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 Descriptive Summary August Meier (1923- ). Papers, 1931-1998. Meier, August (1923- ) Sc MG 340 73.6 lin. ft. ; 149 boxes The New York Public Library. Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Since the early 1960's August Meier has been a major force in the study of African-American history in his examination of late nineteenth and twentieth century America by his application of rigorous social and intellectual analysis. Meier was actively involved in the civil rights movement and studied its origins and development. He taught at three historic black colleges followed by twenty years at Kent State University. As editor of two major series on blacks in America, he influenced scholars and students alike. English Subjects Personal Names {Personal Name entry} Organizations {Organization/Corporate name entry} Subjects {Subject entry} Places {Geographic name entry} Document Types {Genreform entry} Occupations {Occupation entry} Titles {Title entry} Source

Gift of August Meier, 1988 and 1994. Accession Number SCM 88-43, SCM 94-33 MG 340.

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Biography

Since the early 1960's August Meier has been a major force in the study of African-American history in his examination of late nineteenth and twentieth century America by his application of rigorous social and intellectual analysis. Meier was actively involved in the civil rights movement and studied its origins and development. He taught at three historic black colleges followed by twenty years at Kent State University. As editor of two major series on blacks in America, he influenced scholars and students alike.

Born in 1923 in Newark, New Jersey, Meier was reared in upwardly mobile, middle class surroundings. He openly acknowledges his parents' influence on his intellectual development--his East European Jewish mother was a teacher and vice principal of a public school, his father was a chemist. His parents had met in the Socialist Party--his mother, of German extraction, came from a family of radical intellectuals. By the mid-1930's his parents were liberal in their thinking and made him aware of the plight of the poor and the oppressed.

Another significant factor was Meier's experience as a camper and counselor at Pioneer Youth Camp near Kingston, New York where he spent his summers between 1934 and 1939. Pioneer Youth of America had been founded in 1924 by a group of reformers including progressive educators, anarchists, Communists, socialists, union leaders and liberals. A racially integrated camp, the children decided democratically what their activities would be. Pioneer Youth served as a catalyst for Meier's interest in social issues, his growing commitment to racial equality, his persistent anti-Stalisism, and the shaping of his activity in the black student protest movement of the 1960's.

Between 1940-1945 Meier attended Oberlin College, which had a reputation for being "liberal." One year during this time was spent working at a War Department agency in Newark, one-third of the employees were the black. Experiences at this agency gave impetus to Meier's decision to teach at a black college and he began studying race relations and black history. Moreover, his last two years at Oberlin were engaged in activist concerns and in anti-discrimination practices.

Meier was an assistant professor of history at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, 1945-1949, utilizing the last year of his experience there pursuing his Master's degree at Columbia University. His thesis was a study of black American nationalism prior to Marcus Garvey. Between 1953 and 1956 he held the same title at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where he also served as President Charles S. Johnson's research assistant. Meier was awarded the Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1957 with his tome, "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915" serving as his dissertation. In 1963 his revised published dissertation Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 placed Meier on the cutting edge of intellectual historians who used sociological and anthropological approaches in his examination of black history.

From 1957 to 1964 Meier taught at Morgan State College in Baltimore, first as assistant professor of history, then as associate professor. Unlike Fisk and Tougaloo where there were approximately equal numbers of black and white faculty, at Morgan 90% were black. Morgan State students had been active in civil rights work, and in 1960 Meier was also involved in the students' attempt to integrate a restaurant at Northwood shopping center by demonstrating their protest at being excluded. The students formed an organization called the Civic Interest Group and asked Meier to become and adult adviser. Later, as a result of participating in a restaurant sit-in, Meier was arrested. With the cooperation of the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the students won the right to integrate these public services through the passage of laws. Meier developed a long-standing interest in the origins of non-violent direct action, researching early twentieth century manifestations of this form of protest.

As a liberal and integrationist teaching history at black institutions, Meier became involved in student activism, and in the early 1960's also became acquainted with officers of CORE, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the NAACP. He got to know such leaders as Bayard Rustin, Norman Hill, Stokeley Carmichael, Floyd McKissick, and Herbert Hill.

Meier taught history at Chicago's Roosevelt University from 1964 to 1967, a time when the era of integration had passed and black power had begun. The interest in black experience during this time period by both black and white researchers broadened the audience for Meier's publications. From 1967 until his retirement in 1993, Meier taught history at the only largely white university with which he was affiliated, Kent State University in Ohio. In 1969 he was appointed University Professor, the highest rank to which Kent State faculty members can be named. His long collaboration with his colleague, Elliott Rudwick, professor of sociology at Kent State, resulted in seven books and numerous articles. Their joint effort lasted until Rudwick's death in 1985.

Meier's activity in civil rights dates back to his college days at Oberlin in the 1940's when he joined in the campaign against discrimination of the white barbershops and witnessed the protest against the Jim Crow blood bank. Meier joined the local branch of the Newark, New Jersey NAACP in 1948, and served as secretary between 1950-1952, then again in 1957. Meier was a consultant for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, 1968.

Since the 1950's Meier has been active in several national scholarly organizations including the Southern Historical Association, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. From about 1959-1961 he participated in a campaign to prevail upon the SHA to end its practice of holding conventions at hotels that barred blacks, and in 1980 he served on its Program Committee, then became its president in 1992. For the AHA Meier was on the Program Committee in 1972, and he chaired the Organization of American Historians's Program Committee in 1990. In 1998 thenAHA honored Meier with its Award for Scholarly Distinction, which is bestowed upon senior historians. In presenting this honor, the AHA declared that "since the pioneering work of Carter G. Woodson and the establishment of the Journal of Negro History in 1915, no historian has influenced the study of African American history more broadly than August Meier."

In the 1970's Meier received a number of research grants, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and one from the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. He was also a recipient of a research grant from the National Endowment for the Huamanities; in addition in the 1980's he twice presented a summer seminar with NEH funds entitled "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth-Century America."

Meier has been a prolific writer analyzing black protest thought, civil rights and related issues. He has either authored or edited fourteen books between 1963 and 1986, published close to a hundred articles, and written book reviews which have appeared in the major history journals. He has lectured at colleges and universities across the country about timely race related issues and aspects of his research.

Perhaps Meier's most far-reaching impact on the intellectual community has been achieved through his role as editor of books and other publications for four series in black studies. He served as general editor of the Negro in American Life Series for Atheneum, 1966-1974. He has also been general editor of the University of Illinois Press Black in the New World Series, from 1972 to 1998. Meier along with Elliott Rudwick co-edited the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies, 1966-1974, in addition to serving as a co-editor (also with Rudwick) for the University Publications of America, Black Studies Research Sources: Microfilms of Materials in Major Archival Manuscript Collections, 1983-1998. In his capacity as editor of Atheneum and the University of Illinois Press, Meier's demanding criticism and generous aid to recent students publishing their first scholarly work as well as to experienced writers can be noted in the excellent quality of the series. His former student, John H. Bracey, became his co-editor for UPA and Bobbs-Merrill, and in 1991 became his co-editor for the University of Illinois Press series. Meier was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Rutgers University in 1994. He is now retired and living in New Jersey--he makes it a point to regularly attend and participate in historical association meetings.

 Scope and Content Note

The August Meier Papers document the formative years and career of this scholar, writer, professor, and editor of late nineteenth and twentieth century black America. The collection consists primarily of personal papers, notes and drafts for his Ph.D. dissertation, records from his teaching career including files for his Kent State University graduate students, correspondence with colleagues and publishers of his own books and articles, and correspondence and manuscripts for books submitted for possible inclusion in two series related to blacks in the United States of which Meier was an editor. Additionally the collection encompasses his published articles, conference papers, speeches and lectures; as well as his role in professional organizations, the grants and fellowships he received, and his consultancies. The papers are strong in civil rights research materials including numerous interviews Meier and his colleague Elliott Rudwick conducted with participants, printed material and notes related to Baltimore and various geographical areas Meier was interested, copies of records of the legal and educational offices of the NAACP Meier and Elliott Rudwick gathered for research purposes, and some records of the Newark, New Jersey branch of the NAACP which Meier helped create during his tenure as secretary in the 1950's. Many national and Southern civil rights organizations such as SNCC as well as pertinent subject files are represented by printed material and Meier's notes. Research files for publications authored by Meier include notes, printed material and some manuscripts, spanning the period of Meier's first publication in 1947 to one of his latest in 1988. He had made a selection of his writings to include in his papers prior to the donation of the collection of the Schomburg Center. The collection concludes with his research files for unpublished material and a file on Elliott Rudwick.

Organization

The Meier Papers are divided into ten series and forty subseries. The titles, dates and box numbers are as follows: Personal Papers Biographical Material 1930-1998: Box 1 Pioneer Youth Camp 1936-1951: Box 2-3 Personal Correspondence Family 1939-1958: Box 4 Friends 1938-1958; 2003: Box 5 Education Oberlin College 1936-1948: Box 6 Columbia University 1947-1962: Box 6-10 Organizational Memberships National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch 1949-1958: Box 10-12 Teaching Career Tougaloo College 1932-1961: Box 13 City College of the City of New York 1951 Box 13 Fisk University 1953-1968: Box 13 Morgan State College 1957-1962: Box 13 Roosevelt University 1967 Box 13 Kent State University 1968-1995: Box 13-15 Correspondence Colleagues 1948-1996: Box 16-20 Publishers 1965-1997: Box 21-24 Editor/Scholarly Publications Atheneum, Negro in American Life Series 1967-1976: Box 25-26 University of Illinois Press, Blacks in the New World Series 1967-1998: Box 27-40 University Publications of America, Black Studies Research Sources 1982-1998: Box 41 Professional Activities Consultancies 1968-1993: Box 42 Writings - Published Articles 1945-1993: Box 43-44 Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures1944-1995: Box 45-49 Professional Affiliations 1952-1998: Box 50-52 Grants and Fellowships 1951-1990: Box 54 National Endowment for the Humanities 1972-1991: Box 55 Civil Rights Movement Research Files Interviews 1961-1985, 1961-1971 (bulk): Box 56-57 Bayard Rustin 1942-1979, 1959-1963 (bulk): Box 58-60 Geographic Localities 1943-1969, 1956-1966 (bulk): Box 61-71 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee 1960-1979: Box 72-74 General Civil Rights Movement Printed Material 1940-1982, 1960-1965 (bulk): Box 75-76 Research Files for Publications "A Study of the Racial Ancestry of the Mississippi College Negro" 1947-1949: Box 77-79 "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism (A Study in Ideology)" 1951-1952: Box 80" "Booker T. Washington and the Rise of the NAACP" 1953-1954: Box 80 "From Conservative to Radical: The Ideological Development of W.E.B. DuBois" 1959: Box 80 "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958" 1957-1959: Box 80 Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 1957-1962: Box 80A-C "New Currents in the Civil Rights Movement" 1963 Box 81 Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century 1963: Box 81 "Civil Rights Strategies for Negro Employment" 1967: Box 81 Black Nationalism in America 1970: Box 81 Congress of Racial Equality: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968 1942-1992, 1942-1968 (bulk): Box 82-89 Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience "Origins of Non-Violent Direct Action" 1967-1975: Box 90-93 "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign" 1970's: Box 93 Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW 1976-1981 : Box 94-105 "Communist Unions and the Black Community: The Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934-1944" 1979-1981: Box 106-108 Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980: Box 109-135 Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century 1982-1987: Box 136-137 Research Files - Unpublished Material Negro Upper Class Study 1982-1987: Box 138-141 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Office 1970's: Box 142-149 Others Box 150 Elliott Rudwick 1960-1983: Box 151-152

Related Material

Additional manuscript material relating to August Meier's years at Oberlin College are housed at the Oberlin College Archives. Material pertaining to research conducted by Meier, Rudwick and John Bracey from the 1980s relating to the NAACP, labor, A. Philip Randolph, and affirmative action is stored at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. The collection is currently not available for research.

 Series Descriptions/Container List Personal Papers Biographical Material

The Biographical Material subseries, 1930-1998 (.4 lin. ft.) includes Meier's curriculum vitae, news clippings about Meier's professional activities, a biographical essay, Meier's first major writing attempt which consists of his memoirs of family vacations (1930's), a log describing his trip to visit a black classmate at his home in Mississippi (1944), information about his mother, Clara Meier, and photographs.

 1 (Offsite) 1 Biographical 1 (Offsite) 2 Resumes 1 (Offsite) 3 Job Offers, 1968 1 (Offsite) 4 Biographical Essay -- Brier, Genie K., 1975-1976 1 (Offsite) 5 Honorary Doctor of Letters -- Rutgers University, 1994 1 (Offsite) 6 75th Birthday, 1998 1 (Offsite) 7 Meier's Memoirs of Family Vacations, 1930's 1 (Offsite) 8 1934-1944 1 (Offsite) 9 Trip Log -- Mississippi, June 1944 1 (Offsite) 10 Military Records, 1949 1 (Offsite) 11 Unitariansim, 1950-1951 1 (Offsite) 12 Memberships, 1943-1954 1 (Offsite) 13 Black Oriented Organizations, 1950's Clara Meier 1 (Offsite) 14 Education Career n.d. 1 (Offsite) 15 Death, 1958 1 (Offsite) 16 Photographs (23), 1951-1955, 1973 Pioneer Youth Camp

Pioneer Youth Camp subseries, 1936-1951 (2 lin. ft.). Meier's childhood summers spent at Pioneer Youth Camp are represented by newsletters and play scripts written by campers including Meier, minutes of meetings, a history of the camp written by Meier entitled "A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp"(1938) and his long manuscript entitled "My Experiences with Pioneer Youth Camp of America (1939) illustrated with photographs. In addition, there are letters from Meier to his family, printed material regarding a 1939 visit to the camp by Eleanor Roosevelt and reports prepared by Meier and other staff members when Meier became a counselor in the early 1940's. Of interest is a 1940's report written by Meier on two other interracial camps in New York State.

2 (Offsite) 1 Published Material, 1936-1944 2 (Offsite) 2 Senior Camp - Minutes of Meetings (Meier as Secretary), 1939 2 (Offsite) 3 Minutes of Meetings, 1939 2 (Offsite) 4 Daniel Shay's Club, 1936-1937 2 (Offsite) 5 Senior Camp - Play Written by Campers, 1939 2 (Offsite) 6 Correspondence, 1939-1940 2 (Offsite) 7 Notes, Printed Matter, 1939 2 (Offsite) 8 Eleanor Roosevelt - Radio Address 1939 2 (Offsite) 9 Science and Nature Projects, 1939-1940 2 (Offsite) 10 Notes, Minutes and Printed Matter, 1940 2 (Offsite) 11 Hand Drawn Posters, 1940 2 (Offsite) 12 Meier's Job as Counselor, 1941 2 (Offsite) 13 Meier's Diary as Counselor, 1941 2 (Offsite) 14 Special Events, 1941 2 (Offsite) 15 Dramatic Presentations, 1941 2 (Offsite) 16 Staff, 1942 2 (Offsite) 17 Pre-Camp Conference - Staff Seminar - Aggressive Behavior Among Campers, 1942 2 (Offsite) 18 Camp Season Report by Meier, 1942 2 (Offsite) 19 Meier's Personal Correspondence, 1942 2 (Offsite) 20 Schedules, 1942 2 (Offsite) 21 Special Programs, 1942 Reports 2 (Offsite) 22 Clara Meier, Executive Secretary, 1942-1943 2 (Offsite) 23 Eero Davidson, Director, 1943 2 (Offsite) 24 Director and Staff, 1946 2 (Offsite) 25 Printed Matter, Architectural Drawings of Dining Room and Kitchen, 1946 2 (Offsite) 26 1947-1951 2 (Offsite) 27 "The Trailer," ca. mid 1930's "The Newspaper of Pioneer Youth of America" 2 (Offsite) 28 1934 2 (Offsite) 29 "At the Sign of the Hemlock" - Shay's Rebellion, 1935 "The Trail Marker" - Newsletter" 2 (Offsite) 30 1936 2 (Offsite) 31 January-June 1937 2 (Offsite) 32 July-December 1937 2 (Offsite) 33 January-April 1938 2 (Offsite) 34 May-December 1938 2 (Offsite) 35 "The Trail Marker," 1939 "Pioneer Youth Clarion" 2 (Offsite) 36 1937 2 (Offsite) 37 1938 Camp Newspaper 2 (Offsite) 38 1939 2 (Offsite) 39 1940 2 (Offsite) 40 1941 2 (Offsite) 41 1942 2 (Offsite) 42 1944 2 (Offsite) 43 Meier's Personal Financial Records, 1939 2 (Offsite) 44 Meier's Personal Financial Records, Minutes of Meetings and Correspondence, 1941 2 (Offsite) 45 Finances, 1942 3 (Offsite) 1 Notes, 1938-1941 3 (Offsite) 2 Manuscript Version of Articles, 1941 "Report on P.Y. Clarion" by August Meier 3 (Offsite) 3 1941 3 (Offsite) 4 1942 3 (Offsite) 5 Secretary's Notes, 1942 3 (Offsite) 6 Camp Newspaper - Manuscript Drafts, Correspondence, 1942 3 (Offsite) 7 Banquet Program, 1944 3 (Offsite) 8 Meier's Report on Two Other Interracial Camps, 1946 3 (Offsite) 9 Handmade Stationery, N.D. 3 (Offsite) 10 "The Paint Creek Flood" by Alice Paddleford, N.D. 3 (Offsite) 11 Camp Larry Scrapbook, 1938-1939 "My Experiences with Pioneer Youth of America" by August Meier, 1939 3 (Offsite) 12 "A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp," Summer 1938 3 (Offsite) 13 Meier's Manuscript for "A Short History of Pioneer Youth Camp," 1938 3 14 Photographs 3 15 Pages 1-61 3 16 Pages 62-146, (Volume 2) 3 17 Pages 146-226 3 18 Pages 227-294, (Volume 3) 3 19 Pages 295-375 3 20 Pages 376-450 3 21 Pages 451-551 3 22 Pages 552-650, (Volume 7) 3 23 Pages 651-728, (Volume 2) 4 (Offsite) Personal Correspondence

Personal Correspondence subseries, 1938-1958; 2003 (1.4 lin. ft.) consists of correspondence between Meier and his parents and brother as well as with his friends. His long, detailed letters written while he was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio discuss Meier's relationship with other students, his professors, readings, examinations, papers he wrote, extracurricular activities, and in general, the development of his thinking processes while attending a liberal arts college. Correspondence from the late 1940's when Meier was attending Columbia University in pursuit of his Master's degree describe his courses and current events including his opinions about black related issues. Meier continued his course work at Columbia for his doctoral degree; correspondence during this time discuss his research for his dissertation. Letters from Meier's years at Fisk University describe his responsibilities and complaints as a research assistant to Charles S. Johnson, his experiences applying for a job, and his belief that his resume may have caused people to believe he was of African-American ancestry.

