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Pam 12
Anti-Discrimination and Racial Equality collection
1939-1960 (bulk 1940-1949)
1.0 linear feet
This is a compiled collection of pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and book-length literature published in
the United States during the mid-twentieth century regarding civil rights and race
discrimination.
Materials are in English
The Anti-Discrimination and Racial Equality collection features a wide variety of published material about the political issues of the Civil Rights movement, with the bulk of the collection focused on the
minority rights and housing segregation during the mid-twentieth century. The collection contains pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and book-length literature
directly related to civil rights efforts during the 1940s and 1950s. Included are
anti-discrimination publications from private organizations and activist leagues
such as the N.A.A.C.P., Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and the National
Urban League as well as humanitarian associations, government agencies, and special
interest groups. The bulk of the collection focuses on race restrictive housing
covenants, particularly in Chicago. Much of the literature on this topic was
produced by the Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination. There
is also patriotic propaganda from the World War II-era largely produced by
Appreciate America, Inc., a Chicago-based organization that published pamphlets
designed to encourage unity and patriotism among all Americans despite racial,
ethnic and/or religious differences.
This collection has been divided into two series:
Series I: Topical, 1939-1954, 0.5 linear feet
Series II: Organizations and Special Interest Groups, 1940-1960, 0.5 linear feet
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of
Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and
The University of Montana-Missoula.
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and
any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to the University of Montana.
[Name of document],
Anti-Discrimination and Racial Equality Collection, Archives and Special
Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of
Montana-Missoula.
The
chain of ownership of this collection is unknown. It likely consists of publications drawn from a variety of sources including donations to Special Collections, mailings received by Special Collections, and duplicates or other material pulled from Archival collections.
Some
of the material in this collection relating to both the Work Conference on Human
Relations and the Conference for the Elimination of Restrictive Covenants was
acquired from Arnie Aronson. Information about the acquisition of other materials in the collection was not found.
The
collection was organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically
when practical. Some of the material, particularly items relating to anti-Semitism
and race restrictive covenants, was originally housed with the Archives and Special Collections' Union Labor Collection
and was incorporated into this collection in 2014.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Civil Rights
Employment
Segregation
Antisemitism
Racism
Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993
Ingram, Rosa Lee
Appreciate America
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination
Committee of Racial Equality
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Urban League
Series I
Topical
1939 -
1954
0.5 linear
feet
The bulk of this series features items from the anti-discrimination and civil
rights movements of the 1940s and 1950s.
This series is filed alphabetically by topic, then chronologically when
possible.
1/1
African-American Relations
1943 - 1947 and undated
Freedom, the South, and Nonviolence. A Practical Solution to a
Problem Confronting the Entire Nation.New York:
Fellowship of Reconciliation, n.d.
Brown, Ross D.
Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know
About Your Race? With Unusual Historic Facts About Prominent
People of African Descent from A to Z.Chicago: Truth
Seeker's Temple, 1943.
On the Color Line.New York: Council for Democracy,
1945.
Houser, George M., and A. P. Randolph.
Erasing the Color
Line.New York: Fellowship Publications, 1945.
Seminar on Negro Problems in the Field of Social
Action.Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Social Action,
National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1947.
OS 3
African-American Relations
1947
Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton.
Bronzeville.New York: Curtis Pub. Co., 1947.
1/2
African-American Relations: Government Reports
1944 - 1953
First Annual Report of the Illinois Inter-Racial Commission.
For the Period August 1943 to December 1944.Springfield:
State of Illinois, 1944.
The State of Illinois Commission on Human Relations. Fifth
Biennial Report.1953. (alternate title: "Fifth Report of
the Commission on Human Relations for the biennium 1951-1953.")
Race Relations in Chicago, December 1944: Report of the
Mayor's Committee on Race Relations.Chicago: 1944.
Grunsfeld, Mary-Jane.
Negroes in Chicago.Chicago:
Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, 1944.
Race Relations in Chicago: Report of the Mayor's Commission on
Race Relations for 1945.Chicago: 1945.
Chicago Charter of Human Relations, Adopted by Chicago
Conference on Home Front Unity, November 6,
1945.Chicago: Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, 1945.
