Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection
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The Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection consists principally of the subject files concerning 1960s civil rights activism maintained by Arnie Goldwag, an officer of Brooklyn CORE during the first half of the 1960s. These files include correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions for demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to many of the actions conducted by Brooklyn CORE, particularly for the period 1961-1965. Actions represented in the collection include those protesting discrimination in employment, housing, schools, and the like, including the controversial initiative to block traffic in connection with the opening of the 1964 World's Fair. The collection also includes reminiscences by Goldwag and other CORE members looking back from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to Brooklyn CORE-related material, the collection includes material related to other 1960s activist groups, including those involved with civil rights, Vietnam War opposition, and draft resistance, among others.
Biographical / Historical
Arnold (Arnie) Stanley Goldwag was born on January 18, 1938. A resident of Brooklyn, Goldwag attended Brooklyn College beginning in 1955 where he held leadership positions in a range of organizations, including social fraternities, student government, and student rights groups. He left Brooklyn College about 1961 without graduating, though he was readmitted in 1966 and graduated in 1968.
While still at Brooklyn College in the late 1950s, Goldwag became involved in the activities of the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), starting with distributing fliers urging a boycott of Woolworth's. His role in the chapter expanded quickly, and in the years of Goldwag's active participation in CORE (1960-1965), he held leadership positions, principally as the Community Relations Director. In this position, Goldwag was responsible for press relations, publicity, and coordination with communities and demonstrators on the organization's direct actions. Over the course of his tenure in Brooklyn CORE, Goldwag participated in a number of actions, both locally, such as the 1963 Board of Education sit-in, and nationally, such as in Cambridge, Maryland, where Goldwag was involved in CORE's effort to desegregate public facilities. Goldwag's activism led to several arrests and a 13 month prison sentence in 1964; he served one month of the sentence in Rikers Island penitentiary.
Founded in Chicago in 1942, CORE was centered on the principles of interracial, nonviolent direct action. Local chapters that affiliated with national CORE had a great deal of autonomy of action. Within this structure, Brooklyn CORE emerged in the early 1960s as one of the most radical CORE chapters, focusing on the living conditions of poor African-Americans in Bedford-Stuyvesant and employing increasingly aggressive confrontational tactics. It was during this surging radical activism in Brooklyn CORE that Goldwag was a central figure in the chapter and in its many civil rights actions. Indeed, Goldwag was a principal creator of one of Brooklyn CORE's most controversial actions, the Stall-In at the opening of the 1964 World's Fair. This action, which called for the deliberate blockage of automobile traffic headed to the Fair in order to call attention to discrimination against African-Americans, led to the suspension of the chapter by CORE.
Subsequent to his days with CORE, which ended in 1965, and his 1968 graduation from Brooklyn College, Goldwag went to work for the New York City Human Resources Administration as a contract manager for home care programs. In the 1990s he went on leave to work for his union (Social Service Employees Union Local 371) as Health and Safety Coordinator. In the 1990s and 2000s, Goldwag was actively engaged in ensuring that the civil rights movement was remembered, and its continued struggle recognized. He participated in a number of conferences and oral histories, and opened his files to researchers. Arnie Goldwag died on August 9, 2008.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in two series: Subject Files and Books.
Scope and Contents
The Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection consists principally of the subject files concerning 1960s civil rights activism maintained by Arnie Goldwag, an officer of Brooklyn CORE during the first half of the 1960s. These files include correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions for demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to many of the actions conducted by Brooklyn CORE, particularly for the period 1961-1965. Actions represented in the collection include those protesting discrimination in employment, housing, local government services, schools, and the like. The collection includes actions, such as the Stall-In at the 1964 World's Fair, aimed at calling attention to discrimination practiced in Brooklyn and in the metropolitan New York City area, as well as participation in nationally-oriented initiatives, such as the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
While the collection documents Brooklyn CORE's actions as an organization, it also documents the intersection of activism with the life of an important activist, Arnie Goldwag. The collection includes documentation of Goldwag's student years at Brooklyn College, his military draft status, arrest records, correspondence written to him while in Rikers Island prison, his reflections on his CORE activism, and other material. In addition, personal correspondence to Goldwag from other former CORE activists often include reflections on their activism.
The collection holds little or no material on CORE from the years after 1965, and little material generally from the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the collection holds material from the 1980s-2000s that concern reunions, memorials, reminiscences, research papers, and other reflections on CORE, the civil rights struggle, and its continuing legacy.
