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BAYARD T. RUSTIN
A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Kathleen M. Dondanville with the assistance of
Joseph K. Brooks, 1992
Revised and expanded
by Joseph K. Brooks
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1997
***
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
The papers of Bayard Taylor Rustin (1910-1987), civil rights
activist and author, were presented to the Library of Congress
between 1988 and 1994 as a bequest from Rustin via Walter Naegle,
executor of Rustin's estate. A description of the papers appears
in _Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1990_,
pp. 31-34.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of
Bayard T. Rustin in these papers and in other collections of
papers in the custody of the Library of Congress is governed by
the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library where they are identified as
part of these papers.
University Publications of America microfilmed the Bayard
T. Rustin Papers before the collection was delivered to the
Library of Congress and arranged by the Manuscript Division. A
copy of this commercial microfilm edition is available for
research use in the Manuscript Reading Room. A register of the
microfilm is also available.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 20
Approximate number of items: 17,500
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1910, Mar. 17 Born, West Chester, Pa.
1930-31 Attended Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio
1931-33 Attended Cheyney State College, Cheyney, Pa.
1933-35 Moved to Harlem and attended City College of New
York, New York, N.Y.; earned tuition by singing
backup for Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
1938-41 Joined Young Communist League; recruited youths
while touring with singer Josh White; broke with
the league over political differences
1941 Youth organizer, A. Philip Randolph March on
Washington
First field secretary, Congress of Racial Equality
1941-53 Race relations secretary, Fellowship of
Reconciliation
1942 Went to California and helped protect the property
of Japanese-Americans who were placed in work
camps during World War II
1943-45 Refused military service in World War II on
grounds of conscientious objection; sentenced to
twenty-eight months in Lewisburg Prison, Ashley,
Ky.
1945 Chairman, Free India Committee
1947 Participated in the Journey of Reconciliation, the
first freedom ride that tested the enforcement
of a new law prohibiting discrimination in
interstate travel; arrested in North Carolina
and sentenced to thirty days on a chain gang
1948 Attended the World Pacifist meeting in India; met
with Jawaharlal Nehru and other leaders
Helped organize the Aldermaston marches for the
Committee for Nuclear Disarmament movement in
England
1951 Went to West Africa and worked with future Ghanian
prime minister Kwame Nkrumah and Nigerian
president Nnamdi Azikiwe on the Committee to
Support Africa
1952-53 Director, Committee Against Discrimination in the
Armed Forces
1953-55 Executive secretary, War Resisters League
1955 Invited by Martin Luther King, Jr., to assist in
organizing bus boycotts in Montgomery, Ala.
1956 Devised organizational plans for the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; became special
assistant to Martin Luther King, Jr.
1957 Coordinated Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington for
civil rights, Washington, D.C.
1958-59 Director, Youth Marches for Integrated Schools
1963 Deputy director, March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom, Washington, D.C.
1964 Director, New York City school boycott against
decentralization, New York, N.Y.
1966 Received Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Trade Union
Leadership Council
1966-79 President, A. Philip Randolph Institute
1968 Director, Memphis sanitation workers' strike in
support of the right to organize, Memphis, Tenn.
1971 Published _Down the Line: The Collected Writings
of Bayard Rustin_ (Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle
Books, Inc. 349 pp.)
Received John F. Kennedy Award, National Council
of Jewish Women
1975 Formed Black Americans to Support Israel Committee
1976 Published _Strategies for Freedom: The Changing
Patterns of Black Protest_ (New York, N.Y.:
Columbia University Press. 78 pp.)
1977 Helped establish the Black Leadership Forum
1978 Chairman, Executive Committee of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights
1979-87 Chairman of the board, A. Philip Randolph
Institute
1980 Received Murray-Green-Meany Award, A.F.L.-C.I.O.
1987, Aug. 24 Died, New York, N.Y
***
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The Bayard Taylor Rustin Papers span the years 1942-87, with
the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1963-80. The
collection documents Rustin's role as a master strategist of
social resistance movements and major figure in the front ranks
of the civil rights movement, and highlights nearly five decades
of activism for social reform and international human rights.
The papers consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda,
reports and drafts, press releases, financial records, agendas,
schedules, notes, speeches and writings, and printed material.
