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Race Relations Information Center records

 Collection
Identifier: 310

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of editors and educators, especially those based in the South, as might be expected in the records of the agency which superceded the Southern Education Reporting Service. Names include Harry Ashmore, Andrew Billingsley, Bernard Berelson, Hodding Carter, Luther Foster, James T. Leeson Jr., Patrick E. McCauley, C. A. McKnight, Reed Sarratt, and Don Shoemaker, among many others. The Race Relations Information Center superceded the Southern Education Reporting Service in 1969.

Dates

  • Other: 1954-1975

Creator

Extent

45.46 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Condition Description

Good

Title
Race Relations Information Center records
Status
Unprocessed
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Amistad Research Center Repository

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