General
Addresses/Speeches
1947-1957
1959-1963
California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco, 1963
Awards
Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1958
Sidney Hillman Award, for editorials on school integration, 1958
Miscellany - mainly honorary degrees and related materials, at various institutions including Clemson and the University of Arkansas, 1958-1988
Calendar, 1982
Charlotte Newspaper Clippings, 1947
Clemson Agricultural College - ROTC and graduation, 1936-1937
Harvard University - Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship, 1941-1942
Little Rock Showdown - articles and related materials, about HSA and the Arkansas Gazette, 1957
Memorabilia - incl. Greenville, S.C. items from HSA's youth and Clemson days, ca. 1922-1983
Military Service Record - 95th Infantry Division, mainly World War II
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
A (includes Mortimer Adler)
Arkansas Gazette (includes 1955 letter to Robert M. Hutchins), ca. 1955-1986
B (includes Julian Bond, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Dale Bumpers, McGeorge Bundy), 1977-1997
Baggs & McGill
Baggs, Billie, 1972-1974
Banner, Knox
Blackford, Staige ( Virginia Quarterly Review)
Bonham, Dorothy Z.
Brockway, George P., 1960-1982
C (includes Walter and Lois Capps, Alan Cranston), 1974-1997
Caldwell, Bettye
Campbell, Robert S.
Civil Rights Commission (includes Bill Clinton), 1976-1979, 1989-1993
Clinton, Bill and Hillary, 1992-1996
Crisman, Charles B., 1979-1983
D, 1976-1993
Darragh, Fred K., Jr.
Democratic National Committee, 1985-1989
Department of Education, 1980
Dowd, Bill (WWII), 1944
Downs, Hugh, 1972-1974
Drown, Joseph, 1965-1982
E, 1969-1991
Egerton, John
Emerson, William A.
Emory University - Oral History
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1985-1991
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 1989-1992
Epitaph for Dixie, Norton/Little-Brown, 1991-1992
F, 1974-1990
Fadiman, Clifton, 1971-1991
Fleming, Harold C., 1976-1993
Fulbright, William, 1972-1981
G, 1976-1994
Golden, Harry, 1965-1983
Griffin, John, 1964-ca. 1995
Guggenheim, Charles, 1959-1986
H (includes Gary K. Hart, Benjamin Hooks, James B. Hunt), 1968-1996
Harper's Magazine, 1952-1958
Hays, Brooks, 1965-1979
Heiskell, J. N. ( Arkansas Gazette), 1968
Higher Learning - RMH [Hutchins], 1993-1996
Hill, Bruce, 1972
House, [?], 1988
Hughes, Jerry, 1974
J, 1977-1995
Jackson, Jesse L. (PUSH), 1981
Jacoway, Elizabeth [Betsy], 1976-1979
K (includes Kim Dae Jung), 1977-1996
Kennedy [Robert F.] Book Award, 1994-1996
L, 1975-1997
Lamb, Ted, 1971-1984
Landers, Ann, 1977
Lane, John, 1942-1982
Laughlin, W. Price, 1972-1974
Levinson, Morris, 1970-1987
Lewis, John, 1983
Little Rock, 1997
Loper, James, 1973-1977
Lord, Sterling, 1979-1987
M, 1976-1997
Mc (includes Shirley Maclaine), 1974-1997
Manasa, Norman, 1972-1996
Mayer, Milton, 1969-1982
McGill, Ralph [ Atlanta Constitution], 1955-1984
Mitchell, Maurice, 1977-1979
Mitchell Fund, 1976-1986
N, 1976-1985
National Education Project, Inc., 1996-1997
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1977
Neal, Fred Warner, 1972-1985
Nelson, Charles A. - re Scott Buchanan, 1995
O, ca. 1977-1997
P, 1972-1997
Parvin Foundation, 1970-1971
Patterson, Hugh [ Arkansas Gazette], 1966-1995
Popham Seminar, 1975-1996
Potomac Institute, 1981-1988
Presidential Commission on Affirmative Action (incl. Ickes, Panetta, Clinton), 1992-1995
Push for Excellence (includes Drown Foundation, Peter Tagger), 1977-1984
Q, 1978
R, 1977-1996
Rapoport, Bernard, 1983
Roberts, 1956-1990
Rosenthal, Robert [University of Chicago Library], 1985-1990
