subj11. Civil Rights Holdings

Scope and Contents The Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring documents the life and career of Judge Julius Waties Waring. The collection highlights the activites and ideologies of Waring, his wife, Elizabeth, and to a smaller extent his daughter, Anne. The collection encompasses 0.4. linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, invitations, speeches, and newspaper clippings related to the Waring family. Jenkins, a close friend of the Warings, collected the materials to honor Waring,...

Scope and Contents The Save Our Schools records document the efforts by this organization, which was founded in April 1960 to maintain free public education in New Orleans during the integration of the public school system. The collection contains organizational records, as well as newspaper clippings and publications collected by SOS and its members. The bulk of the materials within the Save Our Schools collection spans the years 1957 to 1962, with correspondence dating from 1960 to 1962. The...

Scope and Contents The papers of attorney and civil rights activist Daniel Ellis Byrd include correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical data, minutes, financial records, resolutions, agendas, lists, and collected items. Many of the documents chronicle Daniel Byrd's involvement in activities related to his employment as an NAACP field secretary for forty years and as assistant director of the Department of Teacher Information and Security of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Subjects treated in...

Scope and Contents The United Church Board for Homeland Ministries (UCBHM) was an autonomous but recognized instrumentality of the United Church of Christ (UCC) that functioned as the administrative body of the United Church of Christ's home missions and services (1962-2000). The UCBHM formed in 1962 by the union of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Board of National Missions of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and continued the corporations and the work of...

Scope and Contents This collection contains twenty-four linear feet of correspondence, attorney and judicial files, organizational records, Ortique’s writings, collected research, and ephemeral materials.The papers of Revius Ortique Jr. primarily chronicle his professional life as a prominent African-American attorney and judge in New Orleans, Louisiana and as the first African-American judge elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court. Included in his papers are case files from his early...

Content Description The Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC) was founded to assist African American farmers, reverse the trend of decline in Black ownership of land in the South, and to develop cooperatives and credit unions as a means to assist individuals and families in rural and low-income communities. The records of FSC include voluminous correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, statistical data, photographs, financial records, newsletters and publications both generated and collected by the...

Content Description The Judicial Council of the National Bar Association was created in 1970 as an independent section of the Association with George W. Crockett Jr. appointed as coordinator. The Council had its own officers, by-laws, programs, and treasury. The records of the Council  include correspondence, minutes, financial records, resolutions, newsletters, lists, photographs, press releases, and other printed items. The correspondence is mostly to or from Crockett and usually concerns itself with...

Content Description The Robert Avon Bennett papers consists of correspondence, new clippings, church bulletins, speeches, sermons, and other printed items generated by Bennett in the course of his training as a minister in the Episcopal Church and in his practice of the profession. Items include notebooks for courses, programs, school catalogs, especially for the Episcopal Theological School where Bennett was appointed to the faculty as a graduate fellow, and other printed items. Foreign and domestic...

Content Description The Peter A. Hall papers contain business and personal correspondence, news clippings, legal briefs, financial records, honors and awards, and a resolution presented by the Birmingham City Council on the death of Hall's mother, Josephine Hall. Hall's papers document his affiliations with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the United Presbyterian Church, Operation New Birmingham, the Alabama Democratic Conference, and various civil rights organizations. Other records document his legal practice, his...

Content Description Primarily consisting of office records such as correspondence, invitations, minutes, reports, financial records, news releases, lists, and records involving specific publications and projects. Materials regarding specific projects include the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The collection is replete with names of editors and educators, especially those based in the South, as might be expected in the records of the agency which superceded the Southern Education Reporting Service....