 4 (Offsite) Family Letters from Meier 4 (Offsite) 1 July 1939 4 (Offsite) 2 August 1939 4 (Offsite) 3 January-February 1940 4 (Offsite) 4 June-July 1940 4 (Offsite) 5 August 1940 4 (Offsite) 6 September-October 1940 4 (Offsite) 7 November 1940 4 (Offsite) 8 December 1940 4 (Offsite) 9 January-February 1941 4 (Offsite) 10 March 1-30, 1941 4 (Offsite) 11 April-June 3. 1941 4 (Offsite) 12 June 13-August 1941 4 (Offsite) 13 September 20-December 18, 1941 4 (Offsite) 14 January-May 1942 4 (Offsite) 15 October 1942-July 1943 4 (Offsite) 16 September 1943-July 1944 4 (Offsite) 17 November 1944-June 1945 4 (Offsite) 18 August 1945 4 (Offsite) 19 1946 4 (Offsite) 20 1947 4 (Offsite) 21 1948-1949 4 (Offsite) 22 1952 4 (Offsite) 23 1953 4 (Offsite) 24 1954 4 (Offsite) 25 1955 4 (Offsite) 26 1956 Letters from Family 4 (Offsite) 27 July, 1939 4 (Offsite) 28 July-August 1940 4 (Offsite) 29 September-October 1940 4 (Offsite) 30 November-December 1940 4 (Offsite) 31 January-February 1941 4 (Offsite) 32 March-June 1941 4 (Offsite) 33 July-August 1941 4 (Offsite) 34 October-December 1941 4 (Offsite) 35 1942 4 (Offsite) 36 1943 4 (Offsite) 37 1944 4 (Offsite) 38 1945 4 (Offsite) 39 1946 4 (Offsite) 40 1949 4 (Offsite) 41 1951-1952 4 (Offsite) 42 January-March 1953 4 (Offsite) 43 April-December 1953 4 (Offsite) 44 1954 4 (Offsite) 45 1955 4 (Offsite) 46 1956 4 (Offsite) 47 1957-1958 5 (Offsite) Friends 5 (Offsite) 1 1938 5 (Offsite) 2 1939 5 (Offsite) 3 April-October 1940 5 (Offsite) 4 November 1-21, 1940 5 (Offsite) 5 November 22-December 1940 5 (Offsite) 6 January-February 1941 5 (Offsite) 7 March-May 1941 5 (Offsite) 8 June-September 4, 1941 5 (Offsite) 9 September 21-December 1941 5 (Offsite) 10 1942 5 (Offsite) 11 1943 5 (Offsite) 12 1944 5 (Offsite) 13 Alan Booth, 1944 5 (Offsite) 14 Harold Wilson, 1944-1945 5 (Offsite) 15 Walter Wallace, 1945 5 (Offsite) 16 1945 5 (Offsite) 17 1946 5 (Offsite) 18 1947 5 (Offsite) 19 1948 5 (Offsite) 20 1949 5 (Offsite) 21 1950 5 (Offsite) 22 January-June 1951 5 (Offsite) 23 July-December 1951 5 (Offsite) 24 1952 5 (Offsite) 25 January-June 1953 5 (Offsite) 26 July-December 1953 5 (Offsite) 27 1954 5 (Offsite) 28 1955-1956 5 (Offsite) 29 1957 5 (Offsite) 30 August Meier - Obituaries, Memorial Service at Schomburg Center, 2003 6 (Offsite) Education

The subseries Education, 1936-1957, n.d. (5 lin. ft.) encompasses Meier's report cards from grade and high schools and graduation related material. His files for Oberlin College include reports and printed matter regarding a student effort to desegregate barber shops on campus. Meier was secretary of the committee that spearheaded this action. Meier's studies for his Master's degree at Columbia is documented by two black history papers he wrote on the black church and on Booker T. Washington, in addition to a copy of his thesis, "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism: A Study of Ideologies - From the American Revolution to the First World War" (1948).

Most significantly in this subseries are several drafts, including the final version, of Meier's dissertation, "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915." There are approximately ten versions of the dissertation; the final and most complete version has been filed first, followed by the other versions. Most of the drafts are not intact and only a few are dated, which made it difficult to assemble completed drafts. Adding to the difficulty in organizing the drafts is the fact that versions of book and dissertation chapters were frequently mixed together during the process of preparing the book Meier wrote based on his dissertation, Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915. Thus, it was not always clear which chapter versions were written for the book and which for the dissertation. A sampling of Meier's research notes based on his reading has been retained (one out of eight boxes). Correspondence between Meier and Paul Partington concerning W.E.B. DuBois is also to be found in this series.

 6 (Offsite) 1 Report Cards, 1936-1944 Barringer High School 6 (Offsite) 2 Yearbook, 1940 6 (Offsite) 3 1940 Oberlin College 6 (Offsite) 4 1939-1948 6 (Offsite) 5 Report - Special Committee to Investigate Negor Descrimination on the Oberlin Campus, 1942 6 (Offsite) 6 Discrimination of Blacks in Barber Shops Interracial Committee, 1943-1945 6 (Offsite) 7 Papers and Exams, 1943-1944 Columbia University 6 (Offsite) 8 Papers Written by Meier, 1947 6 (Offsite) 9 1948-1950 Master's Thesis 6 (Offsite) 10 "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism: A Study of Ideologies - From the American Revolution to the First World War," Final Version, 1948 6 (Offsite) 11 Edited Version 6 (Offsite) 12 Bibliographies Used in Thesis, 1948 7 Ph.D. Dissertation "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880- 1915" 7 (Offsite) 1 Correspondence, 1949-1953 Manuscript 7 (Offsite) 2 Chapters 1 & 2, pp. 1-95 7 (Offsite) 3 Chapters 3-5, pp. 96-191 7 (Offsite) 4 Chapters 6-8, pp. 192-315 7 (Offsite) 5 Chapters 9-12, pp. 316-423 7 (Offsite) 6 Chapters 13-14, pp. 424-499 7 (Offsite) 7 Chapters 15-16, pp. 500-594 7 (Offsite) 8 Chapters 17-20, pp.595-713 7 (Offsite) 9 Pre First Draft Draft 1 7 (Offsite) 10 Chapters 17-19 7 (Offsite) 11 Chapters 20, 21, 22 and 24 Draft Early Version 7 (Offsite) 12 Chapter 6 7 (Offsite) 13 Introduction to Part IV, Chapters 11-13 7 (Offsite) 14 Introduciton to Part V, Chapters 14 & 16 7 (Offsite) 15 Chapter 17 7 (Offsite) 16 Chapter 1, Introduction to Part II 7 (Offsite) 17 Chapters 3 & 4 7 (Offsite) 18 Chapters 5 & 6 7 (Offsite) 19 Chapter 7 7 (Offsite) 20 Introduction to Part II 7 (Offsite) 21 Chapter 1 7 (Offsite) 22 Chapter 6 7 (Offsite) 23 Chapters 2 & 3 7 (Offsite) 24 Chapters 4, 5 & 6 7 (Offsite) 25 Proposed Appendix, 1953 7 (Offsite) 26 Chapters 10-11 7 (Offsite) 27 Chapter 11 7 (Offsite) 28 Chapters 12, 15, and Afro-American Council 7 (Offsite) 29 Chapters 13, 14 and Bibliography 8 (Offsite) 1 Introduction to Part V, Chapter 13 8 (Offsite) 2 Abstract, Chapter 1, Introduction to Part II 8 (Offsite) 3 Chapter 1 8 (Offsite) 4 Chapter 3-5 8 (Offsite) 5 Chapters 9, 12-13 and Introduction to Part V 8 (Offsite) 6 Chapters 14, 15, 18 & 19 8 (Offsite) 7 Chapters 21, 22 & Appendix 8 (Offsite) 8 Chapters 1, 3 and 14 8 (Offsite) 9 Chapters 6, 7 and 9, ca. 1955 8 (Offsite) 10 Methodological Note, Introductions to Parts I, II and III Chapter 5 8 (Offsite) 11 Chapters 8-10, Introduction to Parts IV and V Appendix and Bibliography 8 (Offsite) 12 Chapters 13 and 14 8 (Offsite) 13 Chapter 17 8 (Offsite) 14 Part IV - The Institutionalization of Self-Help and Racial Solidarity, 1880-1915 8 (Offsite) 15 Abstract, Introduction to Part V, Chapters 11, 12, 14 & 15 8 (Offsite) 16 Chapters 16-19 8 (Offsite) 17 Chapters 20-22 8 (Offsite) 18 Chapters X - XI 8 (Offsite) 19 Chapter XII 8 (Offsite) 20 Chapters XIII and XIV Annotated Draft 8 (Offsite) 21 Chapter 1 and Introduction to Part II 8 (Offsite) 22 Chapter 7 8 (Offsite) 23 Chapters 6 & 8 8 (Offsite) 24 Chapters 14-16 8 (Offsite) 25 Chapters 17-18 8 (Offsite) 26 Chapters 18-19 and Bibliography Unrevised Version of Revised Chapters 9 (Offsite) 1 6, and 9-10 9 (Offsite) 2 11, 13-14 Carbon Copies 9 (Offsite) 3 Chapters 15, 16 & 17 9 (Offsite) 4 Chapters 18-20 9 (Offsite) 5 Chapters 21 & 22 9 (Offsite) 6 Appendix, Chapters 9-11 9 (Offsite) 7 Introduction to Part V, Chapters 13-15 9 (Offsite) 8 Chapters 16 and 17 9 (Offsite) 9 Chapters 19-21 9 (Offsite) 10 Bibliography Final Draft 9 (Offsite) 11 Chapter 3 9 (Offsite) 12 Chapters 5, 10-11 9 (Offsite) 13 Chapters 2 & 4 9 (Offsite) 14 Chapters 4, 10 & 13 9 (Offsite) 15 Chapters 16-17 9 (Offsite) 16 Chapter 12, Introduction to Part V, Chapters 14-15 9 (Offsite) 17 Chapters 17-19 9 (Offsite) 18 Chapters 20-22 Research Notes 9 (Offsite) 19 Du Bois and Washington 9 (Offsite) 20 Washington, Trotter 9 (Offsite) 21 Biographical Sketches - Notes 9 (Offsite) 22 Paul Cuffee 9 (Offsite) 23 New Negro Alliance 9 (Offsite) 24 Notes 9 (Offsite) 25 Research Correspondence and Notes 9 (Offsite) 26 James Weldon Johnson - Correspondence, 1949 9 (Offsite) 27 Research - Correspondence, 1952-1953 9 (Offsite) 28 W.E.B. Du Bois - Notes and Elliott Rudwick - Correspondence 9 (Offsite) 29 W.E.B. Du Bois Materials and Francis L. Broderick Dissertation - Notes 9 (Offsite) 30 Kelly Miller - Notes 9 (Offsite) 31 Notes on Interview with Clarence A. Bacote, April 25, 1952 9 (Offsite) 32 Notes on Clarence A. Bacote's Dissertation, "The Negro in Georgia Politics, 1880-1908" 9 (Offsite) 33 Voice of the Negro - Notes 9 (Offsite) 34 Reference Articles 10 Notes Organizational Memberships

The ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch series, 1948-1958 (.6 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's role as secretary from 1951-1952 and then again in 1957. The Newark Branch records consist of the constitution and by-laws, directory of members, a resolution on Jim Crow in the armed forces, minutes of meetings, and other resolutions. There is correspondence soliciting support for the integration program of the Newark Housing Authority in addition to civil rights legislation considered by Congress in 1957 (unpassed), newsletters of the (Newark) Mayor's Commission on Group Relations, and material regarding the Fair Employment Practice Commission sought by the National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization (1950).

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Branch, 1949-1958 11 1 Constitution and By-Laws, 1949 11 2 Executive Board, Monthly Meetings, 1951-1952 Meier as Member and Officer 11 3 1948-1950 11 4 1950-1951 11 5 1951 11 6 Fair Employment Practice Commission National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization, January 15-17, 1950 12 1 1950-1953 Minutes of Meetings 12 2 1951 12 3 1952 12 4 Housing Correspondence - August Meier, Secretary, 1952-1957 12 5 Minutes of Meetings, 1954-1957 12 6 Executive Board, 1956-1957 12 7 1956-1957 12 8 Legal Redress Committee, 1957 12 9 State Conference, Regional Convention, 1957 12 10 Programs of Branch Meetings, 1957 12 11 Education, 1957, 1960 12 12 Coordinated Membership Drive, 1957 Membership 12 13 1950, 1957 12 14 1957 12 15 Legislation, 1957 12 16 Correspondence, 1957 12 17 Finances, 1957 12 18 National Office, 1957 12 19 Newark Civil Rights Commission, 1951, 1958 12 20 Mayor's Commission on Group Relations - Newsletter, 1954-1958 Teaching Career

The series TEACHING CAREER, 1932-1995 (3.2 lin. ft.) spans Meier's long career as a history professor at six colleges. Tougaloo College is represented by minutes Meier took of College Council meetings, an article he wrote after his departure about his evaluation of Tougaloo fulfilling its role as an educational institution for African Americans, printed material and photographs. For Fisk University there is correspondence with Preston King, Meier's undergraduate student discussing their common interests in black intellectual thought, Meier's participation in civil rights activities, as well as King's dispute with the United States military and his self exile to London. Meier's position as Charles S. Johnson's research assistant is documented by notes prepared for Johnson's speeches and articles, and correspondence pertaining to Negro History Week celebrations. There is also material documenting a course on African-American history. Meier's annual reports provide information on his teaching career at Morgan State College.

Kent State University served as Meier's "home port" for twenty-five years and is where he trained a significant number of graduate students. These files reveal Meier's relationship with his graduate students and includes assessments by commitees regarding the acceptance of the applicant as a graduate student. Some correspondence between students and Meier, members of the dissertation committee, and administrators regarding students' status and progress, especially at the dissertation writing level is available. A few files include essay exams, reading lists, administrative material, job references, lists of dissertation committee members and their assessment of the student, and papers (some published). Correspondence indicates an ongoing relationship with some of his students after they obtained their Ph.D.'s and secured professional positions. Students represented in the collection include Elsa Barkley Brown, Leroy Davis, William Hine, Reginald Kearney, Paul Lammermeier, Christopher Reed, and Tyrone Tillery. Lastly, these files include letters of gratitude written for Meier's 1993 retirement.

Additional files for Kent State University includes material Meier distributed for his honors section on the history of civilization, such as chapter notes, study and review questions, exam questions, and lecture notes. For a colloquium he taught called "Black Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century" there are assignments, quizzes, bibliographies, and outlines for class discussions. Papers by Harold Baron, Robert Curvin, George Wiley and others from a conference on civil rights that Meier organized are included. Meier's efforts in building the Kent State University library's African-American collection between 1969-1986 through the purchase of microfilm is also documented.

 13 (Offsite) 1 Employment, 1943-1945 Tougaloo College, 1932-1963 13 (Offsite) 2 Notes on College Council Meetings, 1946-1948 13 (Offsite) 3 Correspondence, 1947-1948 13 (Offsite) 4 "Tougaloo Revisited" by August Meier and Chester Slocum, 1951-1952 13 (Offsite) 5 Employment, 1945-1949 13 (Offsite) 6 Administrative Record, n.d. Printed Matter 13 (Offsite) 7 1932, 1945-1948 13 (Offsite) 8 1944-1947 13 (Offsite) 9 1948-1961 Published Material 13 (Offsite) 10 1945-1947 13 (Offsite) 11 1947-1953 13 (Offsite) 12 Photographs (29), ca. 1945-1949, 1963 City College of the City of New York, 1951 13 (Offsite) 13 City College - 135th Street Branch Library - Course, "The Negro in American Civilization," 1951 Fisk University, 1953-1968 Preston King - Student 13 (Offsite) 14 1953-1959 13 (Offsite) 15 1960-1968 13 (Offsite) 16 Notes, 1954 13 (Offsite) 17 Correspondence, 1954-1956 13 (Offsite) 18 Correspondence, 1953-1954 13 (Offsite) 19 Miscellaneous Lectures, 1953-1956 13 (Offsite) 20 Charles S. Johnson - Correspondence, 1952-1956 13 (Offsite) 21 Western Civilization Course - Charles S. Johnson - Correspondence, 1954 13 (Offsite) 22 Charles S. Johnson - Meier's Notes for Johnson's Speeches and Articles, 1953-1954 Negro History Week Celebration 13 (Offsite) 23 1955 13 (Offsite) 24 1956 13 (Offsite) 25 Charles S. Johnson - Common Law - History - Research Notes n.d. 13 (Offsite) 26 Course - "The Negro in American Civilization" - Summaries and Critiques, 1956 13 (Offsite) 27 Faculty Student Honor Committee, 1955 13 (Offsite) 28 Theodore Currier - Correspondence, 1955 13 (Offsite) 29 Administrative Manual, 1949 13 (Offsite) 30 Printed Material, 1953-1956 13 (Offsite) 31 Job Applications and Resumes, 1953-1967 Morgan State College, 1957-1964 13 (Offsite) 32 Employment Papers, 1957-1964 13 (Offsite) 33 Meier's Annual Reports, 1958-1962 13 (Offsite) 34 Roosevelt University, 1967 Kent State University, 1968-1995 13 (Offsite) 35 Faculty Senate Minutes, May 1968 13 (Offsite) 36 Course - Race Relations in the World, 1986-1991 Course - History of Civilization 13 (Offsite) 37 1986 13 (Offsite) 38-39 Fall 1989 13 (Offsite) 40 Reference Material, Fall 1989 13 (Offsite) 41-43 Lecture Notes, Fall 1989 Colloquium - Black Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century 13 (Offsite) 44 Fall 1991 13 (Offsite) 45 Fall 1992 13 (Offsite) 46 Center for Urban Regionalism - Conference on Civil Rights, April 5, 1968 Kent State University Library 13 (Offsite) 47 Microfilm Acquisitions, 1969-1976 13 (Offsite) 48 Kritzer, Hyman W., 1969-1978 13 (Offsite) 49 Afro-American Library Fund, 1975-1976 13 (Offsite) 50 Black History Collection, 1975-1985 Microfilm Acquisitions 13 (Offsite) 51 Microfilming Corporation of America, 1982 13 (Offsite) 52 Marovitz Fund, 1986 14 (Offsite) Kent State University - Graduate Students

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 Correspondence Colleagues

The CORRESPONDENCE series is divided into two subseries: Colleagues, 1948-1996, (bulk 1973-1994) (1.8 lin. ft.) and Publishers, 1963-1998 (1.8 lin. ft.). The subseries Colleagues consists of correspondence regarding Meier's publications and those his colleagues authored, conferences he organized and attended, reviews of articles and manuscripts (manuscripts and complementary copies of articles are often included with the correspondence), and letters of recommendation. Among Meier's many correspondents are: John H. Bracey, Jr., Robert Curvin, Eugene D. Genovese, Herbert G. Gutman, Robert A, Hill, Darlene Clark Hine, Preston King, J. Morgan Kousser, Kenneth Kusmer, David Levering Lewis, James McPherson, Paul G. Partington, William and Jane Pease, Howard Rabinowitz, Wilson Record, and Sterling Stuckey.

