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News and Documents

  • Alabama Citizen
    • Weekly African American newspaper, 1947-1963, published in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Our collection runs through Oct. 1961, at which point the newspaper moves to Mobile, Alabama. It was eventually merged with the Mobile Beacon. [You can also find this resource online, via the University’s subscription to Newspapers.com.]
  • Harry Mell Ayers papers (MSS.0097)
    • Papers of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the Anniston Star newspaper, including professional correspondence on editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times; personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; and copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal Government, foreign affairs, religion, the South and segregation.
  • Peter Archibald Carmichael papers (MSS.0280)
    • Lecture notes, publications, and professional files of this Alabama native and Lousiana State University professor, on subjects including logic, religion, language, labor arbitration, and civil rights/segregation.
  • Civil Rights, Marion, Alabama Police Department (MSS.0304)
    • Papers saved by the chief of Marion, Alabama, police including legislative reports, police reports, photos, newspaper articles, letters, affidavits concerning demonstrations in Marion, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Tuskegee Airmen Collection  (MSS.1446)
    • Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.
  • Mignon Smith and Carol Bennett Alabama Radio Network Papers (MSS.3369)
    • Newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, press releases and presidential convention media packets, covering people and events and their influence on Alabama, includes files on various civil rights topics.

Government Reports

  • Alexander, George J. Civil rights U.S.A.: public schools: cities in the North and West, 1963, Buffalo. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection LA339.B9 A84 1963]
  • Hannah, John A. Freedom to the free: century of emancipation, 1863-1963: a report to the President. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection E185.61 .U582 1963]
  • President’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. Negro housing; report of the Committee on Negro Housing. Washington D.C.: USGPO, 1931. [Hall Collection HD7286 .P8 1931b vol.6]
  • Sheeler, John Reuben. The Negro American: a progress report. USGPO, 1960. [Rare Collection E185.61 .S4 1960x]
  • Unites States. President’s Committee on Civil Rights. To secure these rights, the report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1947. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A32 1947]
  • Wright, Harry K. Civil rights U.S.A.: public schools, southern states 1963, Texas. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection LC212.622.T48 W75 1963]

From the United States Commission on Civil Rights

General
  • 1961 Commission on Civil Rights report. USGPO, 1961. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A336 1961x]
  • Administration of justice in Mississippi; a report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A336 1963]
  • Constitutional principle vs community practice: a survey of the gap in Florida: report of the Florida Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection E185.61 .U5824 1963]
  • Employment in Washington, D. C.: problems and progress;. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection E185.93.D6 U6 1963]
  • Equal protection of the laws in North Carolina: report of the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 N8 1962]
  • Excerpts from the 1961 Commission on Civil Rights report: including all findings and recommendations made by the Commission in its five-volume report. USGPO, 1961. [Rare Collection KF4749 .A3 1961]
  • Hearings before the Hearings held in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960 [and] December 15, 1960. USGPO, 1961. [Rare Collection E185.93.M5 A5 1961]
  • Hearings before the Hearings held in Los Angeles, California, January 25, 1960, January 26, 1960; San Francisco, California, January 27, 1960, January 28, 1960. USGPO, 1960. [Rare Collection F870.A1 U5 1960]
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Newark, New Jersey, September 11-12, 1962. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection F144.N6 U5 1962]
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Phoenix, Arizona, February 3, 1962. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection F819.P57 A57 1962]
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: Hearings held in Memphis, Tennessee, June 25-26, 1962. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection F444.M5 U5 1962]
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: Hearings held in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 27, 1960, September 28, 1960, May 5, 1961, May 6, 1961. USGPO, 1961. [Rare Collection E185.93.L6 U53 1961]
  • Interim report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 C595 1963x]
  • One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all: an abridgement of the Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1959. USGPO, 1959. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A3362 1959]
  • Report, 1959, of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1959. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A336 1959]
  • The National Conference and the reports of the State Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1959. USGPO, 1960. [Rare Collection JC599.U5 A336 1960]
Education
  • Civil rights U.S.A.: public schools, cities in the North and West, 1962. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection LB3062 .U63 1962]
  • Civil rights U.S.A.: Public schools, southern states, 1962. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection LA209.2 .A47 1962]
  • Conference before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: Fourth Annual Education Conference on Problems of Segregation and Desegregation of Public Schools: May 3, 1962 .. May 4, 1962 .. Washington, D.C. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection L112 .H73 1962]
  • Conference before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: Third Annual Conference on Problems of Schools in Transition from the Educator’s Viewpoint: February 25, 1961 .. February 26, 1961 .. Williamsburg, Va. USGPO, 1961. [Rare Collection LA210 .C66 1961]
  • Education: conference before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1959. [Rare Collection KF4151 .A2 1959]
  • Public education in Arkansas, 1963, still separate and still unequal; a report of the Arkansas Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection LC212.522.A8 U54 1963]
  • Public education: 1964 staff report. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection LB3062 .U57 1964]
  • Public Education; 1963 staff report. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection LB3062 .U5 1963]
  • Report on racial imbalance in the Boston public schools; by the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1965. [Rare Collection LA306.B7 U5 1965]
  • Synopsis of conference before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: problems of segregation and desegregation of public schools. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection LC212.52 .E3 1962]
Housing and Employment
  • Civil rights U.S.A.: housing in Washington, D.C. USGPO, 1962. [Rare Collection E185.89.H6 U47 1962]
  • Discrimination in housing in the Boston metropolitan area; report. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection E185.89.H6 U470 1963]
  • Family housing and the Negro serviceman;. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection E185.89.H6 U47 1963]
  • Family relocation under urban renewal in Connecticut; problems and proposals in a typical Federal Government program involving relocation;. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection HD7303.C8 A56 1963]
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: housing: hearings held in New York, N.Y., January 2, 1959. USGPO, 1959. [Rare Collection KF4749 .U54 1959 v.2]
  • Report on New Jersey, housing, employment opportunities, and apprenticeship training. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection F145.N4 U5 1963]
  • Report on Maryland: employment. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection HD4903.5.U58 A48 1964]
  • Reports on apprenticeship. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection E185.8 .U553 1964]
  • Urban renewal programs and their effects on racial minority group housing in three Iowa cities; report of the Iowa State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection E185.89.H6 U47 1964a]
Other Topics
  • Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: voting; hearing held in Montgomery, Alabama, December 8, 9, January 9, 1959. USGPO, 1959. [Alabama Collection KFA420.85.R4 H42 1959x]
  • Negro airmen in a northern community: discrimination in Rapid City, South Dakota. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection F659.R2 U5 1963]
  • Police-minority group relations in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area; report of the California Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, August 1963. USGPO, 1963. [Rare Collection California Advisory Committee.]
  • Report on Buffalo health facilities. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection RA448.5.N4 U56 1964]
  • Report on New York City health facilities. USGPO, 1964. [Rare Collection RA448.5.N4 U58 1964]