S, 1975-1994
Separation from The Center [CSDI], 1971-1975
Simon's Rock, 1985-1989
Squires, Malcom, 1983-1996
Stover, Carl, 1977-1990
Suitts, Steve [Lilly Endowment Project], 1994-1995
Syracuse University - re HSA's papers deposited there, 1968-1978
T, 1976-1996
Teel, Leonard Ray - Ralph McGill biography, 1997
Thompson, Kenneth, 1977-1994
U, 1977-1996
UCSB and The Center [CSDI], 1979-1984
V, 1972-1994
Vanocur, Sander, 1972-1977
W, 1973-1995
Whitmore, Sir John, 1972-1973
Wing, Willis Kingsley, 1954-1987
Woods, Henry (Medal of Freedom for Ashmore effort), ca. 1981-1997
Y, 1973-1996
Z, 1972-1977
Organizations / Issues / Events
Scope and Content Note
Alabama, ca. 1958
American Assembly (Columbia University), 1972
American Civil Liberties Union, National Committee, 1964
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, 1997
American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), ca. 1959-1972
Arkansas, ca. 1979-1981
Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986
Arkansas Gazette, 1958-1986
Arkansas - Graham [Philip], Washington Post, 1957
Arkansas Red Probe – Bennett [Bruce], Attorney General, ca. 1958
Aspen Institute (Douglass Cater), 1974-1976
Baggs, William
Bill Baggs Fund, 1970-1973
Papers [at University of Miami] - Guide, 1994
Brown [Pat] Campaigns, 1964, 1966
CBS
Bicentennial Minutes, 1974, 1976
Great Challenge, 1962
California Democratic Advisory Committee - Foreign Policy Task Force
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI]
Clippings
Ecology Conference - "Steps to Survival: Planning for Action in the Environmental Crisis," Los Angeles, Apr. 25, 1970
Equity Dialogue, 1978
Eucalyptus Hill Road Site - real estate packet, ca. 1979
Mass Media Meeting, 1971
New Perspectives Quarterly (successor to CSDI) - issues of magazine, 1990-1995
Pacem in Maribus - Program, 1970
Meet the Press - Pacem in Terris II, 1967
Pacem in Terris [PIT] I - Saturday Review issue, Feb. 13, 1965
Pacem in Terris [PIT] II - Program and "Meet the Press," 1967
PIT (Pacem in Terris) IV - clippings, 1975
"Public Relations of Peace"
Center Magazine Correspondence, 1967
Letters to the Editor, 1967
Race Relations Information Center, 1971
Vietnam - Missing Correspondents, Aug. 1970
World Spotlight Series - "Public Dialogue on Foreign Affairs," Chicago, Apr. 7-8, 1970
Center for the Study of the Environment (Santa Barbara, CA), 1992-1993
Century Association, 1961-1993
Citizens Crusade against Poverty, 1967-1968
Clemson University
General, 1987-1993
"Civil Rights and Wrongs Lecture," 1996
Clemson Alumni Association - Distinguished Alumni Award, 1967
Lane, John D., ca. 1968-1990
Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, San Francisco, 1975
Committee for New China Policy, Montreal, Mar. 5-7, 1970
Common Cause (John W. Gardner), 1970-1975
Conference on World Tensions, 1960
Corning Conference, May 18-20, 1961
Dixiecrats - incl. correspondence, clippings, and address by Strom Thurmond, 1948-1949
Duke University Seminars, 1973-1974
Early Education Project, ca. 1980, 1994
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Ashmore appointed editor-in-chief, 1960
Florida Segregation Brief, 1954
Fund for the Advancement of Education, n.d.
Gerontology Center, 1979
Greater Los Angeles Press Club Awards Dinner - Remarks, 1975
Hearing, Educational Aid and Research Foundation, Inc - Minutes of the Board of Directors Meetings, Nov. 2, 1976-Feb. 27, 1979
Johnson [LBJ] Campaign, 1964
League of Women Voters Education Fund, 1973-1974
Little Rock (Arkansas), 1958-1991
"Little Rock: 1954-1964. A Selective History" - Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr., typescript, n.d.
