Inventory of the Civil Rights Collection SPC.2022.009

"The Southern Letter", Vol. XXIX, No. 5 May 1913

"Some Reasons Why Negroes Should Vote the Socialist Ticket" by the Independent Political Council [1917]

YWCA Girl Reserves Department [pamphlet and card] circa 1910s-1920s

Eureka Villa [pamphlet] by Sidney P. Dones (developer and head of Eureka Villa Improvement Association) [1926]

Negro Labor News Service, Vol. 1, #45 "The Negro in the Social Scale" by Frank Crosswaith March 14, 1931

"Richard B Moore, Sec'y, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Will Lecture on The Negro People in the Struggle Against Fascism at the Workers School Forum" [handbill] circa 1933

National Urban League June 1934, February 1944

Correspondence, L.D. Temple and [L.D.] Levy, managing editor of Oakland Tribune regarding description of Jesse Owens in a Bud Spencer column June 1936

Works Progress Administration "Federal Theatre. The Negro Unit in 'Macbeth' Arranged and Staged by Orson Welles, Costumes and Settings by Nat Karson" [program] July 22, 1936

"Official Proceedings" Second National Negro Congress October 15-17, 1937

"Angelo Herndon, world famous negro youth leader who won the fight against a twenty year sentence on a Georgia chain gang and the vice president of the Young Communist League ….will speak on 'Negro Youth Faces the Election'", Milton Herndon Branch Young Communist League [flyer] [1938]

Statement of the National Negro Congress to the Platform Committee of the 1940 Republican Convention. Remarks presented by Dr. Charles A. Lewis, National Vice President 1940

"Colored People Have A Stake in the War" Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies [brochure] April 1941

Daily Worker and Sunday Worker advertisement "Must Reading for Every Negro" by James W. Ford 1941

"PM Sham Battle Against Negro Job Discrimination", Upper Harlem Section, Communist Party [broadside] [1941]

"An Exhibition of Nazi Inspired Propaganda and Subversive Literature Inciting Racial Hatred Gathered in this Country and Abroad". Assembled by the Bureau of Propaganda Investigation of the Non Sectarian Anti Nazi League to Champion Human Rights circa 1940s

"Motive", Vol. 2, No. 6 February 1942

"Smash Michigan's Fifth Column!" Civil Rights Federation August 1942

8 Point Program March-On-Washington Movement [leaflet] [1942]

"Love Plus Knowledge" Condensed from a sermon by Ernest Trice Thompson, D.D. 1943

"1st and 2nd Congressional District Equal Rights Rally to Win the War and Peace" Chicago Civil Liberties Committee and Cooperating Organizations [flyer] 1943

"Policy and Program" City of Detroit Interracial Committee [brochure] 1944

"Saludos Amigos!! Come and bring your neighbors to the Roosevelt Giant 'Good Neighbor' Rally" Sponsored by Democratic, Labor, Civil, Church, Latin-American and other language groups [flyer] circa 1944

"The Story of Winfred Lynn" Lynn Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces [brochure] [1944]

Committee for Equal Justice For Mrs. Recy Taylor- mailers 1945

"Equal Rights Regardless of 'Race' or Color" Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts circa 1945

Southern Regional Council: "After the War" [pamphlet]; "Toward the South of the Future" [brochure]; New South Vol. 1, No. 1, 7 [1945]; January, July 1946; circa 1940s

"The National Negro Congress is Fighting for the end of Jim Crow in America" National Negro Congress [mailer] 1946

"Synopsis of the History of the National Equal Rights League" 1946

New York Committee for Justice in Freeport [mailer] July 13, 1946

'American Council Report on Race Relations" Vol. 1, No. 6; Vol 2, No. 6 September 1946; November 1947

"Cry Out, America! For Swift Justice to End 'White Supremacy' Murders "International Labor Defense [leaflet] [1946]

"A Petition….to the United Nations on behalf of 13 million oppressed Negro citizens of the United States of America", National Negro Congress [pamphlet] 1946

"The Talmadge-Bilbo Platform Bears Strange Fruit", Filmore club, Communist Party San Francisco [flyer] circa 1946

"Emergency Appeal...Hear Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, and others. Mass Meeting for Famine Relief in South Africa". Council on African Affairs [flyer] [1946]

"America is in Danger. Slavery will Come to America this Week if the Anti-Labor Bill Becomes Law". Emergency Committee Against Anti-Labor Legislation [flyer] [1947]

