archives.nypl.org -- August Meier papers

Creator: Meier, August, 1923-2003
Call number: Sc MG 340
Physical description: 73.6 linear feet (149 boxes)
Language: English
Preferred Citation: August Meier Papers, Sc MG 340, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Repository: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Access to materials: Request an in-person research appointment.Restrictions apply

Since the early 1960's August Meier has been a major force in the study of African-American history in his examination of late nineteenth and twentieth century America by his application of rigorous social and intellectual analysis. Meier was actively involved in the civil rights movement and studied its origins and development. He taught at three historic black colleges followed by twenty years at Kent State University. As editor of two major series on blacks in America, he influenced scholars and students alike.

Biographical/historical information

Born in 1923 in Newark, New Jersey, Meier was reared in upwardly mobile, middle class surroundings. He openly acknowledges his parents' influence on his intellectual development--his East European Jewish mother was a teacher and vice principal of a public school, his father was a chemist. His parents had met in the Socialist Party--his mother, of German extraction, came from a family of radical intellectuals. By the mid-1930's his parents were liberal in their thinking and made him aware of the plight of the poor and the oppressed.

Another significant factor was Meier's experience as a camper and counselor at Pioneer Youth Camp near Kingston, New York where he spent his summers between 1934 and 1939. Pioneer Youth of America had been founded in 1924 by a group of reformers including progressive educators, anarchists, Communists, socialists, union leaders and liberals. A racially integrated camp, the children decided democratically what their activities would be. Pioneer Youth served as a catalyst for Meier's interest in social issues, his growing commitment to racial equality, his persistent anti-Stalisism, and the shaping of his activity in the black student protest movement of the 1960's.

Between 1940-1945 Meier attended Oberlin College, which had a reputation for being "liberal." One year during this time was spent working at a War Department agency in Newark, one-third of the employees were the black. Experiences at this agency gave impetus to Meier's decision to teach at a black college and he began studying race relations and black history. Moreover, his last two years at Oberlin were engaged in activist concerns and in anti-discrimination practices.

Meier was an assistant professor of history at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, 1945-1949, utilizing the last year of his experience there pursuing his Master's degree at Columbia University. His thesis was a study of black American nationalism prior to Marcus Garvey. Between 1953 and 1956 he held the same title at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where he also served as President Charles S. Johnson's research assistant. Meier was awarded the Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1957 with his tome, "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915" serving as his dissertation. In 1963 his revised published dissertation Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 placed Meier on the cutting edge of intellectual historians who used sociological and anthropological approaches in his examination of black history.

From 1957 to 1964 Meier taught at Morgan State College in Baltimore, first as assistant professor of history, then as associate professor. Unlike Fisk and Tougaloo where there were approximately equal numbers of black and white faculty, at Morgan 90% were black. Morgan State students had been active in civil rights work, and in 1960 Meier was also involved in the students' attempt to integrate a restaurant at Northwood shopping center by demonstrating their protest at being excluded. The students formed an organization called the Civic Interest Group and asked Meier to become and adult adviser. Later, as a result of participating in a restaurant sit-in, Meier was arrested. With the cooperation of the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the students won the right to integrate these public services through the passage of laws. Meier developed a long-standing interest in the origins of non-violent direct action, researching early twentieth century manifestations of this form of protest.

As a liberal and integrationist teaching history at black institutions, Meier became involved in student activism, and in the early 1960's also became acquainted with officers of CORE, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the NAACP. He got to know such leaders as Bayard Rustin, Norman Hill, Stokeley Carmichael, Floyd McKissick, and Herbert Hill.

Meier taught history at Chicago's Roosevelt University from 1964 to 1967, a time when the era of integration had passed and black power had begun. The interest in black experience during this time period by both black and white researchers broadened the audience for Meier's publications. From 1967 until his retirement in 1993, Meier taught history at the only largely white university with which he was affiliated, Kent State University in Ohio. In 1969 he was appointed University Professor, the highest rank to which Kent State faculty members can be named. His long collaboration with his colleague, Elliott Rudwick, professor of sociology at Kent State, resulted in seven books and numerous articles. Their joint effort lasted until Rudwick's death in 1985.

Meier's activity in civil rights dates back to his college days at Oberlin in the 1940's when he joined in the campaign against discrimination of the white barbershops and witnessed the protest against the Jim Crow blood bank. Meier joined the local branch of the Newark, New Jersey NAACP in 1948, and served as secretary between 1950-1952, then again in 1957. Meier was a consultant for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, 1968.

Since the 1950's Meier has been active in several national scholarly organizations including the Southern Historical Association, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. From about 1959-1961 he participated in a campaign to prevail upon the SHA to end its practice of holding conventions at hotels that barred blacks, and in 1980 he served on its Program Committee, then became its president in 1992. For the AHA Meier was on the Program Committee in 1972, and he chaired the Organization of American Historians's Program Committee in 1990. In 1998 thenAHA honored Meier with its Award for Scholarly Distinction, which is bestowed upon senior historians. In presenting this honor, the AHA declared that "since the pioneering work of Carter G. Woodson and the establishment of the Journal of Negro History in 1915, no historian has influenced the study of African American history more broadly than August Meier."

In the 1970's Meier received a number of research grants, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and one from the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. He was also a recipient of a research grant from the National Endowment for the Huamanities; in addition in the 1980's he twice presented a summer seminar with NEH funds entitled "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth-Century America."

Meier has been a prolific writer analyzing black protest thought, civil rights and related issues. He has either authored or edited fourteen books between 1963 and 1986, published close to a hundred articles, and written book reviews which have appeared in the major history journals. He has lectured at colleges and universities across the country about timely race related issues and aspects of his research.

Perhaps Meier's most far-reaching impact on the intellectual community has been achieved through his role as editor of books and other publications for four series in black studies. He served as general editor of the Negro in American Life Series for Atheneum, 1966-1974. He has also been general editor of the University of Illinois Press Black in the New World Series, from 1972 to 1998. Meier along with Elliott Rudwick co-edited the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies, 1966-1974, in addition to serving as a co-editor (also with Rudwick) for the University Publications of America, Black Studies Research Sources: Microfilms of Materials in Major Archival Manuscript Collections, 1983-1998. In his capacity as editor of Atheneum and the University of Illinois Press, Meier's demanding criticism and generous aid to recent students publishing their first scholarly work as well as to experienced writers can be noted in the excellent quality of the series. His former student, John H. Bracey, became his co-editor for UPA and Bobbs-Merrill, and in 1991 became his co-editor for the University of Illinois Press series. Meier was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Rutgers University in 1994. He is now retired and living in New Jersey--he makes it a point to regularly attend and participate in historical association meetings.

Scope and arrangement

The August Meier Papers document the formative years and career of this scholar, writer, professor, and editor of late nineteenth and twentieth century black America. The collection consists primarily of personal papers, notes and drafts for his Ph.D. dissertation, records from his teaching career including files for his Kent State University graduate students, correspondence with colleagues and publishers of his own books and articles, and correspondence and manuscripts for books submitted for possible inclusion in two series related to blacks in the United States of which Meier was an editor. Additionally the collection encompasses his published articles, conference papers, speeches and lectures; as well as his role in professional organizations, the grants and fellowships he received, and his consultancies. The papers are strong in civil rights research materials including numerous interviews Meier and his colleague Elliott Rudwick conducted with participants, printed material and notes related to Baltimore and various geographical areas Meier was interested, copies of records of the legal and educational offices of the NAACP Meier and Elliott Rudwick gathered for research purposes, and some records of the Newark, New Jersey branch of the NAACP which Meier helped create during his tenure as secretary in the 1950's. Many national and Southern civil rights organizations such as SNCC as well as pertinent subject files are represented by printed material and Meier's notes. Research files for publications authored by Meier include notes, printed material and some manuscripts, spanning the period of Meier's first publication in 1947 to one of his latest in 1988. He had made a selection of his writings to include in his papers prior to the donation of the collection of the Schomburg Center. The collection concludes with his research files for unpublished material and a file on Elliott Rudwick.

The August Meier papers are arranged in ten series:

Personal Papers
Organizational Memberships

The ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch series, 1948-1958 (.6 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's role as secretary from 1951-1952 and then again in 1957. The Newark Branch records consist of the constitution and by-laws, directory of members, a resolution on Jim Crow in the armed forces, minutes of meetings, and other resolutions. There is correspondence soliciting support for the integration program of the Newark Housing Authority in addition to civil rights legislation considered by Congress in 1957 (unpassed), newsletters of the (Newark) Mayor's Commission on Group Relations, and material regarding the Fair Employment Practice Commission sought by the National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization (1950).
Teaching Career

The series TEACHING CAREER, 1932-1995 (3.2 lin. ft.) spans Meier's long career as a history professor at six colleges. Tougaloo College is represented by minutes Meier took of College Council meetings, an article he wrote after his departure about his evaluation of Tougaloo fulfilling its role as an educational institution for African Americans, printed material and photographs. For Fisk University there is correspondence with Preston King, Meier's undergraduate student discussing their common interests in black intellectual thought, Meier's participation in civil rights activities, as well as King's dispute with the United States military and his self exile to London. Meier's position as Charles S. Johnson's research assistant is documented by notes prepared for Johnson's speeches and articles, and correspondence pertaining to Negro History Week celebrations. There is also material documenting a course on African-American history. Meier's annual reports provide information on his teaching career at Morgan State College.

Kent State University served as Meier's "home port" for twenty-five years and is where he trained a significant number of graduate students. These files reveal Meier's relationship with his graduate students and includes assessments by commitees regarding the acceptance of the applicant as a graduate student. Some correspondence between students and Meier, members of the dissertation committee, and administrators regarding students' status and progress, especially at the dissertation writing level is available. A few files include essay exams, reading lists, administrative material, job references, lists of dissertation committee members and their assessment of the student, and papers (some published). Correspondence indicates an ongoing relationship with some of his students after they obtained their Ph.D.'s and secured professional positions. Students represented in the collection include Elsa Barkley Brown, Leroy Davis, William Hine, Reginald Kearney, Paul Lammermeier, Christopher Reed, and Tyrone Tillery. Lastly, these files include letters of gratitude written for Meier's 1993 retirement.

Additional files for Kent State University includes material Meier distributed for his honors section on the history of civilization, such as chapter notes, study and review questions, exam questions, and lecture notes. For a colloquium he taught called "Black Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century" there are assignments, quizzes, bibliographies, and outlines for class discussions. Papers by Harold Baron, Robert Curvin, George Wiley and others from a conference on civil rights that Meier organized are included. Meier's efforts in building the Kent State University library's African-American collection between 1969-1986 through the purchase of microfilm is also documented.
Correspondence
Editor/Scholarly Publications
Professional Activities

The series PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 1945-1998 (5.2 lin. ft.) covers Meier's career excluding his teaching and editorship positions. The series is divided into six subseries: Consultancies; Writings - Published Articles; Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures; Professional Affiliations; Grants and Scholarships; National Endowment for the Humanities.
Civil Rights Movement Research Files

Of particular interest is the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT RESEARCH FILES, 1940-1995, (bulk 1942-1979) (14 lin. ft.) which includes an Interviews subseries, 1961-1985, (1961-1971 bulk) (.8 lin. ft.), consisting of hundreds of interviews Meier and his colleague, Elliott Rudwick, conducted with individuals regarding their roles in the civil rights movement. The bulk of the interviews were conducted for Meier and Rudwick's book CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968. Included are interviews conducted with CORE leaders at both the national level and local chapters. Other organizations represented in the interviews are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Regional Council, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the National Action Council, and the Council of Federated Organizations. Among the numerous interviewees are: Julian Bond, John H. Bracey, Gordon Carey, Ronald Corvin, Gloster Current, Robert Curvin, St. Clair Drake, Leslie Dunbar, James and Lula Farmer, Charles Hamilton, Aaron Henry, Herbert Hill, Norman Hill, Carl Holman, Genevive Hughes, Roy and Doris Innis, Sam and Fredericka Kushner, Charles McDew, Floyd McKissick, Charles Oldham, Carl Rachlin, Marvin Rich, James R. Robinson, Ralph Rosenfeld, Phyllis Ryan, Mark Solomon, Herbert Wright, Andrew Young and Whitney Young. A complete list is available as an appendix to this finding aid.

Interviews were conducted either by telephone or in person and were not taped. They were open ended and varied in length from a single page to approximately 30 pages. The interviews are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically for individuals who were interviewed on more than one occasion.
Research Files for Publications

The RESEARCH FILES FOR PUBLICATION series (23.8 lin. ft.) encompass notes, drafts, reference material, printed material, correspondence and data for only thirteen of Meier's numerous books and articles. Meier and Rudwick retained sample research files in order to provide insight into the ways they did their research and writing, therefore only certain files were kept. For example, most of the data gathered about streetcar boycotts were discarded. Similar material for Meier's other publications was not retained. This large series has been arranged chronologically by publication date of Meier's work.
Research Files - Unpublished Material

The series RESEARCH FILES - UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL consists of material for two of Meier's unfinished projects, the "History of the Negro Upper Class, circa 1890-1950" and a history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Although he originally planned to write a history of the NAACP, he decided later to focus on the labor issue only.

The "Negro Upper Class Study," 1958-1960 (1.6 lin. ft.) subseries was slated to be a follow-up study to his earlier publication, "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958." There are notes, newsclippings, articles and research correspondence. The cities covered include New Orleans, Baltimore, Durham (North Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), Philadelphia, Nashville, and Washington, D.C.
Elliott Rudwick

This extensive collection concludes with the ELLIOTT RUDWICK series, 1960-1983 (2 lin. ft.) which contains a modest amount of material reflecting Rudwick's and Meier's joint projects. Included are Rudwick's vita and bibliographies, papers presented about black Detroit, the Congress for Racial Equality, and black nationalism, his consultancy with the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1962-1963, and a partial manuscript about the history of blacks in East St. Louis, IL. There is also reference material about the Illinois State Conference of NAACP branches, labor, 1960's, and student papers about blacks in Ohio. The series concludes with Rudwick's reprints.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift of August Meier, 1988 and 1994. Accession Number SCM 88-43, SCM 94-33 MG 340.

Processing information

Processed by Janice Quinter; Machine-readable finding aid created by Ricki Moskowitz.

Related Material

Additional manuscript material relating to August Meier's years at Oberlin College are housed at the Oberlin College Archives. Material pertaining to research conducted by Meier, Rudwick and John Bracey from the 1980s relating to the NAACP, labor, A. Philip Randolph, and affirmative action is stored at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. The collection is currently not available for research.

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor

Access to materials

Request an in-person research appointment.

Conditions Governing Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Access restrictions

Student files closed until 50 years after most recent date in each individual file. One file relating to Tyrone Tillery is closed until 2041.

Container List

Personal Papers

Biographical Material

The Biographical Material subseries, 1930-1998 (.4 lin. ft.) includes Meier's curriculum vitae, news clippings about Meier's professional activities, a biographical essay, Meier's first major writing attempt which consists of his memoirs of family vacations (1930's), a log describing his trip to visit a black classmate at his home in Mississippi (1944), information about his mother, Clara Meier, and photographs.

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Biographical

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Resumes

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 3

Job Offers

1968

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 4

Biographical Essay -- Brier, Genie K.

1975-1976

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 5

Honorary Doctor of Letters -- Rutgers University

1994

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 6

75th Birthday

1998

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 7

Meier's Memoirs of Family Vacations

1930's

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 8

1934-1944

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 9

Trip Log -- Mississippi

June 1944

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 10

Military Records

1949

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 11

Unitariansim

1950-1951

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 12

Memberships

1943-1954

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 13

Black Oriented Organizations

1950's

Clara Meier

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 14

Education Career

n.d.

b. 1 (Offsite) f. 15

Death

1958

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Photographs (23)

1951-1955, 1973

Pioneer Youth Camp

Pioneer Youth Camp subseries, 1936-1951 (2 lin. ft.). Meier's childhood summers spent at Pioneer Youth Camp are represented by newsletters and play scripts written by campers including Meier, minutes of meetings, a history of the camp written by Meier entitled "A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp"(1938) and his long manuscript entitled "My Experiences with Pioneer Youth Camp of America (1939) illustrated with photographs. In addition, there are letters from Meier to his family, printed material regarding a 1939 visit to the camp by Eleanor Roosevelt and reports prepared by Meier and other staff members when Meier became a counselor in the early 1940's. Of interest is a 1940's report written by Meier on two other interracial camps in New York State.

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Published Material

1936-1944

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Senior Camp - Minutes of Meetings (Meier as Secretary)

1939

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Minutes of Meetings

1939

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Daniel Shay's Club

1936-1937

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Senior Camp - Play Written by Campers

1939

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Correspondence

1939-1940

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Notes, Printed Matter

1939

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 8

Eleanor Roosevelt - Radio Address

1939

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 9

Science and Nature Projects

1939-1940

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 10

Notes, Minutes and Printed Matter

1940

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Hand Drawn Posters

1940

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Meier's Job as Counselor

1941

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Meier's Diary as Counselor

1941

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Special Events

1941

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Dramatic Presentations

1941

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Staff

1942

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Pre-Camp Conference - Staff Seminar - Aggressive Behavior Among Campers

1942

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Camp Season Report by Meier

1942

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Meier's Personal Correspondence

1942

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Schedules

1942

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Special Programs

1942

Reports

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 22

Clara Meier, Executive Secretary

1942-1943

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Eero Davidson, Director

1943

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Director and Staff

1946

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Printed Matter, Architectural Drawings of Dining Room and Kitchen

1946

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1947-1951

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"The Trailer,"

ca. mid 1930's

"The Newspaper of Pioneer Youth of America"

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1934

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 29

"At the Sign of the Hemlock" - Shay's Rebellion

1935

"The Trail Marker" - Newsletter"

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1936

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January-June

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July-December

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 33

January-April

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 34

May-December

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"The Trail Marker,"

1939

"Pioneer Youth Clarion"

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1937

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1938

Camp Newspaper

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 38

1939

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1940

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1941

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1942

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1944

b. 2 (Offsite) f. 43

Meier's Personal Financial Records

1939

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Meier's Personal Financial Records, Minutes of Meetings and Correspondence

1941

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Finances

1942

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Notes

1938-1941

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Manuscript Version of Articles

1941

"Report on P.Y. Clarion" by August Meier

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 3

1941

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 4

1942

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 5

Secretary's Notes

1942

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 6

Camp Newspaper - Manuscript Drafts, Correspondence

1942

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Banquet Program

1944

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 8

Meier's Report on Two Other Interracial Camps

1946

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 9

Handmade Stationery

N.D.

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 10

"The Paint Creek Flood" by Alice Paddleford

N.D.

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 11

Camp Larry Scrapbook

1938-1939

"My Experiences with Pioneer Youth of America" by August Meier, 1939

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 12

"A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp,"

Summer 1938

b. 3 (Offsite) f. 13

Meier's Manuscript for "A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp,"

1938

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Photographs

b. 3 f. 15

Pages 1-61

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Pages 62-146, (Volume 2)

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Pages 146-226

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Pages 227-294, (Volume 3)

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Pages 295-375

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Pages 376-450

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Pages 451-551

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Pages 552-650, (Volume 7)

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Pages 651-728, (Volume 2)

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Personal Correspondence

Personal Correspondence subseries, 1938-1958; 2003 (1.4 lin. ft.) consists of correspondence between Meier and his parents and brother as well as with his friends. His long, detailed letters written while he was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio discuss Meier's relationship with other students, his professors, readings, examinations, papers he wrote, extracurricular activities, and in general, the development of his thinking processes while attending a liberal arts college. Correspondence from the late 1940's when Meier was attending Columbia University in pursuit of his Master's degree describe his courses and current events including his opinions about black related issues. Meier continued his course work at Columbia for his doctoral degree; correspondence during this time discuss his research for his dissertation. Letters from Meier's years at Fisk University describe his responsibilities and complaints as a research assistant to Charles S. Johnson, his experiences applying for a job, and his belief that his resume may have caused people to believe he was of African-American ancestry.

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Family

Letters from Meier

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 1

July 1939

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August 1939

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January-February

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June-July

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August 1940

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 6

September-October

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 7

November 1940

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December 1940

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January-February

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 10

March 1-30, 1941

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April-June 3.

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June 13-August 1941

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September 20-December 18, 1941

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January-May

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October 1942-July 1943

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September 1943-July 1944

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November 1944-June 1945

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August 1945

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1946

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1947

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1948-1949

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1952

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1953

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1954

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1955

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 26

1956

Letters from Family

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 27

July, 1939

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July-August

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 29

September-October

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 30

November-December

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 31

January-February

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 32

March-June

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 33

July-August

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 34

October-December

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 35

1942

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 36

1943

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 37

1944

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 38

1945

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 39

1946

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 40

1949

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 41

1951-1952

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January-March

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April-December

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1954

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 45

1955

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 46

1956

b. 4 (Offsite) f. 47

1957-1958

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Friends

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1938

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1939

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April-October

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November 1-21, 1940

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November 22-December 1940

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January-February

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March-May

b. 5 (Offsite) f. 8

June-September 4

b. 5 (Offsite) f. 9

September 21-December 1941

b. 5 (Offsite) f. 10

1942

b. 5 (Offsite) f. 11

1943

b. 5 (Offsite) f. 12

1944

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Alan Booth

1944

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Harold Wilson

1944-1945

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Walter Wallace

1945

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1945

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1946

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1947

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1948

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1949

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1950

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January-June

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July-December

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1952

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January-June

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July-December

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1954

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1955-1956

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1957

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August Meier - Obituaries, Memorial Service at Schomburg Center

2003

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Education

The subseries Education, 1936-1957, n.d. (5 lin. ft.) encompasses Meier's report cards from grade and high schools and graduation related material. His files for Oberlin College include reports and printed matter regarding a student effort to desegregate barber shops on campus. Meier was secretary of the committee that spearheaded this action. Meier's studies for his Master's degree at Columbia is documented by two black history papers he wrote on the black church and on Booker T. Washington, in addition to a copy of his thesis, "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism: A Study of Ideologies - From the American Revolution to the First World War" (1948).

