Robert Singleton Papers MS.136
Marisa Ramirez
William H. Hannon Library, Archives & Special Collections, Manuscripts
August 2018
Loyola Marymount University
William H. Hannon Library, Archives and Special Collections
1 LMU Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
special.collections@lmu.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
William H. Hannon Library, Archives & Special Collections, Manuscripts
Title: Robert Singleton Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.136
Physical Description:
5.0 Linear Feet
11 document boxes
Date (inclusive): 1960-2016
Abstract: This collection spans Dr. Singletons work and activism with a bulk of the materials from the 1960s and 1970s. It is comprised
largely of documents but also includes flyers, correspondence, and publications.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, Robert Singleton Papers, MS 136, Department of Archives and
Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
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executors.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
Arrangement
This collection has been divided into eight series based on different aspects of Dr. Singleton's life and career. They include:
CORE/ NAACP activities (which include the Freedom Rides), UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations, the Western Student Movement,
the Office of Assembly Research, UCLA's Bunche Center, the Angela Davis controversy, the Education Finance Reform Project,
and miscellaneous material.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. Robert Singleton studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1960s, earning a Bachelor’s degree in International
Relations, a Master’s degree in International Economics, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Labor Economics. During his time as a student,
Singleton served as president of the school’s chapter of NAACP where he organized sit-ins at stores with discriminatory practices
as well as investigating other forms of discrimination on or around campus. Singleton continued his activist work by joining
the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, that initiated the Freedom Rides of 1961. As a result of his participation in the
Freedom Rides, Singleton was arrested and sent to Parchman Penitentiary along with his wife Helen Singleton, a fellow Freedom
Rider.
Dr. Singleton joined the staff of UCLA, working as faculty in the Graduate School of Management as well as Chief Researcher
for the Institute of Industrial Relations. He also went on to serve as Founding Director of the Center for African-American
Studies, now the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. During this time, Singleton also became involved in
the Angela Davis Defense Committee, supporting fellow faculty member Angela Davis after her firing due to her membership in
the Communist Party. Singleton also worked for the U.S. Department of Labor as well as the California Assembly Office of Research
and was Founding Director of the Education Finance Reform Project. His latest position is that of faculty in the Economics
department of Loyola Marymount University where he has been since 1982.
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of documents, newsletters, flyers, correspondence, and publications related to Dr. Singleton's
involvement with CORE/NAACP, UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations, the Western Student Movement, the Office of Assembly
Research, UCLA's Bunche Center, the Angela Davis controversy, and the Education Finance Reform Project.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dr. Robert Singleton. Accession number: 2018.13.
Related Materials
Records related to Dr. Singleton's work as a Professor of Economics at Loyola Marymount University are housed in the University
Archives. Please contact special.collections@lmu.edu for more information.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Civil rights movements
Freedom Rides, 1961
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Industrial Relations
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
Series 1: CORE/ NAACP activities
Scope and Contents
Activities from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
includes sit-ins and the Freedom Rides.
box 1, folder 1
UCLA NAACP- correspondence re: structure/status of group
1960-1964
box 1, folder 2-3
CORE/ NAACP- sit-ins and boycotts
1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Includes material from Westwood NAACP, Santa Monica and Venice CORE, Southern California Boycott Committee, Southern California
Committee on Integration, and copies of the publications "From the Picket Line", "Independent Student", "Fellowship", and
"Newsletter of the Bay Area 'Don't Buy' Campaign" regarding activity such as the Woolworth boycotts. Material includes newsletters,
pledge cards, event tickets, flyers, and boycott stamps.
box 1, folder 4
UCLA NAACP
1960-1963
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, maps, and a pamphlet.
box 1, folder 5
"CORE-lator" issues
1960-04-1962-10
box 1, folder 6
newspaper clippings (facsimiles) re: civil rights
1962
Scope and Contents
The majority of clippings are from the Evening Outlook with others from the New York Times and the Louisiana Weekly.
box 1, Folder 7
"Daily Bruin" newspaper clippings
1960
1969
box 1, folder 8-9
UCLA housing discrimination
1959-1963
1970
box 1, folder 10
Haywood County project
1960-1961
box 1, folder 11
UCLA barber shop discrimination
1961
box 1, folder 12
Southern California Committee for Integration
1960
box 2, folder 1-2
Freedom Rides material
1961-1965
Scope and Contents
Includes applications, correspondence, newsletters, newspapers, and letters from UCLA NAACP, CORE, and the Parents Mississippi
Emergency Committee of the Los Angeles Area.
box 2, folder 3
Freedom Rides- images and articles
Scope and Contents
Includes facsimiles of images of Parchman Penitentiary cell layouts, Freedom Riders.
box 2, folder 4
Australian Freedom Rides
1963
box 2, folder 5
Freedom Rider Loan Fund
1961-1969
box 2, folder 6
Freedom Rides- reunion events
1981-2015
box 2, folder 7
Freedom Rides- Museum of Tolerance "Voices of Civil Rights" event
2004
box 2, folder 8
Freedom Rides- Dr. Singleton speaking events and requests
2004-2016
box 2, folder 9
Freedom Rides- LMU reunion
2005
box 2, folder 10
Freedom Rides- 50th anniversary event in Australia
2015
box 2, folder 11
Freedom Rides- 50th anniversary event in Chicago
2011
Scope and Contents
Includes an appearance on the Oprah television program
box 2, folder 12
Freedom Rides- articles
2005-2016
Series 2: UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
Series 3: Western Student Movement
Scope and Contents
"The Western Student Movement is a California non-profit corporation founded by student leaders of campus-based tutorial projects
throughout the Los Angeles area." -WSM Proposal for Los Angeles, Fall 1964
box 4, folder 1-3
publications and correspondence
bulk
box 4, folder 4
Student Tutorial Education Project (STEP)
box 4, folder 5
UCLA Tutorial Project
1964
Series 4: Office of Assembly Research
Scope and Contents
The California Association of Afro-American Educators (CAAAE) worked to introduce legislation AB 781/AB 2118. Other affiliations
include the Nairobi Institute.