League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation. Material regarding President Truman's executive order outlawing discrimination July 1948

Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training [pledges, buttons, letter] July 1948

"Violence in Peekskill; a Report of the Violations of Civil Liberties at Two Paul Robeson Concerts Near Peekskill N.Y. August 27 and September 4, 1949", American Civil Liberties Union [pamphlet] 1949

"Georgia Farmer's Market Bulletin", Vol. 33, No. 1 September 7, 1949

Civil Rights Congress 1948-1955

"Description and Analysis of the Mundt Police State Bill (H.R. 5852)" May 1948

Civil Rights Congress Newsletter, unnumbered; Vol. 1, No. 3-5, 7, 8, 10, 11; Vol. 2, No. 1, 3 August-September, November-December 1949; January, April 1950

Campaigns and Activities of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) "Free the Trenton Six!" [broadside] 1949

"Civil Rights Congress Charges Violence and Terror Now a Pattern of Government in Statement on Second Peekskill Outbreak" [press release] September 5, 1949

"Civil Rights News" New York State Civil Rights Congress. Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 April-May 1950

"The Jerry Newson Story..." by Buddy Green and Steve Murdock. Published by East Bay Civil Rights Congress October 1950

"Civil Rights News" June 1951

The Case of the 11 Communist Leaders, a fact sheet prepared by the Civil Rights Congress May 1951

Jim Crow' in New York and Korea, 'Jim Crow' An Official Policy of Government" [brochure] New York Civil Rights Congress 1951

Chapter Bulletin of the Civil Rights Congress, November 5, 1951; September 8 and 22, 1952; Vol. IV, No. 3, 7-9 November 5, 1951; September 8, 22, 1952; March, July-August 1953

The Nelson Case. "State Sedition Laws are Weapons of Anti-Labor, Anti-Negro, Anti-Semitic Repression", issued by Civil Rights Congress 1955

"My Name is Wesley Robert Wells" booklet circa 1940s

"The Committee of 100" dedicated to the creation of an America of justice and equality for our Negro fellow citizens [mailer] May 22, 1950

Joint Committee to Secure a Fair Trial of the Trenton Six [mailer] April 30, 1951

"Defend Our Civil Rights" by Judge Hubert T. Delany [pamphlet] 1952

Delegates National Assembly for Peace, Washington D.C. April 1, 1952 [pamphlet] circa March 1952

"In Defense of Negro Leadership" Address of Rev. Edward D. McGowan, Pastor Asbury Methodist Church, Frederick, MD. National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership 1953

Letter addressed to "Ruth" accusing her and her friends of being communists May 20, 1954

"Where to Read Up on Racism and Human Rights" published by the Northern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and West Coast Regional Office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1954

"Defense Digest" Issued by Lightfoot Defense Committee February, March, June, September-November 1955; January, July 1956

Anti-Defamation League 1955, 1962, 1968-1970

"The Story of Seven White Louisvillians Who Came to the Help of a Negro Family" Emergency Civil Liberties Committee circa 1955

"South Carolinas Speak, A Moderate Approach To Race Relations" compiled by The Reverend Ralph E. Cousins, The Reverend Joseph R. Horn III, The Reverend Larry A. Jackson, The Reverend John S. Lyles, The Reverend John B. Morris [1957]

"Mack Parker Must Not Be Forgotten!" NY Prov. Com to Reconstitute a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party [flyer] June 1959

"Searchlight" Election Bulletin (Buffalo, NY) October 1960

"Freedom Rally" program [reproduction] June 18, 1961

"Civil Rights Newsletter" No. 1. Special Election Day Issue November 7, 1961

"New Freedom" The Bulletin of Student Political Action (Ithaca, NY) Vol. 1, No. 3 December 1961

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.- mailers, advertisements, flyers, brochures August 1943; 1957; January, March, June 1968; September 1969; March 1970; Thanksgiving 1970; May 1971; February 1975

"Why Negroes Should Serve in the Army" "To Lewis Jones, American: From "P.M" Reprinted by the NAACP October 5, 1942

"NAACP, An American Organization" [pamphlet] February 1962

"Vote No on State Question 409, so called 'Right-to-Work" Oklahoma National Association for the Advancement of Colored People circa 1964

"America, 1971- A Commentary" circa 1971

"Join the Fight for Freedom" S. F. Branch NAACP [flyer] undated

"The Negro History Bulletin", Vol. XXVI, No. 5 February 1963

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

SCLC Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, 8, 9; Vol. 3, No. 2 July-August [1963], October 1963, November [1963]