Rustin's papers document his philosophy and strategy for
conducting passive resistance movements and securing civil rights
for African Americans. Correspondence, topical files, and
writings reflect his adherence to three basic principles: a
belief that racial progress could be achieved only in an
integrated framework; a dedication to the tactics of nonviolence;
and a conviction that broad, permanent change could be
accomplished only through coalition politics. Whether because of
his Quaker beliefs, his socialism, or his affiliation with
organized labor, Rustin always aimed at broader social objectives
than those sought by most leaders of the civil rights movement.
Civil rights for American blacks, he argued, could be secured
only as a part and consequence of wider and deeper social reform
in the United States and throughout the world. Aspects of this
world view are reflected throughout the collection. Included is
material illustrating Rustin's struggle for the rights of other
minorities and the poor in the United States and the
disenfranchised people of Africa, India, Asia, and South America.
The General Correspondence series (1942-87), consisting of
incoming and outgoing correspondence between Rustin and social
activists, political organizations, labor unions, friends, and
colleagues, relates primarily to Rustin's speaking engagements,
public appearances, and writings and contemporary social
issues. Also present are numerous letters from friends and the
public bestowing congratulations for Rustin's success in helping
organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and
other civil rights projects.
Correspondence reflecting Rustin's strategy for attaining
civil rights for blacks is found scattered throughout the
series. Most notable is correspondence between Rustin and
African Americans, who, despite the passage of major civil rights
legislation, were frustrated by the realization that unemployment
among black youth was still high, black children still attended
segregated schools, and ghettos were more crowded than ever. In
these letters, Rustin articulates and defends his strategy
against the militant, separatist, and nationalistic approach of
leaders such as Eldridge Cleaver and Stokely Carmichael.
Documentation of Rustin's early struggles as a Quaker
activist and an advocate for international human rights can also
be found in the correspondence file. Included are letters from
Abraham J. Muste, president of the Fellowship of Reconciliation
(FOR), containing remarks on pacifism and the general goals of
the FOR, received by Rustin during his imprisonment in Kentucky's
Lewisburg penitentiary after refusing to register for the
military draft in 1943. Copies of Rustin's replies, however, are
nonexistent or missing from the collection. Also present are a
few pieces of correspondence relating to Rustin's trips to Africa
in the 1950s to assist Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and other
African leaders in organizing nonviolent resistance campaigns
against colonialism and nuclear weapons.
Frequent correspondents in the General Correspondence series
not mentioned previously include Hugo L. Black, Hyman
H. Bookbinder, Ralph DiGia, Kivie Kaplan, Selma Platt, and Anita
Poole.
The greatest concentration of material in the Rustin Papers
is found in the Subject File (1942-87), which contains a large
segment of records relating to Rustin's accomplishments in the
civil rights movement during the 1960s. Among the most
comprehensive topics covered is Rustin's role as deputy director
of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Consisting
of correspondence, financial records, fliers and handouts,
mailings, manuals, logistical records, newsletters, and other
material, these papers document his coordination of the march and
his assistance in developing a broad program of demands.
Rustin's planning helped lead to the passage of significant civil
rights legislation in 1964 and 1965. Telegrams pertaining to the
march contain messages of support from members of Congress and
other political and social leaders. The collection, however,
contains little documentation of coordination between Rustin and
A. Philip Randolph, chairman of the march, and sponsors such as
Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young.
Other material documenting the civil rights movement
includes items relating to Rustin's position as race relations
director for the FOR. Correspondence and reports concerning the
FOR's freedom rides are extensive. In 1947, Rustin and fifteen
others rode buses in several southern states in order to test a
new law that declared segregation of interstate travelers
illegal. A result of the bus rides, which became known as the
Journey of Reconciliation, was Rustin's arrest and sentencing to
thirty days on a chain gang in Roxboro, North Carolina. His
report to the FOR, entitled "Twenty Two Days on a Chain Gang,"
was published in the _New York Post_ and the _Baltimore Afro-
American_ and eventually led to the abolition of chain gangs in
North Carolina.
Other extensive civil rights topics cover Rustin's work with
Randolph on the Freedom Budget, a ten-year program conceived by
Randolph as a method of abolishing poverty in the United States,
and other marches organized by Rustin, including the Prayer
Pilgrimage to Washington in 1957 and the 1964 marches for
integrated schools. Also included are comprehensive files
documenting the Mobilization in Support of the Poor People's
Campaign.