Report of the New York State Temporary Commission against
Discrimination.Albany: Williams Press, 1945.
1/3
Anti-Semitism
1936 - 1948 and
undated
MacLeish, Archibald.
Jews in America.New York:
Reprinted from "Digest & Review", 1936. [Condensed version of
research originally published in Fortune magazine and later
published in book form by Random House.]
"We Hold These Truths ...": Statements on Anti-Semitism by 54
Leading American Writers, Statesmen, Educators, Clergymen and
Trade-Unionists.New York, N.Y: League of American
Writers, 1939.
Schlauch, Margaret.
Who Are the Aryans?New York:
Anti-Fascist Literature Committee, 1940.
To Bigotry No Sanction: A Documented Analysis of Anti-Semitic
Propaganda.Philadelphia: The Council, 1941.
Your Prejudice is Showing!Los Angeles: The National
Conference of Christians and Jews, 1948.
1/4
Civil Liberties: Communism
1950
Ross, Irwin.
The Communists, Friends or Foes of Civil
Liberties?New York: American Jewish Committee, 1950.
1/5
Discrimination, Analysis/History of
1945 - 1948
Gould, Kenneth M, and Jacob Landau.
They Got the Blame: The
Story of Scapegoats in History. New York: Association
Press, 1945.
McWilliams, Carey.
Does Social Discrimination Really Matter?
"Exclusiveness" in a Democracy.Reprinted from
"Commentary", 1947.
ABC's of Scapegoating. Chicago: Central YMCA College,
1948. [With a Foreword by Professor Gordon W. Allport, Harvard
University.] (two copies)
1/6
Discrimination, Combating
1945 - 1953 and undated
Johnson, Willard.
Do You Want to Be Happy and Free?New
York: National Conference of Christians and Jews, n.d.
Talk It Over! A New Technique and Service for Program and
Education Committee Chairmen.Detroit: City of Detroit
Interracial Committee, n.d.
Oxnam, G. B.
The Nazis Aren't Licked Yet.New York:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, n.d.
Farmer, James., ed.
Equality. Vol. 2, No. 6.New York:
Race Relations Dept. of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1945.
Kennedy, Stetson.
We Must Clamp Down on the Klan Again! Dixie
Disruptions.Chapel Hill: Fellowship of Southern
Churchmen, 1946.
Ordinance to Ban Scurrilous Literature.Chicago:
Chicago City Council, 1947.
Say: The Alumni Magazine of Roosevelt
University.Chicago: Roosevelt University Alumni Association,
1953.
OS 3
Discrimination, Combating
1953
Commager, Henry S.
Guilt--and Innocence--by
Association.New York: The New York Times Magazine,
1953.
1/7
Education
1942 - 1947
The Southern Patriot. Vol. 5.New Orleans: Southern
Conference for Human Welfare, 1942.
Edman, Marion, and Laurentine B. Collins.
Promising Practices
in Intergroup Education. New York: Bureau of
Intercultural Education, 1947.
1/8
Employment
1948 and undated
Answer the Critics of F.E.P.C.: Try This Quiz at Home.
Washington, D.C.: National Council for a Permanent FEPC,
n.d.
3 Reasons Why You Should Not Buy at
Goldblatt's.Chicago: Council for Job Equality on State
Street, n.d.
...A Step Toward Fair Employment.Chicago: Committee
for Fair Employment on State Street, n.d.
FEPC Reference Manual. New York: Committee on
Employment Discrimination of the National Community Relations
Advisory Council, 1948.
Draft. Resolution on Fair Employment Practices in the Federal
Civil Service.n.d.
A Permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission.New
York: National Council for a Permanent FEPC, 1945.
The Midwest Action Conference for a Permanent Fair Employment
Practice Commission.Chicago: National Council for a
Permanent FEPC, 1945.
The Federal Permanent FEPC Bill. A Digest-Analysis (S. 101 -
H.R. 2232).Washington, D.C.: National Council for a
Permanent FEPC, 1945.
Ross, Irwin.
New York's "FEPC" Pays Off.New York:
Reprinted from "This Week," 1946.
Ellis, Alfred.
[Letter addressed to Dear
Friend].Chicago: Chicago Committee for FEPC in Federal Civil
Service, 1947.