Congressional Papers

Tom Bevill papers (MSS.0152)

  • Bevill was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1967-1997
  • See the following materials
    • Legislative Materials > Legislative Office Files > 91st Congress Second Session 1970 – Civil Rights (Box 6361)
    • Legislative Materials Legislative Office Files > 100th Congress Second Session 1988 – Legislative Issues (Judiciary – Civil Rights) (Box 6467)
      • Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation > 91st Congress, 1969-1970 – H.R. 116, Civil Rights Act (Box 6546)
    • Miscellaneous > Subjects and Persons > Schools – Integration & Segregation (Box 6735)

Lister Hill papers (MSS.0670)

  • Hill was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Alabama, 1920s-1960s
  • See the following materials
    • Senatorial papers 1946-1968 > Racial, 1939-1967 (Boxes 670.376 & 670.377)
    • Civil Rights (Box 670-710)
    • Agriculture and Civil Rights Files (Box 670.711)
    • Speeches and Press Releases on Civil Rights, Defense, and Economics (Box 670.792)

Samuel Francis Hobbs papers (MSS.0682)

  • Hobbs was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1934-1951
  • See the following materials
    • Correspondence, A-Z > “Amerasia” — Anti-Lynching > Anti-Lynching [various folders] (Box 682.003)
    • Correspondence, A-Z > National Labor Relations Board — Negroes > Negroes [various folders] (Box 682.032)
    • Correspondence, A-Z > Peace – Portal-to-Portal > Poll Tax [various folders] (Box 682.033)
    • Correspondence, A-Z > Salaries – Southern Revolt > Segregation (Box 682.039)

Kenneth Allison Roberts papers (MSS.1198)

  • Roberts was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1963-1965
  • See the following materials
    • Box 2137 > Civil Rights
    • Box 2137 > Oxford Mississippi Race Riots
    • Box 2137 > Racial Matters
    • Box 2137 > Segregation and Civil Rights

Armistead I. Selden Jr. papers (MSS.1244)

  • Selden was an Alabama State Representative and a U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1953-1969
  • See the following materials
    • Box 7 – 1955/1956 > Alabama – Segregation
    • Box 9 – 1956/1957 > Alabama – Segregation [various folders]
    • Box 17 – 1958/1959 > Alabama, State of – Segregation [4 folders]
    • Box 23 – 1960 > Alabama, State of – Segregation
    • Box 46 – 1963 > Civil Rights Bill – Correspondence [various folders]
    • Box 57 – 1964 > Civil Rights Bill – Legislation – Correspondence [various folders]
    • Box 70 – 1965 > Selma, Voting Rights [various folders]
    • Box 77 – 1966 > Segregation
    • Box 94 – 1968 > Segregation
    • Box 103 – Speeches > [various folders, re: Civil Rights Act of 1966, Voting Rights Act, violence, Martin Luther King, Kennedy, University Integration]

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