The Subject File also documents Rustin's struggle to improve
relations between African Americans and American Jews and
Israel. Black and Jewish responses to his articles critical of
black leaders who supported the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) are of special note. Correspondence,
memoranda, press releases, and other material relating to the
activities of the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee,
formed by Rustin in 1975, can also be found in the
series. Supported by Shirley Chisholm, Lionel Hampton, Roy
Wilkins, Andrew Young, and many others, the committee called for
financial and military support of Israel by the United States,
protested the actions of the PLO, and promoted Israel among black
Americans. Also of significance is material documenting Rustin's
interest in the Black Hebrews, a religious sect of black
Americans who illegally relocated to Israel in the mid-1970s.
Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, reports, and
articles record Rustin's investigations into Israeli harassment
of black tourists suspected of being members of the sect and the
activities of Ben-Ammi Carter, leader of the Black Hebrews.
Material pertaining to Rustin's work with international
human rights groups also makes up a significant portion of the
Subject File. Of particular interest is material documenting his
assistance to Indochinese refugees in Thailand under the auspices
of the International Rescue Committee, his observation of free
elections in El Salvador, Grenada, and Zimbabwe with the Freedom
House group, and his work with the Haitian Refugees Conference.
Other notable items relate to his activities in Africa, though
documentation of these projects, particularly his work in West
Africa with Nkrumah and Azikiwe during the 1950s, is sparse.
The Subject File also contains material relating to a number
of Rustin's other endeavors, including the Eldridge Cleaver
Defense Fund, nuclear war protests, organized labor issues, and
gay rights. Little documentation exists of his work as special
assistant to King or of his trip to India to visit with
Jawaharlal Nehru and other Indian political leaders.
The Speeches and Writings file (1942-87) consists largely of
final drafts and printed versions of articles, reports, lectures,
speeches, book reviews, eulogies, and other writings by Rustin.
Rough drafts and notes can also be found. Rustin's orations and
writings generally cover broad issues pertaining to the civil
rights movement, including such topics as integration, racism,
the alienation of black youth, black separatism, the race riots
of the 1960s, and the 1963 march on Washington. Articles and
speeches regarding Randolph's life and times are found scattered
throughout the series. The file also contains copies of Rustin's
columns published in the _New Amsterdam_ newspaper and press
releases written during his tenure as president of the A. Philip
Randolph Institute.
Notable writings include articles from the 1940s and 1950s,
many unpublished, describing the early civil rights movement in
the South, eulogies given at services for Randolph and Muste, and
the speech Rustin gave in 1958 at the Aldermaston marches for
nuclear disarmament in England. Many of the articles and
speeches in the file were published in journals, newspapers,
popular magazines, and in Rustin's book, _Down the Line: The
Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin_.
Prominent correspondents in the Rustin Papers, whose letters
are primarily in the Subject File, include Nnamdi Azikiwe,
Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Eldridge Cleaver,
Dorothy I. Height, Benjamin L. Hooks, Jacob K. Javits, Edward
M. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, George Meany, Daniel P. Moynihan,
Eleanor Holmes Norton, A. Philip Randolph, Elie Wiesel, and Roy
Wilkins.
An addition to the Rustin Papers, processed in 1997,
complements material in the General Correspondence, Subject File,
and Speeches and Writings File. Some of the additional
correspondence is with family members. Other files in the
addition document Rustin's working relationship with Martin
Luther King, Jr., and other members of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference during the 1950s and 1960s.
The Oversize series consists of a scroll containing
signatures of supporters of the 1963 march on Washington.
Researchers using the papers of Bayard T. Rustin may wish to
examine the Manuscript Division's related holdings. These
include the papers of A. Philip Randolph, Kenneth B. Clark, Roy
Wilkins and the records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, the National Urban League, the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, and other civil rights organizations.
***
DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Container Nos. Series
1-6 General Correspondence, 1942-87, n.d.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence and
attached material exchanged between Rustin and
social, political, and labor organizations,
colleagues, friends, and the public. Arrangement
is chronological.
7-39 Subject File, 1942-87, n.d.
Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports
and drafts, agendas, schedules, financial records,
notes, lists, press releases, newsletters,
newspaper clippings, fliers and handouts, printed
material, and other miscellaneous material
relating to Rustin's endeavors as a civil and
human rights activist. Arrangement is
alphabetical by name of person or organization,
topic, or type of material, and chronological
therein.