[Letter addressed To the Members of the Board and All
Cooperating Organizations].Washington, D.C.: National
Council for a Permanent FEPC, 1948.
Businessmen for FEPC. Copy of Telegram to Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg.New York: 1948.
1/9
Housing (Restrictive Covenants)
1940 - 1951 and undated
Fisk, Alfred G.
Is it American? Democratic?
Christian?San Francisco: Interracial Commission, n.d.
Cayton, Horace R.
Negro Housing in Chicago.New York:
Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian
Churches, 1940.
Gilbert, Paul T., and J. M. Klein.
Some Light of Truth on the
Negro Housing Nightmare. Chicago: Chicago Sun, 1945.
Weaver, Robert C.
Hemmed in: ABC's of Race Restrictive Housing
Covenants.Chicago: American Council on Race Relations,
1945.
Mastrude, Roger G.
If Your Next Neighbors Are Negroes.
Nashville: Department of Race Relations, American Missionary
Association, Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches,
Fisk University Offices, 1951.
1/10
Housing (Restrictive Covenants): Government Reports
1945 - 1954 and undated
Research Memorandum No. VII. Restrictive
Covenants.Springfield: Illinois Inter-racial Commission,
n.d.
Notes on Proposed Community Property
Agreement.Chicago: Mayor's Commission on Human Relations,
n.d.
Policy Statements of the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations
Concerning Restrictions on Living Space Based on Race, Color, or
Creed.Chicago: Mayor's Commission on Human Relations,
1945.
What and Why: Low-rent Public Housing. Washington,
D.C.: Public Housing Administration, Housing and Home Finance
Agency, 1950.
Report to the Mayor and to the City Council of the Committee
on Racial Tensions in Housing Projects: Chicago, Illinois,
January 15, 1954. Chicago: Chicago Commission on Human
Relations, 1954.
1/11
Immigration
1945
The Common Council at Work.Reprinted from Common
Ground, 1945.
1/12
Law Enforcement
1944
Weckler, J. E., and Theo E. Hall.
The Police and Minority
Groups: A Program to Prevent Disorder and to Improve Relations
between Different Racial, Religious, and National Groups.
Chicago: International City Managers' Association, 1944.
1/13
Military Segregation
1949 and undated
Help Fight Jim Crow in Uniform!New York: The Lynn
Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces, n.d.
[Letter requesting donations.]New York: The Lynn
Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces, n.d.
DeAngelis, Gabriel.
"Nobody Knows...".New York, N.Y:
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training,
1949.
1/14
Patriotic Propaganda
1945 - 1946 and undated
Are They Fooling You?Boston: Civil Liberties Union of
Massachusetts, n.d.
Sinatra, Frank.
The Voice Speaks.Reprinted from Calling
All Girls, 1945.
Sinatra, Frank.
Let's Not Forget We're All
Foreigners.Reprinted from Magazine Digest, 1946.
Series II
Organizations and Special Interest
Groups
1940 -
1960
0.5 linear
feet
This series features literature produced by specific anti-discrimination and
minority advocacy groups in the United States. The bulk of the materials was
published during the 1940s and 1950s.
This series is filed alphabetically by organization title then
sub-categorized alphabetically by topic.
1/15
American Civil Liberties Union
1951 - 1953
Security and Freedom. The Great Challenge.New York:
American Civil Liberties Union, 1951. (two copies)
This is the American Civil Liberties Union.New York:
American Civil Liberties Union, 1951.
Canham, Erwin, Harold H. Velde, and Patrick M. Malin.
Are We
Losing Our Civil Liberties in Our Search for
Security?New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1952. [A
radio discussion presented by America's Town Meeting of the Air over
the ABC Radio Network, February 19, 1952.]
Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility. Their Meaning to
Students, Teachers, Administrators and the Community.New
York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1952.
The Smith Act and the Supreme Court. An American Civil
Liberties Union Analysis, Opinion and Statement of
Policy.New York: American Civil Liberties Union,
1952.
Freedom--Justice--Equality. Report on Civil Liberties, January
1951-June 1953.New York: American Civil Liberties Union,
1953.
Democracy in Labor Unions. A Report and Statement of
Policy.New York: American Civil Liberties Union,
1952.