McCarthy [Eugene] Campaign, 1968
McGovern [George] Campaign, 1972
Miles College
Moscow Trip by HSA, May 2-16, 1971
National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials (NAIRO), 1962
National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1966-1988
National Council for Civic Responsibility, 1964
National Council of Churches (Commission on Religion and Race), 1963-1965
Naval War College, 1973
Nieman Foundation, 1960-1995
Politics - General, 1968-1973
San Jose Mercury News, 1978
Sidney Hillman Foundation, Inc., ca. 1967-1980
South Carolina Academy, 1995
Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA) - Public Broadcasting, 1983-1985
Southern Methodist University - Dallas - Lecture: "The Great Re-Awakening," 1972
Southern Regional Council
General, 1984-1996
Smith Award, 1982-1985
Southern Symposium - The Southern Soul, 1972
Stevenson, Adlai
General, 1952-1955
Presidential Campaign, 1956
Town Meeting (ABC) - "What Should We Do about Race Segregation?" 1948
University of Arkansas
History Society Speech, 1981
Honorary Degree, 1972
Integration Symposium, 1987
University of Denver, 1967
University of Georgia - School of Journalism, 1977-1978
University of Iowa - Address: "Journalism: The State of the Art," 1970
University of Michigan (HSA visiting professor), 1975-1976
University of Wisconsin - Public Relations, 1971
Urban League - Omaha - Report, n.d.
Utsunomiya, Tokuma - Korea (re Kim Dae Jung), 1974
Whitewater, 1996
World Veterans Federation Seminar - University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1959
World Tensions Conference, 1960
Writings
Monographs
Scope and Content Note
Arkansas: A Bicentennial History [New York: Norton, 1978]
Arkansas: A History [New York: Norton; Nashville, The Association, 1984]
Black Man's Burden [published under this title?]
Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1994 [New York: Pantheon, 1994]
Epitaph for Dixie [New York: Norton, 1958]
Fear in the Air: Broadcasting and the First Amendment [New York: Norton, 1973]
Hearts and Minds [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982]
Drafts
Carter, Gladys
Ford Foundation Grant, ca. 1980-1983
Reviews, ca. 1982
Rollins, Bryant
Shapiro, Lori
Revised edition - Seven Locks Press
Mission to Hanoi, with William C. Baggs [ New York: Putnam, 1968]
Pit-Hanoi newspaper clippings, ca. 1966-1967
Hanoi editorials, ca. 1967
Logs
Reviews, Publicity and Public Relations, ca. 1968
The Negro and the Schools [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954]
The Other Side of Jordan [New York: Norton, 1960]
Unseasonable Truths - Hutchins biography [Boston: Little, Brown, 1989]
Reviews
Drafts
Research Files
Shorter Works: Articles, Editorials, Reviews
Center Magazine (includes some accompanying correspondence)
Indices (with references to HSA articles)
"BLACK POWER & White Inertia," Jan. 1968
"Containment, Confrontation & Détente," Nov-Dec. 1972
"Electoral Reform," Jan. 1969, Mar. 1969
"Ghetto Education: A Special Supplement," with Robert F. Kennedy, Kenneth B. Clark, Oscar Lewis, Neil V. Sullivan, and Robert M. Hutchins), Nov. 1968
"Government by Public Relations," Sept-Oct. 1971
"Jesse Jackson's Revolutionary Message," Jan-Feb. 1978
"The Liberal: Friend or Foe," Nov. 1969
"Limits of Dissent," Nov. 1968
"Marx as a Moderate," Sept-Oct. 1972
"Of Theory and Practice," Sept. 1970
"The Only One There Is," Nov-Dec. 1984
"Pentagon Papers as a Case History: Government by Public Relations"
"The Pentagon Papers Revisited," Nov-Dec. 1971
"The Perils of Loving," Jan. 1968
"The Planners Dilemma," March 1969
"The Plight of the Parties," with John L. Perry, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Harvey Wheeler, Mar. 1968
"The Policy of Illusion, the Illusion of Policy," May 1970
"The Politics of Prevarication," Mar-Apr. 1974
"The Public Relations of Peace," Oct-Nov. 1967
"Return of a Native," May 1968
"Small Talk with 'A Very Reactionary Old Gentleman'," May-June 1966
"Uncertain Oracles," Nov-Dec. 1970
"Vanishing Liberals?" Sept. 1969
"Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" July 1969
"Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" Cary James Exchange, Nov-Dec. 1969
LA Times
Correspondence, ca. 1973-1976
Reviews by Ashmore
Seidenbaum, Art
Topical Comment (J. Bassett), 1967
"What Kind of World?" correspondence and columns, 1969-1976
Miscellaneous papers, articles, book reviews, letters to editors, speeches, and related correspondence (includes material transferred from University of South Carolina, 2003)
African American Review - book review, ca. 1994
Amherst College - address, Mar. 10, 1949
Arkansas, by John Gould Fletcher - Introduction by Ashmore
Arkansas Gazette
Editorials by Ashmore, ca. 1948
Review by Ashmore
Starr, John R.