16 1 A, 1981-1993 16 2 Bardolph, Richard, 1955-1956 16 3 Ba-Be, 1975-1996 16 4 Bi-Bli, 1975-1989 16 5 Blo-Bo, 1953-1992 16 6 Bracey, John H., 1965, 1979-1993 16 7 Br-Bu, 1975-1996 16 8 Ca-Col, 1967, 1980-1993 16 9 Com-Cu, 1970-1993 16 10 Curvin, Robert, 1964-1984 16 11 Da-Di, 1975-1993 16 12 Do-Du, 1967-1992 16 13 E-Fl, 1951, 1981-1993 16 14 Fo-Fr, 1980-1993 16 15 Fr, 1970-1990 16 16 Ga, 1977-1991 16 17 Genovese, Eugene D., 1977-1985 16 18 Gi-Gl, 1963, 1978-1993 17 1 Goldfield, Michael, 1993-1996 17 2 Go, 1973-1993 17 3 Gr, 1981-1993 17 4 Gutman, Herbert G., 1974-1977 17 5 Ha-He, 1975-1993 Hershberg, Theodore 17 6 1971-1977 17 7 1974 17 8 Hi, 1979-1993 Hill, Robert A. 17 9 1976 17 10 1981-1992 Hine, Darlene Clark 17 11 1981-1986 17 12 1987-1993 17 13 Hill, Herbert, 1996 17 14 Ho-Ja, 1974-1993 17 15 Ja-Je, 1979-1993 18 1 Jo-Ju, 1974-1992 18 2 Johnson, Walter, 1978 18 3 Ka-Ke, 1964-1992 18 4 Kersten, Andrew E., 1995-1996 18 5 King, Preston, 1970-1993 18 6 Ki-Ko, 1984-1996 Kousser, J. Morgan 18 7 1980 18 8 1981-1989 Kusmer, Kenneth 18 9 1977-1986 18 10 1986-1988 18 11 1988-1993 18 12 La-Le, 1981-1992 18 13 Lewis, David Levering, 1975-1991 18 14 Le-Li, 1975-1990 18 15 Lo-Ly, 1973-1992 19 1 Ma-Mc, 1980-1992 19 2 McPherson, James, 1969-1990 19 3 Morison, Samuel, E., 1948-1950 19 4 Me-Mu, 1977-1992 19 5 N, 1978-1991 19 6 Norrell, Jeff (Birmingfind, A Project of the Birmingham Alliance for the Humanities), 1975-1990 19 7 Ob-Or, 1975-1996 19 8 Partington, Paul G., 1976-1990 19 9 Pease, William and Jane, 1993 19 10 Plessen, Edward, 1981-1988 19 11 Pe-Q, 1978-1993 19 12 Ra-Ro, 1973-1996 19 13 Rabinowitz, Howard, 1987-1993 19 14 Record, Wilson, 1951-1955 19 15 Ross, B. Joyce, 1973-1984 19 16 Sa-Sc, 1987-1992 19 17 Sh-Si, 1975-1992 19 18 Sm-Su, 1966, 1978-1992 19 19 Stern, Max, 1990-1992 19 20 Stuckey, Sterling, 1980 20 1 Sudarkasa, Niara, 1987-1993 20 2 Ta-Ti, 1950-1993 20 3 Tr-Tu, 1974-1996 20 4 U-We, 1948, 1976-1993 20 5 We-Z, 1960-1992 20 6 Permission to Access Meier Papers, 1998 A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965 20 7 1992-1993 20 8 Book Review and Draft for Introduction, 1993 Publishers

The Publishers subseries, 1963-1998 (1.8 lin. ft.) contains Meier's correspondence with his numerous publishers concerning books, journal articles and book reviews. Files include the publishers' invitations to Meier to publish a book, letters of acceptance for a proposal for Meier to author books, permissions to publish chapters of books in anthologies, in addition to book reviews Meier prepared for various publishers, and some mauscripts for articles. Published articles and papers written by other researchers are incorporated in the files.

 21 (Offsite) 1 AHM Corporation, 1972 21 (Offsite) 2 Aldine Publishing Company, 1974 21 (Offsite) 3 Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1968-1975 American Historical Review 21 (Offsite) 4 1970-1986 21 (Offsite) 5-6 1984 21 (Offsite) 7 American Journal of Sociology, 1986 21 (Offsite) 8 American Quarterly, 1968-1986 21 (Offsite) 9 American Studies - University of Kansas, 1983-1992 21 (Offsite) 10 American Visions, 1993 21 (Offsite) 11 Arno Press, 1968-1970 Atheneum 21 (Offsite) 12-13 1966-1984 21 (Offsite) 14 The Making of Black America, 1968-1979 21 (Offsite) 15 Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1991 Bobbs-Merrill Company Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited with Broderick, Francis L. 21 (Offsite) 16 1963-1987 21 (Offsite) 17 1966-1967 21 (Offsite) 18 Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century Second Edition, edited with Elliott Rudwick and Francis L. Broderick, 1968-1975 Black Nationalism in America, edited with John L. Bracey, Jr. and Elliott Rudwick 21 (Offsite) 19 1969-1970 21 (Offsite) 20 1970-1974, 1992 21 (Offsite) 21 Reprint Series in Black Studies, 1969-1974, 1983 21 (Offsite) 22 Booker T. Washingon Papers, 1972-1977 21 (Offsite) 23 University of California Press, 1975-1983 21 (Offsite) 24 Carlson Publishing, 1988-1991 21 (Offsite) 25 University of Chicago Press, 1975-1981 Civil War History 21 (Offsite) 26 1970-1978 21 (Offsite) 27 1981-1986 21 (Offsite) 28 Cithara, 1987-1988 21 (Offsite) 29 Clio Publishers, 1975-1977 21 (Offsite) 30 Columbia University Press, 1974-1981 21 (Offsite) 31 Contemporary Sociology, 1993 21 (Offsite) 32 Crisis, 1977 21 (Offsite) 33 University of Delaware Press, 1980 21 (Offsite) 34 Dictionary of American Biography, 1973-1977 21 (Offsite) 35 Dictionary of American Negro Biography, 1973-1982 21 (Offsite) 36 Dorsey Press, 1973-1988 21 (Offsite) 37 Doubleday, 1965-1979 21 (Offsite) 38 Duke University Press, 1991-1992 21 (Offsite) 39 Dushkin Publishin Group, Inc., 1989-1992 21 (Offsite) 40 Encyclopedia of American Culture, 1992 21 (Offsite) 41 Encyclopedia of New York City - New-York Historical Society, 1989 21 (Offsite) 42 Franklin Watts, 1969-1985 21 (Offsite) 43 Free Press, 1979 21 (Offsite) 44 Gale Research, Inc., 1991-1992 21 (Offsite) 45 Garland Publishing Co., 1991 Georgia Historical Quarterly 21 (Offsite) 46 1986-1990 21 (Offsite) 47 1990 21 (Offsite) 48 1990-1993 21 (Offsite) 49 University of Georgia Press, 1983-1989 21 (Offsite) 50 Glazier, Michael, Inc., 1977 21 (Offsite) 51 Greenwood Press, 1974-1988 22 (Offsite) 1 Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967-1981 22 (Offsite) 2 Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1992 Harper & Row - Curtis Brown 22 (Offsite) 3 1965-1966 22 (Offsite) 4 1966-1973 22 (Offsite) 5 Harvard Education Review, 1975 Harvard University Press 22 (Offsite) 6 1968 22 (Offsite) 7 Aida Donald, 1970-1981 Hill and Wang From Plantation to Ghetto , with Elliott Rudwick 22 (Offsite) 8 1960-1966 22 (Offsite) 9 1966-1967 22 (Offsite) 10 1967-1968 22 (Offsite) 11 1968-1978 Second Edition 22 (Offsite) 12 1969-1970 22 (Offsite) 13 1971-1981 Third Edition 22 (Offsite) 14 1974-1975 22 (Offsite) 15 1976-1992 22 (Offsite) 16 Fourth Edition, 1987-1992 22 (Offsite) 17 The Historian, 1980-1990 22 (Offsite) 18 History of Education Quarterly, 1992-1993 University of Illinois Press Promotions 22 (Offsite) 19 1972-1973 22 (Offsite) 20 1973-1974 22 (Offsite) 21 1975-1976 22 (Offsite) 22 1976-1983 22 (Offsite) 23 1983-1985 22 (Offsite) 24 Royalty Correspondence, 1992 22 (Offsite) 25 Contracts and General Information, 1972-1992 22 (Offsite) 26 The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1981-1988 22 (Offsite) 27 Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Leon Litwack and Meier, 1982 22 (Offsite) 28 New Frontiers of the American Reconstruction, 1973-1974 22 (Offsite) 29 Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited with John Hope Franklin, 1980-1983 22 (Offsite) 30 Black History and the Historical Profession, with Elliott Rudwick, 1981-1985 22 (Offsite) 31 Elliott Rudwick Award, 1987-1991 22 (Offsite) 32 Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience, with Eilliott Rudwick, 1976-1991 22 (Offsite) 33 Indiana University Press, n.d. 22 (Offsite) 34 Integrated Education, 1970-1986 22 (Offsite) 35 International History Review, 1987 22 (Offsite) 36 Ivan R. Dee, Inc., Publisher, 1990 22 (Offsite) 37 Johns Hopkins Press n.d. 22 (Offsite) 38 Journal of American Ethnic History, 1984-1996 Journal of American History 22 (Offsite) 39 1969-1974 22 (Offsite) 40 1975-1988 22 (Offsite) 41 1988-1996 22 (Offsite) 42 Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1976 22 (Offsite) 43 Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1992-1993 22 (Offsite) 44 Journal of Policy History, 1992-1995 Journal of Southern History 22 (Offsite) 45 1970-1986 22 (Offsite) 46 1988-1997 22 (Offsite) 47 Journal of Urban History, 1974-1975 22 (Offsite) 48 KTO Press, 1977 22 (Offsite) 49 Kent State University Press, 1975 22 (Offsite) 50 University of Kentucky Press, 1969-1983 23 (Offsite) 1 Labor History, 1970-1989 Labor's Heritage 23 (Offsite) 2 1989 23 (Offsite) 3-4 1990 23 (Offsite) 5 Langdon Associates, 1976-1978 23 (Offsite) 6 Lawrence Hill & Company Publishers, Inc., 1979 23 (Offsite) 7 Lippincott J. B. Company, 1967-1972 23 (Offsite) 8 Louisiana State University Press, 1978-1993 23 (Offsite) 9 Markus Wiener, Publisher, 1988-1992 23 (Offsite) 10 Massachusetts Review, 1969 University of Massachusetts Press 23 (Offsite) 11 1986-1993 23 (Offsite) 12 A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1991-1992 University of Michigan Press 23 (Offsite) 13 1959-1986 23 (Offsite) 14 1964-1971 Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 23 (Offsite) 15 1973-1992 23 (Offsite) 16 Book Reviews, 1963-1967 23 (Offsite) 17 Second Edition, 1988-1992 23 (Offsite) 18 University Press of Mississippi, 1985-1993 23 (Offsite) 19 University of Missouri Press, 1975-1998 23 (Offsite) 20 The Nation, 1964 23 (Offsite) 21 National Geographic Society, 1986-1988 23 (Offsite) 22 New Politics, 1965-1993 23 (Offsite) 23 New Republic, 1990 23 (Offsite) 24 New York Times, 1972-1986 23 (Offsite) 25 University of North Carolina Press, 1975-1998 23 (Offsite) 26 Norton, W. W., 1967-1986 23 (Offsite) 27 Notable American Women, 1977-1979 23 (Offsite) 28 Organization of American Historians Newsletter, 1985-1986 Oxford University Press 23 (Offsite) 29 1966-1972 23 (Offsite) 30 1973-1976 23 (Offsite) 31 1977-1993 23 (Offsite) 32 Louis R. Harlan, 1967-1990 23 (Offsite) 33 A History of the Negro Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century, 1966 23 (Offsite) 34 NAACP and Organized Labor, 1966-1985 CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968 23 (Offsite) 35 1971-1972 23 (Offsite) 36 1973 23 (Offsite) 37 1973-1981 23 (Offsite) 38 Reviews, 1973-1974 Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW 23 (Offsite) 39 1979-1982 23 (Offsite) 40 Taft Labor History Award, 1980 24 (Offsite) 1 Pantheon Books, n.d. 24 (Offsite) 2 University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972 24 (Offsite) 3 People's Almanac, The Book of Lists, 1993 24 (Offsite) 4 University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972-1976 24 (Offsite) 5 Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968-1976 24 (Offsite) 6 Princeton University Press, 1970-1983 24 (Offsite) 7 Public Historian, 1981 24 (Offsite) 8 Putnam's Sons, G. P., 1969-1970 24 (Offsite) 9 Radical History Review, 1980 24 (Offsite) 10 Random House, 1973 24 (Offsite) 11 Reconstruction, 1992 24 (Offsite) 12 Regents Press of Kansas, 1981 24 (Offsite) 13 Review of Education, 1974-1976 24 (Offsite) 14 Review of Politics, 1981 Reviews in American History 24 (Offsite) 15 1972-1979 24 (Offsite) 16 1980-1990 24 (Offsite) 17 Rockefeller Archive Center, 1985-1993 24 (Offsite) 18 Saturday Review, 1969-1970 24 (Offsite) 19 Scholarly Resources, 1971-1979 24 (Offsite) 20 Scribner's Sons, 1972-1975 Social Forces - Black Sociologists in White America 24 (Offsite) 21 1976 24 (Offsite) 22 1977-1978 24 (Offsite) 23 1978 24 (Offsite) 24 Social Science History, 1984 Social Science Quarterly 24 (Offsite) 25 1969 24 (Offsite) 26 1971-1975 24 (Offsite) 27 1976-1991 24 (Offsite) 28 South Atlantic Quarterly, 1970 24 (Offsite) 29 University of South Carolina Press, 1981 24 (Offsite) 30 Southern Regional Council - "On the Dilemmas of Negro Protest Strategy in the South," 1966 24 (Offsite) 31 Southern Historian, 1984 24 (Offsite) 32 Temple University Press, 1981 24 (Offsite) 33 University of Tennessee Press, 1980 24 (Offsite) 34 University of Texas Press, 1983 Transaction 24 (Offsite) 35 1967-1970 24 (Offsite) 36 1970-1980 24 (Offsite) 37 Twayne Publishers, 1980 24 (Offsite) 38 University Microfilms, 1969-1974 University Publications of America 24 (Offsite) 39 n.d. 24 (Offsite) 40 1981-1984 24 (Offsite) 41 1985-1992 24 (Offsite) 42 Vanderbilt University Press, 1967-1973 24 (Offsite) 43 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1984 Wadsworth Publishing Co., Inc. 24 (Offsite) 44 1969-1970 24 (Offsite) 45 1971-1988 24 (Offsite) 46 Washington Post, 1972-1973 24 (Offsite) 47 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1972-1992 24 (Offsite) 48 Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1975 24 (Offsite) 49 Yale University Press, 1981 24 (Offsite) 50 Miscellaneous, 1963-1964 Editor/Scholarly Publications Atheneum, Negro in American Life Series

The Atheneum, Negro in American Life Series, 1967-1976 (.8 lin. ft.) subseries documents Atheneum's efforts to reprint books in the field of black studies in paperback format (1966-1971), and original studies on historical and contemporary topics in African-American life after 1968. Correspondence concerns Meier's discussions with Atheneum editor, Robert Zenowich, regarding paperback rights for the reprints, the writing of new introductions, and prospects for inclusion in the series. For the Books Published section of this subseries, Meier's editorial comments to the author and discussions at various stages of the writing and editing of the book are included. For the Proposals Rejected portion of the subseries, Meier's explanations for the rejection and ways to improve the manuscript, or his encouragement of additional work, which Atheneum did not receive, are included.

Books Published 25 1 Fox, Stephen - The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter, 1967-1970 25 2 Pease, Jane H. and William H. - They Who Would be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861, 1967-1974 25 3 Ross, B. Joyce - J. E. Spingarn and the Rise of the NAACP, 1911-1939, 1969-1972 Toplin, Robert Brent - The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil 25 4 1969-1970 25 5 1970-1975 25 6 Tuttle, William M. - Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, 1967-1971 Convention Reports 25 7 Meier to Robert Zenowich, 1969-1971 25 8 1966-1970 Paperback Series 25 9 1966-December 1967 25 10 February-May 1968 25 11 June-November 1968 25 12 1969 25 13 1970-1971 Proposals Rejected 26 1 B-E, 1968-1971 26 2 G-H, 1966-1973 26 3 J, 1968-1971 26 4 Kirby, John, 1970-1976 26 5 K-L, 1967-1971 26 6 M, 1967-1971 26 7 O-Si, 1969-1970 26 8 T-U, 1969-1972 26 9 W, 1967-1971 27 University of Illinois Press - Blacks in the New World Series

The subseries University of Illinois Press, Blacks in the New World, 1967-1998 (8 lin. ft.) is the most extensive in this series, documenting Meier's role as editor of approximately sixty five books published by this press, averaging two books a year. The subseries has been divided into two units -- Books Published and Manuscripts Not Published. The latter includes files for proposals that were rejected at the outset as being outside the scope of the series or for other reasons. In some instances, a contract was signed but after substantial revisions were made to the manuscript with numerous editorial suggestions by Meier, either the writer or Illinois Press decided against completing the manuscript under Meier's direction. Occasionally a different press actually published these works.

