WAUCivicUnityCommittee0479_0580_1002_1350.xml Guide to the Civic Unity Committee Records 1938-1965 Civic Unity Committee Records Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 4/12/2018)
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Finding aid is in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 0479, 0580, 1002, 1350 Civic Unity Committee (Seattle, Wash.) Civic Unity Committee records 1938-1965 24.76 cubic feet (58 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Records of an unofficial race relations, civil rights committee formed by the Seattle, Washington mayor

Seattle’s Civic Unity Committee (CUC), a primarily white civil rights organization, lobbied for civil rights laws and sought to persuade the white community not to discriminate. A large-scale migration of blacks to Seattle during the Second World War increased racial tensions, prompting Seattle Mayor William Devin to create the CUC in 1944. Devin appointed prominent business, civic, religious, and labor leaders to the CUC--seven white men, two white women, two black men, and one Chinese-American man in all--but pointedly refused to select anyone seen as “left-wing.” The CUC negotiated with a number of firms that refused to hire blacks, but generally failed to end the discrimination. The CUC did, however, play a major role in ensuring that the return of interned Japanese Americans to Seattle went peacefully. The CUC ran employment and rental referral services for returning Japanese Americans and convinced local newspapers to condemn anti-Japanese discrimination.

When the fear of racial violence ebbed after the war, Mayor Devin cut the CUC’s ties with city government. The CUC reorganized as a private organization, funded by the King County Community Chest and by members’ donations. The number of members generally hovered around 1,000.

When Congress killed the national Fair Employment Practices Committee in 1946, the CUC turned its attention to passing a state-level job discrimination law. The CUC spun off a sister organization, the Washington State Fair Employment Practices Committee (later called the Washington State Committee Against Discrimination in Employment). While the Urban League wanted blacks to take a prominent role in a well-publicized anti-job discrimination campaign, the CUC and its sister group preferred to focus only on the legislature and to use white lobbyists. The CUC’s tactics seemed to fit the conservative political climate of the time; in 1949 the CUC and its allies convinced the legislature to create the Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment (later named the Washington State Board Against Discrimination (WSBAD). WSBAD had the power to investigate complaints, subpoena records, issue orders to stop discrimination, and enforce its orders in court. CUC lobbying later won laws banning discrimination in public accommodations (1953) and in publicly-funded housing (1957). While the CUC admired WSBAD’s attempts to use quiet negotiations rather than lawsuits or negative publicity to end discrimination, the Seattle National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Urban League were furious at what they saw as a “do nothing” policy. These groups recommended that WSBAD denounce firms that refused to comply with anti-discrimination orders, and thought the agency should publicize the prevalence of racial discrimination in general. These policies were implemented by Democratic Governor Albert Rossellini’s appointees to WSBAD after 1957.

The CUC tried to combat racism in the white community with a number of techniques. They published a semi-monthly newsletter, Fair Play, which ran upbeat stories about improvements in race relations. The CUC sent its trustees to talk to civic organizations about discrimination. From 1948 to 1953 the CUC and the University of Washington sponsored an annual Northwest Institute on Race Relations. The Institute hired a prominent speaker to give a number of speeches to college and high school students and to do radio interviews. Lack of funds in 1954 and thereafter led the CUC to cancel the Institute and just hire a speaker to talk at a different high school each year.

The CUC shifted its focus to housing issues in the 1950s. The CUC was the primary force in the creation of the Greater Seattle Housing Council, a group which included construction companies, realtors, and civil rights activists. The CUC intended this group to promote dialogue and convince the real estate industry to voluntarily adopt open housing policies. Realtors, however, proved unwilling to change. When Washington’s law barring discrimination in publicly-funded housing was declared unconstitutional in 1962, the CUC joined the NAACP and the Urban League in sponsoring a blanket open housing law for all of Seattle. The CUC convinced the Seattle City Council to create a Human Rights Commission (now called the Human Rights Division) to draft an open housing law. Former CUC President Alfred Westberg chaired the Commission. The CUC lobbied the open housing law past a number of parliamentary roadblocks in City Council, but opponents collected enough signatures to put the new law to a referendum. Although the CUC conducted a vigorous campaign, fully 68 % of Seattle voters opposed the ordinance in the March 1964 election. This defeat disheartened the CUC, leading many members to conclude that their critics in other civil rights organizations were right--perhaps efforts to persuade white people not to discriminate had outlived their usefulness. The CUC disbanded soon after the election. Some CUC trustees joined Seattle’s primarily black-led civil rights groups, and some went to work for the Seattle Human Rights Commission.

The president and the executive secretaries who served the organization are as follows:

Presidents:

George Greenwood, 1944-1946 Henry Elliott, 1946-1949 Frank P. Helsell, 1949-1952 John H. Heitzman, 1952-1954 Paul H. Green, 1954-1957 Alfred J. Westberg, 1957-1958 Arthur G. Barnett, 1958-1960 Archie S. Katz, 1960-1962 John F. Gordon, 1962-1964

Executive Secretaries:

Ann P. Madsen, 1944-1945 Irene Burns Miller, 1945-1952 Louise P. Blackham, 1952-1964

Arranged in four accessions:

Accession No. 0479-001, Civic Unity Committee records, 1941-1964 Accession No. 0580-001, Civic Unity Committee records, 1938-1965 Accession No. 1002-001, Civic Unity Committee records, 1949-1963 Accession No. 1350-001, Civic Unity Committee records, 1944-1965

Correspondence, minutes, case files, subject files, printed materials, financial records, notes, and organizational information documenting the work of the Seattle Civic Unity Committee. Also contains records relating to the Northwest Institute of Race Relations, the Washington State Committee Against Discrimination in Employment, Seattle Conference on Minority Housing, the Central Seattle Community Association, the Greater Seattle Housing Council, the King County Intergroup Relations Committee, the Seattle Mayor's Advisory Committee on Relocation, and the Seattle Citizens Advisory Committee.

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In 1965 CUC Executive Secretary Louise Blackham donated Accession No. 0479-001, measuring 9 cubic feet; and Accession No. 0580-001, 7 cubic feet. The Seattle Human Rights Commission found 3.57 cubic feet of CUC records in its files and gave them to Special Collections in 1968; these are now Accession No. 1002-001. In 1970 former CUC President Arthur Barnett added material that became Accession No. 1350-001.

Additional CUC records may be found in the Seattle Human Rights Commission records in Special Collections.

Special Collections holds the CUC’s newsletter, Fair Play . Special Collections also holds the Washington State Board Against Discrimination, Annual Report , Newsletter , and News Highlights .

Special Collections also holds several other collections that relate to the CUC, including the Howard Drucker papers, the Irene Miller papers, the Robert O'Brien papers, the Melvina Squires papers, the Alfred Westberg papers, the Irving Clark papers, the Linden Mander papers, and the Arthur Barnett papers.

The records of the Greater Seattle Housing Council, which the CUC founded, are also available in Special Collections.

Additional information on the CUC’s involvement with WSBAD can be found in the WSBAD records at the Washington State Archives in Olympia.

Civic Unity Committee (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives Central Seattle Community Association Health and Welfare Council of Seattle and King County. Committee on Intergroup Relations Seattle Human Rights Commission Washington State Committee Against Discrimination in Employment High School Students Conference on Human Relations Northwest Institute of Race Relations Washington (State)--Civil rights Seattle (Wash.)--Civil rights Seattle (Wash.)--Race relations Central District (Seattle, Wash.)--Race relations Civil rights--Washington (State)--Seattle--Societies, etc.--Archives African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle Discrimination--Washington (State) Discrimination in employment--Washington (State)--Seattle Discrimination in housing--Washington (State)--Seattle Case files Correspondence Minutes Notes Printed ephemera Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Newsletters Scrapbooks Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Civil Rights African Americans Seattle

 

Accession No. 0479-001: Civic Unity Committee records, 1941-1964 (bulk 1954-1964) 13.42 cubic feet (31 boxes)

Arrangement: Arranged in 8 series:

Historical information Correspondence Organizational records Reports Printed materials Scrapbooks Northwest Institute of Race Relations records Washington State Committee Against Discrimination in Employment (WSCAD) records

Scope and Content: Correspondence, organizational records, minutes, reports, clippings, ephemera, scrapbooks.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

 Historical information 1/1-2 0479-001 Civic Unity Committee undated 14 items

Scope and Content: Includes reports, memos and charts.