Most significantly in this subseries are several drafts, including the final version, of Meier's dissertation, "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915." There are approximately ten versions of the dissertation; the final and most complete version has been filed first, followed by the other versions. Most of the drafts are not intact and only a few are dated, which made it difficult to assemble completed drafts. Adding to the difficulty in organizing the drafts is the fact that versions of book and dissertation chapters were frequently mixed together during the process of preparing the book Meier wrote based on his dissertation, Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915. Thus, it was not always clear which chapter versions were written for the book and which for the dissertation. A sampling of Meier's research notes based on his reading has been retained (one out of eight boxes). Correspondence between Meier and Paul Partington concerning W.E.B. DuBois is also to be found in this series.

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Report Cards

1936-1944

Barringer High School

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Yearbook

1940

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1940

Oberlin College

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1939-1948

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Report - Special Committee to Investigate Negor Descrimination on the Oberlin Campus

1942

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Discrimination of Blacks in Barber Shops Interracial Committee

1943-1945

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Papers and Exams

1943-1944

Columbia University

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Papers Written by Meier

1947

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1948-1950

Master's Thesis

b. 6 (Offsite) f. 10

"The Emergence of Negro Nationalism: A Study of Ideologies - From the American Revolution to the First World War," Final Version

1948

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Edited Version

b. 6 (Offsite) f. 12

Bibliographies Used in Thesis

1948

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Ph.D. Dissertation "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880- 1915"

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Correspondence

1949-1953

Manuscript

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Chapters 1 & 2, pp. 1-95

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Chapters 3-5, pp. 96-191

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Chapters 6-8, pp. 192-315

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Chapters 9-12, pp. 316-423

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Chapters 13-14, pp. 424-499

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Chapters 15-16, pp. 500-594

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Chapters 17-20, pp.595-713

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Pre First Draft

Draft 1

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Chapters 17-19

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Chapters 20, 21, 22 and 24

Draft

Early Version

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Chapter 6

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 13

Introduction to Part IV, Chapters 11-13

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 14

Introduciton to Part V, Chapters 14 & 16

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 15

Chapter 17

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 16

Chapter 1, Introduction to Part II

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Chapters 3 & 4

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 18

Chapters 5 & 6

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 19

Chapter 7

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 20

Introduction to Part II

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 21

Chapter 1

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Chapter 6

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 23

Chapters 2 & 3

b. 7 (Offsite) f. 24

Chapters 4, 5 & 6

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Proposed Appendix

1953

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Chapters 10-11

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Chapter 11

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Chapters 12, 15, and Afro-American Council

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Chapters 13, 14 and Bibliography

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Introduction to Part V, Chapter 13

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Abstract, Chapter 1, Introduction to Part II

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 3-5

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Chapters 9, 12-13 and Introduction to Part V

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Chapters 14, 15, 18 & 19

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Chapters 21, 22 & Appendix

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Chapters 1, 3 and 14

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Chapters 6, 7 and 9

ca. 1955

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Methodological Note, Introductions to Parts I, II and III Chapter 5

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Chapters 8-10, Introduction to Parts IV and V Appendix and Bibliography

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Chapters 13 and 14

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Chapter 17

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Part IV - The Institutionalization of Self-Help and Racial Solidarity, 1880-1915

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Abstract, Introduction to Part V, Chapters 11, 12, 14 & 15

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Chapters 16-19

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Chapters 20-22

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Chapters X - XI

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Chapter XII

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Chapters XIII and XIV

Annotated Draft

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Chapter 1 and Introduction to Part II

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Chapter 7

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Chapters 6 & 8

b. 8 (Offsite) f. 24

Chapters 14-16

b. 8 (Offsite) f. 25

Chapters 17-18

b. 8 (Offsite) f. 26

Chapters 18-19 and Bibliography

Unrevised Version of Revised Chapters

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6, and 9-10

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 2

11, 13-14

Carbon Copies

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 3

Chapters 15, 16 & 17

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 4

Chapters 18-20

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 5

Chapters 21 & 22

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Appendix, Chapters 9-11

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 7

Introduction to Part V, Chapters 13-15

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Chapters 16 and 17

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 9

Chapters 19-21

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Bibliography

Final Draft

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Chapter 3

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 12

Chapters 5, 10-11

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Chapters 2 & 4

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Chapters 4, 10 & 13

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Chapters 16-17

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 16

Chapter 12, Introduction to Part V, Chapters 14-15

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Chapters 17-19

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Chapters 20-22

Research Notes

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Du Bois and Washington

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Washington, Trotter

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Biographical Sketches - Notes

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Paul Cuffee

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New Negro Alliance

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Notes

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Research Correspondence and Notes

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James Weldon Johnson - Correspondence

1949

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Research - Correspondence

1952-1953

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W.E.B. Du Bois - Notes and Elliott Rudwick - Correspondence

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 29

W.E.B. Du Bois Materials and Francis L. Broderick Dissertation - Notes

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 30

Kelly Miller - Notes

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 31

Notes on Interview with Clarence A. Bacote

April 25, 1952

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Notes on Clarence A. Bacote's Dissertation, "The Negro in Georgia Politics, 1880-1908"

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 33

Voice of the Negro - Notes

b. 9 (Offsite) f. 34

Reference Articles

b. 10

Notes

Organizational Memberships

The ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch series, 1948-1958 (.6 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's role as secretary from 1951-1952 and then again in 1957. The Newark Branch records consist of the constitution and by-laws, directory of members, a resolution on Jim Crow in the armed forces, minutes of meetings, and other resolutions. There is correspondence soliciting support for the integration program of the Newark Housing Authority in addition to civil rights legislation considered by Congress in 1957 (unpassed), newsletters of the (Newark) Mayor's Commission on Group Relations, and material regarding the Fair Employment Practice Commission sought by the National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization (1950).

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch

1949-1958

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Constitution and By-Laws

1949

b. 11 f. 2

Executive Board, Monthly Meetings

1951-1952

Meier as Member and Officer

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1948-1950

b. 11 f. 4

1950-1951

b. 11 f. 5

1951

b. 11 f. 6

Fair Employment Practice Commission National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization

January 15-17, 1950

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1950-1953

Minutes of Meetings

b. 12 f. 2

1951

b. 12 f. 3

1952

b. 12 f. 4

Housing Correspondence - August Meier, Secretary

1952-1957

b. 12 f. 5

Minutes of Meetings

1954-1957

b. 12 f. 6

Executive Board

1956-1957

b. 12 f. 7

1956-1957

b. 12 f. 8

Legal Redress Committee

1957

b. 12 f. 9

State Conference, Regional Convention

1957

b. 12 f. 10

Programs of Branch Meetings

1957

b. 12 f. 11

Education

1957, 1960

b. 12 f. 12

Coordinated Membership Drive

1957

Membership

b. 12 f. 13

1950, 1957

b. 12 f. 14

1957

b. 12 f. 15

Legislation

1957

b. 12 f. 16

Correspondence

1957

b. 12 f. 17

Finances

1957

b. 12 f. 18

National Office

1957

b. 12 f. 19

Newark Civil Rights Commission

1951, 1958

b. 12 f. 20

Mayor's Commission on Group Relations - Newsletter

1954-1958

Teaching Career

The series TEACHING CAREER, 1932-1995 (3.2 lin. ft.) spans Meier's long career as a history professor at six colleges. Tougaloo College is represented by minutes Meier took of College Council meetings, an article he wrote after his departure about his evaluation of Tougaloo fulfilling its role as an educational institution for African Americans, printed material and photographs. For Fisk University there is correspondence with Preston King, Meier's undergraduate student discussing their common interests in black intellectual thought, Meier's participation in civil rights activities, as well as King's dispute with the United States military and his self exile to London. Meier's position as Charles S. Johnson's research assistant is documented by notes prepared for Johnson's speeches and articles, and correspondence pertaining to Negro History Week celebrations. There is also material documenting a course on African-American history. Meier's annual reports provide information on his teaching career at Morgan State College.

Kent State University served as Meier's "home port" for twenty-five years and is where he trained a significant number of graduate students. These files reveal Meier's relationship with his graduate students and includes assessments by commitees regarding the acceptance of the applicant as a graduate student. Some correspondence between students and Meier, members of the dissertation committee, and administrators regarding students' status and progress, especially at the dissertation writing level is available. A few files include essay exams, reading lists, administrative material, job references, lists of dissertation committee members and their assessment of the student, and papers (some published). Correspondence indicates an ongoing relationship with some of his students after they obtained their Ph.D.'s and secured professional positions. Students represented in the collection include Elsa Barkley Brown, Leroy Davis, William Hine, Reginald Kearney, Paul Lammermeier, Christopher Reed, and Tyrone Tillery. Lastly, these files include letters of gratitude written for Meier's 1993 retirement.

Additional files for Kent State University includes material Meier distributed for his honors section on the history of civilization, such as chapter notes, study and review questions, exam questions, and lecture notes. For a colloquium he taught called "Black Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century" there are assignments, quizzes, bibliographies, and outlines for class discussions. Papers by Harold Baron, Robert Curvin, George Wiley and others from a conference on civil rights that Meier organized are included. Meier's efforts in building the Kent State University library's African-American collection between 1969-1986 through the purchase of microfilm is also documented.

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Employment

1943-1945

Tougaloo College

1932-1963

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Notes on College Council Meetings

1946-1948

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Correspondence

1947-1948

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 4

"Tougaloo Revisited" by August Meier and Chester Slocum

1951-1952

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Employment

1945-1949

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 6

Administrative Record

n.d.

Printed Matter

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1932, 1945-1948

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1944-1947

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1948-1961

Published Material

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1945-1947

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1947-1953

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Photographs (29)

ca. 1945-1949, 1963

City College of the City of New York

1951

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City College - 135th Street Branch Library - Course, "The Negro in American Civilization,"

1951

Fisk University

1953-1968

Preston King - Student

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1953-1959

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1960-1968

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 16

Notes

1954

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Correspondence

1954-1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 18

Correspondence

1953-1954

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 19

Miscellaneous Lectures

1953-1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 20

Charles S. Johnson - Correspondence

1952-1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 21

Western Civilization Course - Charles S. Johnson - Correspondence

1954

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 22

Charles S. Johnson - Meier's Notes for Johnson's Speeches and Articles

1953-1954

Negro History Week Celebration

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 23

1955

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 24

1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 25

Charles S. Johnson - Common Law - History - Research Notes

n.d.

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Course - "The Negro in American Civilization" - Summaries and Critiques

1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 27

Faculty Student Honor Committee

1955

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 28

Theodore Currier - Correspondence

1955

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 29

Administrative Manual

1949

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 30

Printed Material

1953-1956

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 31

Job Applications and Resumes

1953-1967

Morgan State College

1957-1964

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 32

Employment Papers

1957-1964

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 33

Meier's Annual Reports

1958-1962

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 34

Roosevelt University

1967

Kent State University

1968-1995

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Faculty Senate Minutes

May 1968

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Course - Race Relations in the World

1986-1991

Course - History of Civilization

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1986

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 38-39

Fall 1989

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 40

Reference Material

Fall 1989

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 41-43

Lecture Notes

Fall 1989

Colloquium - Black Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century

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Fall 1991

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 45

Fall 1992

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 46

Center for Urban Regionalism - Conference on Civil Rights

April 5, 1968

Kent State University Library

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 47

Microfilm Acquisitions

1969-1976

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 48

Kritzer, Hyman W.

1969-1978

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 49

Afro-American Library Fund

1975-1976

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 50

Black History Collection

1975-1985

Microfilm Acquisitions

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Microfilming Corporation of America

1982

b. 13 (Offsite) f. 52

Marovitz Fund

1986

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Kent State University - Graduate Students

Graduate Student files are closed until 50 years after most recent date in each individual file.

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List

Restricted.

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Boswell, William

1972-1974

Restricted.

Brown, Elsa Barkley

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1974-1978

Restricted.

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1979-1988

Restricted.

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 5

1990-1995

Restricted.

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Carlson, James

1992-1993

Restricted.

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Dais, Romeo

1970-1972

Restricted.

Leroy Davis

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 8

1978-1979

Restricted.

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 9

1979-1980

Restricted.

Hennessey, Melinda Meek

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 10

1972-1977

Restricted.

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 11

1977-1979

Restricted.

Hine, William

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 12

1970-1975

Restricted.

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1975

Restricted.

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 14

1977-1983

Restricted.

Jones, Johnetta

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1971-1974

Restricted.

b. 14 (Offsite) f. 16

1975-1992

Restricted.

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Jones, Lewis

1971-1972

Restricted.

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Kaplan, Helga

1978

Restricted.

Kearney, Reginald

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1971-1976

Restricted.

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1976-1977

Restricted.

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1978

Restricted.

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1979-1984

Restricted.

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1986-1995

Restricted.

Lammermeier, Paul

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1968-1972

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 2

1973-1984

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 3

Lersch, Arthur D.

N.D.

Restricted.

Lindsay, Donal

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 4

1987-1990

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 5

1980-1986

Restricted.

Reed, Christopher

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 6

1970-1975

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 7

1976-1978

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 8

1979-1980

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 9

1979-1981

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 10

1980-1992

Restricted.

Salem, Dorothy

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1975-1979

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 12

1980-1985

Restricted.

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SoRelle, James

1974-1980

Restricted.

Tillery, Tyrone

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 14

1971-1980

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 15

1981-1993

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 16

Weisberger, Ronald

1968-1970

Restricted.

b. 15 (Offsite) f. 17

Wye, Christopher

1973

Restricted.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1979

Restricted.

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Ph.D. Reading Lists: Black History

1979

Restricted.

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Lecture for Graduate Student Orientation

n.d.

Restricted.

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Meier's Retirement - Letters of Gratitude

1993

Restricted.

Correspondence

Colleagues

The CORRESPONDENCE series is divided into two subseries: Colleagues, 1948-1996, (bulk 1973-1994) (1.8 lin. ft.) and Publishers, 1963-1998 (1.8 lin. ft.). The subseries Colleagues consists of correspondence regarding Meier's publications and those his colleagues authored, conferences he organized and attended, reviews of articles and manuscripts (manuscripts and complementary copies of articles are often included with the correspondence), and letters of recommendation. Among Meier's many correspondents are: John H. Bracey, Jr., Robert Curvin, Eugene D. Genovese, Herbert G. Gutman, Robert A, Hill, Darlene Clark Hine, Preston King, J. Morgan Kousser, Kenneth Kusmer, David Levering Lewis, James McPherson, Paul G. Partington, William and Jane Pease, Howard Rabinowitz, Wilson Record, and Sterling Stuckey.

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1981-1993

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Bardolph, Richard

1955-1956

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Ba-Be

1975-1996

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Bi-Bli

1975-1989

b. 16 f. 5

Blo-Bo

1953-1992

b. 16 f. 6

Bracey, John H.

1965, 1979-1993

b. 16 f. 7

Br-Bu

1975-1996

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Ca-Col

1967, 1980-1993

b. 16 f. 9

Com-Cu

1970-1993

b. 16 f. 10

Curvin, Robert

1964-1984

b. 16 f. 11

Da-Di

1975-1993

b. 16 f. 12

Do-Du

1967-1992

b. 16 f. 13

E-Fl

1951, 1981-1993

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Fo-Fr

1980-1993

b. 16 f. 15

1970-1990

b. 16 f. 16

1977-1991

b. 16 f. 17

Genovese, Eugene D.

1977-1985

b. 16 f. 18

Gi-Gl

1963, 1978-1993

b. 17 f. 1

Goldfield, Michael

1993-1996

b. 17 f. 2

1973-1993

b. 17 f. 3

1981-1993

b. 17 f. 4

Gutman, Herbert G.

1974-1977

b. 17 f. 5

Ha-He

1975-1993

Hershberg, Theodore

b. 17 f. 6

1971-1977

b. 17 f. 7

1974

b. 17 f. 8

1979-1993

Hill, Robert A.

b. 17 f. 9

1976

b. 17 f. 10

1981-1992

Hine, Darlene Clark

b. 17 f. 11

1981-1986

b. 17 f. 12

1987-1993

b. 17 f. 13

Hill, Herbert

1996

b. 17 f. 14

Ho-Ja

1974-1993

b. 17 f. 15

Ja-Je

1979-1993

b. 18 f. 1

Jo-Ju

1974-1992

b. 18 f. 2

Johnson, Walter

1978

b. 18 f. 3

Ka-Ke

1964-1992

b. 18 f. 4

Kersten, Andrew E.

1995-1996

b. 18 f. 5

King, Preston

1970-1993

b. 18 f. 6

Ki-Ko

1984-1996

Kousser, J. Morgan

b. 18 f. 7

1980

b. 18 f. 8

1981-1989

Kusmer, Kenneth

b. 18 f. 9

1977-1986

b. 18 f. 10

1986-1988

b. 18 f. 11

1988-1993

b. 18 f. 12

La-Le

1981-1992

b. 18 f. 13

Lewis, David Levering

1975-1991

b. 18 f. 14

Le-Li

1975-1990

b. 18 f. 15

Lo-Ly

1973-1992

b. 19 f. 1

Ma-Mc

1980-1992

b. 19 f. 2

McPherson, James

1969-1990

b. 19 f. 3

Morison, Samuel, E.

1948-1950

b. 19 f. 4

Me-Mu

1977-1992

b. 19 f. 5

1978-1991

b. 19 f. 6

Norrell, Jeff (Birmingfind, A Project of the Birmingham Alliance for the Humanities)

1975-1990

b. 19 f. 7

Ob-Or

1975-1996

b. 19 f. 8

Partington, Paul G.

1976-1990

b. 19 f. 9

Pease, William and Jane

1993

b. 19 f. 10

Plessen, Edward

1981-1988

b. 19 f. 11

Pe-Q

1978-1993

b. 19 f. 12

Ra-Ro

1973-1996

b. 19 f. 13

Rabinowitz, Howard

1987-1993

b. 19 f. 14

Record, Wilson

1951-1955

b. 19 f. 15

Ross, B. Joyce

1973-1984

b. 19 f. 16

Sa-Sc

1987-1992

b. 19 f. 17

Sh-Si

1975-1992

b. 19 f. 18

Sm-Su

1966, 1978-1992

b. 19 f. 19

Stern, Max

1990-1992

b. 19 f. 20

Stuckey, Sterling

1980

b. 20 f. 1

Sudarkasa, Niara

1987-1993

b. 20 f. 2

Ta-Ti

1950-1993

b. 20 f. 3

Tr-Tu

1974-1996

b. 20 f. 4

U-We

1948, 1976-1993

b. 20 f. 5

We-Z

1960-1992

b. 20 f. 6

Permission to Access Meier Papers

1998

A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965

b. 20 f. 7

1992-1993

b. 20 f. 8

Book Review and Draft for Introduction

1993

Publishers

The Publishers subseries, 1963-1998 (1.8 lin. ft.) contains Meier's correspondence with his numerous publishers concerning books, journal articles and book reviews. Files include the publishers' invitations to Meier to publish a book, letters of acceptance for a proposal for Meier to author books, permissions to publish chapters of books in anthologies, in addition to book reviews Meier prepared for various publishers, and some mauscripts for articles. Published articles and papers written by other researchers are incorporated in the files.

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AHM Corporation

1972

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 2

Aldine Publishing Company

1974

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 3

Allyn and Bacon, Inc.

1968-1975

American Historical Review

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 4

1970-1986

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 5-6

1984

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 7

American Journal of Sociology

1986

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 8

American Quarterly

1968-1986

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 9

American Studies - University of Kansas

1983-1992

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 10

American Visions

1993

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 11

Arno Press

1968-1970

Atheneum

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1966-1984

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The Making of Black America

1968-1979

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Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

1991

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Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited with Broderick, Francis L.

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 16

1963-1987

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1966-1967

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Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century Second Edition, edited with Elliott Rudwick and Francis L. Broderick

1968-1975

Black Nationalism in America, edited with John L. Bracey, Jr. and Elliott Rudwick

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 19

1969-1970

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 20

1970-1974, 1992

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 21

Reprint Series in Black Studies

1969-1974, 1983

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Booker T. Washingon Papers

1972-1977

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University of California Press

1975-1983

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Carlson Publishing

1988-1991

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University of Chicago Press

1975-1981

Civil War History

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1970-1978

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1981-1986

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Cithara

1987-1988

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1975-1977

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1974-1981

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Contemporary Sociology

1993

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Crisis

1977

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University of Delaware Press

1980

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 34

Dictionary of American Biography

1973-1977

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Dictionary of American Negro Biography

1973-1982

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 36

Dorsey Press

1973-1988

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Doubleday

1965-1979

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Duke University Press

1991-1992

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Dushkin Publishin Group, Inc.

1989-1992

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Encyclopedia of American Culture

1992

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Encyclopedia of New York City - New-York Historical Society

1989

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Franklin Watts

1969-1985

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Free Press

1979

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Gale Research, Inc.

1991-1992

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Garland Publishing Co.

1991

Georgia Historical Quarterly

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 46

1986-1990

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1990

b. 21 (Offsite) f. 48

1990-1993

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University of Georgia Press

1983-1989

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Glazier, Michael, Inc.