Because Atheneum discontinued its Negro in American Life series in 1971 and the University of Illinois Press had inaugurated a black series publication in 1972, Meier approached Richard L. Wentworth, Editor and Associate Director of the University of Illinois Press, with the idea of the latter press establishing a series focusing on black history with Meier as editor. Announcements indicated that this was a continuation of the series Meier had edited for Atheneum. In all cases, if Meier had begun the editorial process for a book in the Atheneum series, he then completed the work for the University of Illinois Press. Examples of books published during this transitional period are Walter B. Weare, Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1973, and David Katzman, Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century, 1973, and Carl R. Osthaus, Freedman, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank, 1976. In 1991 John H. Bracey joined Meier as co-editor of the series, and after twenty-five years of service to this press, Meier retired in 1998.

The University of Illinois Press subseries includes correspondence between Meier, Wentworth and Bracey, concerning manuscript solicitations, policy issues, and the Elliot Rudwick Award. Both the Books Published and Manuscripts Not Published units of the subseries contain correspondence among the authors, Meier, and Wentworth, and sometimes other scholars who served as readers, discussing the submission of manuscripts for publication, Meier's suggestions to authors to improve the manuscripts, and Meier's recommendations whether or not to publish. Occasionally, Meier advised publication but if authors could not revise the manuscript according to Meier's standards, he later advised against publication. Files may also contain the table of contents or proposal for the book, as well as a few of the author's reprints. While the total number of books published as represented in this series is over sixty titles, there are files for hundreds of proposals rejected or contracts signed which did not result in published books.

 27 1 Wentworth, Richard - Correspondence, 1967-1991 27 2 Manuscripts Solicitation - Ford Foundation, Ethnic studies Fellows, 1972-1973 27 3 Convention Reports, Meier to Richard Wentworth, 1974-1975 27 4 Policy Discussions and other General Matters, 1979-1997 27 5 Bracey, John H. Jr. - Correspondence, 1991-1995 27 6 Correspondence - Meier, Richard Wentworth and John Bracey, 1991-1996 27 7 Latin America - Interest in n.d. Books Published 28 1 Andrews, William L. (Edited and Introduction by) - My Bondage and My Freedom, 1985-1986 28 2 Armstead, Myra Y., 1991-1998 28 3 Armstrong, Douglas V. - The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, 1988-1990 28 4 Borchert, James - Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970, 1976-1981 28 5 Brundage, W. Fitzhugh - Lynching in the New South, Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930, 1989-1993 28 6 Cantrell, Gregg - Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent, 1989-1993 Cheek, William and Aimee Lee - John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-1865 28 7 1981-1984 28 8 1985-1994 28 9 Conrad, Robert (Translated and Edited by) - Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle/Joaquin Nabuco, 1975 28 10 Cox, Lawanda - Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership, 1984-1985 DeVries, James E. - Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915 28 11 1980-1982 28 12 1982-1985 Dittmer, John 28A 1 Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1972-1980 Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi 28A 2 1979-1992 28A 3 1993-1995 28A 4 1993-1998 29 1 Downey, Dennis B. and Hyser, Raymond M. - No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker, 1988-1991 Franklin, John Hope and Meier, August (Editors) - Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century 29 2 1979 29 3 1979-1981 29 4 1981-1983 29 5 Promotional Literature, 1982 29 6 Cocktail Party, 1982 29 7 1988 29 8 Gatewood, Willard B., Jr. - Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903, 1968-1976 Gerber, David A. - Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915 29 9 1968-1971 29 10-11 1974 29 12 1975-1980 30 1 Goldman, Peter - (Second Edition with Afterword) The Death and Life of Malcolm X, 1978-1979 Gottlieb, Peter - Making their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-1930 30 2 1975-1989 30 3 1985-1987 30 4 Reviews, 1987 30 5 Grossman, Lawrence - The Democratic Party and the Negro: Northern and National Politics, 1868-1892, 1973-1978 30 6 Gutman, Herbert - Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross, 1975-1976 30 7 Hamilton, Kenneth M. - Race, Profit, and the Evolution of Black Towns, 1980-1991 Harris, William H. - Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937 30 8 1972-1975 30 9 1975-1978 30 10 1976 30 11 1989-1991 31 1 Holt, Thomas - Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolin during Reconstruction, 1975-1979 Homel, Michael - Down From Equality: Black Chicagoans and the Public Schools, 1920-1941 31 2 1973-1979 31 3 1980-1985 Joyner, Charles - Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community 31 4 1980-1984 31 5 1984-1987 Katzman, David 31 6 Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century, 1969-1974 31 7 Seven Days a Week, 1980 Kusmer, Kenneth - A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 31 8 1971-1972 31 9 1973-1978 31 10 Landers, Jane - African-American Life in Colonial Spanish Florida, 1989-1997 Lewis, David Levering - Martin Luther King: A Biography 31 11 1976-1978 31 12 1978-1997 32 1 Lindsey, Donal F. - Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923, 1988-1993 32 2 Litwack, Leon and Meier, August (Editors) Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback), 1988-1991 32 3 McPherson, James - The Negro's Civil War, 1982-1986 Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott 32 4 CORE: A Study of the Civil Rights Movement, 1974-1979 Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience (Paperback) 32 5 1975-1977 32 6 1975-1979 32 7 1976-1978 Black History and the Historical Profession 32 8-9 Promotion, 1986 32 10 1986-1987 32 11 1987-1988 32 12 Reviews, 1987-1988 Miller, John Floyd - The Search for a Black Nationality: Black Emigration and Colonization, 1787-1863 33 1 1968-1973 33 2 1973-1977 33 3 Mullin, Michael - Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831, 1988-1994 Naison, Mark - Communists in Harlem During the Depression 33 4 1974-1980 33 5 1980-1983 33 6 1983-1986 33 7 Osthaus, Carl R. - Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank, 1969-1976 33 8 Palmer, Colin A. - Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739, 1979-1984 33 9 Pease, Jane H. and William H. Pease - They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 (Reprint), 1988-1990 33 10 Peretti, Burton W. - The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race and Culture in Urban America, 1991 33 11 Phillips, Christopher - Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860, 1993-1997 33 12 Proudfoot, Merrill - Diary of a Sit-In, 1988-1990 Rabinowitz, Howard N. 34 1 Race Relations in the Urban South, 1979 (Edited) Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era - Afterword by Meier, August, "New Perspectives on the Nature of Black Political Leadership During Reconstruction" 34 2 1981 34 3 1981-1985 34 4 Rudwick, Elliott - Race Riot in East St. Louis, (Paperback), 1980-1981 34 5 Savitt, Todd L. - Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia, 1973-1981 34 6 Schwartz, Stuart B. - Slaves, Peasants and Rebels: Reconstructing Brazilian Slavery, 1978-1995 Schweninger, Loren Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 34 7 1976-1988 34 8 1988-1992 Race, Slavery and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864, A Documentary History 34 9 1990-1992 34 10 1991-1998 34 11 Senechal, Roberta - The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot: Springfield, Illinois, in 1908, 1986-1990 35 1 Thomas, Lamont D. - Rise to be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe, 1972-1987 35 2 Tolnay, Stewart and Beck, Elwood - A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of th Lynching of Blacks in the American South, 1882-1930, 1992-1993 Trotter, Joe William Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945 35 3 1979-1982 35 4 1983-1988 35 5 Coal, Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932, 1986-1989 Turner, Mary - Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1934 35 6 1978-1980 35 7 1980-1983 35 8 Tuttle, William M., Jr. - Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, 1996 35 9 Van Horne, John C. (Edited and Introduction by) - Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery: The American Correspondence of the Associates of Dr. Bray: 1717-1777, 1980-1986 Weare, Walter B. - Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company 35 10 1968-1969 35 11 1972-1975 Weisbrot, Robert - Father Divine and the Struggle for Racial Equality 35 12 1980-1981 35 13 1981-1985 35 14 Wynes, Charles E. - Charles Richard Drew: The Man and the Myth, 1986 35 15 Yacovone, Donald (Contract Signed) - A Voice of Thunder: the Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens, 1991-1995 Manuscripts Not Published 36 (Offsite) 1 Ab-Ald, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 2 Ale-Av, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 3 Alexander, Ann Field (Contract Signed), 1992-1998 36 (Offsite) 4 Allen, Ernest, 1979-1987 Allen, Ernest, Jr. and Bracey, John H., Jr. - "Unite or Perish: Documents of Black Radicalism and Black Nationalism, 1954-1975" 36 (Offsite) 5 1981-1991 36 (Offsite) 6 1991-1992 Anthony, David H. (Contract Signed) - "Pan African Enigma: The Iconclastic Odyssey of Max Yergan" 36 (Offsite) 7 1975 36 (Offsite) 8 1989-1993 36 (Offsite) 9 Arnesen, Eric, 1995 36 (Offsite) 10 Ba-Bat, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 11 Barickman, B.J., 1993 36 (Offsite) 12 Baron, Harold, 1993 36 (Offsite) 13 Bay-Bell, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 14 Bella-Berg, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 15 Berk, Stephen, 1992 36 (Offsite) 16 Berl-Bl, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 17 Bo-Bra, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 18 Boyd, Lisa H., 1992 36 (Offsite) 19 Bracey, John and Meier, August - Black Nationalism in America, 1992-1993 36 (Offsite) 20 Bre, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 21 Bro, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 22 Broussard, Albert, S., 1992 36 (Offsite) 23 Brown, Elsa Barkley and Hunter, Tera - "Black Women Leaders," 1996 36 (Offsite) 24 Bru-Bul, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 25 Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. - "Black Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915," 1982-1985 36 (Offsite) 26 Bun-But, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 27 Butler, Reginald - "Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832," 1993 36 (Offsite) 28 Ca-Char, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 29 Chas-Cl, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 30 Co-Col, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 31 Collier-Thomas, Bettye (Contract Signed) - "Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1910," 1969-1978 36 (Offsite) 32 Con-Cu, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 33 Cooper, Wayne (Contract Signed), 1979-1988 36 (Offsite) 34 Countryman, Edward, 1993 36 (Offsite) 35 Da-Der, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 36 Deal, Douglas (Contract Signed) - "Race and Class in Colonial Virginia," 1981-1989 36 (Offsite) 37 Des-Dia, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 38 Dil-Dr, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 39 Dudzuak, Mary L., 1993 36 (Offsite) 40 E-Ei, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 41 El-Es, n.d. 36 (Offsite) 42 Eskew, Glen T. - "But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle," 1990-1993 37 (Offsite) 1 Fairclough, Adam, 1986-1991 37 (Offsite) 2 Fa-Fi, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 3 Fil-Fla, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 4 Fle-For, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 5 Fos-Fu, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 6 Gallay, Alan (Contract Signed), 1990-1993 37 (Offsite) 7 Greenberg, Cheryl, 1992-1993 37 (Offsite) 8 Ga-Gi, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 9 Go, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 10 Gla, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 11 Gra-Gre, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 12 Gro, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 13 Gru-Gu, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 14 Halpern, Rick - Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954, 1989-1994 37 (Offsite) 15 Harlan, Louis (Contract Signed) - "The Age of Booker T. Washington" Conference - University of Maryland, 1989-1995 37 (Offsite) 16 Harris, Carl V. (Contract Signed) - "To Make a People of Ourselves: The Black Community and Public Education in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1931," 1982-1993 37 (Offsite) 17 Hatfield, Eugene (Contract Signed) - "Turning Lincoln's Picture to the Wall": The Impact of the New Deal on Black Political Behavior in Pennsylvania, 1928-1940," 1981-1992 37 (Offsite) 18 Higbee, Mark, 1993 37 (Offsite) 19 Hill, Lance, 1993 37 (Offsite) 20 Hudson, Larry E., Jr. (Contract Signed) - "Work and Slavery: The Slave Family in South Carolina, 1820-1860," 1989-1993 37 (Offsite) 21 Hai-Ham, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 22 Han-Ha, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 23 He-Him, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 24 Hin-Holl, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 25 Holm-Hol, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 26 Hon-Hor, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 27 How-Hum, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 28 Hun-Hur, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 29 Jefferson, Paul, 1986-1987 37 (Offsite) 30 Ja-Joh, n.d. 37 (Offsite) 31 Jon-Ju, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 1 Kay, Marvin and Cary, Lorin - "Prospectus of Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1772," 1977-1984 38 (Offsite) 2 Kay, Marvin and Cary, Lorin, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 3 Ka-King, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 4 Kenzer, Robert C. (Contract Signed) - "Economically Successful Blacks in North Carolina, 1856-1915," 1993-1998 38 (Offsite) 5 Kim, Clair Jean - "The Red Apple Boycott of 1990: Race, Politics, and Violence in Urban America," 1992 38 (Offsite) 6 Kins-Kr, n.d. Kiple, Kenneth - "Biology and the Black Diaspora: The Carribean" 38 (Offsite) 7 1979-1981 38 (Offsite) 8 1981-1983 38 (Offsite) 9 Kornweibel, Theodore (Contract Signed) - "Federal Investigations and Suppression of African Americans During and After World War I," 1984-1997 38 (Offsite) 10 Kousser, J. Morgan - "A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930" - Second Edition, 1992 38 (Offsite) 11 Lamon, Lester (Contract Signed) - "The Robert R. Church Family: Wealth and Conscience in Black America," 1982-1989 38 (Offsite) 12 La, n.d. Letwin, Daniel - "Race, Class, and Industralization in the New South: The Coal Miners of Alabama, 1871- 1921" 38 (Offsite) 13 1986-1990 38 (Offsite) 14 1990-1994 38 (Offsite) 15 Levy, Peter B., 1996 38 (Offsite) 16 Lewis, Ronald - "Black Coal Mines in America, 1760-1960," 1979-1986 38 (Offsite) 17 Le-Lev, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 18 Lew, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 19 Li-Lu, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 20 McA-McF, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 21 McDonald, Roderick (Contract Signed) - "Internal Economics of Slaves on Sugar Plantation Slavery in Jamaica and Louisiana," 1981-1990 38 (Offsite) 22 McDonnell, Lawrence (Contract Signed) - "Will and Power," 1985-1988 38 (Offsite) 23 McG-McL, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 24 McM-McP, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 25 McQ-McT, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 26 Ma-Mar, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 27 Mat-Me, n.d. Mayer, Michael S. - "Eisenhower and the Southern Federal Judiciary: The Sobeloff Nomination" 38 (Offsite) 28 1986 38 (Offsite) 29 1986-1992 38 (Offsite) 30 n.d. 38 (Offsite) 31 Mills, Gary B. (Contract Signed) - "The Free Negro in Antebellum Anglo Alabama," 1978-1984 38 (Offsite) 32 Mi-Mj, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 33 Mo-Mor, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 34 Moore, Jacqueline - "A Drop of African Blood: The Washington Black Elite from 1880-1920," 1992-1995 38 (Offsite) 35 Moore, Shirley Ann (Contract Signed) - "To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, 1910-1963," 1989-1995 38 (Offsite) 36 Mos-Mot, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 37 Mu, n.d. 38 (Offsite) 38 Murrell, Gary - "Perfection of Means, Confusion of Goals: The Military Career of Charles Henry Martin," 1994 39 (Offsite) 1 Na-No, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 2 Nieman, Donald G. (Contract Signed) - "Black Political Power and Justice: Washington County, Texas, 1865-1900," 1991 Nordin, Dennis Sven 39 (Offsite) 3 1970-1979 39 (Offsite) 4 1991-1994 39 (Offsite) 5 Oa-Ob, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 6 O'Brien, John T., 1970-1983 39 (Offsite) 7 Ol-Or, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 8 Pa, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 9 Paulson, Darryl C. (Contract Signed) - "Lobbying for Civil Rights: The Washinton Bureau of the NAACP," 1981-1984 39 (Offsite) 10 Pe-Per, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 11 Pe-Po, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 12 Pfeffer, Paula, 1978-1982 39 (Offsite) 13 Pr-Pu, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 14 Ra-Re, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 15 Rathbun, Betty Lou K. (Contract Signed), 1975-1980 39 (Offsite) 16 Ri-Ric, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 17 Rid-Rob, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 18 Rod-Roo, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 19 Rose, Kenneth - "The Politics of Social Reform in Cleveland, 1945-1967," 1989-1993 39 (Offsite) 20 Ros-Row, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 21 Sa-Scha, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 22 Savitt, Todd (Contract Signed) - "Physicians for the Freedmen: Black Medical Education, 1865-1920," 1981-1990 39 (Offsite) 23 Sawyer, Marcia, 1992 39 (Offsite) 24 Sche-Sco, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 25 Scott, D. Michael, 1992-1993 39 (Offsite) 26 Scr-Sh, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 27 Si-Sk, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 28 Slenes, Robert W. - "Slavery in Brazil," 1978-1993 39 (Offsite) 29 Sm, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 30 So-Stam, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 31 SoRelle, James, 1992-1993 39 (Offsite) 32 Squibb, John - "Roads to Plessy: Blacks and the Law in the Old Northwest: 1860-1896," 1992 39 (Offsite) 33 Stan-Stei, n.d. 39 (Offsite) 34 Step-Stu, n.d. Stevenson, Marshall (Contract Signed) - "Points of Departure, Acts of Resolve: Black- Jewish Relations in Detroit, 1935- 1967" 39 (Offsite) 35 1988-1991 39 (Offsite) 36 1992-1995 39 (Offsite) 37 Su-Sy, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 1 Ta-Thom, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 2 Thompson, Bruce - "Turning Disadvantages into Advantages: A Case Study of the Early Civil Rights Struggle and the NAACP at the Grass Roots Level in Baltimore, 1900-1955," 1991-1992 40 (Offsite) 3 Thornbrough, Emma Lou (Contract Signed) - "The Indianapolis Story - School Segregation and Desegregation in a Northern City," 1986-1995 40 (Offsite) 4 Thor-Tr, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 5 Tillery, Tyrone, 1987-1988

Closed until 2041.