 1/3 0479-001 Washington Fair Employment Practices Commission undated 1 item 1/4 0479-001 Washington State Committee against Discrimination in Employment. undated 1 item Correspondence

Arrangement: The correspondence in this collection is divided into two subseries. This is due to the manner in which the material was originally received and to the fact that in transferring the material to our collection, some of the original order was destroyed. The two subseries are as follows: correspondence sorted chronologically, which after 1955 consists primarily of outgoing and interoffice correspondence; and correspondence by subject or correspondent, the manner in which materials were filed before 1955. Materials that did not have any designation as to subject matter have been filed in one of three ways: with other material from the same correspondent, if such a file existed; with the subject matter it covered, if such a file existed; or with the chronological file of no other place could be found. In the last case, names of the correspondents are given in the scope and content note for the folder.

Scope and Content: To locate correspondence from a specific organization, the best way in which to use the collection is to check the subject and correspondents subseries first. However, if the interest is more general, or in the CUC itself, the best approach would be first to examine the mimeographed materials which were kept in a chronological file from 1956 to 1964. These files contain minutes, reports, interoffice correspondence, etc. They will lead the researcher to organizations and copies in the other files. For the period prior to these dates, the minutes of meetings and the reports are the best records to examine. The latter are quite complete, and the monthly, quarterly, and activities reports give an accurate picture of all the cases and processes handled and used. These files also contain duplicate copies of minutes and reports after 1956, but the mimeographed materials give a much more complete picture of the workings of the organization.

 Chronological

Scope and Content: Most of the chronological correspondence is signed by the various CUC members; these names are not noted.

Incoming correspondence in the chronological files is usually in the form of copies which have been circulated among the members of the CUC.

 1/5 0479-001 1944 February-May 1944 February-May 12 items

Scope and Content: Linden A. Mander; Seattle Civilian War Commission; NAACP, Seattle; Charles M. Stokes

 1/6 0479-001 1944 June-July 1944 June-July 7 items

Scope and Content: Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.), Seattle; Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Seattle; National Committee on Housing, Inc.

 1/7 0479-001 1944 August-December 1944 August-December 6 items

Scope and Content: Linden A. Mander

 1/8 0479-001 1945 1945 4 items

Scope and Content: Includes summary notes of staff training meeting on racial relations, April 17.

 1/9 0479-001 1946 1946 9 items

Scope and Content: Washington Labor and Industries Department

 1/10 0479-001 1947 January-August 1947 January-August 8 items

Scope and Content: American Council on Race Relations

 1/11 0479-001 1947 October-December 1947 October-December 7 items 1/12 0479-001 1948 January-May 1948 January-May 7 items

Scope and Content: Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor's Council on Human Relations; St. Paul, Minnesota Council of Human Relations, Inc.; Seattle Mayor

 1/13 0479-001 1948 June-December 1948 June-December 16 items

Scope and Content: Council of Churches and Christian Education

 1/14 0479-001 1949 January-May 1949 January-May 13 items

Scope and Content: Council of Social Agencies, George H. Revelle

 1/15-6/32 0479-001 1949 May-1955 1949 May-1955 approximately 5500 items

Scope and Content: After May 1949, the chronological correspondence consists of outgoing correspondence, interoffice correspondence (essentially between Irene Miller and Louise Blackham) and copies of incoming letters.

6/33-34 0479-001 Miscellaneous memos undated

Scope and Content: Handwritten; most are undated.

 6/35-8/4 0479-001 1956-1964 1956-1964

Scope and Content: After 1955, a chronological record of all mimeographed materials was kept. This includes form letters, agendas, minutes, etc. As a result, a great deal of material is duplicated because items were not checked against this record. All have been left as received with most recent on top within the folders.

 Subjects and correspondents

Scope and Content: Within this subseries, many of the folders have corporate name entries. This indicates that most of the correspondence in the folder is from that organization . It may also, however, contain correspondence about that organization from other organizations and individuals. Furthermore, although one organization may have its own folder, all its correspondence will not necessarily be found there. For example, if the Anti-Defamation League has worked closely on a problem that has been given its own folder, such as the Laurelhurst Beach Club problem, much of its correspondence will also be found there. This was the system used by the CUC, and it has been retained as much as possible.

 9/1 0479-001 Adult Education Association of America circulars 1955-1956 6 items 16/10a 0479-001 African American undated 16/11 0479-001 African American G.I. 1944-1945 8 items 9/2 0479-001 American Civil Liberties Union circulars, newsletters, pamphlets 1949-1956 7 items 9/3-8 0479-001 American Council on Race Relations 1944-1950 67 items

Scope and Content: primarily with Pacific coast office

 9/9-11 0479-001 American Jewish Committee 1947-1949, 1961 39 items 9/12 0479-001 American Jewish Committee memoranda 1948 9 items 9/13 0479-001 American Jewish Committee, Committee reporter 1950-1951 8 items 9/14 0479-001 American Jewish Committee speaker's manual 1947 2 items 9/15 0479-001 American Jewish Committee pamphlets undated 8 items 9/16 0479-001 American Jewish Committee Western Regional Office 1950-1956 16 items 9/17-18 0479-001 American Jewish Congress 1950-1955 14 items 9/19 0479-001 American Jewish Congress miscellaneous reports 1953, 1961 2 items 9/20-21 0479-001 American Jewish Congress memoranda (public reports) 1950-1963 12 items 9/22 0479-001 American Jewish Congress pamphlets 5 items 9/23-24 0479-001 American Jewish Congress, Commission on Law and Social Action reprints 1950-1958 12 items 10/1 0479-001 Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith 1949-1955 14 items 10/2 0479-001 Anti-Defamation League, joint memoranda with American Jewish Committee 1961-1963 3 items 10/3 0479-001 Anti-Defamation League news letters 1950-1960 6 items

Scope and Content: Includes issues of the ADL Bulletin, Right, Research report.

 10/4 0479-001 Anti-Defamation League pamphlets 5 items 10/5-8 0479-001 Anti-Defamation League, Seattle Chapter 1946-1955 40 items

Processing Info: Washington State Regional Advisory Board to ADL has been handled with Seattle Chapter.

 10/9 0479-001 Atomic energy, Pasco, Washington 1950-1952 2 items

Scope and Content: Regarding hiring of African Americans

 10/10-13 0479-001 Automobile insurance 1948-1959 50 items

Scope and Content: Regarding discriminatory practices in the auto insurance industry

 10/14 0479-001 Bremerton-Port Orchard-Vanport 1943-1945 18 items 10/15-18 0479-001 Budget CUC 1950-1963 approximately 40 items

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence with the Community Chest of Seattle and King County.

 10/19 0479-001 California 1951-1959 20 items

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence with California Federation for Civic Unity and Council for Civic Unity of San Francisco.

 10/20 0479-001 Canada 1952-1953 5 items 10/21 0479-001 Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems 1948-1951 14 items 10/22 0479-001 Catholic Interracial Council 1948-1950 13 items 10/23-24 0479-001 Cemeteries 1945-1950 25 items 10/25 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association articles of incorporation undated 1 item

Scope and Content: The material on this organization was in distinct divisions and was left intact. Correspondence, memos, and reports make up most of the material.

