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Microfilm
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African-American:
Civil Rights
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Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| Civil
rights during the Johnson administration, 1963-1969:
a collection from the holdings of the Lyndon B.
Johnson Library, Austin Texas |
This collection contains White
House Central Files, including internal memoranda
circulated between the President and his advisors
and correspondence between the Johnson administration
and persons outside the White House; White House
Aides Files (working papers of presidential assistants);
administrative history of and White House Central
Files about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;
and interviews with both public officials and prlvate
citizens who were civil rights activists. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1578 |
No |
| Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers |
During the 1960s, when nonviolent
direct action achieved ascendancy as a form of black
protest, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
played a major role in battling against both segregation
and disfranchisement in the South and police brutality
as well as discrimination in housing, jobs, and
public education in the North. The files of the
Western and Southern Regional Offices shed enormous
light on CORE’s work and on the whole civil rights
movement in these two geographic areas. The largest
files are those of the Scholarship, Education, and
Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE). These
records are particularly rich on CORE’s southern
program, which was funded chiefly by SEDFRE. Guide
available.
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MICFILM 1396 |
No |
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| John
Beecher Papers, 1899-1972 |
John Beecher was an activist
poet who wrote about the Southern United States
during the Great Depression and the American Civil
Rights Movement. The John Beecher Papers preserves
on microfilm his complete papers and works through
1972, and includes not only his creative manuscripts,
but also his correspondence, printed materials,
speeches, radio scripts about social and political
reform, and his testimony before the U.S. Senate
on migrant conditions in the United States. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1037 |
No |
| Martin
Luther King, Jr.; FBI assassination file |
The assassination of Martin
Luther King, Jr., in 1968 triggered a massive
manhunt culminating in the arrest of James Earl
Ray. The FBI file on this historic case, over
44,000 pages long, documents the bureau's role
in finding Ray and obtaining his conviction. It
also includes background information amassed by
the FBI on Dr. King himself. This file will be
of particular interest to students of the civil
rights movement and of the continuing controversy
surrounding Dr. King's murder. The files reveal
that King was the target of an intensive campaign
by the FBI to neutralize him as an effective civil
rights leader. Report coverage includes: events
surrounding April 4th, 1968, FBI investigation
of the assassination, James Earl Ray, FBI surveillance
and harassment of King, his associates and family,
and audio "bugs."
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MICFILM 1338 |
No |
| Martin
Luther King, Jr., FBI file |
This important research collection
supplies significant details on King’s planning
of civil rights protests in such southern hot spots
as Birmingham and Selma, on his tension-ridden 1966
foray into the segregated ghettos of Chicago, and
on his controversial 1967 decision to vocally oppose
the Vietnam War policies of President Lyndon Johnson.
It also maps the planning of King’s final great
crusade, the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, which
was about to get underway when King was killed in
Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1597 |
No |
| Papers
of the NAACP |
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of
the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations
in the United States. It was founded February 12,
1909 to work on behalf of African Americans. Papers
of the NAACP forms a comprehensive inner history
of the policies and personalities at the highest
levels of the civil rights leadership. Guide
avaliable. |
MICFILM 1273 |
No |
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