Physical Description: 15.5 Cubic Feet; 15 records center boxes and 1 document box
Other Finding Aids
An itemized inventory for this series is available upon request from the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
The largest series in the collection, it includes business and personal correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, personal
notes, and related materials that Father Boyle created and kept in an alphabetically arranged subject file. Subject areas
covered include a wide range of social, religious, and political issues and justice concerns relating to race, religion, poverty,
and housing; the anti-war and peace movements; police and community relations; and urban redevelopment. Numerous organizations,
individuals, movements and causes that were active in San Francisco and the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s are mentioned.
This series also includes correspondence, official communications, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings documenting
Father Boyle's involvement with organizations for farm workers' rights such as the National Farm Worker Ministry, the United
Farm Workers, and the Urban Farm Workers Union National Labor Relations Board; and references to boycotts organized against
the Coors Brewing Company, Gallo Wines, and Safeway groceries, and labor contract negotiations.
This series also includes the meeting minutes, correspondence, and related materials about the activities of the Sacred Heart
Urban Team; and the report, "San Francisco: A City in Crisis" (1968) commissioned by the San Francisco Conference on Religion
and Race and Social Concerns and completed by Father Boyle's seminarian students in his Social Action seminar.