 40 (Offsite) 6 Tu-Ty, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 7 U, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 8 V, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 9 Wa, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 10 Walker, Juliet, 1976-1980 40 (Offsite) 11 Wallenstein, Peter - "The Case Against Jim Crow: Civil Rights and the Courts in Twentieth Century Virginia," 1992-1993 40 (Offsite) 12 Walter, John C. - "The Role of West Indians in Black American Leadership, 1900-1940," 1973-1975 40 (Offsite) 13 We-Wee, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 14 Wei-Wh, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 15 Wenzel, Uwe - "Minority Organizations in the American Political System: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Civil Rights and Policy Making, 1950-1991," 1993 40 (Offsite) 16 Whitman, T. Stephen _ "Slavery, Manumission and Free Black Workers in Early National Baltimore," 1993-1994 40 (Offsite) 17 Wi, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 18 Wi-Wo, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 19 Willis, John C. - "Plantation Empire on the New South Frontier?: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta's Postbellum Development, 1865-1920," 1991-1992 40 (Offsite) 20 Wilson, Sondra, 1987-1988 40 (Offsite) 21 Winch, Julie, 1993 40 (Offsite) 22 Wr, n.d. Wye, Christopher (Contract Signed) 40 (Offsite) 23 1973-1979 40 (Offsite) 24 1979-1983 40 (Offsite) 25 1986 40 (Offsite) 26 Y, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 27 Z, n.d. 40 (Offsite) 28 Zangrando, Robert, 1968-1975 Zucker, Charles 40 (Offsite) 29 1972-1976 40 (Offsite) 30 1977-1979 40 (Offsite) 31 Paperback Editions, 1987-1992 41 (Offsite) University Publications of America - Black Studies Research Sources

The subseries University Publications of America - Black Studies Research Sources, 1982-1998 (1 lin. ft.) deals with the selection of archival collections for inclusion in the micropublication series from archival and manuscript repositories. Meier and Elliott Rudwick served as co-editors - John H. Bracey later replaced Rudwick - and correspondence indicates that the co-editors frequently conferred with UPA president John Moscato. Examples of the microfilmed collections are the records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congress of Racial Equality; civil rights files from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Files. Correspondence discusses negotiations between UPA and the repository, progress made during filming; printed advertising announcements describing the completed work.

 Promotional Material Moscato, John - Correspondence - Ideas for Microfilm Projects 41 (Offsite) 2 1982 41 (Offsite) 3 1983-1996 Correspondence 41 (Offsite) 4 1983 41 (Offsite) 5-6 1984 41 (Offsite) 7-8 1985 41 (Offsite) 9-11 1986 41 (Offsite) 12 Bracey, John H., Jr., 1987-1988 41 (Offsite) 13-15 1987 41 (Offsite) 16 1988 41 (Offsite) 17 1988-1991 41 (Offsite) 18 1989-1991 41 (Offsite) 19 1993 41 (Offsite) 20 1994-1998 Afro-American Newspapers and Archives 41 (Offsite) 21 Proposal, 1987 41 (Offsite) 22 1987 41 (Offsite) 23 American Committee on Africa, 1990 41 (Offsite) 24 American Negro Academy, 1987-1989 41 (Offsite) 25 Barnett, Claude A. and the Associated Negro Press Papers, 1983-1985 41 (Offsite) 26 Bethune, Mary McLeod Papers, 1988-1992 41 (Offsite) 27 Civil Rights during the Nixon Administration, 1989 41 (Offsite) 28 Du Bois, W.E.B. Papers - Fisk University, 1991 41 (Offsite) 29 Farmer, James Jr. and Lula Papers 1987 41 (Offsite) 30 Bond, Horace Mann Papers, 1977-1988 41 (Offsite) 31 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993 41 (Offsite) 32 Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans, 1988 41 (Offsite) 33 Howard University, 1991 41 (Offsite) 34 Myrdal, Gunnar Papers, 1989-1992 41 (Offsite) 35 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1988-1992 41 (Offsite) 36 National Association for Colored Women's Clubs, 1991-1993 41 (Offsite) 37 National Negro Business League, 1989-1992 41 (Offsite) 38 Randolph, A. Philip Papers, 1987-1990 41 (Offsite) 39 Royal African Company, 1989 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 41 (Offsite) 40 1983-1988 41 (Offsite) 41 1988-1994 41 (Offsite) 42 Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1988-1991 41 (Offsite) 43 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985 41 (Offsite) 44 Tuskegee University, 1990 41 (Offsite) 45 Virginia State Library, 1990 Professional Activities

The series PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 1945-1998 (5.2 lin. ft.) covers Meier's career excluding his teaching and editorship positions. The series is divided into six subseries: Consultancies; Writings - Published Articles; Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures; Professional Affiliations; Grants and Scholarships; National Endowment for the Humanities.

 Consultancies

The subseries Consultancies, 1968-1993 (.2 lin. ft.) documents Meier's work in a multiplicity of capacities in federal and private settings. Included are a draft of a chapter he and Rudwick wrote for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, advice on a grant proposal for educational television projects on the NAACP, and an exhibition of an upper class turn-of-the-century family in Atlanta, Georgia

 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 42 1 1968 42 2 "History of Negro Protest Movement," 1968, Chapter 5 42 3 National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, 1986 42 4 Herndon Home - Grant Proposal, 1990 42 5 South Carolina Educational Television, 1991 42 6 Television Documentary - History of NAACP, 1993 43 Writings - Published Articles

The subseries Writings - Published Articles, 1945-1973 (.6 lin. ft.) covers articles Meier, for the most part, wrote alone, or with Rudwick and Bracey, beginning with a story he wrote for the Oberlin College literary magazine. Book reviews he wrote are included in this subseries.

Reprints 43 1 1945-1949 43 2 "Tougaloo College Reconsidered : A Reply to Mr. Gredler" by Meier and Chester Slocum, 1950 43 3 "The Negro in the United States" - Encyclopedia Americana, 1953 43 4 1951-1953 43 5 1954-1956 43 6 1957-1959 43 7 1960-1962 43 8 1963 43 9 1964 43 10 New America, January 10, 1964 43 11 1965 43 12 1966 43 13 1967-1968 43 14 1969 44 1 1970 44 2 1972-1977 44 3 1980-1981 44 4 1982 44 5 1983-1984 44 6 1991-1993 Book Reviews 44 7 1951-1952 44 8 "The Revolution Against the NAACP: A Critical Appraisal of Louis Lomax's The Negro Revolt," Spring 1963 44 9 1953, 1964, 1977 44 10 1989-1994 45 Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures

The Conference Papers, Speeches and Lectures, subseries, 1945-1995 (1.4 lin. ft.) includes addresses and papers Meier, occasionally with Rudwick, presented at professional meetings, universities and other research institutions and before community groups. The topics span the entire gamut of his research interests and include Booker T. Washington, Meier's 1962 debate with Malcolm X, the history of the African-American protest movement including non-violent direct action, civil rights, NAACP, CORE, and research themes based upon his and Meier's book, Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. Of significance are Meier's comments referring to a paper read by Louis R. Harlan entitled, "The Problem of Interpreting Booker T. Washington, A Biographical Perspective." The speeches have been arranged chronologically.

 45 1 1944-1946 45 2 1947 45 3 1948 45 4 1949 45 5 1951-1953 45 6 Booker T. Washington Speeches, 1949, 1956, 1962 45 7 1958-1961 46 1 1962-1964 46 2 Debate with Malcolm X - Morgan State College, March 28, 1962 46 3 "The Black Muslims in America," Address - Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, October 31, 1962 46 4 "Origins of Civil Rights Revolution" State University of New York at Buffalo, 1963 46 5 "Booker T. Washington," Lecture - New School for Social Research, March 5, 1964 Origins of Civil Rights Revolution 46 6 1964-1965 46 7 1965-1967 46 8 "The Roots of Nonviolent Direct Action," Conference Paper - Society for Social Research, University of Chicago, 1965 46 9 "Who Are the True Believers"? -- A Tentative Typology of the Motivations of Civil Rights Activists," Paper - American Orthopsychiatric Association, March 18, 1965 46 10 "African Consciousness Among Nineteenth Century Negroes," Speech - Amistad Society, Chicago, May 22, 1965 46 11 "The Age of Booker T. Washington," Speech - Peace Corps, July 7, 1965 46 12 1965 46 13 1966-1967 46 14 "Negro Protest Movement in the Twentieth Century: Origins of the Civil Rights Revolution," November 9, 1967 46 15 1968 47 1 List of Speaking Engagements by Date, 1970-1975 47 2 Correspondence re: Speeches, 1969-1974 47 3 "The Problem of Interpreting Booker T. Washington: A Biographical Perspective," Louis R. Harlan, Commentary by Meier - Southern Historical Association, 1969 47 4 "A Survey of Black Nationalism in America," Speech - Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y., November 20, 1969 47 5 Organization of American Historians - Commentary - Session on Civil Rights and Presidential Politics, 1969 47 6 "Black Violence in the Twentieth Century: A Study in Rhetoric and Retaliation," Paper - Memphis State University, January 10, 1970 47 7 "Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in Negro Protest," Speech - Ohio Wesleyan University, February 10, 1970 47 8 "On Writing 'Negro Thought in America'," Outline, February 27, 1970 47 9 "The Nationalism of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois," Speech - Southeast American Studies Association, Durham, North Carolina, April 10, 1970 47 10 "Main Themes in Black History," Address - Central Michigan University, April 28-29, 1970 47 11 "New Directions in Black History," Speech - Drew University, April 21, 1970 47 12 "Attorneys Black and White: A Case Study of Race Relations within the NAACP" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - Southern Historical Association, Commentary by William M. Tuttle, Jr., November 9, 1973 47 13 Organization of American Historians - Commentary - Session on Afro-American Social Structure in the 19th Century," April 17, 1974 47 14 Southern Historical Association - Comments for Session on the "Psycho-Sexual Origins of Racism Revisited," November 7, 1974 47 15 "Along the Color Line," Conference Paper - American Historical Association, 1974 Afro-American History in the Age of the Civil Rights Revolution," Conference Paper - American Historical Association 48 1 December 28-30, 1974 48 2 Reading and Annotated Versions, December 28-30, 1974 48 3 "Frederick Douglass--Fighter for Human Freedom," Address - Union Baptist Church, Ravenna, Ohio, February 9, 1975 48 4 "Negro Thought in America: A Study in Historiography," Lecture - Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, May 7, 1975 48 5 "From Reconstruction to Renaissance: Currents in Afro-American Culture from 1875 to 1920," Commentary on Session, University of Iowa, June 15, 1975 48 6 "Historiography of Slavery in the Age of the Civil Rights Revolution," Paper - Northeastern Oklahoma University, November 20, 1975 48 7 "The New Negro History," Speech - Northeastern Oklahoma University, November 20, 1975 48 8 "The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence for Afro-Americans," Speech - Texas A & M State University, April 6. 1976 48 9 "Decline of Black/White Caste in the United States," with Elliott Rudwick, Seminar - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, December 16, 1976 48 10 "Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1933-1943," with Elliott Rudwick, Outline - University of California, Berkeley, March 16, 1977 48 11 "Conflict, Consensus, and American Values: Changes in Patterns of Race Relations, 1925-1975" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, CA, May 13, 1977 48 12 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service, Outline - Kent State University, January 16, 1978 48 13 "The UAW, the Federal Bureaucracy, and the Packard 'Hate' Strike of 1943: A Study in Race Relations" by Meier and Elliott Rudwick - American Historical Association, August 19, 1978 "Black Detroit and Henry Ford: A Study in Industrial Paternalism, 1917- 1943" 48 14 Speech - University of Kentucky, April 6, 1979 48 15 Conference Paper, April 26-28, 1979 48 16 "Benjamin Quarles and the Central Theme in American History," Conference Paper - Organization of American Historians, 1979 48 17 "The History of Negro History," Lecture Outline - Kent State University, October 30, 1980 48 18 Booker T. Washington Symposium - Commentary, Ferrum College, Va., April 7, 1984 48 19 "Slave Community and Culture: The Creation of a Historical Paradigm?" Organization of American Historians, 1985 48 20 "Booker T. Washington and Hofstadter, Stampp and Elkins; An Inquiry into Scholarly Interaction," Lectures - Carter T. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, March 3, 1986 48 21 University of California, Irvine, 1986 49 1 "The Contours of Afro-American Historiography, 1915-1980" with Elliott Rudwick, Conference Paper - American Historical Associatien, n.d. 49 2 "New Directions on Civil Rights Studies," Commentaries, University of Virginia, May 5, 1988 49 3 "NAACP and Organized Labor, 1910-1964" with John Bracey, Seminar - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, June 4, 1988 49 4 "Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Negro Thought in America," Commentary, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 8, 1988 49 5 "The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964," Lecture - Middle Tennessee State University, February 16, 1989 49 6 "The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington" with John H. Bracey, Jr., Conference Paper - Organization of American Historians, April 7, 1989 49 7 "The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964," Lecture - George Meany Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, April 12, 1989 49 8 Private Action and Social Policy, Commentary - Case Western Reserve University, September 14, 1989 49 9 "Black History and the Historical Profession" - Critiques and Responses, November 8-11, 1989 49 10 "The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington," Speech - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, December 9, 1989 49 11 "Toward a Sythesis of Historical Research on the Civil Rights Movement," Conference Paper - Carter G. Woodson Institute, 1989 49 12 "The NAACP and the Labor Movement, 1910-1964" with John H. Bracey, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 9, 1990 49 13 "White Southerner as Historian of the Black Experience" by Louis Harlan, Commentary by Meier - University of Maryland Conference, "The Age of Booker T. Washington," May 2, 1990 49 14 Southern Labor History Conference, Commentary, October 11, 1991 49 15 "Jews and Blacks in American History: The Interrelationships Between Minorities in Historiographical Perspective," Outline - Kent State University, October 13, 1992 49 16 "Erasing the Color Line in the North: Non-Violent Protest and Civil Rights, 1942-1965," Commentator, October 22-24, 1992 49 17 "Conflict, Consensus, and American Values: Changes in Patterns of Race Relations, 1925-1975" with Elliott Rudwick, n.d. 49 18 "The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965 'To Reach the Conscience of America'" - Seminar with John H. Bracey, Jr. - University of Virginia, February 19. 1993 49 19 "Recollections of Non-Violent Direct Action - The Mid-1950s-1960s' Civil Rights Movement in Maryland. Where Do We Go From Here?," Speech - Douglas Memorial Community Church, Baltimore, June 4, 1993 49 20 "Exploring the History of Black America," Speech - Tougaloo College, September 30, 1995 49 21 "A Study in Black Leadership: The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Economic Justice" Indiana University and Purdue Univeristy, Indianapolis, November 3, 1995 49 22 Correspondence re: Speeches, 1982-1991 49 23 Tribute to Meier and Elliott Rudwick by Harvard Sitkoff with Response by Meier and Rudwick - Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1980 50 Professional Affiliations

The Professional Affiliations subseries, 1952-1998, (1970-1992 bulk) (1.6 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's active participation in several national historical associations over a period of years. American Historical Asociation files document his role on the 1972 Program Committee, as a member of the J. Franklin Jameson Prize Committee (1990), his participation in the 1998 session on historian Benjamin Quarles and also in 1998, the presentation of the AHA Award for Scholarly Distinction. Meier's 1990 chairmanship of the Organization of American Historians' Program Committee is documented through correspondence files. The Southern Historical Association files detail Meier's service on the 1980 Program Committee, and his chairmanship of the session "Black Coal Miners in the Southern Applachians" (1986), as well as a copy of a 1986 interview conducted by John H. Roper concerning Meier's long association with the SHA. This subseries concludes with files of Meier's presidency (1992) of the SHA and with photographs of Meier and colleagues at an unidentified meeting.

 50 1 American Council of Learned Societies, 1981-1982 American Historical Association 50 2 1968-1979 50 3 Program Committee, December 28-30, 1972 50 4 1980-1988 50 5 Jameson Prize Committee, 1990 50 6 Session on Benjamin Quarles, 1997-1998 50 7 Award for Scholarly Distinction Presented to Meier, 1998 50 8 American Studies Association, 1970-1972 50 9 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1952-1953 50 10 Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1975-1987 Organization of American Historians 50 11 1972-1975 50 12 1978-1991 50 13 Lectureship Program, 1986-1992 50 14 Elliott Rudwick Award, 1987-1993 50 15 "Towards a Research Agenda on Blacks and Jews in U.S. History" - Correspondence, 1991 50 16 Holocaust Debate, 1992 50 17 1998 51 1 Committee Reports, 1990 51 2 Meier's Correspondence with OAH Office, 1990 51 3 OAH Program Committee Meeting, 1990 51 4 1990 51 5 Session Reports, 1990 51 6 Benedict, M. Les, 1990 51 7 Bracey, John L., Jr., 1990 51 8 Buhle, Mari Jo, 1990 51 9 Gerber, David A., 1990 51 10 Gonzalez, Gilbert, 1990 51 11 Katzman, David, 1990 51 12 Okihiro, Gary, 1990 51 13 Perdue, Theda, 1990 51 14 Wigdor, David, 1990 51 15-16 Program Worksheets, 1990 51 17 Guide to the Work of the Program Committee, 1990 51 18 Convention Program, March 23, 1990 Southern Historical Association 52 1 1957-1960 52 2 1961 52 3 1971-1985 52 4-5 Program Committee, November 13-15, 1980 52 6 Program Chair, Session "The Black Urban Bourgeoise and Proletariat between the Two World Wars," - Correspondence, November 1982 52 7 Commentator, Session "Black Voting and Civil Rights," 1985 Interview with August Meier by John Herbert Roper, 1985 52 8 Annotated, April 20 and June 17, 1985 52 9 1986 52 10 Presiding Chair, Session "Black Coal Miners in the Southern Applachians," 1986 52 11 General File, 1987-1989 53 1 William F. Holmes - Secretary/Treasurer, 1989-1993 53 2 Membership List, 1990 53 3 Participation List, 1991 53 4 Convention, 1991 53 5 Council Meetings, 1992-1993 53 6 Citation - LaWanda Cox, 1992 53 7 Library of Congress, 1992 53 8 World History Association, 1992 53 9 Prize Committees, 1990-1993 53 10 Presidency, 1992 53 11 Presidential Reception Arrangements, 1992 53 12 Presidential Address - "The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965: To Reach the Conscience of America," with John H. Bracey, Jr., 1992 53 13 Convention and Business Meeting, 1992 53 14 Convention Program, 1992 53 15 Program Committee, 1992 53 16 Reception - List of Invited Guests, 1992 53 17 Local Arrangements Committee, 1992 53 18 Photographs (6), July 1993 54 (Offsite) Grants and Fellowships

Over the decades, Meier received a number of Grants and Scholarships, 1951-1990 (.4 lin. ft.) for research projects including his dissertation and the study of the NAACP and organized labor. Among the numerous prestigious organizations which presented him with research grants, the collection documents Meier's relationship with the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Files include proposals for research, corespondence and progress reports.