39-44 Speeches and Writings, 1942-87, n.d.
Drafts, copies, and printed versions of
articles, book reviews, congressional testimony,
eulogies, interviews, lectures, newspaper columns,
notes, press releases, reports, speeches, and
miscellaneous writings by Rustin. Related
correspondence and memoranda are included.
Arrangement is alphabetical by type of material
and chronological therein.
45-49 Addition, 1942-87, n.d.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, agendas,
notes, press releases, newsletters, clippings,
brochures, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material. Arrangement is alphabetical by name of
person or organization, topic, or type of
material, and chronological therein.
OV 1 Oversize, 1963.
Oversize material consisting of a scroll with
signatures. Described according to the series,
folder, and container from which the item was
removed.
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CONTAINER LIST
Container Nos. Contents
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1942-87, n.d.
Box 1 Oct. 1942-Dec. 1963 (15 folders)
Box 2 Jan. 1964-Dec. 1965 (15 folders)
Box 3 Jan. 1966-Dec. 1968 (13 folders)
Box 4 Jan. 1969-June 1971 (17 folders)
Box 5 July 1971-Nov. 1981 (16 folders)
Box 6 Jan. 1982-Aug. 1987 (13 folders)
Undated
SUBJECT FILE, 1942-87, n.d.
Box 7 A. Philip Randolph Institute
Miscellaneous, 1965-76
Study proposals, 1967, 1981, n.d.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS),
1986-87
African issues
African-American Dialogues, 1969-71 (3 folders)
General, 1963, 1979-81, n.d.
Ghana, 1982-83
Sahara nuclear tests, 1959
Zambia, 1976
Zimbabwe, trade union fact-finding mission, 1978
Alternative Defense Commission, 1981-86
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
1980-86
American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
General, 1965-79
Murray-Green-Meany Award, 1980
Amin, Idi, 1975-77
Ashe, Arthur, 1975
Atlanta, Ga., child murders, 1981
Box 8 Bennet, Howard, 1983
Bethune Council House and Memorial Museum,
Washington, D.C., 1984
Billings, Thomas, 1969
Birmingham, Ala., church bombing, 1963
Black militarism
Black Panthers, 1969-72 (2 folders)
Nationalism, 1961-66, n.d.
Black studies, 1969-71
Blacks and American Jews
Articles, 1967-79, n.d. (2 folders)
Correspondence and memoranda, 1967-86,
n.d. (3 folders)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1980-86, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1971-79
Box 9 Press releases and statements, 1966-79,
n.d. (2 folders)
Blacks and Israel
Arab-Israeli conflict, report, 1983
Black Americans to Support Israel Committee
Arab boycott, 1975-76 (2 folders)
Bayard Rustin Scholarship
Applications, 1976-77 (4 folders)
Correspondence, 1976-77
Newspaper clippings and press releases,
1976-77
Begin, Menachem, 1981
Brochures, 1976-77
Carmichael, Stokely, 1976
_Congressional Record_ inserts, 1973-75
Correspondence
June-Dec. 1975 (2 folders)
Box 10 Jan. 1976-Nov. 1983 (13 folders)
Donation requests, 1975-77, n.d.
Box 11 Financial records
Account balances, 1975-76
Miscellany, 1975-77
Taxes
Exemption status, 1976-78 (3 folders)
Returns, 1977-85
Invitations, 1976-81 (2 folders)
Lawsuit, _Warden v. Black Americans to
Support Israel Committee_, 1975-76
Lists of members, 1975, n.d.
Meeting notes, 1976-80, n.d.