2/1
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith: Anti-Semitism
1942 - 1948 and undated
[Press release].New York: Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, n.d.
Americans All: A Short History of American
Jews.Chicago: The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,
1942.
The High Holidays.Illinois: Christian Friends of the
Anti-Defamation League, 1946.
Rose, Billy.
Poison Pens.New York: Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, 1948. [From Billy Rose's famous column,
"Pitching Horseshoes."]
2/2
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith:
Discrimination
1960 and undated
Adam's Children.New York: Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, n.d.
Kraus, Robert.
The Rabbit Brothers.New York:
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1960.
Fair Play.New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, n.d. (comic book about discrimination in sports)
2/3
Appreciate America, Inc.: Patriotic Propaganda
undated
Doakes, Joe.
I Know My Stuff! Do You?Chicago:
Appreciate America, Inc., n.d.
Doakes, Joe.
I Know My Neighbors. Do You?Chicago:
Appreciate America, Inc., n.d.
Even Some Americans Haven't Discovered America
Yet.Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc., n.d.
Great American Game.Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc.,
n.d.
Let's Make It Work!Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc.,
n.d.
Here's What I Say!Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc.,
n.d.
Going My Way?Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc.,
n.d.
OS 3
Appreciate America, Inc.: Patriotic Propaganda
undated
Miss America Says!Chicago: Appreciate America, Inc.,
n.d.
2/4
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious
Discrimination
1946 - 1948 and undated
Fineberg, Solomon A.
Checkmate for Rabble-Rousers: What to Do
When the Demagogue Comes to Town.New York: Community
Relations Service, 1946. (distributed by the Chicago Council against
Racial and Religious Discrimination)
Chicago Comment on "Checkmate for
Rabble-Rousers."Chicago: Chicago Council against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, n.d. (flier distributed with copies of
Checkmate for Rabble-Rousers)
Against Discrimination.Chicago: Chicago Council
against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946-48. (serial
publication; two issues)
2/5
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination:
Conference for the Elimination of Restrictive Covenants
1946
Conference for the Elimination of Restrictive
Covenants.Chicago: Chicago Council against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946. (two copies)
House Bills No. 467 & 471. Abstract of Hearings of
Proponents, May 28, 1945.Springfield: The House
Judiciary Committee, reissued for the Conference for the Elimination
of Restrictive Covenants, 1946.
Proceedings.Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial
and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Supplementary Program.Chicago: Chicago Council Against
Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Contents. The Conference Packet.Chicago: Chicago
Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Better Community Pledge.Chicago: Chicago Council
Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Jack, Homer A.
Documented Memorandum VIII. The Racial Factor in
the Veterans Airport Housing Project.Chicago: Chicago
Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
The Complete Text of a Racial Restrictive
Covenant.Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Jack, Homer A.
Should Restrictive Covenants Be Prohibited by
Law?Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946. (two copies)
Doebele, John.
Covenant to Create Slums.Chicago:
Reprinted by the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious
Discrimination, 1946.
Nailing the Lies about Negro Neighbors.Chicago:
Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination,
1946.
Realtor Work for Negro Housing.Chicago: Chicago
Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Hyde Park-Kenwood Citizens Issue Statement on Negro
WACs.Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Chicago's Neighborhood Improvement
Associations.Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946.
2/6
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination:
Housing
1946 - 1947
Sheil, Bernard J., and Loren Miller.
Racial Restrictive
Covenants. Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946.
Fair Housing Practices.Chicago: Chicago Council
against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946-47. (serial
publication; four issues)
2/7
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination:
Safety/Security
1946 - 1948 and undated
Organizational & Individual Action Against Racial Violence
at Airport Homes: There Are Things To Do.Chicago:
Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, n.d.
(note from Homer A. Jack accompanies the leaflet)
Against Discrimination. Documented Memorandum No. 7.
Arson-Bombings and Other Terrorism against Negro Households in
Chicago.Chicago: Chicago Council Against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1946. (includes map of sites of
vandalism)
To Secure These Rights: The Right to Safety and Security of
the Person in Chicago.Chicago: Chicago Council Against
Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1948. (includes a map with
sites of attack)
2/8
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination: Work
Conference on Human Relations
1948 and undated
Tentative Program. Work Conference on Human
Relations.Chicago: Chicago Council against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, n.d.