"Anti-Semitism, Israel and SCLC: A Statement on Press Distortions" [pamphlet] circa 1967

SCLC Memorandum to "our contributors" from "SCLC Staff" April 1968

"Soul Force" Vol. 4, No. 6 June 1971

"SCLC Scope...What you Need to Do To Get This..." [booklet] undated

"This is SCLC" pamphlet circa late 1960s

Benefit Concert. Carmen McRae, Ahmad Jamal, Sonny Rollins, John Handy III [flyer] June 2 [no year]

mailers June 1966, June 1968, April 1969

Organizing Manual No. 2, "Final Plans for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963" [pamphlet] 1963

American Civil Liberties Union November 1963; undated

"Core-Lator" Congress of Racial Equality No. 109 November-December 1964

Virginia Council on Human Relations 1964-1966

United States Commission on Civil Rights 1964-1966

Civil Rights Digest "A Summary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" August 1964

"Equal Opportunity in Farm Programs" CCR Special Publication-Number 3 March 1965

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965" CCR Special Publication- Number 4 August 1965

"Federal Rights Under School Desegregation Law" CCR Clearinghouse Publication- Number 6 June 1966

Student Voice, Inc. "The Student Voice" Vol. 5, No. 23; "The Voice" Vol. 6, No. 5 November 25, 1964; August 30, 1965

"Hear Bill Epton" Rally for Political Freedom January 8, 1965

"Monthly Review" Committee to Defend Resistance to Ghetto Life (CERGE) editorial comment January 1965

Looking Forward "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement" by Bayard Rustin. League for Industrial Democracy. Reprinted from Commentary February 1965

"The Warsaw Ghetto" protest flyer circa 1965

"Public Meeting, Behind the Riots!" [flyer] 1965

"Black Power" Statement by National Committee of Negro Churchmen. New York Times Reprint July 31, 1966

"The Southern Patriot" Vol. 24, No. 7. Published by the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. August 1966

"Clay County, Mississippi, Project Report" [excerpt from report] November 1966

"The League of Women Voters" reprint from Ebony October 1966

William Patterson Tribute Committee [event program] January 26, 1967

Scholarship Education and Defense = Fund for Racial Equality- newsletters; mailers; "A New Program to Assist Newly Elected Negro Officials" pamphlet 1967; November 1968; March, June 1969; February 1970; March 1971

Emergency Committee Against Forced Housing [mailer] April 1968

White Americans to Support Black Liberation- program, press release document "An Appeal for Justice by the Steering Committee Against Repression" April 1968

Memorandum from the Louisville Staff of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to White People in Other Cities who Want to Respond Creatively to the Black Rebellion June 14, 1968

1968 Summer Olympics, Mexico City- Sports Illustrated "Mexico 68 The Problem Olympics"; "Olimpiada En Mexico" [movie poster] September 30, 1968; 1969

"Civil Rights Digest" A Quarterly of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Summer, Fall 1968; Winter, Summer 1969; Winter 1970; Winter 1972; Spring, Summer 1973; Summer, Fall 1974; Spring 1975; Spring, Summer 1976; Spring, Fall 1978; Winter 1979

"Buffalo Broadside" Vol. 1, No. 10; Vol. 2, No. 7 October 1968; July 1969

W.E.B. DuBois Club of New York- City Wide Conference on Racism in Education program; centennial lecture series flyer for Dr. Herbert Aptheker 1968

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tribute document circa 1968

Medgar Evers Fund Inc.- mailers; "Dawn of a New Era in Mississippi" June-July 1969; January, June 1970

"The 'Anti-Riot' Act [brochure] August 1969

"Voice of Watts", Vol. 2, No. 3 [newsletter] August 1969

"Public Information Meeting, School Decentralization" program 1969

Ghettos Inc. (Berkeley, CA) bazaar sale invitation circa 1960s

'Hear Aaron Chapman, Freedom Now Party Candidate" [flyer] circa 1960s

"Harambee" Vol. II June 12, 1970

"Rhythm Magazine" Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 (Atlanta Center for Black Art) 1970, Fall 1970

"Can a Black Man Get a Fair Trial in this Country?" by Haywood Burns. Reprinted from The New York Times Magazine by Foundation for Change Inc. July 12, 1970

Revolutionary People's Plenary Session registration form September 1970

Fund for Peace, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. [mailer] October 1970