Membership drive
Lists of potential supporters, 1975
(2 folders)
Mailings, 1975
Newspaper clippings and articles, 1975-77
Operation Peace for Galilee, 1982
Box 12 Blacks and Israel
Black Americans to Support Israel Committee
Press releases and statements, 1975-79,
n.d. (2 folders)
South Africa, relations with Israel
Correspondence and notes, 1975-79
(2 folders)
Newspaper clippings, 1976-78
Printed material, 1976-77 (2 folders)
Speaking schedules, 1976
Statement of principles, 1975
Terrorism, 1976-83, n.d. (2 folders)
Trips to Israel
1977
Correspondence (3 folders)
Lists of participants
Miscellany
Schedule
1981
UNESCO, 1975-76
Box 13 United Nations, 1975-80 (2 folders)
Black Hebrew Israelite Nation
Case file, Charles Taylor, 1980-84
Correspondence, 1977-87 (7 folders)
Newspaper clippings, 1968-87,
n.d. (4 folders)
Box 14 Reports, 1977-86, n.d. (2 folders)
Histadrut (Israel's trade union movement)
Reception for Yercham Meshel, 1977
Trade unionists delegation to Israel, 1976-79
(2 folders)
Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, 1979
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism,
1979
Jewish Community Relations Council, Israel-
Lebanon Mission
Articles and reports, 1982
Contributions, 1982
Correspondence, 1982
Memoranda and schedules, 1982
Miscellany, 1970-78, n.d.
Newspaper advertisements, 1970
"An Appeal from Black Trade Unionists:
Support Israel"
"Black Leaders for U.S. Support of Israel"
Correspondence and memoranda
Editorials
Critical
Supportive
Letters
Critical (3 folders)
Box 15 Supportive
Newspaper clippings and press releases
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Black supporters, 1979
Comments re Rustin articles
"Blacks and the P.L.O.: Setting Back
Peace and Civil Rights," 1979
"To Blacks: Condemn P.L.O. Terrorism,"
1979 (2 folders)
General, 1974-78
Bond, Julian, 1966-67
Boycott of New York City schools, 1964
Correspondence
Fliers and handouts
Freedom schools
Churches and social centers
Lesson plans
Lists of schools to be picketed
Logistics
Mailings
Ministers and church participation (3 folders)
Box 16 Miscellany
Newspaper clippings (2 folders)
Other participants (3 folders)
Press releases and radio spots
Statements
Bradley, Thomas, 1969
_Brown v. Board of Education_, twenty-fifth
anniversary, 1979
Carter, Jimmy, 1977-82 (2 folders)
Cicero riots, Cicero, Ill., 1951
Citizens Committee on the El Salvador Crisis, 1981
Civil Disobedience Conference, 1966
Box 17 Civil Rights Commission, nomination of Morris
Abrams, 1983-85
Coalition for a Democratic Society, 1986
Committee for Non-Violent Action, 1963
Committee for the Freedom of William Worthy, 1963
Committee on Free Elections in the Dominican
Republic, 1966-67
Committee to Support Self-Help Workers, 1977-78
Conference of Negro Leaders, 1964-65
Conference on Economic Progress, 1975
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
1975, 1986
Congress of Racial Equality, 1965-73
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1974
Crisis and Commitment Declaration, 1966
Education issues
General, 1958, 1969-70
Intermediate School 201, New York, N.Y., 1966-68
Eldridge Cleaver Defense Fund
Benefit concert, 1976
Correspondence, 1975-77 (6 folders)
Financial accounts, 1976-77
Box 18 Interviews with Cleaver, 1976
Legal documents, 1976 (2 folders)
Letters requesting reduction of Cleaver's bail,
1977
Mailings, 1976
Memoranda, 1976-77
Press releases and statements, 1976
Printed material, 1975-77 (2 folders)
Writings by Cleaver, 1976, n.d.
Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Conference, 1984
(2 folders)
Employment issues
General, 1964-79
Guaranteed Employment Act, 1967-68
Right-to-work laws, 1966-68, 1977-78 (2 folders)
Evers, Charles, 1968-71
Box 19 Falashas
Correspondence, 1980-84
Newspaper clippings, 1979-84
Research material, 1981-83
Farrakhan, Louis, 1984-85
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Correspondence and memoranda, 1942-64,
n.d. (2 folders)
Printed material, 1943, 1963
Reports, 1948
"Journey of Reconciliation"
"Twenty-two Days on a Chain Gang"
Ford, Gerald R., 1974-76
Freedom Budget
Committees and conferences
Pittsburgh, Pa., 1966-67
Philadelphia, Pa., 1966-67
Sacramento, Calif., 1966-67, n.d. (3 folders)
Correspondence
General, 1965-68 (4 folders)
Box 20 Governors, mayors, and senators, 1966-67
Keyserling, Leon, 1966-68 (3 folders)
Distribution of material, 1966-67 (2 folders)
Draft, 1966
Endorsements
1966-67 (2 folders)
Box 21 1967-68 (2 folders)
Mailing lists, 1965-66, n.d. (2 folders)
Melman, Seymour, 1966
Memoranda and notes, 1965-67
Press coverage, 1966-67
Proposed legislation, 1966
Published copies, 1966-67 (2 folders)
Reprints, 1966-67
United States Youth Council, 1966-68 (2 folders)
Freedom House, election observations
El Salvador, 1982-84
Grenada, 1983-84
Box 22 Zimbabwe, 1978-80 (6 folders)
Gay issues
Black and White Men Together, 1985-86
(2 folders)
Gay rights bill, 1985-86
Goldwater, Barry M., 1962, n.d.