 10/26-31 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association meetings number 1 and 2 1954 April and June 300 items 11/1-3 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association meeting number 2 continued 1954 June-October approximately 100 items 11/4 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association review of work 1954-1955 1 item 11/5-6 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association miscellaneous 1954-1958 approximately 75 items 11/6A 0479-001 Central Seattle Community Association process record 1954-1956 1 item 11/7 0479-001 Chicago, Illinois, Mayor's Commission on Human Relations 1948-1961 6 items 11/8-11 0479-001 Christian Friends for Racial Equality 1952-1962 53 items

Scope and Content: Contains general correspondence and programs.

 11/12-13 0479-001 Christian Friends for Racial Equality, Racial Equality Bulletin 1950-1955 24 items 11/14 0479-001 Cincinnati, Ohio, Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee 1948-1960 8 items 11/15 0479-001 Clise, J.W. 1946-1950 6 items 11/16-18 0479-001 Complaints -- miscellaneous 1944-1946 30 items

General Notes: See also: Discrimination; Seattle Mayor

 11/19-20 0479-001 Complaints -- residential 1946-1949 22 items 11/21 0479-001 Complaints -- social agencies, American Association of Social Workers (Salvation army) 1946-1947 17 items 11/22 0479-001 Connecticut 1956-1957 22 items 11/23 0479-001 Council of Churches and Christian Education 1948 2 items 11/24 0479-001 Council of Social Agencies 1945 2 items 12/1-2 0479-001 Detroit, Michigan Interracial Committee 1947-1957 26 items 12/3-5 0479-001 Discrimination -- employment 1946-1955 32 items 12/6-8 0479-001 Discrimination -- golf clubs 1952-1959 30 items

Scope and Content: Seattle Park Department; Washington State Board Against Discrimination

 12/9-10 0479-001 Discrimination -- hospitals 1945-1947 35 items 12/11-12 0479-001 Discrimination -- hotels 1947-1952 35 items 12/13-27 0479-001 Discrimination -- housing 1948-1963 175 items 13/1-5 0479-001 Discrimination -- housing -- Sand Point 1952-1953, 1960, 1962 55 items 13/6 0479-001 Discrimination -- labor 1950-1951 10 items 13/7 0479-001 Discrimination -- minstrel shows 1950-1957 6 items 13/8 0479-001 Discrimination -- miscellaneous 1945-1955, undated 15 items 13/9 0479-001 Discrimination -- public accommodations 1946-1954 18 items 13/10 0479-001 Discrimination -- recreation 1946-1957 15 items 13/11-17 0479-001 Discrimination -- recreation -- Laurelhurst Beach Club

Scope and Content: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Seattle; King County Intergroup Relations Committee

 13/18 0479-001 Discrimination -- religion 1953, 1963 4 items 13/19 0479-001 Discrimination -- trailer camps 1953 17 items 13/20-21 0479-001 Discrimination, other -- race labeling 1945-1953 25 items 14/1 0479-001 Education for Open Housing Ordinance 1963-1964 20 items 14/2 0479-001 Greater Seattle Housing Council 1956-1963 5 items 14/3 0479-001 Health and Welfare Council of Seattle and King County 1953-1960 10 items 14/4 0479-001 Human Relations Commissions -- miscellaneous 1960-1963 15 items 14/5 0479-001 Illinois 1951-1958 12 items 14/6 0479-001 Indians 1950-1960 8 items 14/7 0479-001 Intergroup Audit 1949 10 items 14/8 0479-001 Interracial Clinic 1945 3 items 14/9 0479-001 Jackson Street (Seattle) Community Council 1952-1955 20 items 14/10 0479-001 Japanese American Citizens League 1949-1962 6 items 14/10A 0479-001 Japanese American Citizens League, Washington, D.C. 1947-1950 15 items 14/11 0479-001 Johnson, Charles S. 1944-1948 21 items 14/12 0479-001 King, Martin Luther 1961, 1964 10 items 14/13 0479-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee 1955-1963 17 items 14/14 0479-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee minutes and agendas 1955-1963 17 items 14/15-20 0479-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee workshop 1959 approximately 200 items 14/21 0479-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee workshop report 1959 7 items 15/1 0479-001 Ku-Klux-Klan (A.S.P.,[sic] Inc.) 1946 3 items 15/2 0479-001 League of Women Voters 1950-1953 2 items 15/3 0479-001 Los Angeles, California County Museum 1953, 1955 3 items 15/4 0479-001 Madrona -- Denny Blaine Community Club 1955-1956 12 items 15/5 0479-001 Massachusetts 1950-1951 4 items 15/6 0479-001 Medical survey 1946-1949 17 items

Scope and Content: Regarding integration in medical practice

 15/7-8 0479-001 Membership lists, CUC 1944-1964 42 items

Scope and Content: Includes Board of Trustees for each year; also committee as whole, and some biographical information.

 15/9-12 0479-001 Membership lists -- miscellaneous undated 40 items

Arrangement: Filed alphabetically.

 15/13 0479-001 Miscellaneous undated 20 items

Arrangement: Filed alphabetically.

 15/14 0479-001 Missouri 1952-1953, 1959 5 items

Scope and Content: Includes report by the Missouri advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

 15/15 0479-001 Mount Baker Neighborhood Project 1962 14 items 15/16 0479-001 Municipal League of Seattle and King County 1957, 1962 2 items 15/17 0479-001 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1947-1955 20 items 15/18 0479-001 National Association of Colored Women 1947-1950 15 items 16/1-5 0479-001 National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials (NAIRO) 1947-1963 approximately 50 items 16/6 0479-001 National Association of Social Workers 1956, 1961 2 items 16/7 0479-001 National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing undated 4 items 16/8-9 0479-001 National Conference of Christians and Jews 1949-1959 15 items 16/10 0479-001 National Education Association of the United States 1955 1 item 16/12 0479-001 Negro History Week, Seattle Mayor 1951 6 items 16/13 0479-001 New Jersey Education Department, Division against Discrimination of Seattle 1951-1954 7 items 16/14 0479-001 New Year Caller at Homes 1948-1961 20 items 16/15, 16 0479-001 New York -- miscellaneous: Robert Weaver -- John Hay Whitney Foundation 1948-1960 30 items 16/17 0479-001 New York, State Commission against Discrimination 1946-1949 22 items 16/18-21 0479-001 New York City Commission for Human Rights 1953-1963 45 items 16/22 0479-001 Newspapers and community lists circa 1954 6 items 16/23 0479-001 Nisei 1943-1946 12 items 17/1 0479-001 Panel of Americans 1949-1951 8 items 17/2 0479-001 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Commission on Human Relations 1953-1962 5 items 17/3-6 0479-001 Police and minority groups 1944-1961 50 items 17/7-9 0479-001 Public housing 1941-1950 30 items

General Notes: See: Discrimination -- public accommodations; Discrimination -- housing

 17/10 0479-001 Public information and education 1958, 1961 15 items 17/11 0479-001 Race riots 1944-1946 2 items 17/12-14 0479-001 Radio 1944-1948 55 items 17/15 0479-001 Relocation 1958-1960 6 items 17/16-18 0479-001 Research reports 1944-1963 18 items 17/19 0479-001 Restrictive covenants 1947-1948 4 items 17/20 0479-001 Rosenwald (Julius) Foundation 1947 7 items 18/1 0479-001 Seattle Housing Authority 1948-1955 3 items 18/2-3 0479-001 Seattle Human Rights Commission 1957-1964 30 items 18/4-9 0479-001 Seattle Mayor 1946-1964 60 items 18/10 0479-001 Seattle -- miscellaneous 1944, 1951-1954 20 items

Scope and Content: American Jewish Committee, Seattle Chapter

 18/11 0479-001 Seattle Public Library 1952-1963 8 items 18/12-14 0479-001 Seattle Public Schools 1949-1962 75 items 18/15 0479-001 Seattle Citizens Housing Committee 1950 8 items 18/16 0479-001 Seattle Day Nursery Association 1953, undated 4 items 18/17-18 0479-001 Seattle Real Estate Board 1944-1956 40 items 18/19-22 0479-001 Speech material circa 1944-1949 60 items

Scope and Content: Correspondence, speeches by CUC members, reprints and clippings in separate folders.

