Series 1: Personal 1965-2012
Sub-series 1.1. Selective Service Opposition and Vietnam War 1965-1968
Miscellaneous correspondence 1965-1966
Letters to the editors of the New York Times 1965-1966
Letters of support for draft resistance circa 1965-1967
Letters from travel to Paris, France, Bratislava, Slovakia (in the former Czechoslovakia) and cities in Vietnam to report on peace keeping efforts and war in Vietnam 1967
Selective Service System opposition, 1965-1968
"Viet Report" draft opposition interview with Robert L. Allen and others 1966
"Downdraft" anti-draft newsletter, correspondence and manuscript materials 1966-1967
Sub-series 1.2. Biographical 1966-2012
Correspondence 1966-2004
Oakland Men's Project 1992
Affidavit signed by Robert L. Allen for United States Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services 2012
Biographical clippings 1974-1976; 2004
Series 2: Writings and Editorial Work 1962-2015
Subseries 2.1: Articles, book reviews, speeches and research 1968-2010
Research for Benjamin Elijah Mays, 1968
"Cultural Chauvinism," Venceremos Brigade 1971
The Black Scholar, Thinker, Scientist, Intellectual, and Social Change 1971
Busing: The Fight for School Desegregation and Black Rights 1975
Port Chicago Mutiny: Guggenheim Fellowship Announcement by UCSF 1977
The Race Relations Theory of Robert E. Park: A Critical Social-Biographical Review 1979
What's Worth Reading--Black Editors Speak (The Black Collegian, Volume 10, Number 2) 1979
Reaganism, Racism and Capitalist Economic Reaction 1982
Time to Heal the Wounds of Pornography (article) 1991
Afterword/Epilogue for "the Legacy of the Obama Era: A New Electoral Majority? and Chapter for The Obama Phenomenon: Toward a Multi-Racial Democracy 1991
Anti-Klan Meeting Speech: Brothers and Sisters 1980
Speech drafts: Morehouse College/Spellman College, Coalition of the Society of Collegiate Journalists 1983
Subseries 2.2: The Guardian 1962-1973
Correspondence from Jack Smith re: Guardian shake-up 1969
Northern California Offices, Administration 1965-1967
San Francisco Office: administation, printing, and finances 1968-1969
Esquire Magazine article with Robert Allen and Conrad Lynn 1967
San Francisco Office, Guardian Bureau, Sustainer's Newsletter 1973-1974
The New Left: What it is...Where it's going...What makes it move (pamphlet) 1965
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael 1966
Notebook: Black anti-war movement, interviews 1967
Notebook: Black Power Conference, Newark, New Jersey and Core Press Conference 1967
Notebook: Students for a Democratic Society, National Student Association, McKissick press conference on Africa trip, and BYC Conference in Baltimore 1967
Notebook: Harlem Liberation School, P.S. 125 crisis, interviews with Vic Solomon, and Anita DuBoulay 1967
Czech Peace Conference Delegation lists 1967
Czech Peace Confererence speeches and statements 1967
Reporting on Vietnam War by Robert L. Allen 1967
Vietnam, annotated map of liberated and occupied areas 1967
Harlem Anti-War March and Demonstration at Columbia University 1968
Notebook: Columbia University, National Black Antiwar Antidraft Union 1968
The Liberated Guardian, worker's strike 1968
Column for The Guardian by Robert L. Allen 1968
Subseries 2.3: Black Journalists 1969-1972
The Ball and Chain Review, Volume 1, Issues 1-8 1969-1970
National Conference of Black Media Workers, correspondence regarding attendance 1970
National Conference of Black Media Works (Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri) 1970
Subseries 2.4: The Black Scholar 1971-2011
Black World Foundation Retreat, clipping 1971
Article draft on "Politics of the Attack on Black Studies" 1974
Black Panther Party, Counterintelligence program against Huey P. Newton 1975
Bakke decision, clippings and research 1977-1978
Race Relations and Affirmative Action (Carolina Union, University of North Carolina) 1978
Race, Gender and Power in America Conference (Georgetown University Law Center) 1992
Race, Ethnicity, and the American Labor Movement (Southwest Labor Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz) 1994
The National Summit on Africa (Washington Convention Center) 2000
Subseries 2.5: Wild Trees Press 1984-1992
Partnership agreement, business documentation 1984-1986
Finances, taxes and assessors, loans 1984-1991
Promotion 1984-1986
American Booksellers Association Convention, sales 1985-1986