1977

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Greenwood Press

1974-1988

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Harcourt, Brace and World

1967-1981

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Harlan Davidson, Inc.

1992

Harper & Row - Curtis Brown

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1965-1966

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1966-1973

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Harvard Education Review

1975

Harvard University Press

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1968

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 7

Aida Donald

1970-1981

Hill and Wang

From Plantation to Ghetto, with Elliott Rudwick

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1960-1966

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1966-1967

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1967-1968

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1968-1978

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1969-1970

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1971-1981

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1974-1975

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1976-1992

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Fourth Edition

1987-1992

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The Historian

1980-1990

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History of Education Quarterly

1992-1993

University of Illinois Press

Promotions

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1972-1973

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1973-1974

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1975-1976

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1976-1983

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1983-1985

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1992

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Contracts and General Information

1972-1992

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 26

The NAACP and Organized Labor

1981-1988

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Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Leon Litwack and Meier

1982

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 28

New Frontiers of the American Reconstruction

1973-1974

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 29

Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited with John Hope Franklin

1980-1983

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 30

Black History and the Historical Profession, with Elliott Rudwick

1981-1985

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 31

Elliott Rudwick Award

1987-1991

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 32

Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience, with Eilliott Rudwick

1976-1991

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 33

Indiana University Press

n.d.

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 34

Integrated Education

1970-1986

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 35

International History Review

1987

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 36

Ivan R. Dee, Inc., Publisher

1990

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Johns Hopkins Press

n.d.

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 38

Journal of American Ethnic History

1984-1996

Journal of American History

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 39

1969-1974

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1975-1988

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 41

1988-1996

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 42

Journal of Ethnic Studies

1976

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 43

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

1992-1993

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 44

Journal of Policy History

1992-1995

Journal of Southern History

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 45

1970-1986

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 46

1988-1997

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Journal of Urban History

1974-1975

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 48

KTO Press

1977

b. 22 (Offsite) f. 49

Kent State University Press

1975

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University of Kentucky Press

1969-1983

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Labor History

1970-1989

Labor's Heritage

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1989

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1990

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Langdon Associates

1976-1978

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Lawrence Hill & Company Publishers, Inc.

1979

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Lippincott J. B. Company

1967-1972

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Louisiana State University Press

1978-1993

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Markus Wiener, Publisher

1988-1992

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Massachusetts Review

1969

University of Massachusetts Press

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1986-1993

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A White Scholar and the Black Community

1991-1992

University of Michigan Press

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1959-1986

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1964-1971

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 15

1973-1992

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1963-1967

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Second Edition

1988-1992

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1985-1993

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University of Missouri Press

1975-1998

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The Nation

1964

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National Geographic Society

1986-1988

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1965-1993

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1990

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New York Times

1972-1986

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University of North Carolina Press

1975-1998

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Norton, W. W.

1967-1986

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Notable American Women

1977-1979

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 28

Organization of American Historians Newsletter

1985-1986

Oxford University Press

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1966-1972

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1973-1976

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1977-1993

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Louis R. Harlan

1967-1990

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 33

A History of the Negro Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century

1966

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 34

NAACP and Organized Labor

1966-1985

CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 35

1971-1972

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1973

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1973-1981

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Reviews

1973-1974

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 39

1979-1982

b. 23 (Offsite) f. 40

Taft Labor History Award

1980

b. 24 (Offsite) f. 1

Pantheon Books

n.d.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

1972

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People's Almanac, The Book of Lists

1993

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University of Pittsburgh Press

1972-1976

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1968-1976

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Princeton University Press

1970-1983

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Public Historian

1981

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1969-1970

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Radical History Review

1980

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1973

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1992

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1981

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1974-1976

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Review of Politics

1981

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1972-1979

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1980-1990

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1985-1993

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Saturday Review

1969-1970

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1971-1979

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Scribner's Sons

1972-1975

Social Forces - Black Sociologists in White America

b. 24 (Offsite) f. 21

1976

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1977-1978

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1978

b. 24 (Offsite) f. 24

Social Science History

1984

Social Science Quarterly

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1969

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1971-1975

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1976-1991

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South Atlantic Quarterly

1970

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University of South Carolina Press

1981

b. 24 (Offsite) f. 30

Southern Regional Council - "On the Dilemmas of Negro Protest Strategy in the South,"

1966

b. 24 (Offsite) f. 31

Southern Historian

1984

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1981

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University of Tennessee Press

1980

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University of Texas Press

1983

Transaction

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1967-1970

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Twayne Publishers

1980

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1969-1974

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1967-1973

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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

1984

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1969-1970

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1971-1988

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1972-1973

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1972-1992

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Wisconsin Magazine of History

1975

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Yale University Press

1981

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Miscellaneous

1963-1964

Editor/Scholarly Publications

Atheneum, Negro in American Life Series

The Atheneum, Negro in American Life Series, 1967-1976 (.8 lin. ft.) subseries documents Atheneum's efforts to reprint books in the field of black studies in paperback format (1966-1971), and original studies on historical and contemporary topics in African-American life after 1968. Correspondence concerns Meier's discussions with Atheneum editor, Robert Zenowich, regarding paperback rights for the reprints, the writing of new introductions, and prospects for inclusion in the series. For the Books Published section of this subseries, Meier's editorial comments to the author and discussions at various stages of the writing and editing of the book are included. For the Proposals Rejected portion of the subseries, Meier's explanations for the rejection and ways to improve the manuscript, or his encouragement of additional work, which Atheneum did not receive, are included.

Books Published

b. 25 f. 1

Fox, Stephen - The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter

1967-1970

b. 25 f. 2

Pease, Jane H. and William H. - They Who Would be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861

1967-1974

b. 25 f. 3

Ross, B. Joyce - J. E. Spingarn and the Rise of the NAACP, 1911-1939

1969-1972

Toplin, Robert Brent - The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

b. 25 f. 4

1969-1970

b. 25 f. 5

1970-1975

b. 25 f. 6

Tuttle, William M. - Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919

1967-1971

Convention Reports

b. 25 f. 7

Meier to Robert Zenowich

1969-1971

b. 25 f. 8

1966-1970

Paperback Series

b. 25 f. 9

1966-December 1967

b. 25 f. 10

February-May

b. 25 f. 11

June-November

b. 25 f. 12

1969

b. 25 f. 13

1970-1971

Proposals Rejected

b. 26 f. 1

B-E

1968-1971

b. 26 f. 2

G-H

1966-1973

b. 26 f. 3

1968-1971

b. 26 f. 4

Kirby, John

1970-1976

b. 26 f. 5

K-L

1967-1971

b. 26 f. 6

1967-1971

b. 26 f. 7

O-Si

1969-1970

b. 26 f. 8

T-U

1969-1972

b. 26 f. 9

1967-1971

b. 27

University of Illinois Press - Blacks in the New World Series

The subseries University of Illinois Press, Blacks in the New World, 1967-1998 (8 lin. ft.) is the most extensive in this series, documenting Meier's role as editor of approximately sixty five books published by this press, averaging two books a year. The subseries has been divided into two units -- Books Published and Manuscripts Not Published. The latter includes files for proposals that were rejected at the outset as being outside the scope of the series or for other reasons. In some instances, a contract was signed but after substantial revisions were made to the manuscript with numerous editorial suggestions by Meier, either the writer or Illinois Press decided against completing the manuscript under Meier's direction. Occasionally a different press actually published these works.

Because Atheneum discontinued its Negro in American Life series in 1971 and the University of Illinois Press had inaugurated a black series publication in 1972, Meier approached Richard L. Wentworth, Editor and Associate Director of the University of Illinois Press, with the idea of the latter press establishing a series focusing on black history with Meier as editor. Announcements indicated that this was a continuation of the series Meier had edited for Atheneum. In all cases, if Meier had begun the editorial process for a book in the Atheneum series, he then completed the work for the University of Illinois Press. Examples of books published during this transitional period are Walter B. Weare, Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1973, and David Katzman, Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century, 1973, and Carl R. Osthaus, Freedman, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank, 1976. In 1991 John H. Bracey joined Meier as co-editor of the series, and after twenty-five years of service to this press, Meier retired in 1998.

The University of Illinois Press subseries includes correspondence between Meier, Wentworth and Bracey, concerning manuscript solicitations, policy issues, and the Elliot Rudwick Award. Both the Books Published and Manuscripts Not Published units of the subseries contain correspondence among the authors, Meier, and Wentworth, and sometimes other scholars who served as readers, discussing the submission of manuscripts for publication, Meier's suggestions to authors to improve the manuscripts, and Meier's recommendations whether or not to publish. Occasionally, Meier advised publication but if authors could not revise the manuscript according to Meier's standards, he later advised against publication. Files may also contain the table of contents or proposal for the book, as well as a few of the author's reprints. While the total number of books published as represented in this series is over sixty titles, there are files for hundreds of proposals rejected or contracts signed which did not result in published books.

b. 27 f. 1

Wentworth, Richard - Correspondence

1967-1991

b. 27 f. 2

Manuscripts Solicitation - Ford Foundation, Ethnic studies Fellows

1972-1973

b. 27 f. 3

Convention Reports, Meier to Richard Wentworth

1974-1975

b. 27 f. 4

Policy Discussions and other General Matters

1979-1997

b. 27 f. 5

Bracey, John H. Jr. - Correspondence

1991-1995

b. 27 f. 6

Correspondence - Meier, Richard Wentworth and John Bracey

1991-1996

b. 27 f. 7

Latin America - Interest in

n.d.

Books Published

b. 28 f. 1

Andrews, William L. (Edited and Introduction by) - My Bondage and My Freedom

1985-1986

b. 28 f. 2

Armstead, Myra Y.

1991-1998

b. 28 f. 3

Armstrong, Douglas V. - The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica

1988-1990

b. 28 f. 4

Borchert, James - Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970

1976-1981

b. 28 f. 5

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh - Lynching in the New South, Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930

1989-1993

b. 28 f. 6

Cantrell, Gregg - Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent

1989-1993

Cheek, William and Aimee Lee - John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-1865

b. 28 f. 7

1981-1984

b. 28 f. 8

1985-1994

b. 28 f. 9

Conrad, Robert (Translated and Edited by) - Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle/Joaquin Nabuco

1975

b. 28 f. 10

Cox, Lawanda - Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership

1984-1985

DeVries, James E. - Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915

b. 28 f. 11

1980-1982

b. 28 f. 12

1982-1985

Dittmer, John

b. 28A f. 1

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era

1972-1980

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

b. 28A f. 2

1979-1992

b. 28A f. 3

1993-1995

b. 28A f. 4

1993-1998

b. 29 f. 1

Downey, Dennis B. and Hyser, Raymond M. - No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker

1988-1991

Franklin, John Hope and Meier, August (Editors) - Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

b. 29 f. 2

1979

b. 29 f. 3

1979-1981

b. 29 f. 4

1981-1983

b. 29 f. 5

Promotional Literature

1982

b. 29 f. 6

Cocktail Party

1982

b. 29 f. 7

1988

b. 29 f. 8

Gatewood, Willard B., Jr. - Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903

1968-1976

Gerber, David A. - Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915

b. 29 f. 9

1968-1971

b. 29 f. 10-11

1974

b. 29 f. 12

1975-1980

b. 30 f. 1

Goldman, Peter - (Second Edition with Afterword) The Death and Life of Malcolm X

1978-1979

Gottlieb, Peter - Making their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-1930

b. 30 f. 2

1975-1989

b. 30 f. 3

1985-1987

b. 30 f. 4

Reviews

1987

b. 30 f. 5

Grossman, Lawrence - The Democratic Party and the Negro: Northern and National Politics, 1868-1892

1973-1978

b. 30 f. 6

Gutman, Herbert - Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross

1975-1976

b. 30 f. 7

Hamilton, Kenneth M. - Race, Profit, and the Evolution of Black Towns

1980-1991

Harris, William H. - Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937

b. 30 f. 8

1972-1975

b. 30 f. 9

1975-1978

b. 30 f. 10

1976

b. 30 f. 11

1989-1991

b. 31 f. 1

Holt, Thomas - Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolin during Reconstruction

1975-1979

Homel, Michael - Down From Equality: Black Chicagoans and the Public Schools, 1920-1941

b. 31 f. 2

1973-1979

b. 31 f. 3

1980-1985

Joyner, Charles - Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

b. 31 f. 4

1980-1984

b. 31 f. 5

1984-1987

Katzman, David

b. 31 f. 6

Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century

1969-1974

b. 31 f. 7

Seven Days a Week

1980

Kusmer, Kenneth - A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930

b. 31 f. 8

1971-1972

b. 31 f. 9

1973-1978

b. 31 f. 10

Landers, Jane - African-American Life in Colonial Spanish Florida

1989-1997

Lewis, David Levering - Martin Luther King: A Biography

b. 31 f. 11

1976-1978

b. 31 f. 12

1978-1997

b. 32 f. 1

Lindsey, Donal F. - Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923

1988-1993

b. 32 f. 2

Litwack, Leon and Meier, August (Editors) Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

1988-1991

b. 32 f. 3

McPherson, James - The Negro's Civil War

1982-1986

Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott

b. 32 f. 4

CORE: A Study of the Civil Rights Movement

1974-1979

Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience (Paperback)

b. 32 f. 5

1975-1977

b. 32 f. 6

1975-1979

b. 32 f. 7

1976-1978

Black History and the Historical Profession

b. 32 f. 8-9

Promotion

1986

b. 32 f. 10

1986-1987

b. 32 f. 11

1987-1988

b. 32 f. 12

Reviews

1987-1988

Miller, John Floyd - The Search for a Black Nationality: Black Emigration and Colonization, 1787-1863

b. 33 f. 1

1968-1973

b. 33 f. 2

1973-1977

b. 33 f. 3

Mullin, Michael - Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831

1988-1994

Naison, Mark - Communists in Harlem During the Depression

b. 33 f. 4

1974-1980

b. 33 f. 5

1980-1983

b. 33 f. 6

1983-1986

b. 33 f. 7

Osthaus, Carl R. - Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank

1969-1976

b. 33 f. 8

Palmer, Colin A. - Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739

1979-1984

b. 33 f. 9

Pease, Jane H. and William H. Pease - They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 (Reprint)

1988-1990

b. 33 f. 10

Peretti, Burton W. - The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race and Culture in Urban America

1991

b. 33 f. 11

Phillips, Christopher - Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

1993-1997

b. 33 f. 12

Proudfoot, Merrill - Diary of a Sit-In

1988-1990

Rabinowitz, Howard N.

b. 34 f. 1

Race Relations in the Urban South

1979

(Edited) Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era - Afterword by Meier, August, "New Perspectives on the Nature of Black Political Leadership During Reconstruction"

b. 34 f. 2

1981

b. 34 f. 3

1981-1985

b. 34 f. 4

Rudwick, Elliott - Race Riot in East St. Louis, (Paperback)

1980-1981

b. 34 f. 5

Savitt, Todd L. - Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

1973-1981

b. 34 f. 6

Schwartz, Stuart B. - Slaves, Peasants and Rebels: Reconstructing Brazilian Slavery

1978-1995

Schweninger, Loren

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

b. 34 f. 7

1976-1988

b. 34 f. 8

1988-1992

Race, Slavery and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864, A Documentary History

b. 34 f. 9

1990-1992

b. 34 f. 10

1991-1998

b. 34 f. 11

Senechal, Roberta - The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot: Springfield, Illinois, in 1908

1986-1990

b. 35 f. 1

Thomas, Lamont D. - Rise to be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe

1972-1987

b. 35 f. 2

Tolnay, Stewart and Beck, Elwood - A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of th Lynching of Blacks in the American South, 1882-1930

1992-1993

Trotter, Joe William

Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945

b. 35 f. 3

1979-1982

b. 35 f. 4

1983-1988

b. 35 f. 5

Coal, Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932

1986-1989

Turner, Mary - Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1934

b. 35 f. 6

1978-1980

b. 35 f. 7

1980-1983

b. 35 f. 8

Tuttle, William M., Jr. - Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919

1996

b. 35 f. 9

Van Horne, John C. (Edited and Introduction by) - Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery: The American Correspondence of the Associates of Dr. Bray: 1717-1777

1980-1986

Weare, Walter B. - Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company

b. 35 f. 10

1968-1969

b. 35 f. 11

1972-1975

Weisbrot, Robert - Father Divine and the Struggle for Racial Equality

b. 35 f. 12

1980-1981

b. 35 f. 13

1981-1985

b. 35 f. 14

Wynes, Charles E. - Charles Richard Drew: The Man and the Myth

1986

b. 35 f. 15

Yacovone, Donald (Contract Signed) - A Voice of Thunder: the Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens

1991-1995

Manuscripts Not Published

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 1

Ab-Ald

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 2

Ale-Av

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 3

Alexander, Ann Field (Contract Signed)

1992-1998

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 4

Allen, Ernest

1979-1987

Allen, Ernest, Jr. and Bracey, John H., Jr. - "Unite or Perish: Documents of Black Radicalism and Black Nationalism, 1954-1975"

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 5

1981-1991

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 6

1991-1992

Anthony, David H. (Contract Signed) - "Pan African Enigma: The Iconclastic Odyssey of Max Yergan"

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 7

1975

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 8

1989-1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 9

Arnesen, Eric

1995

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 10

Ba-Bat

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 11

Barickman, B.J.

1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 12

Baron, Harold

1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 13

Bay-Bell

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 14

Bella-Berg

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 15

Berk, Stephen

1992

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 16

Berl-Bl

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 17

Bo-Bra

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 18

Boyd, Lisa H.

1992

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 19

Bracey, John and Meier, August - Black Nationalism in America

1992-1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 20

Bre

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 21

Bro

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 22

Broussard, Albert, S.

1992

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 23

Brown, Elsa Barkley and Hunter, Tera - "Black Women Leaders,"

1996

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 24

Bru-Bul

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 25

Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. - "Black Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915,"

1982-1985

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 26

Bun-But

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 27

Butler, Reginald - "Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832,"

1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 28

Ca-Char

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 29

Chas-Cl

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 30

Co-Col

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 31

Collier-Thomas, Bettye (Contract Signed) - "Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1910,"

1969-1978

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 32

Con-Cu

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 33

Cooper, Wayne (Contract Signed)

1979-1988

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 34

Countryman, Edward

1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 35

Da-Der

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 36

Deal, Douglas (Contract Signed) - "Race and Class in Colonial Virginia,"

1981-1989

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 37

Des-Dia

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 38

Dil-Dr

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 39

Dudzuak, Mary L.

1993

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 40

E-Ei

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 41

El-Es

n.d.

b. 36 (Offsite) f. 42

Eskew, Glen T. - "But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle,"

1990-1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 1

Fairclough, Adam

1986-1991

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 2

Fa-Fi

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 3

Fil-Fla

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 4

Fle-For

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 5

Fos-Fu

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 6

Gallay, Alan (Contract Signed)

1990-1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 7

Greenberg, Cheryl

1992-1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 8

Ga-Gi

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 9

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 10

Gla

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 11

Gra-Gre

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 12

Gro

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 13

Gru-Gu

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 14

Halpern, Rick - Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954

1989-1994

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 15

Harlan, Louis (Contract Signed) - "The Age of Booker T. Washington" Conference - University of Maryland

1989-1995

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 16

Harris, Carl V. (Contract Signed) - "To Make a People of Ourselves: The Black Community and Public Education in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1931,"

1982-1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 17

Hatfield, Eugene (Contract Signed) - "Turning Lincoln's Picture to the Wall": The Impact of the New Deal on Black Political Behavior in Pennsylvania, 1928-1940,"

1981-1992

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 18

Higbee, Mark

1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 19

Hill, Lance

1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 20

Hudson, Larry E., Jr. (Contract Signed) - "Work and Slavery: The Slave Family in South Carolina, 1820-1860,"

1989-1993

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 21

Hai-Ham

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 22

Han-Ha

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 23

He-Him

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 24

Hin-Holl

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 25

Holm-Hol

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 26

Hon-Hor

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 27

How-Hum

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 28

Hun-Hur

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 29

Jefferson, Paul

1986-1987

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 30

Ja-Joh

n.d.

b. 37 (Offsite) f. 31

Jon-Ju

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 1

Kay, Marvin and Cary, Lorin - "Prospectus of Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1772,"

1977-1984

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 2

Kay, Marvin and Cary, Lorin

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 3

Ka-King

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 4

Kenzer, Robert C. (Contract Signed) - "Economically Successful Blacks in North Carolina, 1856-1915,"

1993-1998

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 5

Kim, Clair Jean - "The Red Apple Boycott of 1990: Race, Politics, and Violence in Urban America,"

1992

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 6

Kins-Kr

n.d.

Kiple, Kenneth - "Biology and the Black Diaspora: The Carribean"

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 7

1979-1981

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 8

1981-1983

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 9

Kornweibel, Theodore (Contract Signed) - "Federal Investigations and Suppression of African Americans During and After World War I,"

1984-1997

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 10

Kousser, J. Morgan - "A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930" - Second Edition

1992

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 11

Lamon, Lester (Contract Signed) - "The Robert R. Church Family: Wealth and Conscience in Black America,"

1982-1989

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 12

n.d.

Letwin, Daniel - "Race, Class, and Industralization in the New South: The Coal Miners of Alabama, 1871- 1921"

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 13

1986-1990

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 14

1990-1994

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 15

Levy, Peter B.