Arkansas Library Association - address, Sept. 19, 1978
"Arkansas: They Didn't Want a Man of Reason" - re Brooks Hays, The Reporter, Nov. 27, 1958
"Belly Dancing," unpublished, ca. 1973
"Below the Bottom Line," Virginia Quarterly Review, 1986
B'nai B'rith Dinner honoring Stanley Kramer - "Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" Feb. 7, 1971
Book Reviews - by Ashmore (publication unknown)
Boston Globe - reviews by Ashmore
"The Brown Decision," Constitution, ca. 1988
Brown v. Board of Education - 30th anniversary articles, 1984
Brown v. Board of Education articles, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, ca. 1994
Butler Commentary - on Hearts and Minds, 1985
California Magazine, n.d.
Capps [Walter H.] on [Jerry] Falwell - HSA response, 1982
"A Case for Professionalism," Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Nov/Dec. 1970
Chancellor [John] Panel, 1997
Charlotte News - articles and editorials by Ashmore, ca. 1946-1947
Chicago Sun-Times - reviews by Ashmore
Chicago Tribune - reviews by Ashmore
"The Civil Rights Act after Twenty Years - Part One: Where We've Been and Where We Are," Southern Changes, Mar-Apr. 1982
"The Civil Rights of White Males," 1985
"The Coming Showdown in the Race Crisis," Look, July 16, 1963
"Criminal Justice and the Press" - panel discussion with Ashmore, part of the Criminal Justice in America series for PBS, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1974
Cultural Information Service - articles on JFK, also Civil Rights and the South, ca. 1983
"A Delayed Tribute to Archie House," n.d.
"Doubling the Standard," Virginia Quarterly Review
"Drugs, Crime and the Political Process," ca. 1990
"The Durable Issue," American Scholar, Autumn 1961
Early Fiction, n.d.
"Education in a Time of Testing," Washington University Magazine, Feb. 1959
"An Epitaph for the Old Lady" - re demise of Arkansas Gazette, 1991
"Face the Nation," CBS News, Sept. 29, 1957
Faubus article, Washington Times, Dec. 21, 1994
"The Ghost of John C. Calhoun Walks Again," n.d.
"The Great Reawakening," Virginia Quarterly Review, ca. 1974-1975
Greenville News - articles by Ashmore, ca. 1937-1940
"Ham Moses," n.d.
Harvard Magazine - review by Ashmore, 1982
"Has Our Free Press Failed Us?" Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 29, 1960
Huckaby, Elizabeth - Crisis at Central High, foreword by Ashmore, ca. 1980-1981
Indianapolis Public Schools - "The Brown Decision in Retrospect, 1954-1976," Sept. 2, 1976
"Is There a Southern Point of View," Southern Fireside, [ca. late 1940s-early 1950s]
"It Happened in My Town," ADL Bulletin, Nov. 1957
"The Legacy of Orville Faubus," 1997
"The Legacy of White Supremacy," ca. early 1980s
"The Lessons of Little Rock," Media Studies Journal, Spring 1997
Letter to Editor, in American Scholar, re Edward Shills' essay on Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1990
"Little Rock Story," Nieman Reports, 1958
Martin Luther King - Santa Barbara News Press, Jan. 20, 1985
McNamara, Robert S. - review by Ashmore, of McNamara's In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, in various newspapers, 1995
Mississippi State - talk re Hodding Carter, Feb. 3, 1979
"The Mournful Numbers," keynote address, Conference on "The Meaning of Commercial Television," Stanford-University of Texas Seminar, Asilomar, California, Apr. 24, 1966
The Nation - articles on Gestalt theory of education, 1949; Brown v. Board of Education, 1954; and on Jimmy Carter, 1976
The Nation - review by Ashmore
National Neighbors Conference, Bellwood, IL - keynote address, June 17, 1983
"New Problems for an Old Agenda," address at Grinnell College, May 31, 1962
New York Herald Tribune - reviews by Ashmore, 1958, 1964
New York Times Book Review - review by Ashmore, 1994
Nieman Reports - reviews by Ashmore, 1985-1986
"Of Liberals and Libertarians," Harry Girvetz Memorial Lecture, UCSB, May 23, 1985
Paulson, Dennis, 1983
"The Pentagon Papers: A Case History of Government by Public Relations," 1971
Perspectives - agreement to write article on Black / Jewish relations, 1983
"The Price of Public Office," n.d.