Inland Book Company, receipts and contracts 1984-1990
Red Sea Press, receipts, correspondence 1985-1989
Joanne Brasil 1984-1988
Cynthia Brown 1986-1990
J. California Cooper 1984-1992
Madi Kertonegoro 1986-1991
Charlotte Mendez 1985-1990
Subseries 2.6: Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytical History circa 1969-1976; 1987
Doubleday contract, rights release correspondence 1987
Subseries 2.7: Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on Social Movement in the U.S. circa 1970-1976; 2003
Manuscript, draft 1973
Research, assorted pamphlets on Black political movements, socialism, and nationalism 1965-1970
Research, labor and black workers 1965-1970
Research, progressivism 1965-1970
Research, Communist Party and Blacks/Minorities 1965-1970
Research, the Left and blacks 1965-1970
Research, abolitionists 1965-1970
Discussions on introduction and conclusion to Reluctant Reformers 1972
Subseries 2.9: Strong in the Struggle: My Life as a Black Labor Activist (Lee Brown with Robert L. Allen) 1938-2002
Biographical material on Lee Brown
Doctor of the Working Class, registration 1981
Biographical tributes and memorials for friends 1982-1996
Biographical materials, datebook and contents of datebook 1988
Biographical, memberships and associations 1990-1997
Brown biographical, archives to San Francisco State Labor HIstory Center 1997
Honors and awards for Lee Brown 1960-1992
Honors and awards for Lee Brown 1994
[Folders no longer exist]
Miscellaneous notes/receipts found inside booklets and magazines 1960-1990
Writings and statements by Lee Brown
Press releases and statements by Lee Brown 1975-1995
Report on the Conference Held in New York City regarding Apartheid in South Africa 1985
Writings by Lee Brown on unions, jobs, poverty, senior citizens 1981-1993
Writings by Lee Brown on the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area 1981-1983
Writings by Lee Brown on the military budget 1981
Writings by Lee Brown on the NAACP 1984
Union and community organizing research circa 1938-1995
Local 207: Union organizing, Inland Waterways Corporation 1948-1957
Research: Union organizing/Civil Rights Congress 1944-1952
The I.L.W.U. Story: Three Decades of Militant Unionism, booklet and photocopy 1963
Research: History of I.L.W.U. Local 207 (New Orleans) 1980
Taft-Hartley case research, clippings requests 1994
Research: House Un-American Activities Committee, Lee Brown 1994
Freedom of Information Act request 1994-1998
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists 1977-1988
Local 2, Affirmative Action Committee 1979-1982
Local 2, African-Americans in the Culinary Industry 1981-1991
Union organizing, clippings and statements 1970-1999
Union organizing, booklets (Local 2, AFL-CIO) 1986-1994
Research: Center for Labor Research and Education (UC Berkeley) 1993
Research: San Francisco Bay Area Labor History Workshop Directory 1994
Civil rights, senior rights, communism research
Angela Davis' The Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves (reprinted from The Black Scholar) 1971
South Africa and Mozambique, anti-apartheid 1980-2000
South Africa:"Apartheid: The Facts" (booklet by International Defence and Aid Fund for South Africa 1983
African history: Black Madonna and ancient Egypt 1981-1990
Research: Negro Liberation by James S. Allen (photocopy) 1938
Articles on the Ku Klux Klan and white chauvinism 1949-1981
The KKK: A History of Racism and Violence (booklets, original and photocopy) 1982
Civil rights, racism, reparations and justice (assorted articles) 1975-1996
Civil rights, African-American reparations and justice 1984-1996
African and African-American studies, bibiographies and research guides 1989-1997
Civil rights, poverty, war on drugs, military budget (assorted) 1990-1998
Civil rights police brutality, justice 1991-1995
Civil rights, racism and justice, articles and magazines 1991-1996
NAACP, adminstratiion, business progress reports 1976-1996
NAACP, San Francisco Branch, Bay Area life membership 1990-1993
NAACP: "The (New) Crisis" magazines 1990-2000
Socialism, Marxism, Communism (articles and newsletters) 1938-1994
People's (Daily) World, correspondence and cliippings 1981-1991
Communist Party, California (1 of 3) 1979-1991
Communist Party, California (2 of 3) 1979-1997
Communist Party, California (3 of 3) 1979-1997