 American Council of Learned Societies 54 (Offsite) 1 American Council of Learned Societies "Negro Racial Thought in the Age of Booker T. Washington, ca. 1880-1915," 1952 54 (Offsite) 2 "The NAACP and Organized Labor," 1980 54 (Offsite) 3 American Philosophical Society - "The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1969," 1980 54 (Offsite) 4 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, "Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW" and "NAACP and Organized Labor," 1976 54 (Offsite) 5 Ford Foundation - "The NAACP and Organized Labor," 1979 Guggenheim Foundation 54 (Offsite) 6 Civil Rights Movement, 1971-1972 54 (Offsite) 7 "The NAACP and Organized Labor 1909-1964," 1979-1980, 1990 54 (Offsite) 8 National Humanities Center - "The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1964," 1982 55 (Offsite) National Endowment for the Humanities

The subseries National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-1991 (1.2 lin. ft.) documents Meier's relationship with this funding agency as an evaluator of grant applications (1972-1991). Both the proposal and Meier's review are included in the collection. In addition, Meier taught two seminars for college teachers entitled "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" (1981 and 1985) which are documented through the grant applications, files of participants including their applications, research papers that resulted from this program, manuscripts Meier reviewed for the participants, and evaluation reports prepared by Meier and participants.

 55 (Offsite) 1 Review panel, 1972-1976 Reviews of Applications 55 (Offsite) 2 1973-1977 55 (Offsite) 3 1977-1978 55 (Offsite) 4 1977-1979 55 (Offsite) 5 1980-1986 Review Panel 55 (Offsite) 6 Division of Research Programs, 1981-1986 55 (Offsite) 7 Division of Education Programs, 1983 55 (Offsite) 8 Tanner Film Group, 1991 Summer Seminar for College Teachers 55 (Offsite) 9 "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" - Applications, 1981 Participants 55 (Offsite) 10 Ellis, Ann W. n.d. 55 (Offsite) 11 Goings, Kenneth W., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 12 Green, Thomas Lee, n.d. 55 (Offsite) 13 Hatfield, Eugene A., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 14 Juhnke, William E., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 15 McMichael, Wallace, n.d. 55 (Offsite) 16 Miller, Donald W., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 17 Paulson, Darryl, n.d. 55 (Offsite) 18 Ricks, John, n.d. 55 (Offsite) 19 Robinson, Jo Ann O., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 20 Sandstrom, Harold M., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 21 Watson, James M., n.d. 55 (Offsite) 22 Communications to Participants, n.d. 55 (Offsite) 23 Final Report, 1981 55 (Offsite) 24 Bailey, Jennifer - On Site Visit, 1981 55 (Offsite) 25 Kent State University Library Fund, 1981 Summer Seminar for College Teachers 55 (Offsite) 26 Grant Application, 1985 55 (Offsite) 27 List of Participants, 1985 55 (Offsite) 28 Reading Lists, 1985 Participants 55 (Offsite) 29 Baer, Hans A., 1985-1989 55 (Offsite) 30 Doyle, William, 1985 55 (Offsite) 31 Holmes, Charles H., 1985-1987 55 (Offsite) 32 Hughes, Cicero Alvin, 1985 55 (Offsite) 33 McDew, Charles, 1985 55 (Offsite) 34 O'Dell, Samuel R., 1985-1988 55 (Offsite) 35 Oguah, Benjamin E., 1985 55 (Offsite) 36 Shaw, Francis, 1985 55 (Offsite) 37 Stern, Mark, 1985 55 (Offsite) 38 Sullivan, Patricia, 1985-1986 55 (Offsite) 39 Taylor, Theman R., Sr., 1985 55 (Offsite) 40 Thompson, Edward, 1985 55 (Offsite) 41 "Black Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America" - Class Discussions, 1985 55 (Offsite) 42 Evaluation Reports by Meier and Participants, 1985 55 (Offsite) 43 1987 Civil Rights Movement Research Files

Of particular interest is the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT RESEARCH FILES, 1940-1995, (bulk 1942-1979) (14 lin. ft.) which includes an Interviews subseries, 1961-1985, (1961-1971 bulk) (.8 lin. ft.), consisting of hundreds of interviews Meier and his colleague, Elliott Rudwick, conducted with individuals regarding their roles in the civil rights movement. The bulk of the interviews were conducted for Meier and Rudwick's book CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968. Included are interviews conducted with CORE leaders at both the national level and local chapters. Other organizations represented in the interviews are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Regional Council, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the National Action Council, and the Council of Federated Organizations. Among the numerous interviewees are: Julian Bond, John H. Bracey, Gordon Carey, Ronald Corvin, Gloster Current, Robert Curvin, St. Clair Drake, Leslie Dunbar, James and Lula Farmer, Charles Hamilton, Aaron Henry, Herbert Hill, Norman Hill, Carl Holman, Genevive Hughes, Roy and Doris Innis, Sam and Fredericka Kushner, Charles McDew, Floyd McKissick, Charles Oldham, Carl Rachlin, Marvin Rich, James R. Robinson, Ralph Rosenfeld, Phyllis Ryan, Mark Solomon, Herbert Wright, Andrew Young and Whitney Young. A complete list is available as an appendix to this finding aid.

Interviews were conducted either by telephone or in person and were not taped. They were open ended and varied in length from a single page to approximately 30 pages. The interviews are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically for individuals who were interviewed on more than one occasion.

Interviews 56 1 A-Bo, 1961-1971 56 2 Br, 1965-1971 56 3 Ca-Co, 1961-1972 56 4 Co-Cu, 1961-1971 56 5 D-E, 1961-1971 56 6 F-G, 1963-1975 56 7 Ha-He, 1961-1971 56 8 Hi-Hu, 1963-1971 56 9 I-K, 1961-1971 56 10 L, 1963-1971 56 11 McDew, Charles, 1961, July-August 1985 56 12 M-N, 1966-1975 57 1 O-P, 1965-1972 57 2 Ra, 1963-1971 57 3 Ri, 1964-1972 57 4 Ro-Ry, 1964-1975 57 5 Sa-Si, 1963-1971 57 6 Sm-St, 1966-1972 57 7 T-Wi, 1964-1971 57 8 Wi-Z, 1961-1972 57 9 Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1930's, 1975 57 10 Louisville, Kentucky, 1961 57 11 North Carolina, 1961-1965 57 12 South Carolina, n.d. 57 13 James Bevel, Norman Hill, Robert Moses, and Andrew Young, 1965 Bayard Rustin

The Bayard Rustin subseries, 1942-1979 (1 lin. ft.) reflects Meier's long-standing interest in Rustin as a civil rights leader, and includes Meier's interviews concerning Rustin's role in CORE and non-violent protest, Jonathan Gottleib's manuscript on Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, and notes relating to Rustin's participation in the 1943 and 1963 March on Washington movements. Rustin's role with the Fellowship of Reconcilation (FOR), a non-violent antiwar group is detailed through minutes, reports, correspondence and Meier's notes. FOR's support of the 1943 March on Washington is discussed. Of particular interest is a report Rustin prepared entitled "22 Days on a Chain Gang" concerning the sentence he served in North Carolina for sitting in a non-Jim Crow section of a bus, the Fellowship of Reconcilation precursor of the 1961-1962 Freedom Rides. The subseries also includes articles Rustin authored and abundant newsclippings. The activities of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, of which Rustin served as executive director, are documented by news releases written by Rustin, and printed material.

 58 1 Biographical Material, 1961-1969 58 2 Biography - Correspondence, 1973-1974 58 3 Interviews Conducted by Meier re CORE, 1964-1966 58 4 Interviews Conducted by Meier, 1965-1975 58 5 Notes on 1960's Interviews Shared with Jonathan Gottlieb, n.d. Jonathan Gottlieb's Manuscript on Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph 58 6 Bayard Rustin, n.d. 58 7 A. Philip Randolph, n.d. 58 8 Notes Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb, n.d. 58 9 Newsclippings and Notes Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb, n.d. 58 10 March on Washington, 1943 - Prepared for Jonathan Gottlieb n.d. 58 11 March on Washington Movement, 1943, A. Philip Randolph and Jim Crow, and Universal Military Training - Notes, n.d. 58 12 March on Washington, 1943 [From Swarthmore College Archives] 1943 Fellowship of Reconcilation 58 13 [Glen Smiley File] n.d. 58 14 National Council Minutes, 1943-1953 58 15-16 1942-1947 58 17 1943 59 1 1947-1967 59 2 Notes, Printed Material, n.d. Rustin's Activities 59 3 1940's 59 4 1950's 59 5 1960's 59 6 Building Trades, 1964-1973 59 7 Rustin and the New Left, 1965 Articles by Rustin 59 8 1963-1969 59 9 1970-1979 59 10 Notes on Articles, n.d. 59 11 Indices of Newsclippings, n.d. 59 12 Newsclippings and Notes, 1964-1966 Newsclippings 59 13 1965 59 14 1966-1968 59 15 1969-1971 59 16 1972-1974 A. Philip Randolph Institute 60 1 1963-1974 News Releases 60 2 1969-1970 60 3 1971 60 4 1972 60 5 1973 60 6 1974 60 7 1975 60 8 1976-1978 60 9 Publications, n.d. 60 10 Black Americans to Support Israel Committee - Press Releases, 1975 Geographic Localities

The subseries States, 1943-1998, (bulk 1956-1966) (5 lin. ft.) contains materials gathered and created by Meier and Rudwick documenting the civil rights struggles in a number of cities and states. Included are notes, interviews, correspondence, newsclippings and other printed material, including published research reports. The states for which the greatest amount of material is represented are Alabama, Georgia, Illinois (particularly Chicago), Kentucky (Louisville), Maryland (especially Baltimore), Mississippi, New Jersey (Newark), North and South Carolina, Tennessee (Memphis and Nashville) and Virginia (Danville and Lynchburg). An extensive file relating to Chicago includes notes and printed material about the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), and research reports prepared by the Chicago Urban League. Significant material represents Mississippi including files about the Mississippi Freedom Democractic Party, the Delta Ministry based in Edwards, notes Meier took on a July 1964 trip to that state and photographs taken in 1947 of Farish Street, in Jackson, Mississippi, the principal black business thoroughfare. Of interest are Meier's correspondence, notes and related material pertaining to the Civic Interest Group's support in Cambridge, Maryland, and the Interracial Council of Newark and the Essex County Intergroup Council (both of New Jersey).

Meier's involvement in the civil rights movement in Baltimore during his teaching career at Morgan State College in that city is revealed in the files about Baltimore, 1959-1998, (1959-1963 bulk). The protesting students at Morgan named Meier adult advisor of the Civic Interest Group (CIG), and files of this organization detail Meier's arrest for demonstrating against a segregated restaurant and include minutes of meetings, notes by Meier written as events unfolded, interviews he conducted, correspondence outlining his participation in the Northwood Theatre demonstration, printed material, and a manuscript written by John Fanton concerning CIG activities in communities on the eastern shore of Cheaspeake Bay (1962). Meier's participation in the Northwood Theatre demonstration, which led to the desegration of this theater, is documented by correspondence, his notes, reports by arrested students, Meier's correspondence with the American Association of University Professors concerning his actions, and photographs.

 Alabama 61 1 Birmingham and Tuskegee - Newsclippings, 1963 61 2 Birmingham and Montogomery, 1956, 1963-1965 61 3 Montgomery - Montgomery Bus Boycotts - Newsclippings, 1956-1961 61 4 Selma, 1963 Georgia 61 5 Albany, 1962-1963 Atlanta 61 6 1960-1961 61 7 Newsclippings and Printed Material, 1961-1962 Illinois 61 8 Cairo, 1963 Chicago 61 9 ACT, 1964-1965 61 10 Virgil Vogel, n.d. Coordinating Council of Community Organizations 61 11 1965 61 12 1965-1966 61 13-14 1964-1966 62 1-2 1965 62 3 1966 62 4 1965-1969 62 5-7 Dr. Arthur G. Falls, Medical Examiner - Autobiography, n.d. Chicago Urban League Research Reports 62 8 1960-1966 62 9 1964-1965 63 1 1965-1968 63 2 Meier's Notes, n.d. 63 3 Printed Material, 1942-1960's 63 4 Integration of Chicago Public Schools, 1965 Kentucky, Louisville 63 5 1961 63 6 Notes, 1961 Newsclippings 63 7 February-March 1961 63 8 April 1961 63 9 May 1961 63 10 June 1961 63 11 July 1961 63 12 Louisiana, 1957-1963 Maryland, Baltimore 64 1 1959-1960 64 2 1960-1962 Civic Interest Group 64 3 Minutes of Meetings, 1960 64 4 Arrest of Meier at One West Restaurant, 1960 64 5-6 1960 64 7 1960-1962 64 8 Interviews and Notes, November 7, 1961 64 9 Notes, 1961-1964 64 10 Manuscript by John Fanton, 1962 64 11 Printed Material, 1962-1967 64 12 And Other Groups, 1960-1963, 1998 Northwood Theatre Demonstration 64 13 1958, January-May 1963 64 14 American Association of University Professors, February-April 1963 65 1 Notes, February-March 1963 65 2-3 February 1963 65 4 March 1963 65 5 Photographs (11), Feb. 1963 65 6 Americans for Democratic Action - Race Relations Committee, 1960 65 7 Eastern Shore Project, Summer 1962 65 8 Morgan State College - Printed Material, 1957, 1965 65 9 National Labor Relations Board, 1965 65 10 Manuscript - "Student Demonstrations and the Negro Power Structure: A Case Study of Baltimore, Maryland, 1960-1961" - Meier's Notes, 1960-1961 65 11 Mabee, Carleton - Manuscript and Meier's Critique, 1961 65 12 December 1961-February 1962 65 13 March-June 1962 66 1 Congress of Racial Equality, 1963 66 2 Housing, 1961-1962 66 3 Meier's Address and Correspondence, 1963 66 4 Notes and Printed Material, 1963-1964 66 5-6 Notes, 1963 66 7 Meier's Article, "The Successful Sit-Ins in a Border City: A Study in Social Causation," 1961 Printed Material 66 8 1946-1961 66 9 1960-1961 Newsclippings 66 10 1960 66 11 1960-1961 66 12 1961-1963 Maryland, Cambridge Anti-Segregation Demonstrations 67 1 Spring 1963 67 2 1963-1964 67 3 Remarks of the Governor and Official Agreement, 1963 Newsclippings 67 4 1962-1963 67 5 1962 Mississippi 67 6 Meier's Trip to Mississippi, July 1964 67 7 Meier's Trip - Notes, July 1964 67 8 Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Elections, 1965 National Council of Churches Delta Ministry, Edwards, Mississippi 67 9 1965-1966 67 10 1965 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 68 1 1964 68 2 1964-1965 68 3 1963-1966 68 4 1964-1966 68 5 Democratic National Convention Newsclippings, 1964 68 6 Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, 1965-1966 68 7 Young Democratic Club, 1965 68 8 Jackson, 1963 68 9 Natchez, 1965 68 10 Clarence Thomas - Meier's Notes, April 1965 68 11 Cooperatives, 1965-1966 68 12 1955, 1962-1964 68 13 1965-1966 68 14 Printed Material, 1957-1968 68 15 Photographs - Farish Street (13), March 17, 1947 69 1 Missouri, East St. Louis, Newsclippings, 1967 New Jersey, Newark Interracial Council of Newark, New Jersey 69 2 Blood Bank Policy, 1943-1944 69 3 1944-1945 69 4 Essex County Intergroup Council (Newark), 1950-1952 69 5 1959-1966 69 6 Notes, Interviews, 1963-1965 69 7 1964-1965 69 8 Newsclippings, Notes, 1965-1966 North Carolina 69 9 Notes, 1961 69 10 Notes and Printed Material, 1961 69 11 1961-1963 South Carolina 70 1 1944-1965 70 2 Notes, 1964 Tennessee 70 3-4 Memphis - Notes, 1961 70 5 Nashville, 1960-1964 70 6 1965 Virginia Danville Newsclippings 70 7 June 6-11, 1963 70 8 June 12-18, 1963 70 9 June 19-29, 1963 70 10 July 1-19, 1963 70 11 July 23-August 6, 1963 70 12 Printed Material, 1963 70 13 Newsclippings, 1963 Lynchburg 71 1 Notes, 1963 Printed Material 71 2 1960-1963 71 3 1961-1963 71 4 General, 1965 71 5 Washington, D.C., 1952 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

The subseries Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1969, (1960-1965 bulk) (l lin. ft.) consists of interviews Meier conducted with several members including John H. Bracey, Jr. and Charles Hamilton about their roles with the organization, and notes about SNCC annual conferences which Meier attended. There are also notes concerning SNCC activities in Alabama, Orangeburg, South Carolina and in Mississippi including the freedom schools; press releases, printed material such as newsletters, the SNCC monthly publication "The Student Voice," (1960-1965) and newsclippings.