"A Program for Race Relations," New South, Dec. 1951
"Publishers' Textbook," Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Jan. 1, 1948
Reader's Digest article - first rejection notice, 1958
"Rights and Responsibilities," Southern Fireside, Nov. 1949
"Robert Hutchins's Platonic Grove," The Nation, Jan. 30, 1988
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - article by Ashmore, on Pulitzer Prize for Raymond A. Mc Connell, Jr., 1949
Saturday Evening Review - articles on desegregation, 1959, 1964
"Searchlight on America," n.d.
Shaef Junket - reports from Europe and North Africa, by Ashmore, 1952
Simpson Case - articles in the Santa Barbara Independent re O. J. Simpson, 1994-1995
Southern Changes - book review, May 1991
Southern Political Science Association - address by Ashmore, Oct. 22, 1948
"The South's Year of Decision," Southern Packet, Nov. 1948
"Special Favorite of the Laws," n.d.
"Speculation: A Conversation with Harry S. Ashmore," interviewed by Keith Berwick for Center Report, Dec. 10, 1970
State of the Future Conference, Los Angeles, Oct. 1, 1966
"Statement by the Chief of Police of Gotham City," Civil Liberties Review, Jan. 3, 1975
Stevenson, Adlai - obit, 1965
"The Strange Case of Kim Dae-Jung,"first appeared as CSDI Dialogue, May 21, 1974; Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1974
Terry [Adolphine] Cinner, 1966
The Thinking Man's Shelter," re CSDI, Esquire
"Vietnam: Matters for the Agenda," Center Occasional Paper, June 1968
Washington Star-News - articles on Watergate and Jimmy Carter, ca. 1974-1975
"What I Saw Up North," Pageant, Oct. 1938
"What Really Happened in Little Rock," New Leader, n.d.
"What Should We Do about Race Relations?" Town Meeting, Nov. 9, 1948
"The White House as Masthead," Nieman Reports, Spring 1986
Miscellany - includes early material by/about Ashmore, ca. 1920s-1950s
Photographs
ASTC Scroll (Arkansas State Teachers College yearbook, with Ashmore photo as Board member), 1952
Ashmore (publicity stills, b/w, various sizes)
Ashmore - portrait proofs
Ashmore - Life Magazine (b/w), ca. 1958
The Bonhomie (Furman University yearbook), 1941
CSDI (b/w, various sizes, publicity)
Hutchins (photos for Unseasonable Truths)
Audiotapes
7" open-reel tapes (see also: CSDI Collection tapes)
Adams, Alex - interview with Ashmore (NPR), 1978
Ashmore, Aug. 8, 1961
Baggs, Bill - in Memoriam, ca. 1969
"DeGaulle, Skybolt, and Europe," 1963
Downs, Hugh - interviewing Ashmore on news reporting, Feb. 29, 1972
Equal Time - editorial by Ashmore, Jan. 9, 1968
"Freedom's Fall" - commencement address at Grinnell, June 1, 1962
"Have Our Mass Media Failed Us?" May 10, 1961
"Humor and Social Criticism," V. S. Navasky and Ashmore, Feb. 19, 1963
LBJ - Joseph Frantz (UT Austin, Oral History Project) interviewing Ashmore on Ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jan. 31, 1970
Vietnam Trip - Ashmore report to Founding CSDI Members, Jan. 19, 1967
"What Kind of World?" - with Justice [William O.] Douglas, Judge Carswell, and Ashmore, Feb. 9, 1970
5" open-reel tapes
"Constitution," NBC TV News and Today Program interview, 1970
Press Interview on Trip to North Vietnam, 1967
"Report to Founding Members," Dinner Address, 1967
"Report to Center Staff on Trip to North Vietnam," [1967]
Sargent, Tony - interview with Ashmore on CBS radio "American Week," Sept. 14, 1970