 19/1 0479-001 Tacoma, Washington 1944-1945 6 items 19/2 0479-001 Thalia programs 1953 6 items 19/3 0479-001 Transportation 1944-1947 13 items 19/4 0479-001 United Good Neighbors 1960-1963 4 items 19/5 0479-001 United Nations 1948-1949, 1962 10 items 19/6-8 0479-001 United Service Organization, Inc. 1944-1947 60 items 19/9 0479-001 United States Federal Housing Administration 1952-1963 3 items 19/10 0479-001 United States Housing Agency, 1944 Conference of Racial Relations Advisors, Washington, D.C. 1942-1945 25 items 19/11-12 0479-001 United States Housing and Home Finance Agency 1952-1963 20 items 19/13 0479-001 United States Housing and Home Finance Agency- The President's Executive Order on Equal Opportunity in Housing 1962 approximately 20 items 19/14 0479-001 Urban League, National 1944-1945 5 items 19/15 0479-001 Urban League, National, report 1954 1 item 19/16-17 0479-001 Urban League of Portland 1947-1951 50 items 19/18-19 0479-001 Urban League of Seattle 1948-1956 20 items 20/1-2 0479-001 Vancouver, B.C. Civic Unity Association 1959 27 items 20/3 0479-001 Veterans 1945-1948 4 items 20/4 0479-001 War housing --African Americans 1944-1946 18 items 20/5-8 0479-001 Washington -- civil rights legislation 1948-1959 40 items 20/9 0479-001 Washington -- Council for Children and Youth 1963 1 item 20/10 0479-001 Washington Legislative Council 1960, 1962 2 items 20/11-15 0479-001 Washington National Guard 1947-1950 50 items

Scope and Content: Correspondence from race relations agencies in various states, as well as from many organizations in this collection.

 20/16-21 0479-001 Washington State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission 1957-1962 75 items 20/22a-26 0479-001 Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment 1950-1963 60 items 20/27 0479-001 Washington State Board Against Discrimination reports 1950-1960 10 items 20/28 0479-001 Washington State Board Against Discrimination Fourteenth Annual Conference of Commissions Against Discrimination 1962 4 items 21/1 0479-001 University of Washington Institute of Government 1944 2 items 21/2-3 0479-001 University of Washington School of Social Work 1959-1964 20 items 21/4-10 0479-001 Washington Citizens Committee for Civil Rights Legislation 1950-1963 170 items 21/11 0479-001 Washington -- miscellaneous 1952 4 items 21/12 0479-001 Washington State Health Council 1953-1954 2 items 21/13 0479-001 Wisconsin 1950-1959 8 items 21/14 0479-001 World Affairs Council of Seattle undated 3 items 21/15 0479-001 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Armed Services Committee, Seattle 1950, 1954 12 items Organizational records 22/1 0479-001 Description of the Civic Unity Committee before official establishment 1944 22/1 0479-001 By-laws, Agreement of Association 1947 22/1 0479-001 Minutes of the first meeting 1947 22/1 0479-001 Certificate of incorporation from the Secretary of State, Washington 1947 22/1 0479-001 Revised by-laws 1961 Minutes approximately 250 items 22/2-15 0479-001 Civic Union Committee, Seattle 1944-1946

Biographical/Historical Note: Meetings held weekly.

 22/16 0479-001 Civic Union Committee, Seattle 1947

Biographical/Historical Note: Meetings held monthly.

Scope and Content: Incomplete

 22/17 0479-001 Civic Union Committee, Seattle, Board of Trustees 1948 22/18-20 0479-001 Civic Union Committee, Seattle 1949-1951 22/21-31 0479-001 Civic Union Committee, Seattle 1953-1957 22/32 0479-001 Civic Unity Committee, San Francisco 1944 November 15 23/1-14 0479-001 Executive Committee meetings 1958-1964 approximately 25 items 23/15-21 0479-001 Miscellaneous committees 1954-1963 approximately 10 items

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically

Processing Info: These minutes were probably not kept in any series for each committee; rather, they were probably intended to go with Board minutes for any given date.

 23/23 0479-001 Special meetings: C.U.C Representatives with non-C.U.C agencies 1945-1960 6 items Reports 23/24 0479-001 Executive Secretary reports of monthly meetings and conferences 1955-1957 6 items 23/25-26 0479-001 Board seminars 1954, 1959-1960 8 items 24/1 0479-001 Quarterly reports 1943-1945 6 items 24/2-11 0479-001 Monthly reports 1946-1951 approximately 65 items 24/12 0479-001 Semi-annual and annual reports 1952-1953 2 items 24/13-15 0479-001 Quarterly or semi-annual activities reports 1958-1959 approximately 20 items

General Notes: See note in folder 24/12 regarding activities reports for 1954-1956.

 Miscellaneous reports 24/16 0479-001 Report to the CUC on inter-group relations in Seattle, by Peter Garabedian 1953 24/16 0479-001 Report on conference on Housing for Minority Families (excerpts) 1955 24/16 0479-001 Survey on problems and resources associated with relocation in Seattle, made for Gordon S. Clinton by the CUC 1958 24/16 0479-001 Inter-group relations in the decade ahead -- Northwest viewpoint by King County Intergroup Relations Committee 1959

Scope and Content: Excerpts

 25/1-2 0479-001 Fair Play, a publication of the CUC 1950-1964 36 items 25/3-6 0479-001 Clippings undated Printed materials 25/7-8 0479-001 Articles undated approximately 15 items 25/9-12 0479-001 Reprints undated approximately 50 items

Scope and Content: Copies of speeches made by individuals may also be found in this category.

 25/13 0479-001 Circulars undated approximately 45 items 25/14-15 0479-001 Pamphlets undated 26/1 0479-001 Serials undated approximately 20 items 26/2 0479-001 Membership cards undated OVSZ 1 0479-001 Scrapbooks undated 6 items Northwest Institute of Race Relations records

Arrangement: This series has been arranged into subseries by Institute, in chronological order. Within each subseries, correspondence is arranged chronologically. Names of prominent individuals and organizations are noted. If the correspondence was of a routing nature (acceptances, requests, etc.), no names were designated. Neither are the names of the organizers of the Institute given since they were all CUC members and officers. The University of Washington Division of Adult Education and Extension Services played a major part in each Institute, and therefore this correspondence, too, is not specified.

To aid the researcher, the names of the guest speakers at each institute have been given at the start of each series. This also indicates that much of the correspondence will be with and about him.

Records of later Institutes also include subject files for essay entries, discussion groups, etc. These are found after the chronological arrangement.

Scope and Content: The history of the Northwest Institute of Race Relations is described in the reports to be found at the beginning of the series.

27/1 0479-001 History 1952-1953

Scope and Content: Duplicate copies of reports from the Fifth and Sixth Institutes in 1952 and 1953.

 First Institute: April 24, 1948, general correspondence approximately 120 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest speaker: Robert C. Weaver, American Council on Race Relations

 27/2 0479-001 1947 1947

Scope and Content: American Council on Race Relations

 27/3 0479-001 January-February 1948 1948 January-February

Scope and Content: American Council on Race Relations

 27/4 0479-001 March 1-12, 1948 1948 March 1-12 27/5 0479-001 March 19-21, 1948 1948 March 19-21 27/6 0479-001 April 1948 1948 April 27/7 0479-001 May 1948 1948 May Second Institute: April 29-30, 1949, general correspondence approximately 120 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest Speaker: Dan W. Dodson, New York University, New York (City) Human Rights Commission.