Brockport 18 [mailer] November 17, 1970

"Black Roots" a new film by Lionel Rogosin [flyer] 1970

"Justice: An American Dream" by Mrs. Winifred Canright. Plainfield Joint Defense Committee [pamphlet] 1970

Soledad Brothers- fact sheet; Soledad Brothers Defense Fund [pamphlet] circa 1970

"Ron Dellums for Congress" circa 1970

"Good Times" Vol. IV, No. 27. Featuring article and poster of George Jackson's murder September 1971

"Prisoners Solidarity Committee" Newsletter No. 3; Special Auburn 6 trial newsletter November 1971; January 1972

National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners [mailer] 1971

"San Quentin Six" San Quentin Six Legal Defense Fund [pamphlet] circa 1971

Free Angela Davis materials circa 1971-1972

"Free Angela Davis", Blackness Unlimited [bumper sticker] 1971

"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" The Newsletter of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, No.6 March 26, 1971

"Exclusive: Angela Answers 13 Questions" New York Committee to Free Angela Davis circa 1971

"Angela Davis- What's On her Mind" reprint from Muhammad Speaks National United Committee to Free Angela Davis 1971

"People's Petition Demanding Unrestricted Bail for Angela Y. Davis", N.Y. Committee to Free Angela Davis [1972]

"Labor's Stake in the Fight to Free Angela Davis" Appeal of the National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy [brochure] [1971]

Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter Number 11, featuring cover story 'Defend Angela Davis!" March-April 1972

"African Agenda" Vol. 1, No. 1, 2, 4 March, April, June 1972

Lee Otis Johnson Defense Committee [mailer] May 31, 1972

Letter from Albert H. Bower to Professor William Banks proposing Banks becoming a coordinator for Afro-American Studies June 2, 1972

Black Student Union, University of California Berkeley- flyers August 1972

Minorities and Jobs "Viewpoint" #3 December 1972

"Program Toward Black Liberation". Speech delivered at the 20th National Convention, CPUSA by Jarvis Tyner, Communist Party candidate for Vice-President, and National Chairman, Young Workers Liberation League 1972

"Don't be Drawn into the Web of Suspicion, Fear and Panic!" [pamphlet] 1972

Political Prisoners Defense Committee, Gary Lawton Trail: Press Briefing 1972

Fannie Lou Hamer "Operation Freedom" [mailer] 1972

"Third World" Vol. 4, No. 12, 13 March, April 1973

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression- mailers; meeting minutes; press releases July 1973-November 1974; circa 1975; 1976

"The Right to Learn, The Right to Earn" YWLL (Buffalo, NY) pamphlet 1973

Friends of Assata and Sundiata [flyer] 1973-1974

"Our Police, For a Change" Police Initiative Committee (Berkeley, CA.) circa 1973

African People's Socialist Party [mailer] March 1974

Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization Against Racism [flyer] November 1974

"Judge Green Needs Your Help" election flyer circa 1975

"Catch 22: Stay in Jail Until You Admit Guilt, Transcripts of Philip Allen Bail Proceedings" Partisan Defense Committee circa 1976

"Free the Dawson 5!" The Dawson 5 Support Committee [flyer] September 1977

Free the Wilmington 10- mailers; newsletters; petition January-July 1978

"Black Human Rights Statement from Assata Shakur" National Black Human Rights Coalition 1979

"Frank Shuford, Political Prisoner" [pamphlet], Frank Shuford Defense Committee circa 1979

Memorial March Martin Luther King Celebration [flyer] April 4 [circa 1970s]

"Books and Pamphlets on the Afro-American Struggle" Merit Publishers order form circa 1970s

Martin Luther King Day memorial mass rally! [flyer] 1981

Martin Luther King Jr. Buttons- "We Still Have a Dream"; "I Have a Dream Inaugural National Holiday" August 27, 1983; 1986

"Oakland Heritage Alliance News" Vol. 8, No. 4. Features article on Delilah Beasley Winter 1988-89

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday soiree [flyer] 1992

"Justice Speaks" Black Workers for Justice November 1994

Malcolm X Birthday Be-In [flyer] undated

"Constructive Inter-Racial Co-Operation" [pamphlet] undated

"The Inevitability of Freedom for the Negroes" unauthored manuscript undated

"The Organizer" Vol. 1, No. 1 Build, Unity, Independence, Liberty, Dignity (BUILD) Inc. undated

"Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Daily Terror at Camp J" Free the Angola 3 undated

"Fighting Back! Attica Memorial Book 1974" Attica Brothers Legal Defense undated