1996

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 16

Lewis, Ronald - "Black Coal Mines in America, 1760-1960,"

1979-1986

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 17

Le-Lev

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 18

Lew

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 19

Li-Lu

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 20

McA-McF

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 21

McDonald, Roderick (Contract Signed) - "Internal Economics of Slaves on Sugar Plantation Slavery in Jamaica and Louisiana,"

1981-1990

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 22

McDonnell, Lawrence (Contract Signed) - "Will and Power,"

1985-1988

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 23

McG-McL

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 24

McM-McP

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 25

McQ-McT

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 26

Ma-Mar

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 27

Mat-Me

n.d.

Mayer, Michael S. - "Eisenhower and the Southern Federal Judiciary: The Sobeloff Nomination"

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 28

1986

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 29

1986-1992

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 30

n.d

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 31

Mills, Gary B. (Contract Signed) - "The Free Negro in Antebellum Anglo Alabama,"

1978-1984

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 32

Mi-Mj

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 33

Mo-Mor

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 34

Moore, Jacqueline - "A Drop of African Blood: The Washington Black Elite from 1880-1920,"

1992-1995

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 35

Moore, Shirley Ann (Contract Signed) - "To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, 1910-1963,"

1989-1995

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 36

Mos-Mot

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 37

n.d.

b. 38 (Offsite) f. 38

Murrell, Gary - "Perfection of Means, Confusion of Goals: The Military Career of Charles Henry Martin,"

1994

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 1

Na-No

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 2

Nieman, Donald G. (Contract Signed) - "Black Political Power and Justice: Washington County, Texas, 1865-1900,"

1991

Nordin, Dennis Sven

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 3

1970-1979

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 4

1991-1994

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 5

Oa-Ob

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 6

O'Brien, John T.

1970-1983

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 7

Ol-Or

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 8

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 9

Paulson, Darryl C. (Contract Signed) - "Lobbying for Civil Rights: The Washinton Bureau of the NAACP,"

1981-1984

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 10

Pe-Per

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 11

Pe-Po

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 12

Pfeffer, Paula

1978-1982

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 13

Pr-Pu

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 14

Ra-Re

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 15

Rathbun, Betty Lou K. (Contract Signed)

1975-1980

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 16

Ri-Ric

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 17

Rid-Rob

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 18

Rod-Roo

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 19

Rose, Kenneth - "The Politics of Social Reform in Cleveland, 1945-1967,"

1989-1993

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 20

Ros-Row

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 21

Sa-Scha

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 22

Savitt, Todd (Contract Signed) - "Physicians for the Freedmen: Black Medical Education, 1865-1920,"

1981-1990

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 23

Sawyer, Marcia

1992

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 24

Sche-Sco

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 25

Scott, D. Michael

1992-1993

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 26

Scr-Sh

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 27

Si-Sk

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 28

Slenes, Robert W. - "Slavery in Brazil,"

1978-1993

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 29

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 30

So-Stam

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 31

SoRelle, James

1992-1993

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 32

Squibb, John - "Roads to Plessy: Blacks and the Law in the Old Northwest: 1860-1896,"

1992

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 33

Stan-Stei

n.d.

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 34

Step-Stu

n.d.

Stevenson, Marshall (Contract Signed) - "Points of Departure, Acts of Resolve: Black- Jewish Relations in Detroit, 1935- 1967"

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 35

1988-1991

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 36

1992-1995

b. 39 (Offsite) f. 37

Su-Sy

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 1

Ta-Thom

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 2

Thompson, Bruce - "Turning Disadvantages into Advantages: A Case Study of the Early Civil Rights Struggle and the NAACP at the Grass Roots Level in Baltimore, 1900-1955,"

1991-1992

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 3

Thornbrough, Emma Lou (Contract Signed) - "The Indianapolis Story - School Segregation and Desegregation in a Northern City,"

1986-1995

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 4

Thor-Tr

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 5

Tillery, Tyrone

1987-1988

Closed until 2041.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 6

Tu-Ty

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 7

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 8

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 9

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 10

Walker, Juliet

1976-1980

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 11

Wallenstein, Peter - "The Case Against Jim Crow: Civil Rights and the Courts in Twentieth Century Virginia,"

1992-1993

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 12

Walter, John C. - "The Role of West Indians in Black American Leadership, 1900-1940,"

1973-1975

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 13

We-Wee

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 14

Wei-Wh

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 15

Wenzel, Uwe - "Minority Organizations in the American Political System: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Civil Rights and Policy Making, 1950-1991,"

1993

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 16

Whitman, T. Stephen _ "Slavery, Manumission and Free Black Workers in Early National Baltimore,"

1993-1994

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 17

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 18

Wi-Wo

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 19

Willis, John C. - "Plantation Empire on the New South Frontier?: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta's Postbellum Development, 1865-1920,"

1991-1992

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 20

Wilson, Sondra

1987-1988

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 21

Winch, Julie

1993

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 22

n.d.

Wye, Christopher (Contract Signed)

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 23

1973-1979

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 24

1979-1983

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 25

1986

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 26

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 27

n.d.

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 28

Zangrando, Robert

1968-1975

Zucker, Charles

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 29

1972-1976

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 30

1977-1979

b. 40 (Offsite) f. 31

Paperback Editions

1987-1992

b. 41 (Offsite)

University Publications of America - Black Studies Research Sources

The subseries University Publications of America - Black Studies Research Sources, 1982-1998 (1 lin. ft.) deals with the selection of archival collections for inclusion in the micropublication series from archival and manuscript repositories. Meier and Elliott Rudwick served as co-editors - John H. Bracey later replaced Rudwick - and correspondence indicates that the co-editors frequently conferred with UPA president John Moscato. Examples of the microfilmed collections are the records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congress of Racial Equality; civil rights files from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Files. Correspondence discusses negotiations between UPA and the repository, progress made during filming; printed advertising announcements describing the completed work.

Promotional Material

Moscato, John - Correspondence - Ideas for Microfilm Projects

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 2

1982

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 3

1983-1996

Correspondence

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 4

1983

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 5-6

1984

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 7-8

1985

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 9-11

1986

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 12

Bracey, John H., Jr.

1987-1988

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 13-15

1987

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 16

1988

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 17

1988-1991

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 18

1989-1991

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 19

1993

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 20

1994-1998

Afro-American Newspapers and Archives

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 21

Proposal

1987

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 22

1987

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 23

American Committee on Africa

1990

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 24

American Negro Academy

1987-1989

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 25

Barnett, Claude A. and the Associated Negro Press Papers

1983-1985

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 26

Bethune, Mary McLeod Papers

1988-1992

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 27

Civil Rights during the Nixon Administration

1989

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 28

Du Bois, W.E.B. Papers - Fisk University

1991

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 29

Farmer, James Jr. and Lula Papers

1987

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 30

Bond, Horace Mann Papers

1977-1988

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 31

Federal Bureau of Investigation

1993

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 32

Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans

1988

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 33

Howard University

1991

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 34

Myrdal, Gunnar Papers

1989-1992

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 35

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1988-1992

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 36

National Association for Colored Women's Clubs

1991-1993

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 37

National Negro Business League

1989-1992

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 38

Randolph, A. Philip Papers

1987-1990

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 39

Royal African Company

1989

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 40

1983-1988

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 41

1988-1994

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 42

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

1988-1991

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 43

State Historical Society of Wisconsin

1985

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 44

Tuskegee University

1990

b. 41 (Offsite) f. 45

Virginia State Library

1990

Professional Activities

The series PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 1945-1998 (5.2 lin. ft.) covers Meier's career excluding his teaching and editorship positions. The series is divided into six subseries: Consultancies; Writings - Published Articles; Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures; Professional Affiliations; Grants and Scholarships; National Endowment for the Humanities.

Consultancies

The subseries Consultancies, 1968-1993 (.2 lin. ft.) documents Meier's work in a multiplicity of capacities in federal and private settings. Included are a draft of a chapter he and Rudwick wrote for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, advice on a grant proposal for educational television projects on the NAACP, and an exhibition of an upper class turn-of-the-century family in Atlanta, Georgia

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

b. 42 f. 1

1968

b. 42 f. 2

"History of Negro Protest Movement,"

1968, Chapter 5

b. 42 f. 3

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center

1986

b. 42 f. 4

Herndon Home - Grant Proposal

1990

b. 42 f. 5

South Carolina Educational Television

1991

b. 42 f. 6

Television Documentary - History of NAACP

1993

b. 43

Writings - Published Articles

The subseries Writings - Published Articles, 1945-1973 (.6 lin. ft.) covers articles Meier, for the most part, wrote alone, or with Rudwick and Bracey, beginning with a story he wrote for the Oberlin College literary magazine. Book reviews he wrote are included in this subseries.

Reprints

b. 43 f. 1

1945-1949

b. 43 f. 2

"Tougaloo College Reconsidered : A Reply to Mr. Gredler" by Meier and Chester Slocum

1950

b. 43 f. 3

"The Negro in the United States" - Encyclopedia Americana

1953

b. 43 f. 4

1951-1953

b. 43 f. 5

1954-1956

b. 43 f. 6

1957-1959

b. 43 f. 7

1960-1962

b. 43 f. 8

1963

b. 43 f. 9

1964

b. 43 f. 10

New America

January 10, 1964

b. 43 f. 11

1965

b. 43 f. 12

1966

b. 43 f. 13

1967-1968

b. 43 f. 14

1969

b. 44 f. 1

1970

b. 44 f. 2

1972-1977

b. 44 f. 3

1980-1981

b. 44 f. 4

1982

b. 44 f. 5

1983-1984

b. 44 f. 6

1991-1993

Book Reviews

b. 44 f. 7

1951-1952

b. 44 f. 8

"The Revolution Against the NAACP: A Critical Appraisal of Louis Lomax's The Negro Revolt,"

Spring 1963

b. 44 f. 9

1953, 1964, 1977

b. 44 f. 10

1989-1994

b. 45

Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures

The Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures, subseries, 1945-1995 (1.4 lin. ft.) includes addresses and papers Meier, occasionally with Rudwick, presented at professional meetings, universities and other research institutions and before community groups. The topics span the entire gamut of his research interests and include Booker T. Washington, Meier's 1962 debate with Malcolm X, the history of the African-American protest movement including non-violent direct action, civil rights, NAACP, CORE, and research themes based upon his and Meier's book, Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. Of significance are Meier's comments referring to a paper read by Louis R. Harlan entitled, "The Problem of Interpreting Booker T. Washington, A Biographical Perspective." The speeches have been arranged chronologically.

b. 45 f. 1

1944-1946

b. 45 f. 2

1947

b. 45 f. 3

1948

b. 45 f. 4

1949

b. 45 f. 5

1951-1953

b. 45 f. 6

Booker T. Washington Speeches

1949, 1956, 1962

b. 45 f. 7

1958-1961

b. 46 f. 1

1962-1964

b. 46 f. 2

Debate with Malcolm X - Morgan State College

March 28, 1962

b. 46 f. 3

"The Black Muslims in America," Address - Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

October 31, 1962

b. 46 f. 4

"Origins of Civil Rights Revolution" State University of New York at Buffalo

1963

b. 46 f. 5

"Booker T. Washington," Lecture - New School for Social Research

March 5, 1964

Origins of Civil Rights Revolution

b. 46 f. 6

1964-1965

b. 46 f. 7

1965-1967

b. 46 f. 8

"The Roots of Nonviolent Direct Action," Conference Paper - Society for Social Research, University of Chicago

1965

b. 46 f. 9

"Who Are the True Believers"? -- A Tentative Typology of the Motivations of Civil Rights Activists," Paper - American Orthopsychiatric Association

March 18, 1965

b. 46 f. 10

"African Consciousness Among Nineteenth Century Negroes," Speech - Amistad Society, Chicago

May 22, 1965

b. 46 f. 11

"The Age of Booker T. Washington," Speech - Peace Corps

July 7, 1965

b. 46 f. 12

1965

b. 46 f. 13

1966-1967

b. 46 f. 14

"Negro Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century: Origins of the Civil Rights Revolution,"

November 9, 1967

b. 46 f. 15

1968

b. 47 f. 1

List of Speaking Engagements by Date

1970-1975

b. 47 f. 2

Correspondence re: Speeches

1969-1974

b. 47 f. 3

"The Problem of Interpreting Booker T. Washington: A Biographical Perspective," Louis R. Harlan, Commentary by Meier - Southern Historical Association

1969

b. 47 f. 4

"A Survey of Black Nationalism in America," Speech - Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y.

November 20, 1969

b. 47 f. 5

Organization of American Historians - Commentary - Session on Civil Rights and Presidential Politics

1969

b. 47 f. 6

"Black Violence in the Twentieth Century: A Study in Rhetoric and Retaliation," Paper - Memphis State University

January 10, 1970

b. 47 f. 7

"Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in Negro Protest," Speech - Ohio Wesleyan University

February 10, 1970

b. 47 f. 8

"On Writing 'Negro Thought in America'," Outline

February 27, 1970

b. 47 f. 9

"The Nationalism of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois," Speech - Southeast American Studies Association, Durham, North Carolina

April 10, 1970

b. 47 f. 10

"Main Themes in Black History," Address - Central Michigan University

April 28-29, 1970

b. 47 f. 11

"New Directions in Black History," Speech - Drew University

April 21, 1970

b. 47 f. 12

"Attorneys Black and White: A Case Study of Race Relations within the NAACP" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - Southern Historical Association, Commentary by William M. Tuttle, Jr.

November 9, 1973

b. 47 f. 13

Organization of American Historians - Commentary - Session on Afro-American Social Structure in the 19th Century,"

April 17, 1974

b. 47 f. 14

Southern Historical Association - Comments for Session on the "Psycho-Sexual Origins of Racism Revisited,"

November 7, 1974

b. 47 f. 15

"Along the Color Line," Conference Paper - American Historical Association

1974

Afro-American History in the Age of the Civil Rights Revolution," Conference Paper - American Historical Association

b. 48 f. 1

December 28-30, 1974

b. 48 f. 2

Reading and Annotated Versions

December 28-30, 1974

b. 48 f. 3

"Frederick Douglass--Fighter for Human Freedom," Address - Union Baptist Church, Ravenna, Ohio

February 9, 1975

b. 48 f. 4

"Negro Thought in America: A Study in Historiography," Lecture - Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio

May 7, 1975

b. 48 f. 5

"From Reconstruction to Renaissance: Currents in Afro-American Culture from 1875 to 1920," Commentary on Session, University of Iowa

June 15, 1975

b. 48 f. 6

"Historiography of Slavery in the Age of the Civil Rights Revolution," Paper - Northeastern Oklahoma University

November 20, 1975

b. 48 f. 7

"The New Negro History," Speech - Northeastern Oklahoma University

November 20, 1975

b. 48 f. 8

"The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence for Afro-Americans," Speech - Texas A & M State University

April 6. 1976

b. 48 f. 9

"Decline of Black/White Caste in the United States," with Elliott Rudwick, Seminar - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

December 16, 1976

b. 48 f. 10

"Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1933-1943," with Elliott Rudwick, Outline - University of California, Berkeley

March 16, 1977

b. 48 f. 11

"Conflict, Consensus, and American Values: Changes in Patterns of Race Relations, 1925-1975" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, CA

May 13, 1977

b. 48 f. 12

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service, Outline - Kent State University

January 16, 1978

b. 48 f. 13

"The UAW, the Federal Bureaucracy, and the Packard 'Hate' Strike of 1943: A Study in Race Relations" by Meier and Elliott Rudwick - American Historical Association

August 19, 1978

"Black Detroit and Henry Ford: A Study in Industrial Paternalism, 1917- 1943"

b. 48 f. 14

Speech - University of Kentucky

April 6, 1979

b. 48 f. 15

Conference Paper

April 26-28, 1979

b. 48 f. 16

"Benjamin Quarles and the Central Theme in American History," Conference Paper - Organization of American Historians

1979

b. 48 f. 17

"The History of Negro History," Lecture Outline - Kent State University

October 30, 1980

b. 48 f. 18

Booker T. Washington Symposium - Commentary, Ferrum College, Va.

April 7, 1984

b. 48 f. 19

"Slave Community and Culture: The Creation of a Historical Paradigm?" Organization of American Historians

1985

b. 48 f. 20

"Booker T. Washington and Hofstadter, Stampp and Elkins; An Inquiry into Scholarly Interaction," Lectures - Carter T. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia

March 3, 1986

b. 48 f. 21

University of California, Irvine

1986

b. 49 f. 1

"The Contours of Afro-American Historiography, 1915-1980" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - American Historical Associatien

n.d.

b. 49 f. 2

"New Directions on Civil Rights Studies," Commentaries, University of Virginia

May 5, 1988

b. 49 f. 3

"NAACP and Organized Labor, 1910-1964" with John Bracey, Seminar - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

June 4, 1988

b. 49 f. 4

"Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Negro Thought in America," Commentary, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

October 8, 1988

b. 49 f. 5

"The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964," Lecture - Middle Tennessee State University

February 16, 1989

b. 49 f. 6

"The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington" with John H. Bracey, Jr., Conference Paper - Organization of American Historians

April 7, 1989

b. 49 f. 7

"The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964," Lecture - George Meany Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland

April 12, 1989

b. 49 f. 8

Private Action and Social Policy, Commentary - Case Western Reserve University

September 14, 1989

b. 49 f. 9

"Black History and the Historical Profession" - Critiques and Responses

November 8-11, 1989

b. 49 f. 10

"The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington," Speech - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 9, 1989

b. 49 f. 11

"Toward a Sythesis of Historical Research on the Civil Rights Movement," Conference Paper - Carter G. Woodson Institute

1989

b. 49 f. 12

"The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964" with John H. Bracey, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

March 9, 1990

b. 49 f. 13

"White Southerner as Historian of the Black Experience" by Louis Harlan, Commentary by Meier - University of Maryland Conference, "The Age of Booker T. Washington,"

May 2, 1990

b. 49 f. 14

Southern Labor History Conference, Commentary

October 11, 1991

b. 49 f. 15

"Jews and Blacks in American History: The Interrelationships Between Minorities in Historiographical Perspective," Outline - Kent State University

October 13, 1992

b. 49 f. 16

"Erasing the Color Line in the North: Non-Violent Protest and Civil Rights, 1942-1965," Commentator

October 22-24, 1992

b. 49 f. 17

"Conflict, Consensus, and American Values: Changes in Patterns of Race Relations, 1925-1975" with Elliott Rudwick

n.d.

b. 49 f. 18

"The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965 'To Reach the Conscience of America'" - Seminar with John H. Bracey, Jr. - University of Virginia

February 19. 1993

b. 49 f. 19

"Recollections of Non-Violent Direct Action - The Mid-1950s-1960s' Civil Rights Movement in Maryland. Where Do We Go From Here?," Speech - Douglas Memorial Community Church, Baltimore

June 4, 1993

b. 49 f. 20

"Exploring the History of Black America," Speech - Tougaloo College

September 30, 1995

b. 49 f. 21

"A Study in Black Leadership: The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Economic Justice" Indiana University and Purdue Univeristy, Indianapolis

November 3, 1995

b. 49 f. 22

Correspondence re: Speeches

1982-1991

b. 49 f. 23

Tribute to Meier and Elliott Rudwick by Harvard Sitkoff with Response by Meier and Rudwick - Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

1980

b. 50

Professional Affiliations

The Professional Affiliations subseries, 1952-1998, (1970-1992 bulk) (1.6 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's active participation in several national historical associations over a period of years. American Historical Asociation files document his role on the 1972 Program Committee, as a member of the J. Franklin Jameson Prize Committee (1990), his participation in the 1998 session on historian Benjamin Quarles and also in 1998, the presentation of the AHA Award for Scholarly Distinction. Meier's 1990 chairmanship of the Organization of American Historians' Program Committee is documented through correspondence files. The Southern Historical Association files detail Meier's service on the 1980 Program Committee, and his chairmanship of the session "Black Coal Miners in the Southern Applachians" (1986), as well as a copy of a 1986 interview conducted by John H. Roper concerning Meier's long association with the SHA. This subseries concludes with files of Meier's presidency (1992) of the SHA and with photographs of Meier and colleagues at an unidentified meeting.

b. 50 f. 1

American Council of Learned Societies

1981-1982

American Historical Association

b. 50 f. 2

1968-1979

b. 50 f. 3

Program Committee

December 28-30, 1972

b. 50 f. 4

1980-1988

b. 50 f. 5

Jameson Prize Committee

1990

b. 50 f. 6

Session on Benjamin Quarles

1997-1998

b. 50 f. 7

Award for Scholarly Distinction Presented to Meier

1998

b. 50 f. 8

American Studies Association

1970-1972

b. 50 f. 9

Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

1952-1953

b. 50 f. 10

Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

1975-1987

Organization of American Historians

b. 50 f. 11

1972-1975

b. 50 f. 12

1978-1991

b. 50 f. 13

Lectureship Program

1986-1992

b. 50 f. 14

Elliott Rudwick Award

1987-1993

b. 50 f. 15

"Towards a Research Agenda on Blacks and Jews in U.S. History" - Correspondence

1991

b. 50 f. 16

Holocaust Debate

1992

b. 50 f. 17

1998

b. 51 f. 1

Committee Reports

1990

b. 51 f. 2

Meier's Correspondence with OAH Office

1990

b. 51 f. 3

OAH Program Committee Meeting

1990

b. 51 f. 4

1990

b. 51 f. 5

Session Reports

1990

b. 51 f. 6

Benedict, M. Les

1990

b. 51 f. 7

Bracey, John L., Jr.

1990

b. 51 f. 8

Buhle, Mari Jo

1990

b. 51 f. 9

Gerber, David A.