 27/8 0479-001 October-December 1948 1948 October-December 1 27/9 0479-001 February 1949 1949 February

Scope and Content: Robert C. Weaver; American Council on Race Relations from Louis Wirth

 27/10 0479-001 March 1949 1949 March 27/11-13 0479-001 April 1949 1949 April 27/14 0479-001 May-June 1949 1949 May-June Third Institute: April 21-22, 1950 approximately 160 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest Speaker: Ethel Alpenfels, New York University

General Notes: For the background to this conference and the high school essay contest, see news releases for April 1950 in folder 27/21.

 General correspondence 27/15 0479-001 September-October 1949 1949 September-October 27/16 0479-001 1950 1950

Scope and Content: Includes material relating to the high school essay contest and several entries to the contest.

27/17 0479-001 January-February 1950 1950 January-February 27/18-24 0479-001 March 1950 1950 March 27/21-24 0479-001 April 1950 1950 April 27/25 0479-001 Clippings undated Fourth Institute: May 3-4, 1951, general correspondence approximately 280 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest Speaker: Harold Lett, New Jersey, Education Department

 27/26 0479-001 1950 1950 27/27 0479-001 January 1951 1951 January

Scope and Content: Channing Tobias, Louis Wirth

 27/28-29 0479-001 February 1951 1951 February

Scope and Content: Channing Tobias

 27/30-33 0479-001 1951 March March, 1951

Scope and Content: National Association of Independent Review Organizations (NAIRO); National Conference of Christiana and Jews; Urban League of Portland; American Jewish Committee; California Federation for Civic Unity; United States Housing and Home Finance Agency; Anti-Defamation League, Seattle; P. Allen Rickles

 27/34-37 0479-001 April 1951 1951 April

Scope and Content: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Urban League of Seattle; Channing Tobias; Anti-Defamation League

 27/38-40 0479-001 May 1951 1951 May

Scope and Content: Channing Tobias

 27/41 0479-001 Regarding High School Essay Contest undated

Scope and Content: Seattle Public Schools

 27/42 0479-001 High School Essay Contest entries undated 27/43 0479-001 Regarding luncheon for Harold Lett undated

Scope and Content: Lists of invitees, acceptances and regrets.

 Fifth Institute: April 30, 1952 approximately 200 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest Speaker: Frank S. Horne, United States Housing and Home Finance Agency.

 General correspondence 28/1 0479-001 February 1952 1952 February

Scope and Content: National Association of Independent Review Organizations (NAIRO)

 28/2-3 0479-001 March 1952 1952 March

Scope and Content: Seattle Public Schools; American Friends Service Committee; Anti-Defamation League; Urban League of Portland

 28/4-7 0479-001 April 1952 1952 April 28/8 0479-001 May-July 1952 1952 May-July

Scope and Content: Seattle Housing Authority; National Association of Independent Review Organizations (NAIRO) from Harold Lett

 28/9 0479-001 Lists of names of organizations and individuals invited to participate 1952

Scope and Content: This had been specified for 1952 although lists are dated other years and had been used for other functions other years.

 28/10-11 0479-001 Delegates and discussion group assignments 28/12 0479-001 Reports: discussion groups 28/13 0479-001 Reports: finals reports Sixth Institute: April 30, 1953 approximately 210 items

Biographical/Historical Note: Guest Speaker: William G. Black, Canada Citizenship and Immigration Department; Vancouver, B.C.

 General correspondence 28/14-15 0479-001 March 1953 1953 March

Scope and Content: American Jewish Committee; National Conference of Christians and Jews; Anti-Defamation League

 28/16-17 0479-001 April 1953 1953 April 28/19 0479-001 Invitations and announcements undated 28/20-21 0479-001 Lists of names: invitees undated 28/22 0479-001 Lists of names: discussion groups undated 28/23 0479-001 Reports: discussion group summaries undated 28/24 0479-001 Reports: meetings undated 28/25 0479-001 Reports: final report undated 28/26 0479-001 Financial miscellaneous undated Washington State Committee Against Discrimination in Employment (WSCAD) records

Biographical/Historical Note: Formerly the Washington State Fair Employment Practices Committee, this group decided in 1948 to remain free from ties with the National Council for Permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee and reorganized under the new name (see Minutes, April and July 1948). The Committee was more interested in state than national legislation and therefore they chose to remain free. The sponsors and members for the most part remained the same and the work was done with the same goal in mind. This committee was not an official state committee. It was a private committee organized by a number of interested citizens, and it lead to the establishment of the official State Board Against Discrimination in Employment in 1950.

The Civic Unity Committee participated in the work of WSCAD and handled all the secretarial work, but WSCAD was not a part of the Civic Unity Committee itself.

Scope and Content: The first subseries are historical materials, lists of members and sponsors, and minutes of meetings. These files are valuable in determining the work of the committee as well as in explaining the complex reorganization of the committee in 1948.

The general correspondence has been filed first by date. Names of correspondents have been brought out to guide the researcher. Following these are files for particular correspondents. Some contain material from various cities in Washington State; others pertain to correspondence from commissions in various states, particularly New York and Massachusetts, which provided the models for the Washington State law.

The following people have not been brought out in the inventory; these were the members of the Committee whose correspondence constitutes the bulk of the series:

Frank S. Bayley, Chairman, 1945-1948 Frank P. Helsell, Chairman, 1948-1949 Gray Graham, Executive Director, 1945-1948 E.V. Van Valkenburg, Executive Director, 1948-1949 Arthur G. Bernett Sidney Gerber Irving M. Clark

29/1 0479-001 History undated approximately 7 items 29/2 0479-001 Membership lists undated approximately 4 items 29/3 0479-001 Minutes 1945-1948 16 items General correspondence approximately 800 items 29/4 0479-001 January-June 1945 1945 January-June

Scope and Content: Hugh B. Mitchell

 29/5 0479-001 July-December 1945 1945 July-December

Scope and Content: Tacoma Council of Churches

 29/6 0479-001 January-February 1946 1946 January-February

Scope and Content: Copies of model bills; National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (F.E.P.C.)

 29/7 0479-001 May-July 1946 1946 May-July

Scope and Content: Tacoma Council of Churches; Community Chest and Council of Seattle and King County

 29/8 0479-001 August 1946 1946 August

Scope and Content: Eric Johnston; Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); American Jewish Congress.

 29/9 0479-001 September 1946 1946 September

Scope and Content: Matis Rogers; Elmer E. Todd; Frank Helsell; W.B. Nettleton; Birt F. Fisher

 29/10 0479-001 October 1-15, 1946 1946 October 1-15

Scope and Content: Gerald Shaughnessy, S.M. Bishop, Walt Horan (copy); Seattle Mayor

 29/11 0479-001 October 16-31, 1946 1946 October 16-31

Scope and Content: Urban League of Seattle; Hugh de Lacy, Seattle Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Council; Harold L. Ickes; C.S. Harley

 29/12 0479-001 November 1946 1946 November 29/13 0479-001 December 1-13, 1946 1946 December 1-13

Scope and Content: Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

 29/14 0479-001 December 15-31, 1946 1946 December 15-31

Scope and Content: American Federation of Labor (AFL); Letcher L. Yarborough

 29/15 0479-001 January 1-20, 1947 1947 January 1-20

Scope and Content: Anti-Defamation League (ADL); John H. Happy; Council of Churches and Christian Education; Theodore S. Turner; E.J. Flanagan; C.S. Harley

 29/16 0479-001 January 21-31, 1947 1947 January 21-31

Scope and Content: William D. Shannon; Barney Jackson; Sidney A. Stevens; Perry B. Woodall; P. Allen Rickles; Robert Mort Frayn; Herbert M. Hamblen

 29/17 0479-001 February 1947 1947 February

Scope and Content: A.J. Sharkey; Anti-Defamation League (ADL); Charles M. Carroll; A.L. Rasmussen; W. Ward Davison; Edward F. Riley; Victor Zednick; Alfred J. Westberg