In addition to Brooklyn CORE, there is material in the collection from other national and New York organizations concerned with civil rights actions, including the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Harlem Parents Committee, among others. There is also material from the mid to late 1960s concerning anti-Vietnam War and anti-draft matters, including newsletters from the Brooklyn-based organizations End the Draft and Committee for Peace Organization. The collection also includes photocopies of New York City Police Department reports concerning the activities of CORE and other organizations from the 1960s and early 1970s.
Finally, the collection includes a selection of books and pamphlets from Arnie Goldwag's library and lapel pins and buttons from election campaigns, anti-war demonstrations, union activities, etc. collected by Goldwag.
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Organizations
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People
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Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
The collection includes a wide range of materials, most of which BHS does not hold reproduction rights to. Permission to publish or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection, ARC.002, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The bulk of the collection was donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2009 by Gilda Goldwag, the wife of the late Arnie Goldwag. A second donation of some additional correspondence was made by Ms. Goldwag in 2010.
About this Guide
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Larry Weimer in January 2011. The collection combines two accessions: 2009.007 and 2010.004.
Repository
Series 1: Subject Files, 1950-2007, inclusive
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Subject Files principally includes correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions to demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to Brooklyn CORE's civil rights activism, particularly for the period 1961-1965. The documents in the series reflect actions on a number of fronts. Protests over garbage (Operation Clean Sweep), apartment/housing conditions, traffic, police brutality, and other problems facing the local community are well-represented, especially for the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Actions confronting employment discrimination are included, such as those involving Sealtest, Schaefer, White Castle, construction jobs at Downstate Medical Center, and Ebinger Baking; a copy of the signed agreement with Ebinger Baking concerning hiring of African-Americans and Puerto Ricans is in the series.
The series includes much on protests against de facto school segregation, including actions such as Operation Shutdown and Elaine and Jerome Bibuld's efforts to move their children from an underperforming minority-majority school to a more effective school. The series includes material on the Stall-In, Brooklyn CORE's well-publicized plan to back up traffic at the opening of the 1964 World's Fair as a protest against employment and other forms of discrimination.
Brooklyn CORE's response to national events is also documented. Responses included participation in the 1962 Freedom Highways program (CORE's challenge to segregated facilities), Operation Federal Intervention in Georgia (FIG), and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Local actions, including a call for a Christmas shopping boycott, in response to the church bombing and murder of children in Birmingham are represented. Letters written to editors and others protesting cultural imagery/representations of African-Americans in the press, comic strips, etc. are in the series.
In addition to Brooklyn CORE, other New York-area CORE chapters and organizations, such as the Harlem Parents Committee and the Metropolitan Council on Housing, were involved in the actions of the early 1960s, and the series includes documents related to them as well. Documents from national CORE, such as committee minutes, and national groups, especially the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), are included to a limited extent in the series.
The series also includes files that illuminate the human dimensions of civil rights activism, in the person of Arnie Goldwag. The series includes Goldwag's files of his activism at Brooklyn College in the late 1950s, his mid-1960s readmission and graduation, his selective service (draft) card, draft induction notice, and record of arrests principally during various civil rights actions. The series includes correspondence sent to Goldwag while he was in Rikers Island penitentiary and his reflections on CORE while in prison, as well as other correspondence to Goldwag from friends and family.
The focus of Subject Files on CORE actions centers on the first half of the 1960s; there is little material on CORE actions from later periods. Nevertheless, other local organizations continue to be represented through the 1960s, especially Vietnam War opposition/peace organizations such as End the Draft (ETD) and Committee for Peace Organization (CPO). Several of ETD's newsletter, downdraft, and CPO's newsletter, ergo, are in the series. Many documents relate to the military draft refusal trial of David Henry Mitchell, including End the Draft's downdraft commentary. Mitchell's lawyer was Conrad J. Lynn, the African-American civil rights attorney; Lynn also represented Goldwag in at least some of his legal matters, so documents prepared by Lynn on Goldwag's behalf are in the series. Nonetheless, with some exceptions, such as material related to Major Owens's 1986 congressional campaign, the series holds very little material from the 1970s and 1980s. Picking up in the 1990s and 2000s, the series includes memorials, tributes, obituaries, reminiscences, historical research papers, interviews, reunions, and other such material as Goldwag and other former CORE activists reflected back on their 1960s activism.
The series also holds many photocopies of police reports, notably from the New York City Bureau of Special Services, concerning protests, demonstrations, meetings, and other events held by CORE and other organizations in New York throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. These were presumably obtained by Goldwag in the 1990s or later in response to disclosure requests; a copy of at least one such request from Goldwag is in the series. Finally, the series holds a variety of lapel pins and buttons from election campaigns, anti-war demonstrations, union activities, and other matters.