Great Britain, civil rights, 1965-67 (2 folders)
Haiti
Haitian Refugees Conference, 1979-82 (4 folders)
National Coalition on Haitian Refugees
Meeting notes, 1987
Memoranda, 1987
Reports, 1986-87
Box 23 Hate and crank mail, 1957-86
Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1986
President's Commission on the Holocaust, 1978-87
(2 folders)
United States Holocaust Memorial Council,
1980-85
Honorary degrees
Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., 1985
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1980-83
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., 1985
New York University, New York, N.Y., 1982
State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y.,
1982-83
Hook, Sidney, 1982
Hot Line Cares, 1976-87
Human Rights Conference, 1977-78
India
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1955-68, 1986
Gandhi, Manilal, 1951-52
World Pacifist Conference, 1945
Institute for Religion and Democracy, 1981-84,
n.d.
International Conference on the Role of Co-
operative and Public Economies in Democratic
Societies, 1973
International Rescue Committee
Citizens' Commission on Refugees, 1986
Lebanon, Sidon massacre, 1984
Box 24 Refugees
El Salvador, 1983-84 (2 folders)
Ethiopians in Somalia and Sudan, 1981-85
Guatemalans in Mexico, 1983-84 (2 folders)
Indochinese in Thailand
General, 1978-87 (2 folders)
Piracy hearings, 1982-87 (2 folders)
Refugee Act of 1979, 1979
Report, 1985 (2 folders)
Thailand missions, 1978-87 (5 folders)
Pakistan mission, 1981
Box 25 Southern Africa, 1985 (2 folders)
Ipi Tombi, 1976-79 (2 folders)
Jackson, Henry, n.d.
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1967-68
Keyserling, Leon, 1978-79
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Assassination, 1968
General, 1982-86, n.d.
March in remembrance of his death, Memphis,
Tenn., 1969
National holiday, 1983-86, n.d.
Labor law reform
Congressional testimony, 1977
Correspondence and memoranda, 1977-78
(2 folders)
Printed material and writings, 1977-78
March for Democratic Schools, New York, N.Y., 1964
Fliers and handouts
Freedom Schools
Logistics
Mailings
Miscellany
Press releases
Sponsors
Box 26 March on Albany, Albany, N.Y., 1964 (2 folders)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
Washington, D.C., 1963
Agendas and itineraries
Articles
Biographical sketches of sponsors
Committee members
Contacts
Contributions
(5 folders)
Box 27 (3 folders)
Correspondence
Congressional (6 folders)
General
(2 folders)
Box 28 (19 folders)
Box 29 (7 folders)
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rustin, Bayard
Financial records
Budget
Expenditures
Reports and bank agreement
Fliers and leaflets
Interview with Rustin and others
Logistics (2 folders)
Mailings
Box 30 Manuals
Map of march area
Marshals
Medical committee
Meetings
Mementos
Merchandise sales
Balance due
Orders (6 folders)
Negro American Labor Council
Newsletters
Notes (2 folders)
Organizational and regional support
Labor unions
Maryland committee
Miscellaneous
Philadelphia, Pa., division
Box 31 Religious groups
West Coast mobilization, 1962-65
Police assistance
Press releases
Questionnaire for marchers
Record album
Scroll of supporters' signatures _See also
Oversize_
Songs and slogans
Speeches and statements (3 folders)
Supplies
Telegrams
General
Copies
Originals
Messages of support
Copies
Originals
Box 32 Transportation plans (2 folders)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
commemorations
Tenth anniversary, 1973
Twentieth anniversary, 1982-83, n.d. (4 folders)
Mboya, Tom, 1969-70
Medal of Liberty award, 1986
Medical Committee for Civil Rights, 1963
Miscellany
Correspondence and memoranda, 1957-86,
n.d. (2 folders)
Sheet music (written by Rustin), 1971
Box 33 Mobilization in Support of the Poor People's
Campaign, 1968
Aims and objectives
Articles and newspaper clippings
Contacts and coordinators
Correspondence
Mailings and handouts
Memoranda and notes
Press releases and statements
Requests for assistance and endorsements
Montana State College, Bozeman, Mont., 1958
Moratorium Committee on Federal Budget Cuts,
1981-82, n.d (2 folders)
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 1965-85 (2 folders)
Muste, Abraham J., 1951-57, 1967
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,
1968
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
General, 1965-74
West Chester, Pa., branch, annual awards
banquet, 1980-81
National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy,
1966-67, n.d.