1990

b. 51 f. 10

Gonzalez, Gilbert

1990

b. 51 f. 11

Katzman, David

1990

b. 51 f. 12

Okihiro, Gary

1990

b. 51 f. 13

Perdue, Theda

1990

b. 51 f. 14

Wigdor, David

1990

b. 51 f. 15-16

Program Worksheets

1990

b. 51 f. 17

Guide to the Work of the Program Committee

1990

b. 51 f. 18

Convention Program

March 23, 1990

Southern Historical Association

b. 52 f. 1

1957-1960

b. 52 f. 2

1961

b. 52 f. 3

1971-1985

b. 52 f. 4-5

Program Committee

November 13-15, 1980

b. 52 f. 6

Program Chair, Session "The Black Urban Bourgeoise and Proletariat between the Two World Wars," - Correspondence

November 1982

b. 52 f. 7

Commentator, Session "Black Voting and Civil Rights,"

1985

Interview with August Meier by John Herbert Roper

1985

b. 52 f. 8

Annotated

April 20 and June 17, 1985

b. 52 f. 9

1986

b. 52 f. 10

Presiding Chair, Session "Black Coal Miners in the Southern Applachians,"

1986

b. 52 f. 11

General File

1987-1989

b. 53 f. 1

William F. Holmes - Secretary/Treasurer

1989-1993

b. 53 f. 2

Membership List

1990

b. 53 f. 3

Participation List

1991

b. 53 f. 4

Convention

1991

b. 53 f. 5

Council Meetings

1992-1993

b. 53 f. 6

Citation - LaWanda Cox

1992

b. 53 f. 7

Library of Congress

1992

b. 53 f. 8

World History Association

1992

b. 53 f. 9

Prize Committees

1990-1993

b. 53 f. 10

Presidency

1992

b. 53 f. 11

Presidential Reception Arrangements

1992

b. 53 f. 12

Presidential Address - "The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965: To Reach the Conscience of America," with John H. Bracey, Jr.

1992

b. 53 f. 13

Convention and Business Meeting

1992

b. 53 f. 14

Convention Program

1992

b. 53 f. 15

Program Committee

1992

b. 53 f. 16

Reception - List of Invited Guests

1992

b. 53 f. 17

Local Arrangements Committee

1992

b. 53 f. 18

Photographs (6)

July 1993

b. 54 (Offsite)

Grants and Fellowships

Over the decades, Meier received a number of Grants and Scholarships, 1951-1990 (.4 lin. ft.) for research projects including his dissertation and the study of the NAACP and organized labor. Among the numerous prestigious organizations which presented him with research grants, the collection documents Meier's relationship with the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Files include proposals for research, corespondence and progress reports.

American Council of Learned Societies

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 1

American Council of Learned Societies "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915,"

1952

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 2

"The NAACP and Organized Labor,"

1980

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 3

American Philosophical Society - "The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1969,"

1980

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 4

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, "Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW" and "NAACP and Organized Labor,"

1976

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 5

Ford Foundation - "The NAACP and Organized Labor,"

1979

Guggenheim Foundation

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 6

Civil Rights Movement

1971-1972

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 7

"The NAACP and Organized Labor 1909-1964,"

1979-1980, 1990

b. 54 (Offsite) f. 8

National Humanities Center - "The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1964,"

1982

b. 55 (Offsite)

National Endowment for the Humanities

The subseries National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-1991 (1.2 lin. ft.) documents Meier's relationship with this funding agency as an evaluator of grant applications (1972-1991). Both the proposal and Meier's review are included in the collection. In addition, Meier taught two seminars for college teachers entitled "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" (1981 and 1985) which are documented through the grant applications, files of participants including their applications, research papers that resulted from this program, manuscripts Meier reviewed for the participants, and evaluation reports prepared by Meier and participants.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 1

Review panel

1972-1976

Reviews of Applications

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 2

1973-1977

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 3

1977-1978

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 4

1977-1979

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 5

1980-1986

Review Panel

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 6

Division of Research Programs

1981-1986

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 7

Division of Education Programs

1983

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 8

Tanner Film Group

1991

Summer Seminar for College Teachers

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 9

"Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" - Applications

1981

Participants

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 10

Ellis, Ann W.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 11

Goings, Kenneth W.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 12

Green, Thomas Lee

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 13

Hatfield, Eugene A.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 14

Juhnke, William E.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 15

McMichael, Wallace

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 16

Miller, Donald W.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 17

Paulson, Darryl

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 18

Ricks, John

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 19

Robinson, Jo Ann O.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 20

Sandstrom, Harold M.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 21

Watson, James M.

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 22

Communications to Participants

n.d.

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 23

Final Report

1981

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 24

Bailey, Jennifer - On Site Visit

1981

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 25

Kent State University Library Fund

1981

Summer Seminar for College Teachers

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 26

Grant Application

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 27

List of Participants

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 28

Reading Lists

1985

Participants

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 29

Baer, Hans A.

1985-1989

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 30

Doyle, William

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 31

Holmes, Charles H.

1985-1987

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 32

Hughes, Cicero Alvin

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 33

McDew, Charles

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 34

O'Dell, Samuel R.

1985-1988

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 35

Oguah, Benjamin E.

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 36

Shaw, Francis

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 37

Stern, Mark

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 38

Sullivan, Patricia

1985-1986

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 39

Taylor, Theman R., Sr.

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 40

Thompson, Edward

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 41

"Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" - Class Discussions

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 42

Evaluation Reports by Meier and Participants

1985

b. 55 (Offsite) f. 43

1987

Civil Rights Movement Research Files

Of particular interest is the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT RESEARCH FILES, 1940-1995, (bulk 1942-1979) (14 lin. ft.) which includes an Interviews subseries, 1961-1985, (1961-1971 bulk) (.8 lin. ft.), consisting of hundreds of interviews Meier and his colleague, Elliott Rudwick, conducted with individuals regarding their roles in the civil rights movement. The bulk of the interviews were conducted for Meier and Rudwick's book CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968. Included are interviews conducted with CORE leaders at both the national level and local chapters. Other organizations represented in the interviews are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Regional Council, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the National Action Council, and the Council of Federated Organizations. Among the numerous interviewees are: Julian Bond, John H. Bracey, Gordon Carey, Ronald Corvin, Gloster Current, Robert Curvin, St. Clair Drake, Leslie Dunbar, James and Lula Farmer, Charles Hamilton, Aaron Henry, Herbert Hill, Norman Hill, Carl Holman, Genevive Hughes, Roy and Doris Innis, Sam and Fredericka Kushner, Charles McDew, Floyd McKissick, Charles Oldham, Carl Rachlin, Marvin Rich, James R. Robinson, Ralph Rosenfeld, Phyllis Ryan, Mark Solomon, Herbert Wright, Andrew Young and Whitney Young. A complete list is available as an appendix to this finding aid.

Interviews were conducted either by telephone or in person and were not taped. They were open ended and varied in length from a single page to approximately 30 pages. The interviews are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically for individuals who were interviewed on more than one occasion.

Interviews

b. 56 f. 1

A-Bo

1961-1971

b. 56 f. 2

1965-1971

b. 56 f. 3

Ca-Co

1961-1972

b. 56 f. 4

Co-Cu

1961-1971

b. 56 f. 5

D-E

1961-1971

b. 56 f. 6

F-G

1963-1975

b. 56 f. 7

Ha-He

1961-1971

b. 56 f. 8

Hi-Hu

1963-1971

b. 56 f. 9

I-K

1961-1971

b. 56 f. 10

1963-1971

b. 56 f. 11

McDew, Charles

1961, July-August 1985

b. 56 f. 12

M-N

1966-1975

b. 57 f. 1

O-P

1965-1972

b. 57 f. 2

1963-1971

b. 57 f. 3

1964-1972

b. 57 f. 4

Ro-Ry

1964-1975

b. 57 f. 5

Sa-Si

1963-1971

b. 57 f. 6

Sm-St

1966-1972

b. 57 f. 7

T-Wi

1964-1971

b. 57 f. 8

Wi-Z

1961-1972

b. 57 f. 9

Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1930's

1975

b. 57 f. 10

Louisville, Kentucky

1961

b. 57 f. 11

North Carolina

1961-1965

b. 57 f. 12

South Carolina

n.d.

b. 57 f. 13

James Bevel, Norman Hill, Robert Moses, and Andrew Young

1965

Bayard Rustin

The Bayard Rustin subseries, 1942-1979 (1 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's long-standing interest in Rustin as a civil rights leader, and includes Meier's interviews concerning Rustin's role in CORE and non-violent protest, Jonathan Gottleib's manuscript on Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, and notes relating to Rustin's participation in the 1943 and 1963 March on Washington movements. Rustin's role with the Fellowship of Reconcilation (FOR), a non-violent antiwar group is detailed through minutes, reports, correspondence and Meier's notes. FOR's support of the 1943 March on Washington is discussed. Of particular interest is a report Rustin prepared entitled "22 Days on a Chain Gang" concerning the sentence he served in North Carolina for sitting in a non-Jim Crow section of a bus, the Fellowship of Reconcilation precursor of the 1961-1962 Freedom Rides. The subseries also includes articles Rustin authored and abundant newsclippings. The activities of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, of which Rustin served as executive director, are documented by news releases written by Rustin, and printed material.

b. 58 f. 1

Biographical Material

1961-1969

b. 58 f. 2

Biography - Correspondence

1973-1974

b. 58 f. 3

Interviews Conducted by Meier re CORE

1964-1966

b. 58 f. 4

Interviews Conducted by Meier

1965-1975

b. 58 f. 5

Notes on 1960's Interviews Shared with Jonathan Gottlieb

n.d.

Jonathan Gottlieb's Manuscript on Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph

b. 58 f. 6

Bayard Rustin

n.d.

b. 58 f. 7

A. Philip Randolph

n.d.

b. 58 f. 8

Notes Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb

n.d.

b. 58 f. 9

Newsclippings and Notes Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb

n.d.

b. 58 f. 10

March on Washington, 1943 - Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb

n.d.

b. 58 f. 11

March on Washington Movement, 1943, A. Philip Randolph and Jim Crow, and Universal Military Training - Notes

n.d.

b. 58 f. 12

March on Washington, 1943 [From Swarthmore College Archives]

1943

Fellowship of Reconcilation

b. 58 f. 13

[Glen Smiley File]

n.d.

b. 58 f. 14

National Council Minutes

1943-1953

b. 58 f. 15-16

1942-1947

b. 58 f. 17

1943

b. 59 f. 1

1947-1967

b. 59 f. 2

Notes, Printed Material

n.d.

Rustin's Activities

b. 59 f. 3

1940's

b. 59 f. 4

1950's

b. 59 f. 5

1960's

b. 59 f. 6

Building Trades

1964-1973

b. 59 f. 7

Rustin and the New Left

1965

Articles by Rustin

b. 59 f. 8

1963-1969

b. 59 f. 9

1970-1979

b. 59 f. 10

Notes on Articles

n.d.

b. 59 f. 11

Indices of Newsclippings

n.d.

b. 59 f. 12

Newsclippings and Notes

1964-1966

Newsclippings

b. 59 f. 13

1965

b. 59 f. 14

1966-1968

b. 59 f. 15

1969-1971

b. 59 f. 16

1972-1974

A. Philip Randolph Institute

b. 60 f. 1

1963-1974

News Releases

b. 60 f. 2

1969-1970

b. 60 f. 3

1971

b. 60 f. 4

1972

b. 60 f. 5

1973

b. 60 f. 6

1974

b. 60 f. 7

1975

b. 60 f. 8

1976-1978

b. 60 f. 9

Publications

n.d.

b. 60 f. 10

Black Americans to Support Israel Committee - Press Releases

1975

Geographic Localities

The subseries States, 1943-1998, (bulk 1956-1966) (5 lin. ft.) contains materials gathered and created by Meier and Rudwick documenting the civil rights struggles in a number of cities and states. Included are notes, interviews, correspondence, newsclippings and other printed material, including published research reports. The states for which the greatest amount of material is represented are Alabama, Georgia, Illinois (particularly Chicago), Kentucky (Louisville), Maryland (especially Baltimore), Mississippi, New Jersey (Newark), North and South Carolina, Tennessee (Memphis and Nashville) and Virginia (Danville and Lynchburg). An extensive file relating to Chicago includes notes and printed material about the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), and research reports prepared by the Chicago Urban League. Significant material represents Mississippi including files about the Mississippi Freedom Democractic Party, the Delta Ministry based in Edwards, notes Meier took on a July 1964 trip to that state and photographs taken in 1947 of Farish Street, in Jackson, Mississippi, the principal black business thoroughfare. Of interest are Meier's correspondence, notes and related material pertaining to the Civic Interest Group's support in Cambridge, Maryland, and the Interracial Council of Newark and the Essex County Intergroup Council (both of New Jersey).

Meier's involvement in the civil rights movement in Baltimore during his teaching career at Morgan State College in that city is revealed in the files about Baltimore, 1959-1998, (1959-1963 bulk). The protesting students at Morgan named Meier adult advisor of the Civic Interest Group (CIG), and files of this organization detail Meier's arrest for demonstrating against a segregated restaurant and include minutes of meetings, notes by Meier written as events unfolded, interviews he conducted, correspondence outlining his participation in the Northwood Theatre demonstration, printed material, and a manuscript written by John Fanton concerning CIG activities in communities on the eastern shore of Cheaspeake Bay (1962). Meier's participation in the Northwood Theatre demonstration, which led to the desegration of this theater, is documented by correspondence, his notes, reports by arrested students, Meier's correspondence with the American Association of University Professors concerning his actions, and photographs.

Alabama

b. 61 f. 1

Birmingham and Tuskegee - Newsclippings

1963

b. 61 f. 2

Birmingham and Montogomery

1956, 1963-1965

b. 61 f. 3

Montgomery - Montgomery Bus Boycotts - Newsclippings

1956-1961

b. 61 f. 4

Selma

1963

Georgia

b. 61 f. 5

Albany

1962-1963

Atlanta

b. 61 f. 6

1960-1961

b. 61 f. 7

Newsclippings and Printed Material

1961-1962

Illinois

b. 61 f. 8

Cairo

1963

Chicago

b. 61 f. 9

ACT

1964-1965

b. 61 f. 10

Virgil Vogel

n.d.

Coordinating Council of Community Organizations

b. 61 f. 11

1965

b. 61 f. 12

1965-1966

b. 61 f. 13-14

1964-1966

b. 62 f. 1-2

1965

b. 62 f. 3

1966

b. 62 f. 4

1965-1969

b. 62 f. 5-7

Dr. Arthur G. Falls, Medical Examiner - Autobiography

n.d.

Chicago Urban League

Research Reports

b. 62 f. 8

1960-1966

b. 62 f. 9

1964-1965

b. 63 f. 1

1965-1968

b. 63 f. 2

Meier's Notes

n.d.

b. 63 f. 3

Printed Material

1942-1960's

b. 63 f. 4

Integration of Chicago Public Schools

1965

Kentucky, Louisville

b. 63 f. 5

1961

b. 63 f. 6

Notes

1961

Newsclippings

b. 63 f. 7

February-March

b. 63 f. 8

April 1961

b. 63 f. 9

May 1961

b. 63 f. 10

June 1961

b. 63 f. 11

July 1961

b. 63 f. 12

Louisiana

1957-1963

Maryland, Baltimore

b. 64 f. 1

1959-1960

b. 64 f. 2

1960-1962

Civic Interest Group

b. 64 f. 3

Minutes of Meetings

1960

b. 64 f. 4

Arrest of Meier at One West Restaurant

1960

b. 64 f. 5-6

1960

b. 64 f. 7

1960-1962

b. 64 f. 8

Interviews and Notes

November 7, 1961

b. 64 f. 9

Notes

1961-1964

b. 64 f. 10

Manuscript by John Fanton

1962

b. 64 f. 11

Printed Material

1962-1967

b. 64 f. 12

And Other Groups

1960-1963, 1998

Northwood Theatre Demonstration

b. 64 f. 13

1958, January-May 1963

b. 64 f. 14

American Association of University Professors

February-April

b. 65 f. 1

Notes

February-March

b. 65 f. 2-3

February 1963

b. 65 f. 4

March 1963

b. 65 f. 5

Photographs (11)

Feb. 1963

b. 65 f. 6

Americans for Democratic Action - Race Relations Committee

1960

b. 65 f. 7

Eastern Shore Project

Summer 1962

b. 65 f. 8

Morgan State College - Printed Material

1957, 1965

b. 65 f. 9

National Labor Relations Board

1965

b. 65 f. 10

Manuscript - "Student Demonstrations and the Negro Power Structure: A Case Study of Baltimore, Maryland, 1960-1961" - Meier's Notes

1960-1961

b. 65 f. 11

Mabee, Carleton - Manuscript and Meier's Critique

1961

b. 65 f. 12

December 1961-February 1962

b. 65 f. 13

March-June

b. 66 f. 1

Congress of Racial Equality

1963

b. 66 f. 2

Housing

1961-1962

b. 66 f. 3

Meier's Address and Correspondence

1963

b. 66 f. 4

Notes and Printed Material

1963-1964

b. 66 f. 5-6

Notes

1963

b. 66 f. 7

Meier's Article, "The Successful Sit-Ins in a Border City: A Study in Social Causation,"

1961

Printed Material

b. 66 f. 8

1946-1961

b. 66 f. 9

1960-1961

Newsclippings

b. 66 f. 10

1960

b. 66 f. 11

1960-1961

b. 66 f. 12

1961-1963

Maryland, Cambridge

Anti-Segregation Demonstrations

b. 67 f. 1

Spring 1963

b. 67 f. 2

1963-1964

b. 67 f. 3

Remarks of the Governor and Official Agreement

1963

Newsclippings

b. 67 f. 4

1962-1963

b. 67 f. 5

1962

Mississippi

b. 67 f. 6

Meier's Trip to Mississippi

July 1964

b. 67 f. 7

Meier's Trip - Notes

July 1964

b. 67 f. 8

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Elections

1965

National Council of Churches Delta Ministry, Edwards, Mississippi

b. 67 f. 9

1965-1966

b. 67 f. 10

1965

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

b. 68 f. 1

1964

b. 68 f. 2

1964-1965

b. 68 f. 3

1963-1966

b. 68 f. 4

1964-1966

b. 68 f. 5

Democratic National Convention Newsclippings

1964

b. 68 f. 6

Mississippi Freedom Labor Union

1965-1966

b. 68 f. 7

Young Democratic Club

1965

b. 68 f. 8

Jackson

1963

b. 68 f. 9

Natchez

1965

b. 68 f. 10

Clarence Thomas - Meier's Notes

April 1965

b. 68 f. 11

Cooperatives

1965-1966

b. 68 f. 12

1955, 1962-1964

b. 68 f. 13

1965-1966

b. 68 f. 14

Printed Material

1957-1968

b. 68 f. 15

Photographs - Farish Street (13)

March 17, 1947

b. 69 f. 1

Missouri, East St. Louis, Newsclippings

1967

New Jersey, Newark

Interracial Council of Newark, New Jersey

b. 69 f. 2

Blood Bank Policy

1943-1944

b. 69 f. 3

1944-1945

b. 69 f. 4

Essex County Intergroup Council (Newark)

1950-1952

b. 69 f. 5

1959-1966

b. 69 f. 6

Notes, Interviews

1963-1965

b. 69 f. 7

1964-1965

b. 69 f. 8

Newsclippings, Notes

1965-1966

North Carolina

b. 69 f. 9

Notes

1961

b. 69 f. 10

Notes and Printed Material

1961

b. 69 f. 11

1961-1963

South Carolina

b. 70 f. 1

1944-1965

b. 70 f. 2

Notes

1964

Tennessee

b. 70 f. 3-4

Memphis - Notes

1961

b. 70 f. 5

Nashville

1960-1964

b. 70 f. 6

1965

Virginia

Danville

Newsclippings

b. 70 f. 7

June 6-11, 1963

b. 70 f. 8

June 12-18, 1963

b. 70 f. 9

June 19-29, 1963

b. 70 f. 10

July 1-19, 1963

b. 70 f. 11

July 23-August 6, 1963

b. 70 f. 12

Printed Material

1963

b. 70 f. 13

Newsclippings

1963

Lynchburg

b. 71 f. 1

Notes

1963

Printed Material

b. 71 f. 2

1960-1963

b. 71 f. 3

1961-1963

b. 71 f. 4

General

1965

b. 71 f. 5

Washington, D.C.

1952

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

The subseries Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1969, (1960-1965 bulk) (l lin. ft.) consists of interviews Meier conducted with several members including John H. Bracey, Jr. and Charles Hamilton about their roles with the organization, and notes about SNCC annual conferences which Meier attended. There are also notes concerning SNCC activities in Alabama, Orangeburg, South Carolina and in Mississippi including the freedom schools; press releases, printed material such as newsletters, the SNCC monthly publication "The Student Voice," (1960-1965) and newsclippings.

b. 72 f. 1

Interviews with Timothy Jenkins, Edward King, and Robert Walters

1961

b. 72 f. 2

Interviews with John Bracey, Dion Diamond, Charles Hamilton, and Mary Kehoe

1966-1967

b. 72 f. 3

Interview with San Francisco SNCC

n.d.

b. 72 f. 4

Minutes - Executive Committee Meeting, Holly Springs, Mississippi

April 12-14, 1965

b. 72 f. 5

Atlanta Conference

1962

b. 72 f. 6

Notes on SNCC Conference, Washington, D.C.

November 1963

Notes

b. 72 f. 7

1960's

b. 72 f. 8

1965-1966

b. 72 f. 9

1966

b. 72 f. 10

Alabama

1963-1965

b. 72 f. 11

Arkansas

n.d.

b. 72 f. 12

Georgia

1962

Mississippi

b. 72 f. 13

Notes

Summer 1961

b. 72 f. 14

Mississippi Freedom Schools

1963-1965

b. 72 f. 15

1965

b. 73 f. 1

Orangeburg, South Carolina - Notes

n.d.

b. 73 f. 2

Third Annual Spring Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

April 1963

b. 73 f. 3

Fourth Annual Conference - "On Food and Jobs," Washington, D.C.