 29/18 0479-001 March 1947 1947 March

Scope and Content: Charles J. McDonald

 29/19 0479-001 May-June 1947 1947 May-June

Scope and Content: Herbert M. Hamblen; Corwin Philip Shank; Leonard L. Mendel; Harry F. Kittleman; C.S. Harley; Harry A. Sinzer; William D. Shannon; John T. McCutcheon; A.B. Comfort; B. Roy Anderson; W.P. Goffi; Charles M. Carroll

 29/20 0479-001 July-October 1947 1947 July-October

Scope and Content: George C. Kinnear; Albert D. Rosellini; Howard T. Ball; Elmer (?) Johnston

 29/21 0479-001 January-May 1948 1948 January-May

Scope and Content: George V. Powell

 29/22 0479-001 July-August 1948 1948 July-August

Scope and Content: Roy W. Atkinson; Morton L. Schwabacher; Raymond B. Allen; Stephen F. Bayne; John L. King; Charles M. Stokes; Henry Elliott; Seattle Mayor; James W. Hodson

 29/23 0479-001 September-October 1948 1948 September-October

Scope and Content: Urban League of Seattle; Reginald H. Persons

 29/24 0479-001 November-December 1948 1948 November-December

Scope and Content: George C. Kinnear; American Federation of Labor (AFL)

 29/25 0479-001 January 1949 1949 January

Scope and Content: American Jewish Committee; R. Mort Frayn

 29/26 0479-001 February 1-11, 1949 1949 February 1-11

Scope and Content: American Jewish Committee; William S. Street; Victor Zednick

 29/27 0479-001 February 14-28, 1949 1949 February 14-28

Scope and Content: Thomas A. Connolly; Bishop of Seattle

 29/28 0479-001 March 1949 1949 March

Scope and Content: Includes Washington State Law Against Discrimination in Employment; New York State Committee Against Discrimination

 29/29 0479-001 April-December 1949 1949 April-December

Scope and Content: First semi-annual report of Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment.

 General correspondence, Washington cities 30/1 0479-001 Bellingham 1946-1948

Scope and Content: Myron F. Hawley

 30/2 0479-001 Bremerton 1946-1947 30/3-4 0479-001 Spokane 1948-1949

Scope and Content: Willard J. Roe

 30/5 0479-001 Tacoma 1946-1949 30/6 0479-001 Vancouver 1946-1947

Scope and Content: Vancouver, Washington Housing Authority

 30/7 0479-001 Walla Walla 1946-1947 30/8 0479-001 Yakima 1946-1947 General correspondence, states 30/9-10 0479-001 Connecticut Interracial Commission 1947-1950

Scope and Content: Includes reports of activities, 1946-1947, 1947-1948

 30/11-12 0479-001 Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Commission 1946-1950

Biographical/Historical Note: Mildred Mahoney, Chair

 30/13 0479-001 New Jersey Education Department, Division Against Discrimination 1949 30/14-16 0479-001 New York State Commission Against Discrimination 1946-1949 30/17-18 0479-001 General correspondence, National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee 1945-1948

Scope and Content: American Council on Race Relations; Homer R. Jones; Warren G. Magnuson; Walt Hora; Hal Holmes; Thor C. Tollifson; Henry M. Jackson; Harry P. Cain

 30/19-20 0479-001 Publicity materials undated approximately 15 items Accession No. 0580-001: Civic Unity Committee records, 1938-1965 (bulk 1944-1965) 6.93cubic feet (17 boxes)

Arrangement: Arranged in 7 series:

Organizational records Fair Play Printed materials of others Reports Executive Secretary papers Related organizations

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence, case files, ephemera, financial miscellany, notes, clippings, and reports of the Civic Unity Committee. Also includes records from the Conference on Minority Housing, the High School Students' Human Relations Conference, the Central Seattle Community Association, the Greater Seattle Housing Council, the King County Intergroup Relations Committee, the Seattle Mayor's Advisory Committee on Relocation, and the Seattle Citizens Advisory Committee.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

 Organizational Records 1/1 0580-001 Historical information 1944-1963 16 items

Scope and Content: Includes report, statements, charts, etc.

 1/2-3 0580-001 Minutes of the Board of Trustees 1952-1964 44 items 1/4-3/4 0580-001 General correspondence 1938-1965 approximately 557 items

Scope and Content: Consists mainly of inter-office correspondence; includes also reports, general correspondence, maps, charts, etc. Some papers may be duplicated in other series.

 Committee records 3/5 0580-001 Processing Committee 1964 12 items

Biographical/Historical Note: This committee handled the change over of records from the Civic Unity Committee to the Seattle Human Rights Commission and the phase-out of CUC as a United Good Neighbors founded organization.

 3/6 0580-001 Housing Committee 1948-1959 29 items 3/7 0580-001 Housing and Neighborhood Committee 1959-1963 23 items

Biographical/Historical Note: This is possibly a later name for the Housing Committee.

 3/8-15 0580-001 School Community Committee 1943-1964 146 items Case files 3/16 0580-001 Laurelhurst 1956-1919 11 items 3/17 0580-001 Housing discrimination 1953-1957 8 items 4/1 0580-001 Leschi Community Organization 1955-1963 22 items 4/2 0580-001 North End Project 1957-1960 21 items 4/3 0580-001 Tenth Anniversary meeting 1954 22 items 4/4-6 0580-001 Mailing lists undated 73 items 7/15 0580-001 Financial miscellany 1952, 1955 2 items 7/16 0580-001 Notes 1960-1963, undated 20 items 7/17-19 0580-001 Clippings 1952-1965 80 items 4/7-8 0580-001 Fair Play (CUC publication) 1950-1964 Printed Materials of Others

Arrangement: Printed materials have, for the most part, been filed alphabetically by publisher; the exceptions are either reprints or those which have been filed by distributors (when that was thought to be more meaningful). Reprints are preceded by asterisks, and are listed by the name of the publications from they were taken, followed by the name of the publisher or the title of the article.

Scope and Content: None of the printed materials were created by the Civic Unity Committee.