Arrangement
Overall series arrangement
Arnie Goldwag's files were in no overall order when accessioned by BHS. Accordingly, the arrangement of this series was imposed by the archivist. The arrangement is roughly thematic and chronological.
The series opens with files that focus principally on CORE actions from 1961-1965, which was the period of Goldwag's main involvement with the organization. These files move from actions concerning local New York City area matters (e.g., local discrimination in housing, employment, education, etc.) to actions with a national orientation (e.g., support for civil rights in the South). Following the files that tend to have a focus on particular actions are those that hold newsletters, clippings, and other material concerned with various CORE and Brooklyn CORE matters.
Following the CORE-oriented segment is a small number of folders that relate to other activist organizations and subjects dating from the 1960s and 1970s. Following these are photocopies of New York City police reports on demonstrations and other actions by various groups, including CORE, from throughout the 1960s.
The series then turns to files that have an emphasis on Goldwag himself, including matters concerning his education at Brooklyn College, imprisonment at Rikers Island penitentiary, and other matters at the intersection of his activism and his personal life. The series closes with files dating from the 1980s-2000s that concern reunions, memorials, reminiscences, research papers, and other reflections on CORE, the civil rights struggle, and its continuing legacy.
As sharp as these dividing lines might appear, the researcher should be aware that there is a fair amount of overlapping material throughout the series so the arrangement described here should not be taken as rigid.
Folder content and descriptions
Although Goldwag's files were in no overall order, the bulk of the material was found in folders as labeled by Goldwag. All folder descriptions used by Goldwag were transcribed by the archivist to new archival folders and, with minor exception, content was left in the folder as Goldwag had it. To the extent that the archivist added clarifications to Goldwag's descriptions, these clarifications were shown in [brackets]. Non-substantive changes to labels (e.g., the original "Imp Assoc" rendered by the archivist as "Improvement Association") were not bracketed. Also shown in [brackets] were folder descriptions assigned by the archivist to material found in unlabeled folders or as loose material. Material found loose or in unlabeled folders was not combined by the archivist with materials on the same or similar topic from a Goldwag-labeled folder.
Some of Goldwag's folder descriptions included date ranges, and these were transcribed by the archivist to the new folders. However, these dates often were not entirely consistent with the folder's contents. Accordingly, the archivist also noted on all folders, below the description, the date range observed during processing; only the observed date range is included in the finding aid's container list.
Generally, the archivist discarded Goldwag's original folders because of their poor condition. However, in some instances the original folders had notations other than the label written on them. For these, either the original folder was retained within the new archival folder or, more commonly because of the poor condition of the original, a photocopy of the notation was retained.
Many of the folders contained newspaper clippings or other documents that had been taped or glued to paper backing that had contextual information (e.g., dates) written on it by Goldwag. Because the document had fallen away from the backing over time, the archivist photocopied the two documents together to show their original relationship. Generally in the case of text-only clippings, the originals were then discarded. Any photocopies made by the archivist and placed in the collection were noted as such in [brackets] on the copy; the notation [CPBA] found on many copies is an acronym for "clipping photocopied by archivist." Photocopies with no bracketed annotations were in the original Goldwag material.
Housing Sit-Ins (Misc), Etc., 1961-1964, inclusive
Whitings - Housing, 1962-1963, inclusive
Brooklyn, Etc. Rent Strikes; Rent Control, 1963-1964, inclusive