New America, 1967-79
New Left, 1965, n.d.
New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.,
1966
New York Friends Group, 1964-65
New York Urban League, Frederick Douglass awards
dinner, 1972
Nicaragua, 1985-87
Box 34 Nixon, Richard M., 1969-73
Planned Parenthood, 1968-71
Podhoretz, Norman, 1984-85
Poland, solidarity movement, 1980-83 (2 folders)
Police harassment of blacks, Nathan Wright case,
1946-47
Poor People's Corporation, 1965-67
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1966-67 (2 folders)
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, 1957
Preferential treatment of blacks, 1963
Presidential elections
Black political participation, 1976
March on the Conventions Movement, 1960
Pro-Democratic Coalition in Central America, Chile
and Paraguay missions, 1985-87
Proportional representation, 1969
Provision Defense Committee, 1955
Randolph, A. Philip, 1969, 1979-83
Reagan, Ronald, Bitburg, Germany, cemetery visit,
1985
Recruitment and Training Program, Inc., 1967, 1977
Rodino, Peter, 1984-86
Rustin, Bayard
Ad-hoc Committee for Bayard Rustin, 1979-80
Biographical material, 1974, 1987, n.d.
Box 35 Birthday parties
Sixty-fifth, 1975
Seventieth, 1979-80 (3 folders)
Seventy-fifth, 1987
Testimonial dinner
Correspondence, 1970-71 (2 folders)
Invitation list, 1970
Press releases, 1970
Program, 1970
Speeches, 1970
Saudi Arabia, arms sale, 1981
Segregation in parks, Baltimore, Md., 1948
Shalom Nursing Home, New York, N.Y., 1980
Sharon, Ariel, libel suit against _Time Magazine_,
1984
Sit-in demonstrations, Marshall, Tex., 1960
Social Democrats, USA
Democratic Challenge in Latin American
Conference, 1981
General, 1980-87
Socialist International Committee
Middle East trip, 1983
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
meeting, 1979
Party leader's conference, 1985
Socialist party, n.d.
Socialist Party/Social Democratic Federation,
1962-63
Box 36 Solidarity Day, 1981
South Africa
General, 1964-83, n.d. (2 folders)
Printed material, 1957-65
Project South Africa, 1985-87
Soviet Union
Dissidents
Ad-Hoc Committee for International Freedom,
1967, 1973
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 1977
Sakharov, Andrei, 1974
Shcharansky, Anatoly, 1978
Soviet Jewry, 1966-85
Sowell, Thomas, 1969-81, n.d.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
1963-68
The Third Way, international conference, 1955
Thomas, Norman, 1964-69, 1982-84
Turn Toward Peace, 1963
Union issues
Barbados Workers' Union, 1974
Boston Teachers' Union, 1981-83,
n.d. (4 folders)
Box 37 General Electric strike, 1969-70
Memphis furniture company union vote, Memphis,
Tenn.
Articles and speeches, 1977
Contacts and supporters' lists, 1977
Correspondence, 1977-78
Fliers, 1977
Memoranda, 1977
Newspaper clippings and press releases, 1977
Merger of black unions, 1979-80
Miscellaneous, 1969, n.d.