 4/9 0580-001 American Association of Retired Persons 1965 1 item 4/9 0580-001 American Council on Race Relations 1946 1 item 4/9 0580-001 American Friends Service Committee, Inc. 1964 1 item 4/9 0580-001 American Jewish Committee 1958-1964 5 items 4/10-12 0580-001 American Jewish Congress 1957-1964 4 items 4/10-12 0580-001 American Unity Inc. 1957 1 item 4/13-15 0580-001 Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith 1957-1965 20 items 4/16 0580-001 Apartment Association of Los Angeles County undated 4/16 0580-001 Argus Publishing Company 1961 1 item 4/16 0580-001 Atascadero Association of Retired People undated 2 items 4/16 0580-001 Ave Maria Press 1963 1 item 5/1 0580-001 *Book-of-the-Month Club News-Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. undated 2 items 5/1 0580-001 * Bridge - Pantheon Books 1955 1 item 5/1 0580-001 Buffalo Board of Community Relations 1956, 1957 2 items 5/2 0580-001 California Department of Justice 1961 5/2 0580-001 California Federation for Civic Unity 5/3-6 0580-001 Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1954-1964 16 items 5/7 0580-001 Chicago Commission on Human Relations 1963 1 item 5/7 0580-001 Chicago Mayor's Conference on Race Relations 1944 1 item 5/7 0580-001 Chicago Conference on Home Front Unity 1945 1 item 5/7 0580-001 Christian Friends for Racial Equality 1965 1 item 5/7 0580-001 Cincinnati Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee 1958-1963 7 items 5/8 0580-001 Citizens' Committee for Open Housing undated 5/8 0580-001 Civic Unity Committee of Seattle 1954-1959 9 items 5/8 0580-001 Columbia (South Carolina) Urban Rehabilitation Commission 1956-1957 1 item 5/9 0580-001 * Commentary - "The John Birch Society" 1961 1 item 5/9 0580-001 Common Council for American Unity 1949 5/9 0580-001 * Common Ground - Common Council for American Unity 1946 1 item 5/9 0580-001 * Commonweal-"Bigot in Our Midst" 1965 1 item 5/9 0580-001 * Community - Friendship House undated 1 item 5/9 0580-001 Community Service Society of New York 1958 1 item 5/9 0580-001 Connecticut Commission on Civil Rights undated 5/9 0580-001 Council of Planning Affiliates of Seattle and King County 1964 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Dewey, John - "My Pedagogic Creed" 1897 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Dominican Fathers 1948 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Douglas (Georgia) Urban Renewal Administration 1957 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Escritoras y Periodistas, A.C. (Mexico) 1962 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Four Freedoms House of Seattle undated 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Friends General Conference undated 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Friends Suburban Housing - MacFadden 1962 1 item 5/10 0580-001 Bartell Corporation undated 5/10 0580-001 Great Books Foundation undated 5/10 0580-001 Greater Seattle Housing Council undated 1 item 5/11 0580-001 International Journal of Religious Education undated 1 item 5/11 0580-001 Institute for Rational Living 1960, 1962 2 items 5/12 0580-001 Jackson Street Community Council, Seattle 1958 1 item 5/12 0580-001 Johnson, Dr. Charles S. (president of First University) 1955 1 item 5/12 0580-001 * Journal of the National Education Association, American Educational Research Association and the Department of Classroom Teachers 1960 5/12 0580-001 * Journal of Negro Education 1949 1 item 5/12 0580-001 * Journal of Personality 1959 1 item 5/13 0580-001 Kalamazoo (Michigan) Community Relations Board 1962 1 item 5/13 0580-001 Knights of Columbus 1952, 1960 2 items 5/14 0580-001 * Ladies Home Journal - "Do Parents Teach Prejudice?" 1961 1 item 5/14 0580-001 * Land Economics - "An Economic Analysis of Property Values and Race" undated 5/14 0580-001 League of Women Voters of Seattle undated 2 items 5/14 0580-001 * Life - "Widening World of Retirement Towns" and "These children are at Stake" undated 1 item 5/14 0580-001 Little Rock (Arkansas) Housing Authority 1963 1 item 5/14 0580-001 * Look - "Behind the Fight Against School Prayer" undated 1 item 5/14 0580-001 Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations 1959-1960 3 items 5/15 0580-001 McCarthy, Eugene J. - "A Study of American Character" 1961 1 item 5/15 0580-001 Merrill-Palmer School (Detroit) 1960 1 item 5/15 0580-001 Mount Vernon Daily Argus 1949 1 item 5/15 0580-001 Municipal League of Seattle and King County 1962 5/16 0580-001 National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials 1954-1964 5 items 5/17 0580-001 National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials 1958-1961 5 items 5/17 0580-001 National Association of Secondary School Principals 1960 1 item 5/18 0580-001 National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing 1963 3 items 5/18 0580-001 National Community Relations Advisory Council 1952, 1958 2 items 6/1 0580-001 National Conference of Christians and Jews undated 2 items 6/1 0580-001 National Education Association National Training Laboratories 1947-1960 3 items 6/2 0580-001 National Housing Conference, Inc. 1964-1965 2 items 6/3 0580-001 New York Citizen's Housing and Planning Council 1948 1 item 6/3 0580-001 New York City Commission on Human Rights 1963-1964 3 items 6/3 0580-001 New York Deptartment of City Planning 1958-1959 2 items 6/4 0580-001 New York Mayor's Committee for Better Housing 1955 1 item 6/5 0580-001 New York State Commission Against Discrimination 1945, 1956 4 items 6/5 0580-001 New York State Education Department 1960 1 item 6/5 0580-001 * New York Herald Tribune - "New York Shows the Way" 1949 1 item 6/5 0580-001 New York School of Social Work 1957 1 item 6/5 0580-001 New York State Education "Toward Better Human Relations" and "Pioneer in Human Relations" 1948, 49 2 items 6/5 0580-001 * New York Times - "Rearing a Child of Goodwill" 1960 1 item 6/5 0580-001 Newark Human Rights Commission 1964 1 item 6/5 0580-001 Newark Mayor's Commission on Group Relations undated 6/5 0580-001 * Northwest Catholic Progress- "CIC Endorses Open Housing" 1964 1 item 6/6 0580-001 * Ohio Central State College, Journal of Human Relations 1960 1 item 6/6 0580-001 Oklahoma University Publishing Division 1959 1 item 6/6 0580-001 Oregon Bureau of Labor undated 1 item 6/7 0580-001 Panorama City (Olympia, Washington) Public Relations and Sales Department (retirement home) undated 6/7 0580-001 Paulist Fathers undated 6/8 0580-001 Pemex Travel Club 1961 1 item 6/8 0580-001 Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practice Commission undated 1 item 6/8 0580-001 Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations undated 6/8 0580-001 Pittsburg Commission on Human Relations 1963 1 item 6/9 0580-001 Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Ministries, Exeter House (Senior Citizen's Home) undated 6/9 0580-001 Princeton Conference on Equal Opportunity in Housing 1962 1 item 6/10 0580-001 * Redbook - "Who Chooses the People You Know?" undated 6/10 0580-001 * Religious Education 1963 1 item 6/10 0580-001 Retirement Research and Welfare Association 1963-1964 2 items 6/11 0580-001 St. Anthony's Guild 1947 1 item 6/11 0580-001 Seattle Children's Protective Services 1964 1 item 6/11 0580-001 Seattle Citizen's Advisory Committee on Minority Housing 1962 1 item 6/12 0580-001 Seattle Housing Authority 1957-1961 5 items 6/13 0580-001 Seattle Human Rights Commission 1963-1965 9 items 6/13 0580-001 Seattle Official Advisory Board on Urban Renewal 1958-1965 1 item 6/13 0580-001 Seattle Mayor's Office undated 6/13 0580-001 Seattle Planning Commission 1967-1958 2 items 6/13 0580-001 Seattle Foundation undated 1 item 6/13 0580-001 Senior Citizen Services Inc. of Clearwater, Florida undated 1 item 6/13 0580-001 Society of Personnel Administration 1957 1 item 6/13 0580-001 Southern Regional Council undated 1 item 6/13 0580-001 Hamilton House for Senior Citizens, Inc. (Tallmadge) undated 1 item 6/14 0580-001 United Nations Office of Public Information 1964 1 item 6/14 0580-001 United States Congress House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency 1965 1 item 6/14 0580-001 United States Congress House Presidential Message 1965 1 item 6/14 0580-001 United States Congress Senate Committee on Banking and Currency 1964 1 item 6/14 0580-001 United States Federal Housing Administration 1957, 1964 3 items 7/1-2 0580-001 United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1963-1965 7 items 7/3-8 0580-001 United States Housing and Home Finance 1954-1965 28 items 7/9 0580-001 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 1 item 7/9 0580-001 United States Joint Committee on Housing and Welfare undated 7/9 0580-001 United States Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget 1965 1 item 7/9 0580-001 United States President's Committee on Civil Rights 1947, undated 2 items 7/9 0580-001 United States President's Council on Aging 1963-1965 4 items 7/10 0580-001 Upjohn (W.E.) Institute for Community Research 1959 1 item 7/11 0580-001 Urban League, National 1963 1 item 7/11 0580-001 Urban League of Seattle 1963 1 item 7/12 0580-001 Washington Commission on Civil Rights 1961 1 item 7/12 0580-001 Washington Executive Department 1963 1 item 7/12 0580-001 Washington Governor's Conference on Aging 1964 1 item 7/12 0580-001 Washington Highway Commission 1957 1 item 7/12 0580-001 Washington Senate 1957 1 item 7/12 0580-001 University of Washington Bureau of International Relations 1945 1 item 7/12 0580-001 University of Washington Community Development Bureau undated 1 item 7/12 0580-001 University of Washington Office of Population Research 1950, 1959 2 items 7/12 0580-001 Western Regional Governor's Council on Aging 1962 1 item 7/13 0580-001 Women's City Club of New York, Inc. 1954, 1956 2 items 7/13 0580-001 Women's Division of Christian Service undated 1 item 7/14 0580-001 * Yale Law Journal - "A New Technique for an Old Problem 1947 1 item 7/14 0580-001 Unidentified uindated Reports 7/20 0580-001 Fragments undated 3 items 7/21 0580-001 "Stereotypes and Prejudicial Attitudes" - Gerhart Saenger and Samuel Flowerman 1954 1 item 7/21 0580-001 "The Negroes' Grievances" - Walter Lippman 1963 1 item 7/21 0580-001 "Robert H. Schulman" undated 1 item 7/21 0580-001 "A Housing Fact Sheet" undated 1 item 7/21 0580-001 Unidentified undated 1 item 8/1-2 0580-001 Executive Secretary Papers 1944-1965 2 notebooks