 72 1 Interviews with Timothy Jenkins, Edward King, and Robert Walters, 1961 72 2 Interviews with John Bracey, Dion Diamond, Charles Hamilton, and Mary Kehoe, 1966-1967 72 3 Interview with San Francisco SNCC, n.d. 72 4 Minutes - Executive Committee Meeting, Holly Springs, Mississippi, April 12-14, 1965 72 5 Atlanta Conference, 1962 72 6 Notes on SNCC Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1963 Notes 72 7 1960's 72 8 1965-1966 72 9 1966 72 10 Alabama, 1963-1965 72 11 Arkansas, n.d. 72 12 Georgia, 1962 Mississippi 72 13 Notes, Summer 1961 72 14 Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1963-1965 72 15 1965 73 1 Orangeburg, South Carolina - Notes, n.d. 73 2 Third Annual Spring Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1963 73 3 Fourth Annual Conference - "On Food and Jobs," Washington, D.C., November-December 1963 73 4 1960-1969 73 5 Notes, Minutes and Printed Material, 1960-1961 General 73 6 1960-1968 73 7 1963-1964 73 8 1963 73 9 1963-1966 74 1 1966 News Releases 74 2 1962 74 3 January-February 1963 74 4 March-August 1963 74 5 September-December 1963 74 6 1964 "Student Voice" and Newsletters 74 7 1960-1962 74 8 1963-1965 74 9 1965-1967 74 10 Newsclippings, 1963-1967, 1979 General Civil Rights Movement Printed Material

The General Civil Rights Movement Printed Material subseries, 1940-1982, (1960-1965 bulk) (3 lin. ft.) served as a resource file on a variety of civil rights organizations and subjects. Included are items on education, student activism and sit-ins, COFO, the National Urban League, the Northern Student Movement Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Students for a Democratic Society, and voter registration.

 75 (Offsite) 1 1940's 75 (Offsite) 2 1951-1962 75 (Offsite) 3 In Friendship, 1956-1960 75 (Offsite) 4 March on Washington, 1963 75 (Offsite) 5 Louis Henry Masotti, 1966-1968 75 (Offsite) 6 Dan W. Dodson, n.d. Education 75 (Offsite) 7 1954-1955 75 (Offsite) 8 1963-1965 75 (Offsite) 9 1966 75 (Offsite) 10 1967-1968 75 (Offsite) 11 1968-1976 75 (Offsite) 12 Integrated Education, 1966-1968 75 (Offsite) 13 1961-1963 75 (Offsite) 14 1964 75 (Offsite) 15 1965 75 (Offsite) 16 Newsclippings, 1965-1966 75 (Offsite) 17 James H. Laue, 1965-1967 75 (Offsite) 18 Pauli Murray, 1965 75 (Offsite) 19-20 1966 75 (Offsite) 21 1967 75 (Offsite) 22 1968 75 (Offsite) 23 1968-1969 75 (Offsite) 24 1971-1982 75 (Offsite) 25 n.d. 75 (Offsite) 26 Black Power, 1966-1968 75 (Offsite) 27 "Revolution," n.d. Student Activism and Sit-ins 75 (Offsite) 28 Notes, n.d. 75 (Offsite) 29 1959-1962 75 (Offsite) 30 Freedom Riders, 1960-1961 75 (Offsite) 31 1960 75 (Offsite) 32 1960-1962 Newsclippings 75 (Offsite) 33 February 1960 75 (Offsite) 34 March 1960 76 (Offsite) 1 April 1960 76 (Offsite) 2 May-June 1960 76 (Offsite) 3 July-August 1960 76 (Offsite) 4 September-October 1960 76 (Offsite) 5 November-December 1960 76 (Offsite) 6 January-February 1961 76 (Offsite) 7 March-April 1961 76 (Offsite) 8 1962 76 (Offsite) 9 National Conference on Black Power, July 1967 76 (Offsite) 10 National Sharecroppers Fund, 1962-1965 Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Chicago 76 (Offsite) 11 1963 Minutes 76 (Offsite) 12 November 1963-1964 76 (Offsite) 13 1965 76 (Offsite) 14 1966 76 (Offsite) 15 Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, 1964-1968 76 (Offsite) 16 Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, 1965 National Urban League 76 (Offsite) 17 1935-1953 76 (Offsite) 18 Brochures, 1962-1964 76 (Offsite) 19 Memoranda and Resolutions, 1962-1964 76 (Offsite) 20 Annual Assemblies, 1963-1964 76 (Offsite) 21 1963-1965 76 (Offsite) 22 Whitney Young - Correspondence, 1965 76 (Offsite) 23 1967-1969 Northern Student Movement Coordinating Committee 76 (Offsite) 24 Reports, 1962 76 (Offsite) 25 1962-1964 76 (Offsite) 26 1963-1965 76 (Offsite) 27 People's War Council Against Poverty, n.d. 76 (Offsite) 28 Poverty/Action Rights Center, 1966 76 (Offsite) 29 Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1965 Southern Christian Leadership Conference 76 (Offsite) 30 Printed Material, 1963-1965 76 (Offsite) 31 Anti-Poverty Coordinating Committee - Wilcox County, Alabama, 1965-1966 76 (Offsite) 32-33 Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project, 1965 76 (Offsite) 34 Southern Regional Council, n.d. Students for a Democratic Society 76 (Offsite) 35 League for Industrial Democracy, n.d. 76 (Offsite) 36 1963-1964 76 (Offsite) 37 Voter Registration in the South, 1957-1967 76 (Offsite) 38 Voter Registration - Newsclippings, 1963 76 (Offsite) 39 National Issues, 1964 Research Files for Publications

The RESEARCH FILES FOR PUBLICATION series (23.8 lin. ft.) encompass notes, drafts, reference material, printed material, correspondence and data for only thirteen of Meier's numerous books and articles. Meier and Rudwick retained sample research files in order to provide insight into the ways they did their research and writing, therefore only certain files were kept. For example, most of the data gathered about streetcar boycotts were discarded. Similar material for Meier's other publications was not retained. This large series has been arranged chronologically by publication date of Meier's work.

 "A Study of the Racial Ancestry of the Mississippi College Negro"

"A Study of the Racial Ancestry of the Mississippi College Negro," 1947-1949 (1.2 lin. ft.) is Meier's first published article, appearing in 1949. The research for this study, which employed sociological methods, was conducted while Meier was teaching at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. The bulk of the material consists of questionnaires Meier distributed to students and provides information as to the college the student attended, whether the individual was a student or faculty member, age, county and state of birth, residence at time of completing questionnaire and genealogical background. The collection also includes the manuscript, research correspondence and a letter to Melville Herskovits thanking him for his assistance in getting the article published.

 77 1 Research Correspondence, 1947-1948 77 2 Manuscripts, 1948 77 3 Publication and Correspondence, 1949 Research Material and Questionnaires 77 4-12 1947 78 1-9 1947 79 1-8 1947 79 9 Interview with Former Slave, 1947 "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism (A Study in Ideology)" 80 1 Manuscript, Correspondence, 1951-1952 80 2 Notes, n.d. 80 3 "Booker T. Washington and the Rise of the NAACP," 1953-1954 80 4 "From Conservative to Radical: The Ideological Development of W.E.B. Du Bois," 1959 "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958," with David L. Lewis

The article "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958" (.8 lin. ft.) written with David Levering Lewis and published in 1959 consists of various annotated drafts of the manuscript, readers' comments, research notes, newsclippings and other printed material used for research.

 Atlanta, Georgia 80 5 Manuscript, Printed Article and Notes, 1957-1959 80 6-7 Draft of Manuscript and Notes 80 8-9 Notes 80 10 Research Material 80 11 Newsclippings, n.d. Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 80A 1 Chapters 6, 7, 10, 11 and 20 80A 2 Chapters 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20, Revised, 1958 Draft, ca. 1958-1959 80A 3 Chapters 1-3 80A 4 Chapters 4-8 80A 5 Chapters 9-13 80A 6 Chapters 14-20 80A 7 Draft - Bibliography, 1960 Late Version, 1960 80A 8 Chapters 1-5 80B 1 Chapters 6-10 80B 2 Chapters 11-13 80B 3 Chapters 14-15 80B 4 Chapters 17-20 80B 5 Original Bibliography 80B 6-7 Revised Version, 1962 80B 8 Bibliography, ca. 1960 80B 9 Revised Version, 1962 Paul Partington - Correspondence 80C 1 1960 80C 2-3 1961 80C 4 "A Bibliography of the Editorials of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois to the Crisis" 80C 5 W.E.B. Du Bois - Notes by Paul Partington 80C 6 Correspondence and Notes, n.d. "New Currents in the Civil Rights Movement" 81 1 Research Notes - New Politics, 1963 81 2 New Politics II, 1963 81 3 Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, with Elliott Rudwick and Francis Broderick - Additional Materials for Book, 1966 "Civil Rights Strategies for Negro Employment" Chapter in Employment, Race, and Poverty, edited by Arthur M. Rose and Herbert Hill 81 4 1967 81 5 Printed Reference Material, 1967 81 6 Black Nationalism in America - Selections Not Used, 1970 Congress of Racial Equality: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968

The subseries Congress of Racial Equality: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968, 1942-1992, 1942-1968 (bulk) (3 lin. ft.), co-authored with Elliott Rudwick, was published in 1973. The material documents issues of voter registration, desegration of lunch counters, restaurants, theaters and interstate travel, and consists of notes Meier took based on CORE's records, photocopies of correspondence and memoranda, as well as newsclipings of CORE activities. There are copies of national and local newsletters, flyers, press releases, memoranda from national director James Farmer and files of one of CORE's offshoots -- the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality. Meier also saved printed matter from other organizations to serve as reference material for this time period. These organizations include SNCC, NAACP, COFO, the National Conference on Religion and Race, the Northern Student Movement, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund. This portion of the subseries is arranged chronologically.

Most of the civil rights issues with which CORE became involved as represented by this collection took place in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Missisippi. The material for the latter state is particularly extensive and includes information regarding CORE's involvement in Clarkesdale and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Researchers interested in the civil rights movement in this state are advised to also consult the Civil Rights Movement Research Files - States.

The "Rachlin File" includes legal documents for court cases in which Carl Rachlin, national CORE's legal counsel, or other lawyers were involved. Examples of the types of court cases included are CORE's protests against segregated interstate bus travel, segregated lunch counters and a recreation center, as well as voting rights in Mississippi. Meier has indicated that most of the original notes upon which this book was based, taken by Rudwick from local white newspapers, were unfortunately destroyed prior to being donated to the Schomburg Center. Drafts of manscripts form part of this subseries.

The CORE White House Files consist of photocopies of correspondence between CORE and the White House, 1963-1968, housed in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, which documents the administration's stance towards civil rights.

 82 1 Publication of Book, 1971-1973 82 2 State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Research Correspondence, 1967-1992 82 3 Meier's Correspondence, 1964-1967 82 4-5 Harlem Office - Notes, n.d. 82 6 Perkins, Joseph P., Jr. "My 291 Days with CORE," 1961 82 7 "The Invaders" - Manuscript re CORE Projects Summer, 1964 and 1965 82 8 Farmer, James, n.d. Notes for Biographies 82 9 A-C 82 10 D-F 82 11 G-H 82 12 I-M 82 13 O-R 82 14 S-Z 82 15 Notes for Biographies, A-Z 83 1-3 Addresses of CORE Contacts 83 4 Book - Epilogue, Documents and Early Drafts 83 5 Bibliography for Book 83 6 1942-1949 83 7 Chapter Newsletters, 1946-1962 83 8 Interracial Workshop, 1949-1954 83 9 1950-1959 83 10 1960 83 11 1961 83 12 Meier's Notes, 1961 83 13 1962 84 1-2 1963 84 3 1964 84 4-5 1965 84 6 National Conference on Religion and Race, 1963 84 7 Northern Student Movement, 1964 Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality 84 8 1963-1971 84 9 Conferences, June-July 1966 84 10 CORE Convention - Meier's Notes, 1964 84 11 CORE - Annual Convention, July 1965 Press Releases 84 12 1964 84 13 1965 84 14 Publications, n.d. 84 15 Southern States, 1965 85 1-2 1966 85 3 1967-1968 85 4 Louisiana, 1962-1966 85 5 Maryland, Cambridge, 1962-1963 Mississippi 85 6 1961-1962 85 7 Edward F. Hollander Papers, 1961-1965 85 8 Clarksdale, 1962-1963 85 9-10 1963 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Mississippi 85 11 1964 85 12-16 1965 Other Organizations - Research Material 86 1 1948-1959 86 2 1960 86 3 1961 86 4-5 1962 86 6 1963 86 7 1964 86 8 1965 86 9 1966-1967 86 10 1969 87 1-3 Newark CORE - Essex Chapter, 1964 Southern States 87 4 1961 87 5 1962 87 6 1963 87 7 1964 Southern Conference Educational Fund Southern Patriot 87 8 1947-1961 87 9 1962-1965 87 10 Booklets 87 11 Address by Whitney Young at CORE Convention, 1968 Rachlin File - Research Material 88 1 James Farmer and Carl Rachlin - "Let Us Look Again at the Jury Trial" - Manuscript, 1965 88 2 Rochelle Steele et al. vs. George B. Taft et al. re Recreation Center in Florida, 1965-1966 88 3 Florida, 1963-1964 88 4 B. Elton Cox vs. State of Louisiana (Segregated Lunch Counters), 1965 88 5 Louisiana, 1963-1967 88 6 Lois Chaffee Trial (Voting Rights, Mississippi), 1963 88 7 Voting Rights Cases in Mississippi, 1963 88 8 Mississippi, 1960-1965 88 9 Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Field Office Dockets, October 1966 88 10 State of New York vs. Eric Eisenberg at al. (New York World's Fair), 1964 88 11 New York Demonstrations - Trials, 1964 88 12 Court Case - Sara Penn et al. vs. State of New York, 1965 88 13 Robert L. Pierson et al. vs. J. L. Ray et al. (Segregated Interstate Travel), 1963 88 14 General, 1964-1965 88 15 Publications by Rachlin, 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson White House Files - Research Material 89 1 1963-1964 89 2 1963-1968 89 3 1964 89 4 1965 89 5 1966 89 6 1967 Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience - Research Material

The subseries Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience consists of material Meier and co-author Rudwick gathered for their research for two chapters for this book: "Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action" and the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign." Drafts of manuscripts form part of this series. The files for "The Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action," 1967-1975 (1.4 lin. ft.) consists of notes, photocopies of newsclippings, research correspondence, and research papers written by others. There are also some interviews with local and national activists involved in the various boycotts organized in American cities as a means of ending segregation in employment and schools, gathered by Meier and Rudwick in the course of their research. The material deals primarily with streetcar and bus boycotts, as well as school boycotts across the country during the first half of this century. The "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign" was a form of nonviolent protest to force stores to hire African Americans with the threat of boycotting. The material for this research, 1970's (.6 lin. ft.) contains notes and articles referring to this form of protest during the 1930's and 1960's in various parts of the country including Baltimore, Indianapolis and North Carolina. Meier and Rudwick did not retain all of their research materials and notes for streetcar boycotts research due to insufficient storage space. The roles of the NAACP and CORE in these boycotts are supported with articles, notes and interviews.

 "Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action" 90 1 Interviews with James Farmer, Jack Homer, James R. Robinson, Mark Solomon, Mark Naison, 1975 90 2 Streetcar Boycotts, 1967-1969 90 3 "Negro Boycotts of Jim Crow Streetcars in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas" - Individual Papers by Meier and Rudwick, n.d. Alabama 90 4 Montgomery and Baton Rouge Bus Boycotts - Interviews, n.d. 90 5 Birmingham Transit Bus, 1950's 90 6 Montgomery Bus Boycott, n.d. 90 7 Florida - Tallahassee Bus Boycott, n.d. Georgia "Negro Boycotts of Segregated Streetcars in Georgia, 1872- 1906," with Elliott Rudwick 90 8 Manuscript, n.d. 90 9 Research Notes, n.d. 90 10 "A Strange Chapter in the Career of Jim Crow" with Elliott Rudwick - Manuscript, n.d. 90 11 Atlanta Bus Segregation, 1955-1959 90 12 Baltimore and Indianapolis - Streetcars, n.d. 90 13 Louisiana Streetcar and Bus Boycotts - Early 1900's and 1950's 90 14 Schools 1950's - Includes Interview with James Griffin 90 15 California, Blythe - Schools, 1928 90 16 Florida Education - Articles by Arthur O. White, n.d. Illinois 90 17 Springfield School Boycotts, n.d. 90 18 "Early Boycotts of Segregated Schools: The Case of Alton, Illinois, 1896-1908" by Meier and Rudwick - Research Notes and Early Drafts, n.d. 91 1 Kansas - Wichita School Protest, 1906 91 2 Massachusetts - Arthur O. White Articles - School Boycotts, 1971 Missouri 91 3 Kansas City Schools, 1949, 1952 91 4 St. Louis, School Demonstrations, 1951-1952 New Jersey 91 5 East Orange - School Boycotts, 1899-1905 91 6 East Orange School, 1930's 91 7 Toms River School Boycott, 1927 New York 91 8 N.Y.C. - Individual Family Withdraws Children From School, 1900 91 9 Roslyn, Long Island - School Protests, 1910-1915 91 10 "Colored Schools in Rochester, New York: 1832-1856" by Judith Ruchkin, n.d. 91 11 Buffalo and Lockport - Arthur O. White - Articles, 1969 Ohio 91 12-13 Dayton - Schools, n.d. 91 14 Dayton and Springfield School Boycotts, n.d. 91 15 Shaker Heights School Boycotts, 1920's 91 16 Springfield School Boycotts, n.d. 91 17 Springfield Schools, n.d. Pennsylvania 91 18 Berwyn, 1932-1934 91 19 Berwyn - School Boycott, 1932-1934 91 20 Chester School Boycotts, 1934, 1946, 1954 Complaints 92 1 Oxford (Lincoln University) School Boycott, 1909 92 2 Philadelphia School Boycotts, 1925 92 3 Philadelphia - Girard College, 1940's South Carolina - Orangeburg 92 4 School Boycotts, 1955-1956 92 5 Schools, Includes Interview with James Sulton, 1967-1968 92 6 Virginia Schools, n.d. 92 7 Washington, D.C. School Boycotts, 1951 and 1953 92 8 Schools, 1920's-1930's School Boycotts 92 9 1930's 92 10 1930's-1950's 92 11 1940's-1953 92 12 1954-1959 92 13 General, n.d. 92 14 New Negro Alliance (from Baltimore and Washington Afro) - Schools, Jobs, n.d. 92 15 Kentucky, Louisville - Entertainment, 1913 92 16 Entertainment, 1920's 92 17 Housing Protests, n.d. General 92 18 Atlanta, Georgia, n.d. 92 19 Greensboro, North Carolina, n.d. 92 20 Toledo, Ohio, n.d. 93 1 Aldon Morris "The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement" - Southern Sit-Ins, Notes, n.d. 93 2-3 Wehr, Paul Ernest, Master of Arts Thesis "The Sit-Down Protests...A Study of a Passive Resistance Movement in North Carolina," 1960 "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign" - Research Material 93 4-5 Chicago - Oliver Cromwell Cox - "The Origins of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes," ca. 1935 93 6 Kiah Costonie, Sufi Abdul Hamid, Kevin Sullinger, Ross D. Brown, n.d. 93 7 Baltimore, Maryland, 1933-1935 93 8 Newark, New Jersey, n.d. 93 9 Lockland, Ohio - Interview with Walter Hueston, 1942 93 10 Newport News, Virginia, 1941 93 11 Richmond, Virginia, 1933-1935 93 12 Washington, D.C., 1933-1938 93 13 Job Protests, 1937-1959 93 14 Sources of Negro Protest, 1940-1960 93 15 Notes taken from New Negro Opinion, 1930's 93 16 New Negro Alliance (from NAACP Papers), n.d. 93 17 National NAACP, n.d. Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

Files for the subseries Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1976-1981 (4.6. lin. ft.) contain research information used by Meier and Rudwick in their 1970 book concerning fair labor practices within the UAW that resulted in major gains for African Americans, both inside and outside the automotive manufacturing plants. For their research efforts for this book, Meier and Rudwick were acknowledged with the Philip Taft Labor History Award for 1979. The bulk of the reference material consists of photocopies of files from the late 1930's-1940's gleaned from other archival repositories, notes, a dissertation and other papers. Many files discuss the roles of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and its Office of Production Management and War Manpower Commission. Other organizations represented are the Metropolitan Detroit Fair Employment Practice Council, the War Policy Division of the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Ford Motor Company, and the UAW. During 1976-1978 Meier and Rudwick conducted a number of interviews with individuals involved in the integration of the UAW in the 1940's, such as Clarence Johnson, Louis Martin, Oscar Noble, Horace Sheffield and Roy Wilkins. There are research files for several automobile plant strikes (including hate strikes), particularly those at Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation, and Packard Motor Car Company. The influence of the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan is also discussed, as is the lack of employment of African-American women. This subseries includes numerous reference articles about African Americans in the automobile industry by such researchers as Lloyd Bailer, Ralph Bunche, Glen E. Carlson, and Paul Herbert Norgren. Background material is provided in copies of Michigan newspapers and Meier's notes for the period 1919-1943. Finally, the collection concludes with Meier and Rudwick's research correspondence, correspondence with the publisher, book reviews and the Taft Award both authors received.