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, 1965
United Construction and Trade Union, local 124
affair, Detroit, Mich., 1971-72
Yale University strike, New Haven, Conn.,
1984-87 (3 folders)
University of Maryland Law Enforcement Institute,
College Park, Md., 1965
University of Oklahoma, Scholar-Leadership
Enhancement Program, Norman, Okla., 1980
Urban Coalition, 1967
Vietnam War protests, 1965-66
Voting issues
General, 1976-79
Legislation, 1965, 1971
Box 38 Sunflower County, Miss., 1967
War Resister's International, 1963-87 (2 folders)
War Resister's League
Correspondence and memoranda, 1943, 1951-67,
1982-86 (2 folders)
Printed material, 1965-67, 1987, n.d.
White House Conference
Correspondence, 1965-66
Memoranda, 1965-66
Press releases and miscellany, 1965
Reports, 1965-66 (2 folders)
Wilkerson, Ernie, 1970
Wilkins, Roy, 1977-84
Workers' Defense League, libel suit of Henry
Bridges, 1969-70
Box 39 World Peace Brigade, self-rule in Africa, 1962
(3 folders)
Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East,
1984
Young, Andrew, 1976-77
Young, Whitney, 1970-71, 1979 (2 folders)
Youth for Energy Independence, 1982
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1942-87, n.d.
Articles
1942-72 (10 folders)
Box 40 1973-87 (8 folders)
Undated (10 folders)
Box 41 Books
Introductions and reviews by Rustin, n.d.
Reviews of _Strategies for Freedom_, 1976-77
Congressional testimony, 1965, 1974
Eulogies, 1979, n.d.
Interviews, 1964-76, n.d. (3 folders)
Lectures, 1948, 1973, 1981 (4 folders)
Miscellany
Letters to the editor, 1971-82, n.d.
Statements, 1955, 1971, n.d.
Unidentified writings, 1964-69, 1975, n.d.
Newspaper columns, 1967-84, n.d. (2 folders)
Press releases
1965-69 (2 folders)
Box 42 1970-80 (19 folders)
Box 43 1981-85, n.d. (4 folders)
Reports, 1944-83
Speeches
1958, 1966-80 (11 folders)
Box 44 1981-87, n.d. (10 folders)
Unidentified notes, n.d. (4 folders)
ADDITION, 1942-87, n.d.
Box 45 American Committee on Africa, 1969, n.d.
Arrests and sentences _See also Container 45_,
Journey of reconciliation
Selective service case, 1942-46, n.d.
Sword cane incident, 1972
Black-Jewish relations conference, Tarrytown,
N.Y., 1969
_Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard
Rustin_, 1971-72, n.d.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Journey of reconciliation, 1947-49, n.d. _See
also Container 45_, Arrests and sentences
Miscellaneous, 1944-45, n.d.
Southern Railway incident, 1947
General and family correspondence, 1944-65, n.d.
Hill, Herbert, 1973-74
Housing
Forest Hills housing project, New York, N.Y.,
1971-72
Segregated residential areas, conference on,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1971
(2 folders)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Miscellaneous, 1956-85, n.d.
Box 46 Nobel prize, 1964-65, n.d.
Statements, 1956-64, n.d.
Vietnam war position, 1965-67, n.d.
Memorial service for Rustin, 1987
Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, 1956-57, n.d.
Police review board, 1965-66, n.d.
Political campaigns
Humphrey, Hubert H., 1968
McCarthy, Eugene, 1968
Mississippi delegate challenge
Committee to Support the Mississippi
Challenge, 1968
Box 47 Miscellaneous, 1968
Thank-you letters, 1968 (2 folders)
Real estate transactions, West Chester, Pa.,
1950-61
Recruitment and Training Program, Inc., New York,
N.Y., 1967-78, n.d. (2 folders)
Reddick, L. D., trip to India and the Soviet
Union, ca. 1956
Box 48 Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Crusade for Citizenship, 1957-58, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1957-60, n.d.
Scope project, 1965, n.d.
Trade unionists and labor issues
Arkansas, right to work issue, 1976
Black trade unionists, 1969-76, n.d.
Public employee strikes, Charleston, S.C., and
Charleston, W.Va., 1969
Response to riots, 1967
United Federation of Teachers
Correspondence
General, 1967 (2 folders)
Thank-you letters, 1968
Box 49 Miscellaneous, 1967-71, n.d.
School decentralization conference, 1969
Youth march for integrated schools, Washington,
D.C., 1958-59, n.d.
OVERSIZE, 1963
Box OV 1 Subject File
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
Washington, D.C., 1963
Scroll of supporters' signatures
(Container 31)
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