Proceedings: Work Conference on Human Relations. Waukegan,
June, 1948.Chicago: Chicago Council against Racial and
Religious Discrimination, 1948.
Bradford, Leland P.
Planning the Work-Group
Conference.Chicago: Reprinted for the Work Conference on
Human Relations, Chicago Council against Racial and Religious
Discrimination, 1948.
2/9
Committee of Racial Equality (CORE): Discrimination
1950 and undated
The Red Cross and Its Jim Crow Policy.Chicago:
Committee of Racial Equality, n.d.
Here Is a List of 50 Loop Restaurants Where Negro Patrons Will
Be Served Without Discrimination.Chicago: Committee of
Racial Equality, 1950?
2/10
Committee of Racial Equality (CORE): Education
undated
Discrimination at the University of Chicago.Chicago:
Committee of Racial Equality, n.d.
2/11
Community Relations Service: Discrimination
1945 - 1954 and undated
Don't Be Fooled!New York: Community Relations Service, n.d. (This pamphlet
mentions the names of several prominent right-wing radical activists
including Gerald L.K. Smith. For information published by Smith,
review the Right-Wing Radicalism Pamphlet Collection, PAM 09.)
Peck, Gregory.
My Most Interesting Experience.New York:
Reprinted by Community Relations Service, n.d.
Hickey, Margaret.
Minorities...Philadelphia Fellowship.
Hatreds Can Be Cured.New York: Ladies' Home Journal,
Reprinted by Community Relations Service, 1945.
Douglas, William O.
Civil Liberties: "The Direct and Daring
Course." New York: Community Relations Service,
1947.
To Secure These Rights: A Brief Summary of the Report of the
President's Committee on Civil Rights.New York:
Community Relations Service, 1948.
The People Take the Lead: A Record of Progress in Civil
Rights, 1947 to 1951.New York: Community Relations
Service, 1951.
The People Take the Lead: A Record of Progress in Civil
Rights, 1948 to 1955.New York: 1955.
Supplement to the People Take the Lead: A Record of Progress
in Civil Rights, January, 1954. New York: Community
Relations Service, 1954.
2/12
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(N.A.A.C.P.)
1946 - 1949 and undated
Canon, B.J.
Portland NAACP: Branch Book Reviews. "I Have Two
Countries."Portland: Portland N.A.A.C.P., n.d.
Wyman, Margaret S.
N.A.A.C.P. Book Reviews. "Color and
Conscience."New York: National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, n.d.
The War Is Over, They Say!New York City: National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1946.
Georgia "Justice": The Ingram Case.New York: National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1948.
Look at the Filibuster.New York: National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, 1949.
2/13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(N.A.A.C.P.): Housing
1945
In a Democracy They Cost Too Much.Chicago: Chicago
Branch NAACP, Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1945.
2/14
National Institute of Social Relations:
Discrimination
1946 - 1948
Talk It Over.Washington, D.C.: National Institute of
Social Relations, 1946-48. (serial publication; three issues)
2/15
National Urban League: Discrimination
1940 - 1949 and undated
Ten Tips for Tactful Talkers.Portland: Urban League of
Portland, Oregon, n.d. (two copies)
Urban League of Portland, 6 S. W. Sixth
Avenue.Portland: Urban League of Portland, Oregon, n.d.
Johnson, Cornelius.
To the Residents of a Great City, a
Message!Chicago: Chicago Urban League, Dept. of Public
Relations, 1940.
Granger, Lester B., A. P. Randolph, and Willard S. Townsend.
A
Revelation of Base Qualities. New York: National Urban
League, 1940.
Fowler, Manet.
Did You Ever See a Dream Growing? Well, Here It
Is: Spotlight on Gary.New York: Dept. of Research and
Community Projects, National Urban League, 1946.
Third Annual Report--1947.Portland: Urban League of
Portland, Oregon, 1947.
Granger, Lester B., and Jackie Robinson.
Communist Influence
among Negroes--Fact or Illusion? Statements Presented at
Washington Before the House Committee on Un-American
Activities.New York: National Urban League, 1949.