November-December

b. 73 f. 4

1960-1969

b. 73 f. 5

Notes, Minutes and Printed Material

1960-1961

General

b. 73 f. 6

1960-1968

b. 73 f. 7

1963-1964

b. 73 f. 8

1963

b. 73 f. 9

1963-1966

b. 74 f. 1

1966

News Releases

b. 74 f. 2

1962

b. 74 f. 3

January-February

b. 74 f. 4

March-August

b. 74 f. 5

September-December

b. 74 f. 6

1964

"Student Voice" and Newsletters

b. 74 f. 7

1960-1962

b. 74 f. 8

1963-1965

b. 74 f. 9

1965-1967

b. 74 f. 10

Newsclippings

1963-1967, 1979

General Civil Rights Movement Printed Material

The General Civil Rights Movement Printed Material subseries, 1940-1982, (1960-1965 bulk) (3 lin. ft.) served as a resource file on a variety of civil rights organizations and subjects. Included are items on education, student activism and sit-ins, COFO, the National Urban League, the Northern Student Movement Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Students for a Democratic Society, and voter registration.

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 1

1940's

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 2

1951-1962

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 3

In Friendship

1956-1960

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 4

March on Washington

1963

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 5

Louis Henry Masotti

1966-1968

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 6

Dan W. Dodson

n.d.

Education

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 7

1954-1955

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 8

1963-1965

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 9

1966

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 10

1967-1968

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 11

1968-1976

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 12

Integrated Education

1966-1968

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 13

1961-1963

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 14

1964

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 15

1965

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 16

Newsclippings

1965-1966

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 17

James H. Laue

1965-1967

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 18

Pauli Murray

1965

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 19-20

1966

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 21

1967

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 22

1968

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 23

1968-1969

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 24

1971-1982

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 25

n.d

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 26

Black Power

1966-1968

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 27

"Revolution,"

n.d.

Student Activism and Sit-ins

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 28

Notes

n.d.

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 29

1959-1962

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 30

Freedom Riders

1960-1961

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 31

1960

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 32

1960-1962

Newsclippings

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 33

February 1960

b. 75 (Offsite) f. 34

March 1960

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 1

April 1960

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 2

May-June

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 3

July-August

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 4

September-October

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 5

November-December

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 6

January-February

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 7

March-April

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 8

1962

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 9

National Conference on Black Power

July 1967

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 10

National Sharecroppers Fund

1962-1965

Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Chicago

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 11

1963

Minutes

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 12

November 1963-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 13

1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 14

1966

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 15

Law Students Civil Rights Research Council

1964-1968

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 16

Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee

1965

National Urban League

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 17

1935-1953

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 18

Brochures

1962-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 19

Memoranda and Resolutions

1962-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 20

Annual Assemblies

1963-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 21

1963-1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 22

Whitney Young - Correspondence

1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 23

1967-1969

Northern Student Movement Coordinating Committee

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 24

Reports

1962

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 25

1962-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 26

1963-1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 27

People's War Council Against Poverty

n.d.

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 28

Poverty/Action Rights Center

1966

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 29

Southern Student Organizing Committee

1965

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 30

Printed Material

1963-1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 31

Anti-Poverty Coordinating Committee - Wilcox County, Alabama

1965-1966

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 32-33

Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project

1965

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 34

Southern Regional Council

n.d.

Students for a Democratic Society

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 35

League for Industrial Democracy

n.d.

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 36

1963-1964

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 37

Voter Registration in the South

1957-1967

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 38

Voter Registration - Newsclippings

1963

b. 76 (Offsite) f. 39

National Issues

1964

Research Files for Publications

The RESEARCH FILES FOR PUBLICATION series (23.8 lin. ft.) encompass notes, drafts, reference material, printed material, correspondence and data for only thirteen of Meier's numerous books and articles. Meier and Rudwick retained sample research files in order to provide insight into the ways they did their research and writing, therefore only certain files were kept. For example, most of the data gathered about streetcar boycotts were discarded. Similar material for Meier's other publications was not retained. This large series has been arranged chronologically by publication date of Meier's work.

"A Study of the Racial Ancestry of the Mississippi College Negro"

"A Study of the Racial Ancestry of the Mississippi College Negro," 1947-1949 (1.2 lin. ft.) is Meier's first published article, appearing in 1949. The research for this study, which employed sociological methods, was conducted while Meier was teaching at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. The bulk of the material consists of questionnaires Meier distributed to students and provides information as to the college the student attended, whether the individual was a student or faculty member, age, county and state of birth, residence at time of completing questionnaire and genealogical background. The collection also includes the manuscript, research correspondence and a letter to Melville Herskovits thanking him for his assistance in getting the article published.

b. 77 f. 1

Research Correspondence

1947-1948

b. 77 f. 2

Manuscripts

1948

b. 77 f. 3

Publication and Correspondence

1949

Research Material and Questionnaires

b. 77 f. 4-12

1947

b. 78 f. 1-9

1947

b. 79 f. 1-8

1947

b. 79 f. 9

Interview with Former Slave

1947

"The Emergence of Negro Nationalism (A Study in Ideology)"

b. 80 f. 1

Manuscript, Correspondence

1951-1952

b. 80 f. 2

Notes

n.d.

b. 80 f. 3

"Booker T. Washington and the Rise of the NAACP,"

1953-1954

b. 80 f. 4

"From Conservative to Radical: The Ideological Development of W.E.B. Du Bois,"

1959

"History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958," with David L. Lewis

The article "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958" (.8 lin. ft.) written with David Levering Lewis and published in 1959 consists of various annotated drafts of the manuscript, readers' comments, research notes, newsclippings and other printed material used for research.

Atlanta, Georgia

b. 80 f. 5

Manuscript, Printed Article and Notes

1957-1959

b. 80 f. 6-7

Draft of Manuscript and Notes

b. 80 f. 8-9

Notes

b. 80 f. 10

Research Material

b. 80 f. 11

Newsclippings

n.d.

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915

b. 80A f. 1

Chapters 6, 7, 10, 11 and 20

b. 80A f. 2

Chapters 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20, Revised

1958

Draft, ca. 1958-1959

b. 80A f. 3

Chapters 1-3

b. 80A f. 4

Chapters 4-8

b. 80A f. 5

Chapters 9-13

b. 80A f. 6

Chapters 14-20

b. 80A f. 7

Draft - Bibliography

1960

Late Version, 1960

b. 80A f. 8

Chapters 1-5

b. 80B f. 1

Chapters 6-10

b. 80B f. 2

Chapters 11-13

b. 80B f. 3

Chapters 14-15

b. 80B f. 4

Chapters 17-20

b. 80B f. 5

Original Bibliography

b. 80B f. 6-7

Revised Version

1962

b. 80B f. 8

Bibliography

ca. 1960

b. 80B f. 9

Revised Version

1962

Paul Partington - Correspondence

b. 80C f. 1

1960

b. 80C f. 2-3

1961

b. 80C f. 4

"A Bibliography of the Editorials of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois to the Crisis"

b. 80C f. 5

W.E.B. Du Bois - Notes by Paul Partington

b. 80C f. 6

Correspondence and Notes

n.d.

"New Currents in the Civil Rights Movement"

b. 81 f. 1

Research Notes - New Politics

1963

b. 81 f. 2

New Politics II

1963

b. 81 f. 3

Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, with Elliott Rudwick and Francis Broderick - Additional Materials for Book

1966

"Civil Rights Strategies for Negro Employment" Chapter in Employment, Race, and Poverty, edited by Arthur M. Rose and Herbert Hill

b. 81 f. 4

1967

b. 81 f. 5

Printed Reference Material

1967

b. 81 f. 6

Black Nationalism in America - Selections Not Used

1970

Congress of Racial Equality: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968

The subseries Congress of Racial Equality: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968, 1942-1992, 1942-1968 (bulk) (3 lin. ft.), co-authored with Elliott Rudwick, was published in 1973. The material documents issues of voter registration, desegration of lunch counters, restaurants, theaters and interstate travel, and consists of notes Meier took based on CORE's records, photocopies of correspondence and memoranda, as well as newsclipings of CORE activities. There are copies of national and local newsletters, flyers, press releases, memoranda from national director James Farmer and files of one of CORE's offshoots -- the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality. Meier also saved printed matter from other organizations to serve as reference material for this time period. These organizations include SNCC, NAACP, COFO, the National Conference on Religion and Race, the Northern Student Movement, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund. This portion of the subseries is arranged chronologically.

Most of the civil rights issues with which CORE became involved as represented by this collection took place in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Missisippi. The material for the latter state is particularly extensive and includes information regarding CORE's involvement in Clarkesdale and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Researchers interested in the civil rights movement in this state are advised to also consult the Civil Rights Movement Research Files - States.

The "Rachlin File" includes legal documents for court cases in which Carl Rachlin, national CORE's legal counsel, or other lawyers were involved. Examples of the types of court cases included are CORE's protests against segregated interstate bus travel, segregated lunch counters and a recreation center, as well as voting rights in Mississippi. Meier has indicated that most of the original notes upon which this book was based, taken by Rudwick from local white newspapers, were unfortunately destroyed prior to being donated to the Schomburg Center. Drafts of manscripts form part of this subseries.

The CORE White House Files consist of photocopies of correspondence between CORE and the White House, 1963-1968, housed in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, which documents the administration's stance towards civil rights.

b. 82 f. 1

Publication of Book

1971-1973

b. 82 f. 2

State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Research Correspondence

1967-1992

b. 82 f. 3

Meier's Correspondence

1964-1967

b. 82 f. 4-5

Harlem Office - Notes

n.d.

b. 82 f. 6

Perkins, Joseph P., Jr. "My 291 Days with CORE,"

1961

b. 82 f. 7

"The Invaders" - Manuscript re CORE Projects Summer

1964, 1965

b. 82 f. 8

Farmer, James

n.d.

Notes for Biographies

b. 82 f. 9

A-C

b. 82 f. 10

D-F

b. 82 f. 11

G-H

b. 82 f. 12

I-M

b. 82 f. 13

O-R

b. 82 f. 14

S-Z

b. 82 f. 15

Notes for Biographies, A-Z

b. 83 f. 1-3

Addresses of CORE Contacts

b. 83 f. 4

Book - Epilogue, Documents and Early Drafts

b. 83 f. 5

Bibliography for Book

b. 83 f. 6

1942-1949

b. 83 f. 7

Chapter Newsletters

1946-1962

b. 83 f. 8

Interracial Workshop

1949-1954

b. 83 f. 9

1950-1959

b. 83 f. 10

1960

b. 83 f. 11

1961

b. 83 f. 12

Meier's Notes

1961

b. 83 f. 13

1962

b. 84 f. 1-2

1963

b. 84 f. 3

1964

b. 84 f. 4-5

1965

b. 84 f. 6

National Conference on Religion and Race

1963

b. 84 f. 7

Northern Student Movement

1964

Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality

b. 84 f. 8

1963-1971

b. 84 f. 9

Conferences

June-July

b. 84 f. 10

CORE Convention - Meier's Notes

1964

b. 84 f. 11

CORE - Annual Convention

July 1965

Press Releases

b. 84 f. 12

1964

b. 84 f. 13

1965

b. 84 f. 14

Publications

n.d.

b. 84 f. 15

Southern States

1965

b. 85 f. 1-2

1966

b. 85 f. 3

1967-1968

b. 85 f. 4

Louisiana

1962-1966

b. 85 f. 5

Maryland, Cambridge

1962-1963

Mississippi

b. 85 f. 6

1961-1962

b. 85 f. 7

Edward F. Hollander Papers

1961-1965

b. 85 f. 8

Clarksdale

1962-1963

b. 85 f. 9-10

1963

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Mississippi

b. 85 f. 11

1964

b. 85 f. 12-16

1965

Other Organizations - Research Material

b. 86 f. 1

1948-1959

b. 86 f. 2

1960

b. 86 f. 3

1961

b. 86 f. 4-5

1962

b. 86 f. 6

1963

b. 86 f. 7

1964

b. 86 f. 8

1965

b. 86 f. 9

1966-1967

b. 86 f. 10

1969

b. 87 f. 1-3

Newark CORE - Essex Chapter

1964

Southern States

b. 87 f. 4

1961

b. 87 f. 5

1962

b. 87 f. 6

1963

b. 87 f. 7

1964

Southern Conference Educational Fund

Southern Patriot

b. 87 f. 8

1947-1961

b. 87 f. 9

1962-1965

b. 87 f. 10

Booklets

b. 87 f. 11

Address by Whitney Young at CORE Convention

1968

Rachlin File - Research Material

b. 88 f. 1

James Farmer and Carl Rachlin - "Let Us Look Again at the Jury Trial" - Manuscript

1965

b. 88 f. 2

Rochelle Steele et al. vs. George B. Taft et al. re Recreation Center in Florida

1965-1966

b. 88 f. 3

Florida

1963-1964

b. 88 f. 4

B. Elton Cox vs. State of Louisiana (Segregated Lunch Counters)

1965

b. 88 f. 5

Louisiana

1963-1967

b. 88 f. 6

Lois Chaffee Trial (Voting Rights, Mississippi)

1963

b. 88 f. 7

Voting Rights Cases in Mississippi

1963

b. 88 f. 8

Mississippi

1960-1965

b. 88 f. 9

Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Field Office Dockets

October 1966

b. 88 f. 10

State of New York vs. Eric Eisenberg at al. (New York World's Fair)

1964

b. 88 f. 11

New York Demonstrations - Trials, 1964

b. 88 f. 12

Court Case - Sara Penn et al. vs. State of New York

1965

b. 88 f. 13

Robert L. Pierson et al. vs. J. L. Ray et al. (Segregated Interstate Travel)

1963

b. 88 f. 14

General

1964-1965

b. 88 f. 15

Publications by Rachlin

1966

Lyndon B. Johnson White House Files - Research Material

b. 89 f. 1

1963-1964

b. 89 f. 2

1963-1968

b. 89 f. 3

1964

b. 89 f. 4

1965

b. 89 f. 5

1966

b. 89 f. 6

1967

Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience - Research Material

The subseries Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience consists of material Meier and co-author Rudwick gathered for their research for two chapters for this book: "Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action" and the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign." Drafts of manuscripts form part of this series. The files for "The Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action," 1967-1975 (1.4 lin. ft.) consists of notes, photocopies of newsclippings, research correspondence, and research papers written by others. There are also some interviews with local and national activists involved in the various boycotts organized in American cities as a means of ending segregation in employment and schools, gathered by Meier and Rudwick in the course of their research. The material deals primarily with streetcar and bus boycotts, as well as school boycotts across the country during the first half of this century. The "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign" was a form of nonviolent protest to force stores to hire African Americans with the threat of boycotting. The material for this research, 1970's (.6 lin. ft.) contains notes and articles referring to this form of protest during the 1930's and 1960's in various parts of the country including Baltimore, Indianapolis and North Carolina. Meier and Rudwick did not retain all of their research materials and notes for streetcar boycotts research due to insufficient storage space. The roles of the NAACP and CORE in these boycotts are supported with articles, notes and interviews.

"Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action"

b. 90 f. 1

Interviews with James Farmer, Jack Homer, James R. Robinson, Mark Solomon, Mark Naison

1975

b. 90 f. 2

Streetcar Boycotts

1967-1969

b. 90 f. 3

"Negro Boycotts of Jim Crow Streetcars in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas" - Individual Papers by Meier and Rudwick

n.d.

Alabama

b. 90 f. 4

Montgomery and Baton Rouge Bus Boycotts - Interviews

n.d.

b. 90 f. 5

Birmingham Transit Bus

1950's

b. 90 f. 6

Montgomery Bus Boycott

n.d.

b. 90 f. 7

Florida - Tallahassee Bus Boycott

n.d.

Georgia

"Negro Boycotts of Segregated Streetcars in Georgia, 1872- 1906," with Elliott Rudwick

b. 90 f. 8

Manuscript

n.d.

b. 90 f. 9

Research Notes

n.d.

b. 90 f. 10

"A Strange Chapter in the Career of Jim Crow" with Elliott Rudwick - Manuscript

n.d.

b. 90 f. 11

Atlanta Bus Segregation

1955-1959

b. 90 f. 12

Baltimore and Indianapolis - Streetcars

n.d.

b. 90 f. 13

Louisiana Streetcar and Bus Boycotts - Early 1900's and 1950's

b. 90 f. 14

Schools 1950's - Includes Interview with James Griffin

b. 90 f. 15

California, Blythe - Schools

1928

b. 90 f. 16

Florida Education - Articles by Arthur O. White

n.d.

Illinois

b. 90 f. 17

Springfield School Boycotts

n.d.

b. 90 f. 18

"Early Boycotts of Segregated Schools: The Case of Alton, Illinois, 1896-1908" by Meier and Rudwick - Research Notes and Early Drafts

n.d.

b. 91 f. 1

Kansas - Wichita School Protest

1906

b. 91 f. 2

Massachusetts - Arthur O. White Articles - School Boycotts

1971

Missouri

b. 91 f. 3

Kansas City Schools

1949, 1952

b. 91 f. 4

St. Louis, School Demonstrations

1951-1952

New Jersey

b. 91 f. 5

East Orange - School Boycotts

1899-1905

b. 91 f. 6

East Orange School

1930's

b. 91 f. 7

Toms River School Boycott

1927

New York

b. 91 f. 8

N.Y.C. - Individual Family Withdraws Children From School

1900

b. 91 f. 9

Roslyn, Long Island - School Protests

1910-1915

b. 91 f. 10

"Colored Schools in Rochester, New York: 1832-1856" by Judith Ruchkin

n.d.

b. 91 f. 11

Buffalo and Lockport - Arthur O. White - Articles

1969

Ohio

b. 91 f. 12-13

Dayton - Schools

n.d.

b. 91 f. 14

Dayton and Springfield School Boycotts

n.d.

b. 91 f. 15

Shaker Heights School Boycotts

1920's

b. 91 f. 16

Springfield School Boycotts

n.d.

b. 91 f. 17

Springfield Schools

n.d.

Pennsylvania

b. 91 f. 18

Berwyn

1932-1934

b. 91 f. 19

Berwyn - School Boycott

1932-1934

b. 91 f. 20

Chester School Boycotts

1934, 1946, 1954 Complaints

b. 92 f. 1

Oxford (Lincoln University) School Boycott

1909

b. 92 f. 2

Philadelphia School Boycotts

1925

b. 92 f. 3

Philadelphia - Girard College

1940's

South Carolina - Orangeburg

b. 92 f. 4

School Boycotts

1955-1956

b. 92 f. 5

Schools, Includes Interview with James Sulton

1967-1968

b. 92 f. 6

Virginia Schools

n.d.

b. 92 f. 7

Washington, D.C. School Boycotts

1951, 1953

b. 92 f. 8

Schools

1920's-1930's

School Boycotts

b. 92 f. 9

1930's

b. 92 f. 10

1930's-1950's

b. 92 f. 11

1940's-1953

b. 92 f. 12

1954-1959

b. 92 f. 13

General

n.d.

b. 92 f. 14

New Negro Alliance (from Baltimore and Washington Afro) - Schools, Jobs

n.d.

b. 92 f. 15

Kentucky, Louisville - Entertainment

1913

b. 92 f. 16

Entertainment

1920's

b. 92 f. 17

Housing Protests

n.d.

General

b. 92 f. 18

Atlanta, Georgia

n.d.

b. 92 f. 19

Greensboro, North Carolina

n.d.

b. 92 f. 20

Toledo, Ohio

n.d.

b. 93 f. 1

Aldon Morris "The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement" - Southern Sit-Ins, Notes

n.d.

b. 93 f. 2-3

Wehr, Paul Ernest, Master of Arts Thesis "The Sit-Down Protests...A Study of a Passive Resistance Movement in North Carolina,"

1960

"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign" - Research Material

b. 93 f. 4-5

Chicago - Oliver Cromwell Cox - "The Origins of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes,"

ca. 1935

b. 93 f. 6

Kiah Costonie, Sufi Abdul Hamid, Kevin Sullinger, Ross D. Brown

n.d.

b. 93 f. 7

Baltimore, Maryland

1933-1935

b. 93 f. 8

Newark, New Jersey

n.d.

b. 93 f. 9

Lockland, Ohio - Interview with Walter Hueston

1942

b. 93 f. 10

Newport News, Virginia

1941

b. 93 f. 11

Richmond, Virginia

1933-1935

b. 93 f. 12

Washington, D.C.

1933-1938

b. 93 f. 13

Job Protests

1937-1959

b. 93 f. 14

Sources of Negro Protest

1940-1960

b. 93 f. 15

Notes taken from New Negro Opinion

1930's

b. 93 f. 16

New Negro Alliance (from NAACP Papers)

n.d.

b. 93 f. 17

National NAACP

n.d.