Communist Part, USA split with Communist Party of Northern California 1991-1992
Communist Party, USA vs. 552 Valencia, Inc. 1992-1994
Committees of Correspondence, newsletter 1992-1994
Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution (booklet) 1992
Senior housing rights organizing, correspondence 1979-1995
Senior housing rights, Coalition for Low-Income Housing 1980-1999
Senior rights organising, education of seniors 1987-1997
Senior rights, Economic Opportunity Council, San Francisco 1990-1996
Senior rights, California Legislative Council for Older Americans 1993-1995
Senior rights organizing, City of San Francisco 1987-1995
Senior rights organizing, legal assistance to the elderly 1991-1995
Senior rights, The National Caucus and Center on Black Aged 1970-1995
Senior rights organizing, San Francisco Commission on the Aging 1981-1992
Senior rights organizing, Senior Action News and Senior Action Network 1993-1997
Senior rights, Social Security and health care 1994-1997
Senior rights and immigrant rights, low-income housing (newsletters) 1984-1998
Senior rights, resources and research 1984-1998
Senior rights, articles by others 1984-1998
Manuscript drafts, interviews, contracts and editorial correspondence 1994-2002
Letter of Agreement between Lee Brown and Robert Allen 1994
Rowman Littlefield comments, promotion 1997-1999
Rowman Littlefield contracts and permissions 1998-2000
Interviews with Lee Brown 1994-1999
Interviews with Lee Brown (chapter 5 continued) 1995
Grace Oliver Brown, Chapter 12 1995
Notes, manuscripts, correspondence 1997-1999
Prolog, House Un-American Activities Committee 1999
House Un-American Activities Committee, trial summary 1999
Manuscript, foreward, Julianne Malveaux 1999-2000
Black workers on the waterfront (Chapter 5?), manuscript draft 1998
Manuscript, final corrected first proofs (1 of 2) 2000
Manuscript, final corrected first proofs (2 of 2) 2000
Manuscript, second corrected proofs (1 of 2) 2000
Manuscript, second corrected proofs (2 of 2) 2000
Book publication, response and reviews 2001-2003
Subseries 2.10: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: C.L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights 2015
Grant proposal, budget 2000-2003
Institute for Labor and Employment Application and Grant 2001
Book Publishing Contract 2001-2008
Book Publishing, Editorial Correspondence 2002-2014
Book permissions undated
Manuscript draft 2013
The Onyx Express, interview with Robert Allen 2003
C.L. Dellums and the Struggle for Racial Justice (presentation by Robert Allen) 2006
C.L. Dellums Amtrack Station Pavilion 2007-2009
C.L. Dellums oral history chronology undated
C.L. Dellums: oral history interview (Bancroft Library, work copy) 1973
C.L. Dellums: oral history interview (Bancroft Library, original copy) 1973
C.L. Dellums: oral history interview, pages 116-159 1970
C.L. Dellums: video interview transcript 1987
C.L. Dellums: video interview transcript, annotated 1987
Cynthia Jones and Steven Owyang, oral history transcript 2002
Marva Dellums, interview transcripts and notes 2002
Ron Dellums, oral history transcript 2002
Interviews with Ron Dellums and Marva Dellums 2002
C.L. Dellums, correspondence 1928-1958
C.L. Dellums, correspondence 1965-1980
Central Labor Council of Alameda County (photocopies) 1936
Philip A. Randolph, correspondence (photocopies) 1928-1936
Philip A. Randolph, correspondence (photocopies) 1937-1974
California Federation for Civic Unity (photocopies) 1949
Order forms undated
Bancroft Library finding aid copies annotated by Robert Allen undated
African American Museum and Library undated
Library of Congress, Ladies Auxiliary, 1958 election dispute undated
Ladies Auxiliary minutes notebook (photocopy) 1939
Chicago Historical Society and Newberry Library finding aid 0000
Theses regarding development and significance of BSCP 2006
Jack Santino, Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle 1989
Molly Hudgens paper 2001
The Pullman Porter (photocopy of thesis) 1992
Parallel Communities 1993
A Civil Rights Inventory of San Francisco 1958
Pittman, Tarea Hall (photocopy of oral history) 1974
Interview with Virna Canson 2002
Interview with Edward Howden 2007
Visions Toward Tomorrow (photocopies) 1989
African Americans in Texas (photocopies) undated
Albrier, Frances Mary (research, oral history) 1977-1978
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 2002