Rent Strike, 1963-1964, inclusive
Garbage [Bed-Stuy], 1950, 1962-1963, inclusive
Traffic - Bed-Stuy, 1963, inclusive
Community Problems - Misc, 1962-1964, inclusive
Employment Misc, 1963-1965, inclusive
Ebingers [Employment], 1962-1963, inclusive
White Castle - Bronx, Brooklyn, N.J., 1963-1965, inclusive
[Mayor's Action Panel - Union Hiring Recommendations], 1963, inclusive
Flower and Fifth, Beth-El, Bronxville [Hospitals], 1962-1965, inclusive
Harlem Hospital, 1963, inclusive
Downstate Medical Center [and other actions] - Lists, Etc. (3 folders), 1963-2003, inclusive
Civil Liberties, Religious Freedom, Academic Freedom, 1963-1965, inclusive
Jones Beach (L.I. CORE), 1963, inclusive
Long Beach (L.I. CORE), 1963, inclusive
Board of Ed - [Elizabeth] Weeks, [Leonard] Morris, 1963, inclusive
Board of Ed - Bibuld - Leaflets, Etc., 1962-1963, inclusive
Board of Ed - Bibuld, 1962-1963, inclusive
Board of Ed - Sit-Ins (Dec 16 and 30), 1963-1964, inclusive
[School] Boycott (Sept 9, 1963 and Feb 3, 1964), and 275 [Junior High School Integration], 1963-1964, inclusive
[School] Boycott #2 (March 16), 1964, inclusive
Schools - Misc Including PAT, Picketing, Etc., 1963-1964, inclusive
Operation Shutdown, 1964-1966, inclusive
Imagery, 1963-1966, inclusive
Misc Brutality Cases - NYC Police Dept, 1963-1964, inclusive
Morris Lewis [Shot by Police, Brooklyn], 1963, inclusive
CORE Picketing Etc. of Police Dept, 1963-1964, inclusive
Riots - Harlem, Philadelphia, Bedford-Stuyvesant, 1964-1966, inclusive
Independent Community Improvement Assoc - 125th St Boycott, 1964, inclusive
[Correspondence re: CORE Actions], 1963-1964, inclusive
Freedom Ride - Rallies, Film, Etc. and Freedom Highways, 1961-1962, 1965, 2001, inclusive
Cambridge, Maryland [Segregated Facilities], 1962-1963, inclusive
KKK - WCC - PAT, Etc., 1961-1965, inclusive
House UnAmerican Activities Committee - Activities, Etc. (HUAC), circa 1961-1966, inclusive
Demonstrations - Philadelphia [Chester]; N.J., 1962-1965, inclusive
Birmingham, 1963, inclusive
Christmas Buying Boycott, 1963-1964, inclusive
Bill Moore [Murder], Freedom March, 1963, inclusive
[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom], 1963, 2003, inclusive
March on Washington (Aug 20, 1963), Also Walk Brooklyn - DC, 1963-1964, 2003, inclusive
[March on Washington, photocopies of 1963 documents], circa 2003, inclusive
Southern Phenomena [Anti-discrimination Actions], 1960-1965, inclusive
Mississippi (Including Medgar Evers), 1963-1966, inclusive
Black Power, White Power, Jewish Power,Italian, etc., circa 1963-1966, 1989, inclusive
Selma, Alabama, 1965, inclusive
Misc Politics, 1962-1977, inclusive
[Brooklyn CORE Actions], 1961-1964, inclusive
[Event Announcements, Newsletters, Correspondence, Programs, Clippings, etc.] (2 folders), 1962-1964, inclusive
Clippings, 1962-1965, inclusive
[Clippings] (5 folders), 1963-1964, inclusive
[Clippings], 1963-1964, 1966, inclusive
[Clippings and Other Documents], 1962-1964, 1989, inclusive
Brooklyn CORE Newsletters (1 of 3), 1961-1965, 1967, inclusive
Brooklyn CORE Newsletters (2 of 3), 1964, inclusive
Brooklyn CORE Newsletters (3 of 3), 1963, 1983-2000, inclusive
CORE - Letterhead, Business Cards, Etc., circa 1963, inclusive
Constitutions, By-Laws - Brooklyn CORE, Brooklyn College CORE, National CORE, circa 1962-1964, inclusive
[CORE Sit-In Songs], 1962, inclusive
Freedom Songs, circa 1964, inclusive
[CORE Chapter Chairmen and Offices], 1964, inclusive
CORE Conventions - Minutes, Reports, Etc. and National Action Council Minutes, 1962-1964, inclusive
CORE Literature and Reports, circa 1956-1966, inclusive
In Freedom's Defense; Brooklyn Civil Rights Defense Committee Correspondence, 1964, inclusive
[The Zealots - Pan-Semitic Brotherhood], circa 1964, inclusive
RAM - Revolutionary Activity (Domestic), 1964-1967, 1973, inclusive
Alliance for Jobs or Income Now, circa 1965, inclusive
[Letters to Editor re: Malcolm X], 1965, inclusive
Plots - Statue of Liberty, Wilkins-Young [Assassination], 1965-1967, inclusive
SNCC Literature Etc., circa 1963-circa 1966, inclusive
Nuclear Weapons, Fallout, 1963, inclusive
fACTs, ergo [Committee for Peace Organization], 1961-1965, inclusive
Peace, Disarmament, circa 1963-1965, inclusive
Dave Mitchell vs United States [Draft Resistance], 1965-1967, inclusive
Vietnam - Publications (From and About), 1965-1966, inclusive