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

Files for the subseries Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1976-1981 (4.6. lin. ft.) contain research information used by Meier and Rudwick in their 1970 book concerning fair labor practices within the UAW that resulted in major gains for African Americans, both inside and outside the automotive manufacturing plants. For their research efforts for this book, Meier and Rudwick were acknowledged with the Philip Taft Labor History Award for 1979. The bulk of the reference material consists of photocopies of files from the late 1930's-1940's gleaned from other archival repositories, notes, a dissertation and other papers. Many files discuss the roles of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and its Office of Production Management and War Manpower Commission. Other organizations represented are the Metropolitan Detroit Fair Employment Practice Council, the War Policy Division of the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Ford Motor Company, and the UAW. During 1976-1978 Meier and Rudwick conducted a number of interviews with individuals involved in the integration of the UAW in the 1940's, such as Clarence Johnson, Louis Martin, Oscar Noble, Horace Sheffield and Roy Wilkins. There are research files for several automobile plant strikes (including hate strikes), particularly those at Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation, and Packard Motor Car Company. The influence of the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan is also discussed, as is the lack of employment of African-American women. This subseries includes numerous reference articles about African Americans in the automobile industry by such researchers as Lloyd Bailer, Ralph Bunche, Glen E. Carlson, and Paul Herbert Norgren. Background material is provided in copies of Michigan newspapers and Meier's notes for the period 1919-1943. Finally, the collection concludes with Meier and Rudwick's research correspondence, correspondence with the publisher, book reviews and the Taft Award both authors received.

Fair Employment Practice Committee

b. 94 f. 1

1934-1943

b. 94 f. 2

1939-1943

b. 94 f. 3

1941-1944

b. 94 f. 4

Newsclippings, Notes

1942

b. 94 f. 5

1942-1943

b. 94 f. 6

1942-1945

b. 94 f. 7

Postponement of Detroit Hearings

1943

b. 94 f. 8

1943-1944

b. 94 f. 9

1944-1947

Office of Production Management - War Manpower Commission

b. 95 f. 1-2

1940-1943

b. 95 f. 3

1940-1965

Fair Employment Practice Committee and War Manpower Commission

b. 95 f. 4

Newsclippings

1941-1943

b. 95 f. 5-6

1942-1943

Metropolitan Detroit Fair Employment Practice Council - Background Material

b. 95 f. 7

1943

b. 95 f. 8

1944-1946

b. 95 f. 9

National Labor Relations Board - Elections

1941

b. 95 f. 10

Office of Production Management

1941

War Policy Division, United Automobile Workers - Congress of Industrial Organizations

b. 95 f. 11

1942-1957

b. 95 f. 12

1939-1944

b. 95 f. 13

1941-1943

b. 95 f. 14

1939-1944

b. 96 f. 1

War Production Board

1942-1943

b. 96 f. 2

War Production Board, FEPC, Office of Production Management, National Defense Advisory Commission - Newsclippings

1940-1943

b. 96 f. 3

Oral History Interviews - Reuther Library

1959-1968

b. 96 f. 4

Data and Questions Used for Detroit Interviews

n.d.

Interviews

b. 96 f. 5

Allen, Alexander; Alston, Christopher Columbus; Baler, Lloyd; Baur, Erwin; Billups, Joseph

1977-1978

b. 96 f. 6

Bledsoe, Geraldine; Boryczka, Raymon; Freidlander, Peter; Bowman, William; Brody, David; Conyers, John; Current, Gloster

1977

b. 96 f. 7

Doll, Tracy; Duncan, Lawrence; Evans, Ernest; Evans, Frank

1977

b. 96 f. 8

Fleming, James; Frankensteen, Richard T.; Friedlander, Peter; Galenson, Walter; Gibson, Jr., Truman K.; Hoare, Mrs. Fred; Johnson, Helene K.; Kimpley, Harold; Kirk, Paul; Landfair, James

1976-1978

b. 96 f. 9

Lee, Miriam; Lovestone, Jay; Loving, Alvin C.; Martin, Louis

1976-1978

b. 96 f. 10

McClendon, Dr. J. J.; Montgomery, David; Noble, Oscar

1976

b. 96 f. 11

Oden, Oscar; Prickett, James; Raymond, Phil E.

1977-1978

b. 96 f. 12

Interview and Biography - Sheffield, Horace

1976

b. 96 f. 13

Tappes, Shelton; Ivory, Marcellus

1976

b. 96 f. 14

Strong, George E.; Schiller, Leonard; Simmons, C. LeBron; Smith, Theodore B.; Thomas, Roland J.; Weaver, Robert C.; Wilkins, Roy

1976-1978

Biographies

b. 96 f. 15

Clark, Henry and the United Automobile Workers

n.d.

b. 96 f. 16

Crane, Henry Hitt and Diggs, Charles

n.d.

b. 96 f. 17

Mazey, Emil (Secretary - Treasurer UAW), Fanroy, Samuel; Whitby, Beulah

n.d.

b. 96 f. 18

Socialists - Mazey, Hardin and Third Party [Chapter 2]

1943

b. 96 f. 19

Mason, Hodges and Lamotte, Leo - UAW [Chapters 3, 4 & 5]

1942-1944

b. 96 f. 20

Reuther, Victor

n.d.

b. 96 f. 21

War Manpower Commission

n.d.

b. 96 f. 22

Biographies

n.d.

b. 97 f. 1

Early Automobile Union - Notes

1913-1937

b. 97 f. 2

1920's

b. 97 f. 3-4

Pre-1936

United Automobile Workers

b. 97 f. 5

American Federation of Labor Convention Minutes

March 1939

b. 97 f. 6

UAW Convention - Black Board Members and Factionalism

1943-1946, 1955

b. 97 f. 7

Black Staff

1943-1945

b. 97 f. 8

Black Staff Biographies and Local Officers

n.d.

b. 97 f. 9

Local Officers [Chapter 5]

1941-1958

b. 97 f. 10

Local 174 - Percy Key and Other Black Officers

n.d.

b. 97 f. 11

Local 212 - Black Officials, [Chapters 2 and 3]

n.d.

b. 97 f. 12

1937-1939

b. 97 f. 13

1940

b. 97 f. 14

1940-1942

b. 97 f. 15

[Chapter 3]

1941-1943

b. 97 f. 16

1943

b. 97 f. 17

1943-1944

b. 97 f. 18

1944-1948

b. 97 f. 19

1953-1960

George Crockett

b. 98 f. 1

[Chapter 5]

b. 98 f. 2

Interracial Committee, UAW [Chapter 3]

b. 98 f. 3

Black Membership in 1930's and 1940's

n.d.

b. 98 f. 4

Factionalism in the UAW

n.d.

b. 98 f. 5

Briggs Manufacturing Company

n.d.

b. 98 f. 6

Newsclippings

1937

b. 98 f. 7

Cadillac Square Demonstrations

1943

Strikes

Chrysler Corporation

b. 98 f. 8

Newsclippings

1939

b. 98 f. 9-10

1941

b. 98 f. 11

Notes

1941

b. 98 f. 12

Dodge Strike

1939

Ford Motor Company

b. 98 f. 13

Organizing and Strike, Congress of Industrial Organizations

1939-1941

b. 98 f. 14

Strike

1941

b. 98 f. 15

Black Wildcat Strike [Chapter 3]

1943

b. 98 f. 16

Hudson Naval Arsenal Strike, Centerline, Michigan

1942

b. 98 f. 17

Midland Steel Products Company - UAW Local 410 Local Officers and Strike [Chapters 2 & 3]

1937-1942

b. 98 f. 18

Packard Motor Car Company - Strike

1943

b. 98 f. 19

Packard Motor Car Compnay and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

1943

b. 98 f. 20

Packard Motor Car Company Strike - Draft

n.d.

b. 98 f. 21

Packard Motor Car Company Hate Strike

1944

b. 98 f. 22

Hate Strike - Black Walkout

1944

b. 98 f. 23

Hate Strikes Outside Detroit

1942-1943

b. 98 f. 24

FEPC, UAW, NAACP, and Strikes - Newsclippings

1943

Communist Party Influence

b. 99 f. 1

Communist Party - Influence

1930-1937

b. 99 f. 2

Midland Strike of 1936 and the Communist Party

b. 99 f. 3

Communists and the United Automobile Workers

1937

b. 99 f. 4

Packard Motor Car Company and Local 190, and the Communist Party

1941-1943

b. 99 f. 5

Ford Local 600 and Communists

1941-1944

b. 99 f. 6

House Committee on Un-American Activities

1939, 1952

b. 99 f. 7

House Committee on Un-American Activities - Charles Hill and LeBron Simmons - Testimony

1952

b. 99 f. 8

Dearborn Independent Newspaper - Russian Bolshevism

1919

b. 99 f. 9

Ku Klux Klan

1941-1944

b. 99 f. 10

Ku Klux Klan at Packard Motor Company - Local 190

1942

Ford Motor Company

b. 99 f. 11

Associated Negro Press

1925-1947

b. 99 f. 12-13

Notes and Newsclippings

1941

b. 99 f. 14

"Ford Facts" - UAW-CIO Newspaper

1941

b. 99 f. 15

Detroit Urban League

1941-1943

b. 99 f. 16

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Negro Congress

1943-1945

b. 99 f. 17

NAACP and National Citizens' Council

1942-1943

Detroit Politics

b. 100 f. 1-2

Mayor Jeffries

n.d.

b. 100 f. 3

Political Campaigns - Mayor and City Council

1937

b. 100 f. 4

1930's-1940's

b. 100 f. 5

Newsclippings

1937-1949

b. 100 f. 6-8

Detroit Race Riot [Chapter 4]

1943

Housing

b. 100 f. 9

Housing - Willow Run Federal Public Housing

1943

b. 100 f. 10-11

Sojourner Truth Housing Project - Federal Housing

1942

b. 100 f. 12

Detroit's Black Housing Problem

1944

b. 100 f. 13

Martel, American Federation of Labor and Housing [Chapter 4]

1942-1943

b. 100 f. 14

Housing

1943

b. 100 f. 15

Housing Hearings - United Automobile Workers, "The Racial Policies of the Detroit Housing Commission and their Administration" by Bette Smith Jenkins, Thesis

1950

Women Employees

b. 101 f. 1

Women Employees [Chapter 3]

n.d.

b. 101 f. 2

Correspondence - Lack of Employment of Black Women in Ford Motor Company

1942

b. 101 f. 3-5

UAW and Lack of Employment of Women - Newsclippings

1942

b. 101 f. 6

Women and Ford Motor Company

1941-1942

Writings by Others

Bailer, Lloyd - Negro Labor in the Automobile Industry

b. 101 f. 7-8

Part I

1943

b. 101 f. 9-10

Part II

1943

b. 101 f. 11

"The Negro Automobile Worker" - "The Automobile Unions and Negro Labor,"

1943-1946

b. 101 f. 12

Baskin, Alex; Boryczka, Raymond Brody; David, Carey; Lee, Lorin; and Clinansmith, Michael S. - Articles

1971-1972

b. 101 f. 13

Blackwood, "The United Automobile Workers of America, 1935-1951"

n.d.

b. 101 f. 14

Bunche, Ralph, The Negro in America - Article About Politics in Detroit and Detroit Civil Rights Organizations (Carnegie Myrdal Study)

1930's

b. 102 f. 1-2

Carlson, Glen E. "The Negro in the Industries of Detroit" - Dissertation

1929

b. 102 f. 3

Crockett, George - Executive Director of International UAW-FEPC News Columns

1944-1946

b. 102 f. 4

Dancy, John C. - Sand Against the Wind: Memoirs of John C. Dancy re Detroit Urban League

1966

b. 102 f. 5

Faigin, Henry - "The Industrial Workers of the World in Detroit and Michigan, From the Period of Beginnings through the World War,"

1937

b. 102 f. 6

Fine, Sidney - "President Roosevelt and the Automobile Code," "The Ford Motor Company and the N.R.A.," "Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935" - Articles

1958

b. 102 f. 7

Friedland, William - Section of Thesis on Job Statistics and Attitudes [Used for Epilogue and Chapter 5]

n.d.

b. 102 f. 8

Friedlander, Peter - "The Social Basis of Politics in a UAW Local: Midland Steel, 1933-1941" [delivered at Organization of American Historians Conference]

1977

b. 102 f. 9

Galenson, Walter and Howe, Irving - Articles

1949-1960

b. 102 f. 10

Kornhauser, William - Articles

1952-1956

b. 102 f. 11

Lewis, David Lanier, Student Paper - "History of Negro Employment in Detroit Area Plants of Ford Motor Company, 1914-1941,"

1954

b. 102 f. 12

Litchfield, Edward H.; McKie William; Nevins, Allan; Northrup, Herbert R.; and Olson, James S. - Articles

1941-1969

b. 102 f. 13

Mortimer, Wyndham "Organize! My Life as a Union Man,"

1971

b. 102 f. 14-15

Norgreen, Paul Herbert

n.d.

b. 102 f. 16

Sitkoff, Harvard; Sward, Keith; and Thomas, Richard - Articles

1948-1976

b. 103 f. 1

Stieber, Jack "Governing the UAW,"

1962

b. 103 f. 2

Weaver, Robert C. and Winn, Frank - Articles

1917-1944

b. 103 f. 3

Widick, B. J. "Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence," Wilson, James Q. "Negro Politics: The Search for Leadership,"

1965-1972

b. 103 f. 4

Occupational Statistics

n.d.

b. 103 f. 5

Claude A. Barnett Papers re United Automobile Workers, Michigan Politics and Race Relations - Newsclippings

1925-1943

b. 103 f. 6

Churches and Booker T. Washington Trade Association

n.d.

b. 103 f. 7

Polish and Black Workers

n.d.

b. 103 f. 8

Weaver, Robert and Defense Agencies - Drafts and Notes

n.d.

b. 103 f. 9

Wayne County, Michigan AFL-CIO

1930's-1940's

b. 103 f. 10

Henry Ford [Mostly from Ford Archives, Deerborn, Michigan]

n.d.

b. 103 f. 11

Image and Other Publications

1943-1949

b. 103 f. 12

Federal Records Center - Chicago [Material Not Used or Cited]

n.d.

Dearborn Independent

W.E.B. Du Bois

b. 103 f. 13

1919-1925

b. 103 f. 14

1922-1927

b. 103 f. 15

Wage Earner - Newspaper

1940-1943

Newsclippings

b. 104 f. 1

1937-1939

b. 104 f. 2

1938

b. 104 f. 3-4

1941

b. 104 f. 5

1941-1942

b. 104 f. 6

1942

b. 104 f. 7-9

1943

b. 104 f. 10

1943-1944

b. 104 f. 11

Research Correspondence re UAW - Walter Reuther Library

1976-1977

b. 104 f. 12

August Meier and Eilliott Rudwick - Research Correspondence

1977

b. 104 f. 13

Reproduction of Photographs Used in Book

n.d.

b. 104 f. 14

Research Material - Notes

n.d.

b. 104 f. 15

Research Material

n.d.

b. 104 f. 16

Partial Draft of Manuscript

n.d.

b. 105 f. 1

Oxford University Press - Correspondence

1976-1980

b. 105 f. 2

Comments re Manuscript

1977-1988

b. 105 f. 3

Oxford University Press - Promotion

1979

b. 105 f. 4

Reviews

1979-1981

b. 105 f. 5

Prizes

1980

"Communist Unions and the Black Community: The Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934-1944"

Meier and Rudwick also co-authored the article, "Communist Unions and the Black Community: The Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934-1944" (1982), 1979-1981 (1 lin. ft.) which primarily discusses the Transit Workers Union and its operations in New York City and Philadelphia. This subseries is notable in part because it demonstrates the thoroughness of Meier and Rudwick's research program, and consists of several later drafts, and research material including photocopies of minutes and reports of TWU conventions, newsclippings, reference articles, notes, and copies of office files housed at other archival repositories. Michael Quill's involvement in New York City, and the Philadelphia Transport Union strike of 1944 are documented with reference material and notes. Correspondence regarding publication of the article and a report complete this subseries.

b. 106 f. 1

Reprint

1982

b. 106 f. 2

Publication of Article - Correspondence

1981

b. 106 f. 3

Manuscript

n.d.

b. 106 f. 4

Draft #5

n.d.

b. 106 f. 5

Draft #6

n.d.

b. 106 f. 6

Draft #7

n.d.

b. 106 f. 7

Draft #9

n.d.

b. 106 f. 8

Revised Draft

n.d.

b. 106 f. 9

Interviews

1979

b. 106 f. 10

New York City and Philadelphia

1931-1949

b. 106 f. 11

Report of the Executive Board, First Convention

1937

b. 106 f. 12

Conventions - Minutes

1938-1946

b. 106 f. 13

New York City Subways - Charles H. Houston, Special Counsel, NAACP

1937-1940

New York City Bus Boycott

b. 106 f. 14

Newsclippings

1941

b. 106 f. 15

Correspondence and Notes

1941

b. 106 f. 16

People's Voice - Newsclippings

1942-1944

New York City - Newsclippings

b. 107 f. 1

1927-1938

b. 107 f. 2

1939-March 1941

b. 107 f. 3

April 1941

b. 107 f. 4

May 1941-1959

b. 107 f. 5

Newsclippings - Politics

1938, 1944

b. 107 f. 6

Transit Industry - World War II

1943-1945

b. 107 f. 7

Naison, Mark, "Harlem Communists and the Politics of Black Protest,"

1978

b. 107 f. 8-9

Reference Articles

n.d.

b. 107 f. 10

Housing Association of Delaware Valley, Philadelphia

1943-1944

Philadelphia Transportation Company

b. 107 f. 11-12

1943

Strike

b. 107 f. 13

1944

b. 107 f. 14

NAACP and Urban League Involvement

1944

b. 107 f. 15

Newsclippings

August 1944

[Temple University Urban Archives]

b. 108 f. 1

1943

b. 108 f. 2

Notes

1943-1946

Newsclippings

b. 108 f. 3

January-February

b. 108 f. 4

March-July

b. 108 f. 5

July-October

b. 108 f. 6

November-December

Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 - Research Material

This subseries contains a substantial amount of material prepared by Meier and Rudwick for their 1986 book Black History and the Historical Profession, 1967-1998, (10 lin. ft.), a study dealing with the shaping of scholarly writing on African-American history. Among other issues, Meier and Rudwick were interested in the backgrounds of people who entered the field, the perspectives they brought to the field, how these have changed during the time period covered in the book (ca. 1915-1980), and how they are related to the changing social and academic milieu. The authors also delved into the role philanthropy played in the development of African-African history as a distinct historical speciality. Finally, they studied the ways in which black history and black historians have been treated by the learned historical societies (the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association), and how this in turn related to the development and shaping of the field.

The categories used to organize the research material are: individuals, organizations, subjects and preparation of the book. There are files for each historian included in the book as well as a number who are not. Meier and Rudwick held telephone or in-person interviews with approximately 175 historians, both black and white, who conducted research in black history. An asterisk by the name denotes that there are notes and/or a summary of the interview with that individual and that the file is closed until 2025. The interviewees spoke about how and why they became involved in the study of black history, their family and personal backgrounds, their involvement, if any, in student activism, and their profesional relationship with other academicians in the field. A relatively high percentage of these historians are Jewish -- these interviews discuss the ways in which their Jewish background influenced them professionally. Other material in these folders includes photocopies of selected journal articles (or occasionally original reprints), portions of books authored by these scholars, curriculum vita, correspondence, book reviews or other articles written about the scholar and other biographical material.

The section on Organizations contains photocopies of material found in archival repositories, notes, and newsclippings which illuminate research in black studies. Among the organizations included are the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the General Education Board, and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. The Subjects portions of this subseries consist of secondary source materials and contains categories such as historians and African Americans, slavery, reconstruction, historiography, black Ph.D.'s and early black history courses. The final section, Preparation of Book, consists of manuscript drafts, reviews of the manuscript including comments by John Bracey, research correspondence, correspondence with the publisher, and a paper Meier and Rudwick delivered based on the research for this book.

Individuals

b. 109 f. 1-2

Adams, Herbert Baxter

b. 109 f. 3

Alvord Alexander - Mississippi Valley Historical Association

b. 109 f. 4

Anderson, Eric

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 5-6

Aptheker, Herbert

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 7

Bacote, Clarence

n.d.

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 8

Bancroft, Frederic

b. 109 f. 9

Bardolph, Richard

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 10

Beale, Howard K.

b. 109 f. 11

Beard Charles A.

b. 109 f. 12

Bell, Howard

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 13

Belles, Gilbert

b. 109 f. 14

Berlin, Ira

Restricted.

b. 109 f. 15

Berman, William

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b. 109 f. 16

Berry, Mary F.

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b. 109 f. 17

Bethune, Mary McLeod

b. 109 f. 18

Bishop, David W.

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b. 109 f. 19-20

Blassingame, John W.

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b. 109 f. 21

Boaz, Franz

b. 110 f. 1-2

Bond, Horace Mann

b. 110 f. 3

Borchert, James

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b. 110 f. 4

Botkin, Benjamin A.

b. 110 f. 5

Bracey, John H.

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b. 110 f. 6

Branham, Charles

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b. 110 f. 7

Braver, Carl

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b. 110 f. 8

Brawley, Benjamin

b. 110 f. 9

Brewer, James H.

b. 110 f. 10

Broderick, Francis L.

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b. 110 f. 11

Brown, Leticia Woods By Davis, Winfred W.

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b. 110 f. 12

Bunche, Ralph J.

b. 110 f. 13

Buni, Andrew

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b. 110 f. 14

Callcott, Margaret Law

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b. 110 f. 15

Carlson, Shirley

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b. 110 f. 16

Carleton, William G.

b. 110 f. 17

Carr, Lois

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b. 110 f. 18

Carroll, Joseph Cephas

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b. 110 f. 19

Carson, Clay

b. 110 f. 20

Carter, Dan T.

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b. 110 f. 21

Chafe, William

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b. 110 f. 22

Channing, Edward

b. 110 f. 23

Cheek, William

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b. 110 f. 24

Clark, Kenneth

b. 110 f. 25

Clarke, Robert L.