box 5
"Report on the Education of Children in the Ghetto School: A Legislative Program for Reform"
1970-04
Physical Description: 2 copies, not foldered
box 5
"Review of Job Training and Placement of the Department of Human Resources Development"
1972-10-27
Physical Description: 2 copies, not foldered
box 5, folder 1-2
AB 2118/ AB 781 documents and correspondence
1968-1970
box 5, folder 3
documents (AB 1464/ 2118/ 320/ 781/ 782)
1968-1970
box 5, folder 4
transcript of AB 1463 hearings
1968
box 5, folder 5
miscellaneous CAAAE/NABSE material
1969-1974
Scope and Contents
NABSE (National Alliance of Black School Educators)
Series 5: Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
Scope and Contents
Previously known as the Afro-American Studies Center and the Center for African-American Studies.
box 6, folder 3
organization discussion
1968
box 6, folder 4
proposal correspondence
1968-1970
box 6, folder 8
research collection/ library
1968-1969
2009
box 6, folder 9
curriculums/ class descriptions
1969
box 6, folder 10
consortium of Black Studies centers
1969-1971
box 6, Folder 11
UCLA Kerner Commission
1967
box 7, Folder 2
Vocational Guidance Institute
1967-1969
box 7, folder 4
President's Commission on Campus Unrest
1970
box 7, folder 5
"Journal of Black Studies" correspondence and mailers
1970-1971
box 7, folder 6
National Endowment for the Humanities workshop
1969-1970
box 7, folder 8
"Minorities in the Labor Market" report
1977
box 7, folder 9
student paper on center's history
1986
box 7, folder 10
Committee on Afro-American Society and Cultures
box 7, folder 11
correspondence/ newsletters
1995
2001
2004-2011
2017
box 7, folder 12
ethnography studies
2002-2003
2006
box 7, folder 13
Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner programs
2004-2010
box 7, folder 14
"Bunche Center Research Report"
2011
box 7, folder 15
research on loyalty oath controversy
1995
2009
2016
box 7, folder 16
miscellaneous
1969
1971
2009
2018
box 8, folder 1-3
correspondence and articles
1969-1971
box 8, folder 4
Angela Davis Defense Committee
box 8, folder 5
President's Commission on Campus Unrest
1970-08-05
Scope and Contents
2 copies; also found in Bunche Center series
box 8, folder 7
newspaper clippings- originals
Series 7: Education Finance Reform Project
box 9, folder 1
NIE Committee
1970-1971
1978
box 9, folder 2
"Education Finance and School Governance" newsletters
1972-1976
box 9, folder 3-4
documents and correspondence
1973-1980
box 9, folder 5
National Alliance of Black School Educators
1974
box 9, folder 6
"Blacks and Public Higher Education in California"
box 9, folder 7
"The Black Child and Equity in School Finance: Analysis and Alternatives"
1974-03-22
box 9, folder 8
"A Study of the Impact of School Finance Reform on Poor and Minority Groups in California"
1975-08
box 9, folder 9
Serrano vs. Clowes
1975-10
box 9, folder 10
"Capitalization Effects of School Finance Reform: The Implications for Poor and Minority Groups"
1978-01
box 9, folder 11
National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks
1972
box 10, folder 1
"The School Finance Revolution: Its Meaning for the Black Community"
1972-10
box 10, folder 2
"Serrano vs. Priest and the Black Child"
1974-02
box 10, folder 3
"The School Finance Crisis and the Effect of Proposed Solutions on the Disadvantaged"
1974-07
box 10, folder 4
"Presentation Before the Assembly Education Committee, Los Angeles"
1974-10
box 10, folder 5
"Presentation at the Los Angeles Hearings of the Commission on Educational Governance National Committee for Citizens in Education"
1974-10
box 10, folder 6
"Minorities, the Poor and School Reform"
1979-07
box 11, folder 1
UCLA Graduate School of MGMT affirmative action
1963
1969-1971
box 11, folder 2
Santa Monica City College teaching
1967
box 11, folder 3
Social Science Research Council
1970
box 11, folder 4
"Report on Higher Education" correspondence
1971
box 11, folder 5
"New Generation" correspondence
1971-1972
box 11, folder 6
UCLA
1971
1979
Scope and Contents
GSM resignation letter, dissertation research
box 11, folder 7
awards/ certificates
1972-1973
1989-1990
box 11, folder 8
Atlanta School Board Seminar
1974
box 11, folder 9
Robert Singleton and Associates
1978-1980
box 11, folder 10
"A Cost Analysis of Alternative Proposals to Alleviate the Harms of Racially Isolated Minority Schools in Los Angeles"
1982-04
box 11, folder 11
Labor Market Info Project
1977
1984
box 11, folder 12
research on African American studies programs
box 11, folder 13
article on reparations
2001
box 11, folder 14
Southern California Black Studies Consortium
2007
box 11, folder 15
National Museum of African American History and Culture
2015
box 11, folder 16
Rosa Parks Humanitarian Award
2015
box 11, folder 17
miscellaneous material
1964-2018