Scope and Content: Two loose leaf notebooks containing Louise P. Blackham's personal files. Much of her material is duplicated elsewhere.

 Related organizations 9/1-13 0580-001 Conference on Minority Housing 1953-1958 154 items 9/14-11/23 0580-001 High School Students' Human Relations Conference 1949-1965 approximately 822 items 12/1-15 0580-001 Central Seattle Community Association 1949-1956 179 items 12/16-15/22 0580-001 Greater Seattle Housing Council 1949-1965 approximately 790 items 16/1-30 0580-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee 1948-1963 276 items 17/1-10 0580-001 Seattle Mayors' Advisory Committee on Relocation 1950-1959 144 items 17/11-14 0580-001 Seattle Citizens Advisory Committee 1955-1962 28 items Accession No. 1002-001: Civic Unity Committee records, 1949-1963 3.57 cubic feet (9 boxes)

Arrangement: Arranged in 4 series:

Activities reports Legal cases Subject files Pamphlets

Scope and Content: Activity reports, legal cases, subject series, conferences, ephemera, reports.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

 Name Index American Jewish Committee 1/9 1/17 2/24 2/36 7/67 American Jewish Congress 1/10 1/18 2/37 7/68 American Council on Race Relations 1/16 American Freedom of Residence Fund 1/8 Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith 1/19 Community Relations Service, Institute of Human Relations 2/33 National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials 4/56 National Association of Intergroup Relations 2/26 National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing 1/12 National Conference of Christians and Jews 3/49 National Conference Relations Advisory Council 1/14 Northwest Institute on Race Relations 1/4 3/46 The Potomac Institute 2/27 United States Housing and Home Finance Agency 8/74 Washington Bureau of Governmental Research and Services 3/41 Activities reports 1/1 1002-001 Civic Unity Committee Reports undated 1/2 1002-001 Digest report of Housing Committee - Central Area undated 1/3 1002-001 Intergroup relations - Northwest viewpoint undated 1/4 1002-001 Northwest Institute on Race Relations undated 1/5 1002-001 Process records 1954-1956 1/6 1002-001 Work statistics 1952-1953 Legal cases undated 1/7 1002-001 Adam Clayton Powell and Hazel Powell versus Henry Utz and Blanche Utz undated 1/8 1002-001 American Freedom of Residence Fund undated 1/9 1002-001 American Jewish Committee memorandum undated 1/10 1002-001 American Jewish Congress undated 1/11 1002-001 Miscellaneous undated 1/12 1002-001 National Committee Against Housing Discrimination undated 1/13 1002-001 National Committee Relations Advisory Council undated Subject files 5/57 1002-001 African Americans - Part I undated 5/58 1002-001 African Americans - Part II undated 1/14 1002-001 Chinese undated 1/15 1002-001 Citations for outstanding achievement 1949-1963 Civil Rights 1/16 1002-001 American Council on Race Relations undated 1/17 1002-001 American Jewish Committee undated 1/18 1002-001 American Jewish Congress undated 1/19 1002-001 Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith undated 2/20 1002-001 Ephemera undated 2/21 1002-001 Government documents undated 2/22 1002-001 Demonstration and direct action undated 2/23 1002-001 Filipino undated Government and law 2/24 1002-001 American Jewish Committee undated 2/25 1002-001 Ephemera undated 2/26 1002-001 National Association of Intergroup Relations undated 2/27 1002-001 The Potomac Institute undated High School Conference 2/28 1002-001 Correspondence undated 2/29 1002-001 Ephemera undated 2/30 1002-001 Miscellaneous undated 2/31 1002-001 Process reports and programs undated 2/32 1002-001 Human Relations Commission - newsletter and reports (other cities) undated Immigration 2/33 1002-001 Community Relations Service, Institute of Human Relations undated 2/34 1002-001 Ephemera undated 2/35 1002-001 Integration (general) undated Integration in Schools 2/36 1002-001 American Jewish Committee undated 2/37 1002-001 American Jewish Congress undated 3/38 1002-001 Ephemera undated 3/39 1002-001 Look Magazine undated 3/40 1002-001 Saturday Evening Post undated Institutes, conferences, etc. 3/41 1002-001 Bureau of Governmental Research and Services reports undated 3/42 1002-001 Conference on Community Living undated 3/43 1002-001 Ephemera undated 3/44 1002-001 Housing for Seattle Minority Families report 1955 April 3/45 1002-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee undated 3/46 1002-001 Northwest Institute on Race Relations undated Intergroup relations education in schools 3/47 1002-001 Committee on Intergroup Relations - University of Washington undated 3/48 1002-001 Ephemera undated 3/49 1002-001 National Conference of Christians and Jews undated 3/50 1002-001 Interfaith (CUC) undated 3/51 1002-001 Japanese undated 4/52 1002-001 Jews - Part I undated 4/53 1002-001 Jews - Part II undated 4/54 1002-001 King County Intergroup Relations Committee undated 4/55 1002-001 Labor - business and race undated 4/56 1002-001 NAIRO (National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials) undated 5/59 1002-001 Neighborhoods - changing undated 5/60 1002-001 The Newcomer undated 6/61 1002-001 Police - Community - Part I undated 6/62 1002-001 Police - Community - Part II undated 6/63 1002-001 Politics - Fair campaign practices undated 7/64 1002-001 Prejudice 7/65 1002-001 Public information undated 7/66 1002-001 Religion and race undated Religion in public schools undated 7/67 1002-001 American Jewish Committee undated 7/68 1002-001 American Jewish Congress undated 8/69 1002-001 Ephemera undated 8/70 1002-001 Seattle Public Schools undated 8/71 1002-001 Speakers' Service undated 8/72 1002-001 Student housing - policies governing undated Urban Renewal 8/73 1002-001 Ephemera undated 8/74 1002-001 United States Housing and Home Finance Agency undated 8/75 1002-001 Sears and Roebuck undated 8/76 1002-001 Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program undated 9 1002-001 Pamphlets undated Accession No. 1350-001: Civic Unity Committee records, 1944-1965 .84 cubic feet (2 boxes)

Arrangement: Arranged by type of record.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, bylaws, photographs, financial records.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Processing Info: Minimally processed.

Appraisal: Ledgers, financial repcrds and membership lists discarded in 1984.

 1 1350-001 Quarterly Federal tax returns-- withholdings and Social Security taxes 1954-1964 1 1350-001 Termination 1962-1964 1 1350-001 Disposition of materials and equipment 1964 1 1350-001 Health and Welfare Council 1944-1947 1 1350-001 Washington State Citizens Committee for Civil Rights Legislation 1956-1957, 1960-1965 1 1350-001 Miscellaneous undated 2 1350-001 Photographs undated 2 1350-001 Articles of Incorporation and By-laws 1947 2 1350-001 Greater Seattle Housing Council undated