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b. 110 f. 26

Clement, Rufus

b. 110 f. 27

Copeland, J. Isaac

b. 110 f. 28

Cornish, Dudley Taylor

b. 110 f. 29

Couch, William T.

b. 110 f. 30

Cox, La Wanda

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b. 110 f. 31

Cox, Thomas C.

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b. 111 f. 1

Craven, Avery

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Cripps, Thomas R.

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b. 111 f. 3

Cruse, Harold W.

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b. 111 f. 4

Curry, Leonard

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b. 111 f. 5

Curti, Merle E.

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b. 111 f. 6

Curtin, Philip

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b. 111 f. 7

Dalfiume, Richard

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b. 111 f. 8

Daniel, Pete

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b. 111 f. 9

Daniels, Douglas Henry

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b. 111 f. 10

Dauer, Manning J.

b. 111 f. 11

Davis, Allison

b. 111 f. 12

Davis, David Brion

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b. 111 f. 13

Davis, Jackson

b. 111 f. 14

Degler, Carl

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b. 111 f. 15

DeVries, James H.

b. 111 f. 16

Dew, Charles B.

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Dillard, James Hardy

b. 111 f. 19

Dittmer, John

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b. 111 f. 20

Dodd, William E.

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Donald, Aida

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b. 111 f. 22

Dowd, Jerome

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17th Century

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General

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Slavery - Insurrections

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Slave Narrative - Barber of Natchez

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Slave Narratives

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Southern Studies - Special Issue on Slavery

Winter 1977

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Abolitionist, Civil War

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Reconstruction Historiography

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The South - Post-Civil War

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Free Negroes

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Early Negro History Courses - Atlanta University, Fisk University, and Howard University Catalogs, etc.

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Early Negro History Course

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Historians and Negroes

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Black History

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Black History as a Social Movement

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Black Historiography - Early 1960's

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Historiography - Future Lines of Research

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Black Studies Programs

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Black Historical Organizations - Annual Income

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Blacks and Jews - History

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Blacks and Indians

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Black Ph.D's

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List of Black Ph.D's

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Black Ph.D's in Universities

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Black Studies - Grant Supported Research

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Oral History and Social History

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Progressive Historians

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Labor Historiography and the New Left

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"History from the Bottom Up,"

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New Social History

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Social Science Research Center

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Social History

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Negro Family Attack

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Segregation in Anthropological Conventions

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Journal of Southern History - Articles by Race of Historian

1970-1980

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Peabody, George Foster Papers

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William and Mary Quarterly - Notes on Articles

1944-1981

Preparation of Book

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Chapter II

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Chapter III

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Professional Organizations - Chapters III & IV

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Chapter V

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American Liberal Tradition Chapter

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Research Correspondence

1981-1983

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Manuscript Collections Consulted

1981-1984

Reviews of Manuscript

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1984-1985

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John H. Bracey, Jr.

1985

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Letters to Authors

1984-1985

University of Illinois Press

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List of People Receiving Complimentary Copies of Book

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"The Contours of Afro-American Historiography, 1915-1980" with Elliott Rudwick

ca. 1984

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Black Leaders of the Nineteeth Century

The final subseries consists of files for Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, 1982-1987 (.8 lin. ft.) co-edited by Leon Litwack and Meier published in 1988. The files contain essays written by a number of scholars and correspondence between the contributors and Meier and Litwack concerning acceptability of the essay or editorial changes to be made. A version of the chapter (sometimes annotated) is generally included. There is also correspondence between Meier, Litwack and the University of Illinois Press, publishers' announcements, and dust jackets. Included is a file for Bettye Collier-Thomas, although her contribution was not used in the book.

b. 136 f. 1

Leon Litwick - Correspondence

1982-1987

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Contributors for Essays - Declinations and Acceptances

1983-1985

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Agreements

1984-1986

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Introduction

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Meier's Notes

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Manuscript for Index

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Publisher's Announcements, Dust Jackets

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Cheek, William and Aimee Lee Cheek - "John Mercer Langston: Principle and Politics,"

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b. 136 f. 9

Collier-Thomas Bettye - "Francix Ellen Watkins Harper: Literary Leader and Feminist Refromer" (not included in book)

n.d.

b. 136 f. 10

Dittmer, John - "The Education of Henry McNeal Turner,"

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b. 136 f. 11

Foner, Eric - "Black Reconstruction Leaders at the Grass Roots,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 1

Gerber, David - "Peter Humphries Clark: The Dialogue of Hope and Despair,"

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b. 137 f. 2

Harley, Sharon - "Mary Church Terrell: Genteel Militant,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 3

Hermann, Janet Sharp - "Isiah T. Montgomery's Balancing Act,"

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b. 137 f. 4

Martin, Waldo E. - "Frederick Douglass: Humanist as Race Leader,"

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b. 137 f. 5

Moss, Alfred - "Alexander Crummell: Black Nationalist and Apostle of Wetern Civilization,"

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b. 137 f. 6

Quarles, Benjamin - "Harriet Tubman's Unlikely Leadership,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 7

Painter, Nell Irvin - Martin, R. Delaney: Elitism and Black Nationalism,"

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b. 137 f. 8

Raboteau, Albert J. - "Richard Allen and the African Church Movement,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 9

Rabinowitz, Howard N. - "Three Reconstruction Leaders: Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Elliott, and Holland Thompson,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 10

Silverman, Jason H. - "Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality Liberation Theory,"

n.d.

b. 137 f. 11

Stuckey, Sterling - "A Last Stern Struggle: Henry Highland Garnet

n.d.

b. 137 f. 12

Wood, Peter H. - "Nat Turner: The Unknown Slave as Visionary Leader,"

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b. 137 f. 13

Wright, George C. - "William Henry Steward: Moderate Approach to Black Leadership,"

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Research Files - Unpublished Material

The series RESEARCH FILES - UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL consists of material for two of Meier's unfinished projects, the "History of the Negro Upper Class, circa 1890-1950" and a history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Although he originally planned to write a history of the NAACP, he decided later to focus on the labor issue only.

The "Negro Upper Class Study," 1958-1960 (1.6 lin. ft.) subseries was slated to be a follow-up study to his earlier publication, "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958." There are notes, newsclippings, articles and research correspondence. The cities covered include New Orleans, Baltimore, Durham (North Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), Philadelphia, Nashville, and Washington, D.C.

Negro Upper Class Study

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Louisiana, New Orleans - Notes

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Maryland, Baltimore

b. 138 f. 5

Research Material

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b. 138 f. 6-11

Notes

n.d.

b. 138 f. 12

Newsclippings

1961-1962

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New Jersey, Newark

n.d

North Carolina, Durham

n.d

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Research Material

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b. 139 f. 3

Research Material

1957-1958

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Research Material and Notes

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b. 139 f. 5-6

Life Insurance - Notes

n.d.

b. 139 f. 7-11

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

n.d.

South Carolina, Charleston

Notes

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1958

b. 140 f. 3

1958-1959

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1959

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b. 141 f. 2-3

Tennesee, Nashville

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b. 141 f. 4

Washington, D.C.

n.d.

b. 141 f. 5

Washington, D.C. - Sterling Brown

n.d.

b. 141 f. 6

Washington, D.C.

n.d.

b. 141 f. 7

General - Samuel W. Bacote - Notes on Book

n.d.

b. 141 f. 8-12

General

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b. 142 (Offsite)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Office

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Office, 1960-1993, subseries (2.6 lin. ft.) consists principally of photocopies of original NAACP records dating from 1909 to 1965 (originals are housed in the Library of Congress), and Meier's research notes. The NAACP files focus on disenfranchisement in the South and inequalities in educational opportunities. The Voting Franchise files consist of individual legal cases that the NAACP fought to secure voting rights in the American South, 1911-1945. The Legal Redress cases deal with the NAACP's attempts to have the courts overturn decisions in cases following conviction, 1910-1939. The Education files are concerned with federal, state and local aid to education, 1909-1938.

The files for the Garland Fund, funded by a gift from Charles Garland in 1922, pertain to a nationwide legal campaign designed to procure and safeguard full civil rights for all African Americans. The campaign focused on the "Disenfranchisement of African Americans in southern states, inequalities in educational opportunities and appropriations, denial of equal service on railroads, bus systems and other forms of transportation, and other forms of discrimination based upon color and violating constitutional provisions." Nathan R. Margold was the legal counsel who directed this campaign in the 1930's.

The School Desegregation files, 1919-1940, contain information on segregation in public schools and universities across the country, and the inequity in black and white teachers' salaries.

Also included are Meier's notes on the involvement of the NAACP in student sit-ins; research correspondence for his article, "Attorneys Black and White: a Study of Race Relations in the NAACP" (1976); photocopies of monthly reports of various departments (1943-1946); publications of Herbert Hill, NAACP Labor Director; and papers written by Meier with various co-authors on civil rights organizations, the student non-violent movement, and race relations.

Franchise

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 1

Louis Marshall and White Primary Cases

n.d.

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 2

White Primary Cases - General

1920's-1930's

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 3

White Primary Cases - Attempt to Get Congressional Action

1935

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 4

Disenfranchisement

1940

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 5

1919-1935

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 6

Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas

1919-1920

Alabama

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 7

1926

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 8

Disenfranchisement Case

1939

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 9

1930's

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 10

Alabama and New Orleans

1930's

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 11

Arkansas - White Primary Case

1928-1930

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 12

Los Angeles, California

1928

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 13

Florida - Primary Case (Goode vs. Bell)

1928-1930

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 14

Georgia - White Primary Case

1938

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 15

Trudeau vs. Barnes, New Orleans

1931-1933

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 16

Classic vs. Louisiana

1942

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 17

North Carolina

1930's

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 18

Lane vs. Wilson Case, Oklahoma

1939

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 19

Oklahoma

1922, 1924, 1925, 1928

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 20

Guinn (Grandfather Clause) Case

1911-1915

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 21

South Carolina

1929-1932

Texas White Primary Case

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 22

1932-1935

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 23

Nixon Case

n.d.

b. 142 (Offsite) f. 24

Nixon vs. Condon

n.d.

Texas White Primary Case - Nixon

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 1

1923-1925

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 2

1925-1931

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 3

1931-1932

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 4

1932-1938

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 5

Texas White Primary Case - Love vs. Griffith

1924-1926

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 6

Lindsay, Walter, "Black Houstonians Challenge the White Democratic Primary, 1921-1944" - Excerpts

n.d.

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 7

Hine, Darlene Clark - "The Elusive Ballot: The Black Struggle Against the Texas Democratic White Primary, 1932-1945,"

n.d.

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 8

Richmond, Virginia - White Primary Case - West vs. Bliley

1928-1929

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 9

Virginia

1934

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 10

Miscellaneous Legal Cases

n.d.

Legal Redress Cases

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 11

Mob Violence

1919

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 12

Private Anderson Case

1914

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 13

Bard and Fleming Case, Louisville, Kentucky

1929

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 14

Bell-Swain Case, Arkansas

1928-1932

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 15

Louis and Elbert Blake Case, Arkansas

1932

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 16

Bill Jack and Curtis Bledsoe Case, Tennessee

1937

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 17

Ellington and Shields Brown, Mississippi

1935

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 18

Willie Brown Case, Philadelphia

1932

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 19

Daniel Bush Case, Michigan

1933

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 20

Edgar C. Caldwell Case, Alabama

1919-1920

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 21

Tom Carraway Case, Mississippi

1934

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 22

Carruthers and Clayton Case, Arkansas

1935-1939

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 23

Virginia Christian Case

1912

b. 143 (Offsite) f. 24

Pink Franklin Case, South Carolina

1910-1919

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 1

Edward Glass Extradition Case, Oklahoma

1927

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 2

Steve Greene Case, Chicago

1910

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 3

Jess Hollins Case, Oklahoma

1935-1936

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 4

Samuel Kennedy Extradition Case

1927-1928

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 5

Roy Mann Case, Alabama

1934

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 6

Claude Neal Case

n.d.

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 7

Thomas Nelson Case, Virginia

1931-1932

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 8

Willie Peterson Case, Alabama

1931-1937

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 9

Ervin Pruitt Case, Mississippi

1931-1932

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 10

Charlie E. Simpson Case

1931-1939

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 11

Mann Smith Case, North Carolina

1937-1938

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 12

Samuel Smith Case, Pennsylvania

1934

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 13

Kater Stevens Case and Abe Washington Case, Maryland

1934-1935

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 14

I. Willis Cole and William Warley Case, Louisville, Kentucky

1927

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 15

Abe Washington Case, Florida

1923-1929

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 16

James Williams Case, New York City

1927

Education

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 17

Federal Aid to Education (Early Interest)

1909-1911

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 18

State and Local Aid to Education

1910-1912

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 19

Federal Aid to Education Bills, Smith-Lever Bill

1913-1914

Federal Aid to Education

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 20

Smith-Towner Bill - Mary White Ovington and Florence Kelley

1923-1924

Harrison-Black-Fletcher Bill

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 21

Rider to Department of the Interior Appropriations Bill

1936-1938

b. 144 (Offsite) f. 22

1937-1938

Garland Fund

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 1

1922-1929

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 2

Studies of Southern Schools (in Crisis)

1926-1927

Committee on Negro Work

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 3

1929-1930

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 4

1930

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 5-6

Margold Report

1931

Margold, Nathan

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 7

1930-1932

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 8

1930-1935

Garland Fund

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 9

1933-1934

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 10

1935-1936

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 11

1936

b. 145 (Offsite) f. 12

1937-1939

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 1

Fraternities and Sororities

n.d.

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 2

Research File

1965-1966

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 3

Education Staff

n.d.

General

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 4

1920's

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 5

1930's

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 6

1935-1938

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 7

1935-1956

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 8

Strategy in School Desegregation Fight

1936

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 9

School Desegregation

1935-1955

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 10

Arkansas - Discrimination and Equalization Fight

1938-1940

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 11

Arizona School Case

n.d.

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 12

Florida School Cases

n.d.

Indiana

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 13

Gary School Segregation, Gary NAACP Branch Conflict

1920

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 14

Gary School Segregation Case

n.d.

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 15

Indianapolis School Segregation

1923-1926

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 16

Kentucky Schools

1940

Maryland

Schools

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 17

1920

b. 146 (Offsite) f. 18-19

1930's

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 1

Mississippi School Discrimination

n.d.

Missouri

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 2

Lincoln University - Lloyd L. Gaines Case, Lucille Buford Case

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 3-4

University of Missouri - Lloyd L. Gaines Case

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 5

New Jersey Schools - Atlantic City, Camden, Englewood, Lawnside, Tom's River and Trenton

n.d.

New York State

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 6

Duchess County

1938

New York City

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 7

Discrimination

1919-1939

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 8

Harlem

1930's

North Carolina

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 9

School Cases

1933-1934

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 10-11

Teachers' Salaries

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 12

Garland Fund

1937-1940

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 13

University of North Carolina

n.d.

Ohio

School Cases

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 14

Mansfield, Columbus and Doris Weaver

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 15

Youngstown and Dayton

n.d.

Oklahoma

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 16

Boynton

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 17

Muskogee School Case

1924-1925

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 18

Schools

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 19

Pennsylvania School Segregation

n.d.

Tennessee

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 20

Memphis School Discrimination

1919

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 21

University of Tennessee

n.d.

b. 147 (Offsite) f. 22

Texas - Discrimination Fight

1938

Virginia

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 1-2

Schools

n.d.

Teacher's Salaries

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 3

1937-1939

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 4

1939-1940

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 5

Northern Colleges - Discrimination

n.d.

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 6

Salaries

1937-1940

General

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 7

Martin Luther King Family and NAACP

1940-1949

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 8

Lynching

1940-1951

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 9

Reports of the Secretary

1943

New York City Office

Reports

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 10

December 1945-March 1946

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 11

April-August

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 12

September-December

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 13

Oklahoma City Sit-in Demonstrations

1958-1960

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 14

Sit-in Demonstrations

1959-1960

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 15

52nd Annual Convention

1961

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 16

Role of NAACP - Press Releases and Addresses

1961

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 17

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Docket Report

November 1965

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 18

Research Correspondence for Article, "Attorneys Black and White: A Study of Race Relations in the NAACP,"

1976

b. 148 (Offsite) f. 19

Mark Tushnet's Research on NAACP Legal Campaign

1978-1979

Publications

b. 149 (Offsite) f. 1

By Herbert Hill

ca. 1960-1968

b. 149 (Offsite) f. 2

1914-1952

b. 149 (Offsite) f. 3

1956-1963

b. 149 (Offsite) f. 4

Newsclippings

1961-1966

Other Writings

b. 150 f. 1

"The Student Non-Violent Movement and the Radical Left" with Frank Hunt

1962

b. 150 f. 2

"Some Observations of Strategies of Civil Rights Organizations in the South" - Manuscript and Research Material

1967

b. 150 f. 3

"Conflict, Consensus, and American Values: Changes in Patterns of Race Relations, 1925-1975" with Elliott Rudwick - Manuscript

n.d.

W.E.B. Du Bois

b. 150 f. 4

Correspondence with Paul Partington

n.d.

b. 150 f. 5

Notes Taken by Paul Partington

n.d.

b. 150 f. 6

"CORE: From Interracialism to Black Power" - Manuscript by Meier and Elliott Rudwick

n.d.

b. 150 f. 7

A. Philip Randolph and the NAACP

1992

Elliott Rudwick

This extensive collection concludes with the ELLIOTT RUDWICK series, 1960-1983 (2 lin. ft.) which contains a modest amount of material reflecting Rudwick's and Meier's joint projects. Included are Rudwick's vita and bibliographies, papers presented about black Detroit, the Congress for Racial Equality, and black nationalism, his consultancy with the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1962-1963, and a partial manuscript about the history of blacks in East St. Louis, IL. There is also reference material about the Illinois State Conference of NAACP branches, labor, 1960's, and student papers about blacks in Ohio. The series concludes with Rudwick's reprints.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 1

Vitae

1974-1985

Bibliography

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 2

1979-1980

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 3

1983

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 4

Correspondence between Meier and A. Philip Randolph

1957-1964

Papers

"The Black Ghetto"

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 5

January 15, 1969

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 6

Notes

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 7

"Organizational Structure and Goal Succession: A Comparative Study of the NAACP and CORE, 1964-1968" with Meier

ca. 1969

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 8

"Some Reflections on the History of Nonviolent Direct Action in Negro Protest" with Meier

ca. 1969

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 9

Race Riots

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 10

"CORE: The Road from Interracialism to Black Power,"

ca. 1971

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 11

NAACP

1975

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 12

Black Detroit - Research Methods

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 13

"Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1933-1943" University of California, Berkeley, August Meier

1977

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 14

"Black Detroit and Henry Ford: A Study in Industrial Paternalism, 1917-1943,"

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 15

Association for the Study of African American Life and History, New Orleans

1981

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 16

"American Values and Social Change: How Right was Gunnar Mydral?,"

ca. 1969

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 17

"A Survey of Black Nationalism in America through the 1960's,"

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 18

"From Heresy to Legitimacy: The Legitimization of Afro-American History" with August Meier

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 19

College Paper - "The Social Thought of Gandhi,"

ca. 1950

Consultancies - United States Commission on Civil Rights

1962-1963

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 20

"Negro Employment in U.S. Judicial Agencies, 1961-1962,"

1963

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 21

1963

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 22

Racial Segregation in the Judicial System

1963

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 23

Book Review - Garrow, David - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,"

1986

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 24

Review - Tushnet, Mark - Segregated School and the Legal Strategy

1984

Research Materials

East St. Louis

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 25

Mainly Politics

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 26

Fragments of Manuscript

1963

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 27

Promotion - Race Riot at East St. Louis

1972

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 28

"Streetcar Boycott of 1905 in Nashville,"

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 29

Publications - CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1942-1968 - Promotion

1972

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 30

"Organizational Structure and Goal Succession: A Comparative Analysis of the NAACP and CORE, 1964-1968" - Notes and Reprint

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 31

Ideas for NAACP - Labor Book

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 32

Labor - New York Times - Citations

n.d.

b. 151 (Offsite) f. 33-34

Labor

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 1-3

NAACP and Labor

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 4

St. Louis Argus

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 5

Newspaper Citations

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 6

Labor

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 7-10

Illinois State Conference of NAACP Branches

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 11

NAACP

1976

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 12

UAW in the 1940's

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 13

Henry Ford and Blacks - Notes

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 14

World War II - Notes

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 15-16

Research on Women - Notes

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 17

Correspondence and Book Review - Meier, W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Bunche re Rudwick's Research on Du Bois

1953-1959

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 18

Jews and Blacks - Newsclippings

1974-1985

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 19

U.S. Anti-Semitism

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 20

Louis Farrakhan

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 21

History of the Black Panthers

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 22

Detroit Police Department

1962

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 23

Social Movements - Articles by Other Authors

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 24

Civil Rights Movement - Articles by Other Authors

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 25

Holtege - Dissertation on Civil Rights Movement, Grand Rapids, Michigan

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 26

A.S. Powe - Ph.D. Dissertation - "Role of the Negro Pressure Groups in Interracial Integration in Durham City, North Carolina,"

1954

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 27

Clifton T. Smith - M.A. Thesis - "Patterns of Negro Leadership in Witchita, Kansas,"

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 28

African-American History - Reprints

n.d.

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 29

Student Papers - Cleveland Protest Movement

1960's, 1965-1970

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 30

Student Papers re Blacks in Ohio

1965-1970

Reprints

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 31

1960-1969

b. 152 (Offsite) f. 32

1970-1983

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1930-1998

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August Meier papers 1930-1998

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August Meier papers
1930-1998