Black Labor Revisited: Philip Foner and the Future of Labor HIstory by Donna Murch 1998
A Life in the Struggle: Irving Perry and the Culture of Opposition by George Lipsitz (photocopies) 1988
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (photocopies) 1971
I am a Man by Steve Estes (mss chapter from a book) 2003
Research: African American History in California undated
When Negroes March: The March in Washington in the Organizational Politics for FEPC (annotated photocopy) 1973
Research: Civil Rights in Oakland (by the Northern Subcommittee of the California State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights) and Negroes in the History of California, a course syllabus(photocopies) 1967
A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why it Failed by David Barber, reviews ( 1967
Hernandez, Aileen C., research, interview by R. Bertallen 2007
Interview with Aileen Hernandez 2007
Interview with Cynthia Jones and Steven Owyang 2002
Fair Employment Practice Commission, executive session on personnel matters 1965
FEPC training conference 1964
California FEPC: Stepchild of the State Agencies (photocopy) 1965
The Present Status and Programs of Fair Employment Practices Commissions--Federal, State, and Municipal (photocopy) 1951
Fair Employment Practice Commission after the March 1960
An Equal Opportunity to Make a Living-and a Life: The FEPC and Postwar Black Politics (photocopy) 2007
The Paradox of Equality: A Study of the California Fair Employment Practice Commission (photocopy) 1976
California Committee for Fair Practices undated
Department of Fair Employment and Housing history undated
NAACP meeting 1996
Series 3: Educator 1969-2013
Sub-series 3.1. Assorted 1976-1984
Lecture: A Struggle for Desegregation (Clark College, Atlanta) 1976
Port Chicago lecture 1978
Ethnic Studies 151: Ethnic Heritage in America (syllabus) undated
Ethnic Studies 164 (photocopies of readings) undated
Sociology 224, Sociology of the Black Experience 1983
Guest Lecture, UC Santa Cruz 1984
Posters for events featuring Robert Allen 2009 undated
Article in Peninsula Bulletin Weekly on the one-year anniversary of Black Studies at San Jose State 1970
San Jose State College Black Studies 196 (Black Journalism workshop) 1970
Article on Shaka, San Jose State's first newsmagazine of the black experience 1971
San Jose State, Black Studies 159, Capitalism and Racism 1971
Ethnic Studies 113, Racism and Capitalism 1973
Ethnic Studies 113, Racism and Capitalism 1980
Ethnic Studies 113, Racism and Capitalism 1982
Ethnic Studies 147 1981-1983
Ethnic Studies 148 1982-1984
UCB Affirmative Action Statewide Day of Action 2001
Beta Lambda Kappa 2003
University of California systemwide African American Studies faculty meeting, CORE seminars 2003
African American faculty and senior staff oral history project 2004
Graduate Affirmative Action Advisory Committee 2004-2005
African American Studies department meetings 1995-2005
African American Studies department graduate courses syllabi 2000-2003
African American Studies department faculty list 2003
African American Studies Department, Black Graduation Committee 2003-2004
African American Studies graduate student advising 2005-2006
African American Studies 5A 1998
African American Studies 5A 2000
African American Studies 5B 2008
African American Studies 5B course reader 2008
African American Studies 5B 2012
African American Studies 5B 2012
African American Studies 109 course reader 2007
African American Studies 109 course reader 2009
African American Studies 109 2009
African American Studies 109 2014
African American Studies 111, Black Leadership 1997
Ethnic Studies 130 1995-2000
Ethnic Studies 190 2006
Ethnic Studies 190 2012
Ethnic Studies and African American Studies courses, assorted materials 1994-2013
Ethnic Studies and African American Studies courses, assorted materials 1994-2013
Subseries 3.5: Guest lectures
Barack Obama and the Children of Globalization 2009
Black Sixties lecture 1977-1982
Slave Plantation System lecture undated
Black Business History lecture undated
Subseries 3.6: Research material approximately 1980-2013
Assorted topics approximately 1980-2013
Series 4: Photographs 1967-2010, undated
Vietnam, 1967
Vietnam 1967
The Black Scholar, 5th Anniversary Celebration 1974
C.L. Dellums (photographs and notes) approximately 1925-1975