Paper (1957-1964); Mississippi Free Press , 1962-1964

Box   3     Folder   4    
Reprints of newspaper articles on Southern Civil Rights, 1954-1967.

Box   3     Folder   5    
S.C.E.F. (Southern Conference Education Fund) news releases, 1961-1967

Box   3     Folder   6    
Booklets, pamphlets, etc. from SCEF

Box   3     Folder   7    
SCEF memos, newsletters, policy statements, miscellaneous, 1957-1967

Box   3     Folder   8    
Miscellaneous newspaper and reprinted articles concerning Civil Rights

Box   3     Folder   9    
Posey correspondence and newspaper clippings and miscellaneous

Box   3      
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, undated

Box   3     Folder   10    
Correspondence, miscellaneous Civil Rights and Liberties

Box   3     Folder   11    
Material on Berea college (Berea, Kentucky). "Hi-y" (Young Men's Christian Association)

Box   3     Folder   12    
News articles, bulletins, pamphlets, miscellaneous concerning Civil Rights

Box   3     Folder   13    
SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund) material

   

Series X: Arthur W. Calhoun Papers, 1913-1958

Box   3     Folder   14    
Pamphlets on various Civil Rights Organizations, including Core, SECF, Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Box   3     Folder   15    
Newsletters, news reports from various Civil Rights Organizations, including Committee of 100, NAACP, Core, Highlanders

Box   3     Folder   16    
Papers written by A.W. Calhoun, material concerning Rev. C. Williams, news clippings

Box   3     Folder   17    
News clippings on Civil rights, 1913-1958

   

Series XI: Sidney R. Redmond Papers, 1945-1950

Box   3     Folder   18    
Redmond correspondence pertaining to Missouri School desegregation trials, 1945-1950

Box   3     Folder   19    
Petitions and court rulings on Missouri Board of Education desegregation trials (pertaining to high schools), 1950

Box   3     Folder   20    
Petitions and court rulings on Missouri College desegregation trials (1949), news clippings and pamphlets on aviation, 1949

   

Series XII: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 1963-1966

Box   4     Folder   1    
News Releases, 1963

Box   4     Folder   2    
News Releases, 1964

Box   4     Folder   3    
News Releases, 1965

Box   4     Folder   4    
News Releases, 1966

   

Series XIII: Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1961-1966

Box   4     Folder   5    
Progress reports (1961, 1965) and an Annual Address (1966; Birmingham, Alabama), 1961-1966

   

Series XIV: National Urban League, 1966-1970

Box   4     Folder   6    
Urban League Newsletter and reprinted news articles, 1966-1970

   

Series XV: Did You Know?, 1966-1967

Box   4     Folder   7    
A Civil Rights Newsletter (Monroe, North Carolina), 1966-1967

   

Series XVI: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), undated

Box   4     Folder   8    
CORE fact-sheets, policy papers, news clippings, undated

   

Series XVII: Southern Regional Council Inc. (SRC), 1957-1966

Box   4     Folder   9    
SRC reports and news releases, 1957-1961

Box   4     Folder   10    
SRC reports and news releases, 1962-1966

Box   4     Folder   11    
SRC project report, Southern voter registration charts, negro populated area map

   

Series XVIII: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 1963-1964

Box   4     Folder   12    
SCLC Newsletter, 1963-1964

   

Series XIX: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, undated

Box   4     Folder   13    
Directory of Civil Rights programs, reading lists, undated

   

Series XX: Washington Lobby, 1969-1970

Box   4     Folder   14    
The National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) literature, 1969-1970

   

Series XXI: Miscellaneous, undated

Box   4     Folder   15    
Civil Rights reprinted articles, undated

Box   4     Folder   16    
Civil Rights news clippings, undated

Box   4     Folder   17    
Civil Rights circulars, etc., undated

   

Series XXII: Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1949-1969

Box   4     Folder   18    
News releases, reprints, memos, reports from SCEF (Louisville, Kentucky), 1949-1966

Box   4     Folder   19    
News releases, etc., 1967

Box   4     Folder   20    
News releases, etc., 1968

Box   4     Folder   21    
News releases, etc., 1969

   

Series XXIII: Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), 1968

Box   4     Folder   22    
Tennessee branch of SSOC newsletters, 1968

   

Series XXIV: Southern Regional Council Literature

Box   5      
Southern Regional Council Literature,

Scope Note:

For contents, refer to Civil Rights Card File.

   

Series XXV: Miscellaneous Literature (A-R)

Box   6      
Miscellaneous Literature

Scope Note:

For contents, refer to Civil Rights Card File.

   

Series XXVI: Miscellaneous Literature (S-Z)

Box   7      
Miscellaneous Literature

Scope Note:

For contents, refer to Civil Rights Card File.

   

Series XXVII: Civil Rights Newspapers

Box   8      
Civil Rights Newspapers

Scope Note:

For contents, refer to Civil Rights Card File.

Box   9      
Civil Rights Newspapers

Scope Note:

For contents, refer to Civil Rights Card File.