 Fair Employment Practice Committee 94 1 1934-1943 94 2 1939-1943 94 3 1941-1944 94 4 Newsclippings, Notes, 1942 94 5 1942-1943 94 6 1942-1945 94 7 Postponement of Detroit Hearings, 1943 94 8 1943-1944 94 9 1944-1947 Office of Production Management - War Manpower Commission 95 1-2 1940-1943 95 3 1940-1965 Fair Employment Practice Committee and War Manpower Commission 95 4 Newsclippings, 1941-1943 95 5-6 1942-1943 Metropolitan Detroit Fair Employment Practice Council - Background Material 95 7 1943 95 8 1944-1946 95 9 National Labor Relations Board - Elections, 1941 95 10 Office of Production Management, 1941 War Policy Division, United Automobile Workers - Congress of Industrial Organizations 95 11 1942-1957 95 12 1939-1944 95 13 1941-1943 95 14 1939-1944 96 1 War Production Board, 1942-1943 96 2 War Production Board, FEPC, Office of Production Management, National Defense Advisory Commission - Newsclippings, 1940-1943 96 3 Oral History Interviews - Reuther Library, 1959-1968 96 4 Data and Questions Used for Detroit Interviews, n.d. Interviews 96 5 Allen, Alexander; Alston, Christopher Columbus; Baler, Lloyd; Baur, Erwin; Billups, Joseph, 1977-1978 96 6 Bledsoe, Geraldine; Boryczka, Raymon; Freidlander, Peter; Bowman, William; Brody, David; Conyers, John; Current, Gloster, 1977 96 7 Doll, Tracy; Duncan, Lawrence; Evans, Ernest; Evans, Frank, 1977 96 8 Fleming, James; Frankensteen, Richard T.; Friedlander, Peter; Galenson, Walter; Gibson, Jr., Truman K.; Hoare, Mrs. Fred; Johnson, Helene K.; Kimpley, Harold; Kirk, Paul; Landfair, James, 1976-1978 96 9 Lee, Miriam; Lovestone, Jay; Loving, Alvin C.; Martin, Louis, 1976-1978 96 10 McClendon, Dr. J. J.; Montgomery, David; Noble, Oscar, 1976 96 11 Oden, Oscar; Prickett, James; Raymond, Phil E., 1977-1978 96 12 Interview and Biography - Sheffield, Horace, 1976 96 13 Tappes, Shelton; Ivory, Marcellus, 1976 96 14 Strong, George E.; Schiller, Leonard; Simmons, C. LeBron; Smith, Theodore B.; Thomas, Roland J.; Weaver, Robert C.; Wilkins, Roy, 1976-1978 Biographies 96 15 Clark, Henry and the United Automobile Workers, n.d. 96 16 Crane, Henry Hitt and Diggs, Charles, n.d. 96 17 Mazey, Emil (Secretary - Treasurer UAW), Fanroy, Samuel; Whitby, Beulah, n.d. 96 18 Socialists - Mazey, Hardin and Third Party [Chapter 2], 1943 96 19 Mason, Hodges and Lamotte, Leo - UAW [Chapters 3, 4 & 5], 1942-1944 96 20 Reuther, Victor, n.d. 96 21 War Manpower Commission, n.d. 96 22 Biographies, n.d. 97 1 Early Automobile Union - Notes, 1913-1937 97 2 1920's 97 3-4 Pre-1936 United Automobile Workers 97 5 American Federation of Labor Convention Minutes, March 1939 97 6 UAW Convention - Black Board Members and Factionalism, 1943-1946, 1955 97 7 Black Staff, 1943-1945 97 8 Black Staff Biographies and Local Officers, n.d. 97 9 Local Officers [Chapter 5], 1941-1958 97 10 Local 174 - Percy Key and Other Black Officers, n.d. 97 11 Local 212 - Black Officials, n.d. [Chapters 2 and 3] 97 12 1937-1939 97 13 1940 97 14 1940-1942 97 15 [Chapter 3], 1941-1943 97 16 1943 97 17 1943-1944 97 18 1944-1948 97 19 1953-1960 George Crockett 98 1 [Chapter 5] 98 2 Interracial Committee, UAW [Chapter 3] 98 3 Black Membership in 1930's and 1940's, n.d. 98 4 Factionalism in the UAW, n.d. 98 5 Briggs Manufacturing Company, n.d. 98 6 Newsclippings, 1937 98 7 Cadillac Square Demonstrations, 1943 Strikes Chrysler Corporation 98 8 Newsclippings, 1939 98 9-10 1941 98 11 Notes, 1941 98 12 Dodge Strike, 1939 Ford Motor Company 98 13 Organizing and Strike, Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1939-1941 98 14 Strike, 1941 98 15 Black Wildcat Strike [Chapter 3], 1943 98 16 Hudson Naval Arsenal Strike, Centerline, Michigan, 1942 98 17 Midland Steel Products Company - UAW Local 410 Local Officers and Strike [Chapters 2 & 3], 1937-1942 98 18 Packard Motor Car Company - Strike, 1943 98 19 Packard Motor Car Compnay and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 1943 98 20 Packard Motor Car Company Strike - Draft, n.d. 98 21 Packard Motor Car Company Hate Strike, 1944 98 22 Hate Strike - Black Walkout, 1944 98 23 Hate Strikes Outside Detroit, 1942-1943 98 24 FEPC, UAW, NAACP, and Strikes - Newsclippings, 1943 Communist Party Influence 99 1 Communist Party - Influence, 1930-1937 99 2 Midland Strike of 1936 and the Communist Party, n 99 3 Communists and the United Automobile Workers, 1937 99 4 Packard Motor Car Company and Local 190, and the Communist Party, 1941-1943 99 5 Ford Local 600 and Communists, 1941-1944 99 6 House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1939, 1952 99 7 House Committee on Un-American Activities - Charles Hill and LeBron Simmons - Testimony, 1952 99 8 Dearborn Independent Newspaper - Russian Bolshevism, 1919 99 9 Ku Klux Klan, 1941-1944 99 10 Ku Klux Klan at Packard Motor Company - Local 190, 1942 Ford Motor Company 99 11 Associated Negro Press, 1925-1947 99 12-13 Notes and Newsclippings, 1941 99 14 "Ford Facts" - UAW-CIO Newspaper, 1941 99 15 Detroit Urban League, 1941-1943 99 16 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Negro Congress, 1943-1945 99 17 NAACP and National Citizens' Council, 1942-1943 Detroit Politics 100 1-2 Mayor Jeffries, n.d. 100 3 Political Campaigns - Mayor and City Council, 1937 100 4 1930's-1940's 100 5 Newsclippings, 1937-1949 100 6-8 Detroit Race Riot [Chapter 4], 1943 Housing 100 9 Housing - Willow Run Federal Public Housing, 1943 100 10-11 Sojourner Truth Housing Project - Federal Housing, 1942 100 12 Detroit's Black Housing Problem, 1944 100 13 Martel, American Federation of Labor and Housing [Chapter 4], 1942-1943 100 14 Housing, 1943 100 15 Housing Hearings - United Automobile Workers, "The Racial Policies of the Detroit Housing Commission and their Administration" by Bette Smith Jenkins, Thesis, 1950 Women Employees 101 1 Women Employees [Chapter 3], n.d. 101 2 Correspondence - Lack of Employment of Black Women in Ford Motor Company, 1942 101 3-5 UAW and Lack of Employment of Women - Newsclippings, 1942 101 6 Women and Ford Motor Company, 1941-1942 Writings by Others Bailer, Lloyd - Negro Labor in the Automobile Industry 101 7-8 Part I, 1943 101 9-10 Part II, 1943 101 11 "The Negro Automobile Worker" - "The Automobile Unions and Negro Labor," 1943-1946 101 12 Baskin, Alex; Boryczka, Raymond Brody; David, Carey; Lee, Lorin; and Clinansmith, Michael S. - Articles, 1971-1972 101 13 Blackwood, "The United Automobile Workers of America, 1935-1951", n.d. 101 14 Bunche, Ralph, The Negro in America - Article About Politics in Detroit and Detroit Civil Rights Organizations (Carnegie Myrdal Study), 1930's 102 1-2 Carlson, Glen E. "The Negro in the Industries of Detroit" - Dissertation, 1929 102 3 Crockett, George - Executive Director of International UAW-FEPC News Columns, 1944-1946 102 4 Dancy, John C. - Sand Against the Wind: Memoirs of John C. Dancy re Detroit Urban League, 1966 102 5 Faigin, Henry - "The Industrial Workers of the World in Detroit and Michigan, From the Period of Beginnings through the World War," 1937 102 6 Fine, Sidney - "President Roosevelt and the Automobile Code," "The Ford Motor Company and the N.R.A.," "Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935" - Articles, 1958 102 7 Friedland, William - Section of Thesis on Job Statistics and Attitudes [Used for Epilogue and Chapter 5], n.d. 102 8 Friedlander, Peter - "The Social Basis of Politics in a UAW Local: Midland Steel, 1933-1941" [delivered at Organization of American Historians Conference], 1977 102 9 Galenson, Walter and Howe, Irving - Articles, 1949-1960 102 10 Kornhauser, William - Articles, 1952-1956 102 11 Lewis, David Lanier, Student Paper - "History of Negro Employment in Detroit Area Plants of Ford Motor Company, 1914-1941," 1954 102 12 Litchfield, Edward H.; McKie William; Nevins, Allan; Northrup, Herbert R.; and Olson, James S. - Articles, 1941-1969 102 13 Mortimer, Wyndham "Organize! My Life as a Union Man," 1971 102 14-15 Norgreen, Paul Herbert, n.d. 102 16 Sitkoff, Harvard; Sward, Keith; and Thomas, Richard - Articles, 1948-1976 103 1 Stieber, Jack "Governing the UAW," 1962 103 2 Weaver, Robert C. and Winn, Frank - Articles, 1917-1944 103 3 Widick, B. J. "Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence," Wilson, James Q. "Negro Politics: The Search for Leadership," 1965-1972 103 4 Occupational Statistics, n.d. 103 5 Claude A. Barnett Papers re United Automobile Workers, Michigan Politics and Race Relations - Newsclippings, 1925-1943 103 6 Churches and Booker T. Washington Trade Association, n.d. 103 7 Polish and Black Workers, n.d. 103 8 Weaver, Robert and Defense Agencies - Drafts and Notes, n.d. 103 9 Wayne County, Michigan AFL-CIO, 1930's-1940's 103 10 Henry Ford [Mostly from Ford Archives, Deerborn, Michigan], n.d. 103 11 Image and Other Publications, 1943-1949 103 12 Federal Records Center - Chicago [Material Not Used or Cited], n.d. Dearborn Independent W.E.B. Du Bois 103 13 1919-1925 103 14 1922-1927 103 15 Wage Earner - Newspaper, 1940-1943 Newsclippings 104 1 1937-1939 104 2 1938 104 3-4 1941 104 5 1941-1942 104 6 1942 104 7-9 1943 104 10 1943-1944 104 11 Research Correspondence re UAW - Walter Reuther Library, 1976-1977 104 12 August Meier and Eilliott Rudwick - Research Correspondence, 1977 104 13 Reproduction of Photographs Used in Book, n.d. 104 14 Research Material - Notes, n.d. 104 15 Research Material, n.d. 104 16 Partial Draft of Manuscript, n.d. 105 1 Oxford University Press - Correspondence, 1976-1980 105 2 Comments re Manuscript, 1977-1988 105 3 Oxford University Press - Promotion, 1979 105 4 Reviews, 1979-1981 105 5 Prizes, 1980 "Communist Unions and the Black Community: The Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934-1944"

Meier and Rudwick also co-authored the article, "Communist Unions and the Black Community: The Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934-1944" (1982), 1979-1981 (1 lin. ft.) which primarily discusses the Transit Workers Union and its operations in New York City and Philadelphia. This subseries is notable in part because it demonstrates the thoroughness of Meier and Rudwick's research program, and consists of several later drafts, and research material including photocopies of minutes and reports of TWU conventions, newsclippings, reference articles, notes, and copies of office files housed at other archival repositories. Michael Quill's involvement in New York City, and the Philadelphia Transport Union strike of 1944 are documented with reference material and notes. Correspondence regarding publication of the article and a report complete this subseries.

106 1 Reprint, 1982 106 2 Publication of Article - Correspondence, 1981 106 3 Manuscript, n.d. 106 4 Draft #5, n.d. 106 5 Draft #6, n.d. 106 6 Draft #7, n.d. 106 7 Draft #9, n.d. 106 8 Revised Draft, n.d. 106 9 Interviews, 1979 106 10 New York City and Philadelphia, 1931-1949 106 11 Report of the Executive Board, First Convention, 1937 106 12 Conventions - Minutes, 1938-1946 106 13 New York City Subways - Charles H. Houston, Special Counsel, NAACP, 1937-1940 New York City Bus Boycott 106 14 Newsclippings, 1941 106 15 Correspondence and Notes, 1941 106 16 People's Voice - Newsclippings, 1942-1944 New York City - Newsclippings 107 1 1927-1938 107 2 1939-March 1941 107 3 April 1941 107 4 May 1941-1959 107 5 Newsclippings - Politics, 1938, 1944 107 6 Transit Industry - World War II, 1943-1945 107 7 Naison, Mark, "Harlem Communists and the Politics of Black Protest," 1978 107 8-9 Reference Articles, n.d. 107 10 Housing Association of Delaware Valley, Philadelphia, 1943-1944 Philadelphia Transportation Company 107 11-12 1943 Strike 107 13 1944 107 14 NAACP and Urban League Involvement, 1944 107 15 Newsclippings, August 1944 [Temple University Urban Archives] 108 1 1943 108 2 Notes, 1943-1946 Newsclippings 108 3 January-February 1944 108 4 March-July 1944 108 5 July-October 1944 108 6 November-December 1944 Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 - Research Material

This subseries contains a substantial amount of material prepared by Meier and Rudwick for their 1986 book Black History and the Historical Profession, 1967-1998, (10 lin. ft.), a study dealing with the shaping of scholarly writing on African-American history. Among other issues, Meier and Rudwick were interested in the backgrounds of people who entered the field, the perspectives they brought to the field, how these have changed during the time period covered in the book (ca. 1915-1980), and how they are related to the changing social and academic milieu. The authors also delved into the role philanthropy played in the development of African-African history as a distinct historical speciality. Finally, they studied the ways in which black history and black historians have been treated by the learned historical societies (the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association), and how this in turn related to the development and shaping of the field.

The categories used to organize the research material are: individuals, organizations, subjects and preparation of the book. There are files for each historian included in the book as well as a number who are not. Meier and Rudwick held telephone or in-person interviews with approximately 175 historians, both black and white, who conducted research in black history. An asterisk by the name denotes that there are notes and/or a summary of the interview with that individual and that the file is closed until 2025. The interviewees spoke about how and why they became involved in the study of black history, their family and personal backgrounds, their involvement, if any, in student activism, and their profesional relationship with other academicians in the field. A relatively high percentage of these historians are Jewish -- these interviews discuss the ways in which their Jewish background influenced them professionally. Other material in these folders includes photocopies of selected journal articles (or occasionally original reprints), portions of books authored by these scholars, curriculum vita, correspondence, book reviews or other articles written about the scholar and other biographical material.

The section on Organizations contains photocopies of material found in archival repositories, notes, and newsclippings which illuminate research in black studies. Among the organizations included are the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the General Education Board, and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. The Subjects portions of this subseries consist of secondary source materials and contains categories such as historians and African Americans, slavery, reconstruction, historiography, black Ph.D.'s and early black history courses. The final section, Preparation of Book, consists of manuscript drafts, reviews of the manuscript including comments by John Bracey, research correspondence, correspondence with the publisher, and a paper Meier and Rudwick delivered based on the research for this book.

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