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BOX 3-4 Civil Rights, 1947-1990
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, financial and legal records, reports, speeches and writings, congressional testimony, printed matter, newspaper clippings, photocopies, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson's activities on behalf of the African American community and his support of the civil rights movement.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
BOX 3 African affairs
African American Students Foundation, Project Airlift Africa
Correspondence, 1959-1962, undated
Scrapbook, 1959
American Committee on Africa
Boycott of the 1968 Olympics, 1956-1958, 1968, 1990, undated
Miscellany, 1961
American University in Liberia proposal, 1960
Business and investment opportunities, 1957-1961
Human rights and politics, 1962, undated
Allied Organizations for Civil Rights in Kentucky, 1964
Commission on Negro History and Culture, 1967-1968
Congress of Racial Equality
Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Memorial Center, Meridian, Miss., 1964-1965, undated
Miscellany, 1961, undated
Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund, 1964-1966
Correspondence, 1960-1970, undated
Elks, fraternal order, 1957, undated
Hate mail, 1962-1963
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Death and memorials, 1968
BOX 4 Open house jazz festival, 1963
Labor relations, 1960-1962
March on Washington, 1963
Marshall, Thurgood, 1962
Medgar Evers Memorial Fund, 1964
Miscellany, 1950, 1962, 1972, undated
Mount Olive Baptist Church, Sasser, Ga., rebuilding program, 1963-1964
NAACP
Awards
Annual Merit Award, 1947
Spingarn Medal, 1956-1957
Correspondence, 1954-1964
Criticism of leadership, 1967, undated
Financial statements, 1958
Jackie Robinson Day, 1958
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Ark., 1957-1958
Miscellany, 1958-1969, undated
Photocopies from the records of the NAACP, Library of Congress
Articles and writings, 1957-1963, undated
Freedom Fund speaking tour
Correspondence, 1956-1962
Evers, Medgar, 1957-1961
Miscellany, 1956-1964, undated
Press coverage, 1957, undated
Southern Christian Leadership Conference testimonial dinner, 1962 See also Container 2, same heading
Trade union and political issues, 1957-1962
Wilkins, Roy, 1958-1967, undated
Reports, 1958
Special Contribution Fund, 1964
Speeches, 1957, 1967
Wilkins, Roy, 1957-1958, 1964-1965
Pheasant Valley Golf and Country Club, Lewisboro, N.Y., 1966-1967
Seals, Willie, 1962
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1962-1963, 1971
Stamford, Conn., 1963-1968, undated
Student Emergency Fund, 1960-1961, undated
Testimony before the Small Business Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, 1969
United Negro College Fund, 1962-1963
X, Malcolm, 1963
BOX 5-6 Political File, 1949-1986
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, speeches and writings, congressional testimony, printed matter, newspaper clippings, photocopies, and miscellaneous items concerning Robinson's relations with various politicians and their political campaigns.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
BOX 5 Bowles, Chester, 1958-1963
Correspondence, 1956-1966, undated
Harriman, W. Averell, 1955-1957
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Correspondence, 1960-1965
Miscellany, 1960, undated
Photocopies from the Hubert H. Humphrey Papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn., 1960-1968
Keating, Kenneth B., 1961-1963
Miscellany, 1960
Nixon, Richard M.
Correspondence, 1958-1961, 1969-1972
Newspaper clippings, 1968
Photocopies from the Richard M. Nixon Papers, 1957-1962, undated
Powell, Adam Clayton (1908-1972), 1960-1963, undated
Presidential administrations
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1958
Kennedy, John F.
Correspondence and memoranda, 1961-1963
Kennedy, Robert F., 1961-1963
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Newspaper clippings, 1965
Photocopies from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Tex., 1964-1967, undated
Presidential campaigns
1960
Democratic party, 1960, 1984, undated
Republican party, 1960
1964
Goldwater, Barry, 1964
Public response to "The GOP for White Men Only?" by Jackie Robinson, Saturday Evening Post, 1963
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1964
1968
Republican party, 1960-1968
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Correspondence, 1958-1973
Miscellany, 1963-1968, undated
BOX 6 Photocopies from the Rockefeller Archives Center, N. Tarrytown, N.Y., 1950-1968, 1986
Special assistant for community affairs, 1966-1968
Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Correspondence, 1956
Miscellany, 1949, 1960, 1979, undated
Photocopies
Arthur Mann Papers, Library of Congress, undated
Branch Rickey Papers, Library of Congress, 1949-1950, 1963, undated
BOX 6-7 Business and Corporate File, 1952-1981
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, financial and legal records, reports, minutes of meetings, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson's business interests following his baseball career.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
BOX 6 Business proposals
Foreign, 1957, 1964-1966, undated
Miscellaneous, 1952-1971
Chock Full O'Nuts
Antisemitism, 125th St. restaurant controversy, 1962
Correspondence, 1957-1963
Financial records, 1959-1966, undated
Minutes of board of directors meetings, 1961-1963
Miscellany, 1958, undated
Personnel
Applications, 1962
Correspondence, 1957-1963, undated
Dismissals, 1963
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