Vietnam - Protests, Criticism, 1965-1969, inclusive
Vietnam - The War, Internal Opposition, US Statements, 1967-1968, 1974, inclusive
Rosenberg - Sobell Case, 1963-1967, 1975-1978, 1983-1984, inclusive
[Dick Gregory for President Handbills], 1968, inclusive
[Brooklyn Committee in Defense of the Black Panthers - Statement], 1970, inclusive
KCLR [Community Action Group], 1971, inclusive
Migrant Labor, Grape Pickers, Etc., Coal Miners, 1960-1965, inclusive
[Unconstitutional Conditions, The Property Rights of Indigents, and Equal Protection Analysis, paper by Alan R. Wolfson], 1974, inclusive
Africa, So. America, Etc., Apartheid, Colonialism, Revolution, 1977, inclusive
[Children's Rights Report, ACLU publication] (2 folders), 1976-1979, inclusive
[Request for Disclosure of Police Department Files], 1986, 1991, inclusive
[Police Reports] Metropolitan Council on Housing, 1961-1971, inclusive
[Police Reports] Goldwag, Arnold, 1962-1971, inclusive
[Police Reports] Harlem Hospital, 1963, inclusive
[Police Reports] Rockaway Council of Civic Associations, 1963, inclusive
[Police Reports] East Harlem Triangle Civic Association (including CORE, Harlem Parents, Kinloch), 1963-1964, inclusive
[Police Reports] Procept, 1963-1964, inclusive
[Police Reports] Harlem Parents Committee, 1963-1965, 1968-1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] CORE Brooklyn - Rent Strikes and Police HQ; CORE - General, 1963-1964, 1977, inclusive
[Police Reports] School Boycott, 1963-1965, inclusive
[Police Reports] Mississippi Relief Committee, Mississippi-Alabama Southern Relief Committee, 1963, 1965, inclusive
[Police Reports] Independent Community Improvement Association, 1963, 1966, inclusive
[Police Reports] Hotel Industry - Discrimination, 1964, inclusive
[Police Reports] Alliance for Jobs and Income Now, 1964-1968, inclusive
[Police Reports] Police Brutality; Core and Brooklyn Freedom Democratic Movement, 1965, inclusive
[Police Reports] Saul Alinsky, Clergy Concerned, Citywide [Committee for Emergency Services], 1965-1966, inclusive
[Police Reports] SNCC, 1965, 1974, inclusive
[Police Reports] Rent Control, 1967, inclusive
[Police Reports] Peace and Freedom Party, United Farm Workers, 1967-1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] NYU - Washington Square, 1968, inclusive
[Police Reports] Poor Peoples Campaign (ML King), 1968, inclusive
[Police Reports] SDS [Columbia University Community Action Committee], 1968, inclusive
[Police Reports] Wallace for President [Rally at Park Sheraton], 1968, inclusive
[Police Reports] Vietnam / Hiroshima [Protest Demonstrations], 1968-1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] Freedom and Peace Party, 1968-1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] Hiroshima Week, 1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] Youth Against War and Facism, Anti Imperialism Rally, 1968, 1970, inclusive
[Police Reports] Cambridge, MD - [Caravan for] Justice 4 Rap Brown (Freedom and Peace Party), 1968-1969, inclusive
[Police Reports] Attica Prison Riot Protest - YAWF [Youth Against War and Fascism] and Others, 1971, inclusive
[Police Reports] (2 folders), 1962-1969, undated, inclusive
Arnie - Brooklyn College, 1956-1968, inclusive
[History and Analysis of Resistance to Military Conscription, 1863-1968, paper by Arnold Goldwag] (3 copies), 1968, inclusive
Notes and Source Material - Paper on History of the Draft - All Cases, Etc., Mitchell [includes photocopies of material dated circa 1917-1964] (3 folders), circa 1968, inclusive
The Metamorphosis of West African Religion and Culture in the Caribbean and the United States, paper by Arnold Goldwag, 1968, inclusive
Otis Gamm [Clippings from Kingsman, Brooklyn College], 1958-1961, inclusive
People vs Goldwag - Subway, 1961, inclusive
Select Service and Army, 1961-1963, 1967-1968, inclusive
U.S. Post Office - Application, Papers, Transcripts, Etc., 1963-1964, inclusive
Violation of Probation, 1963-1964, 1966, inclusive
Appointment Books, 1963-1964, inclusive
[Goldwag Prison Term], 1964, inclusive
Rikers Island Penitentiary, 1964-1965, inclusive
Personal - Correspondence (4 folders), 1962-1980s, inclusive
[Correspondence], 1989, 1998-2005, inclusive
[Miscellaneous Notes], circa 1964-circa 2000, inclusive
[Keypunched Cards], undated, inclusive
15 Crown [Realty], Crown St. Air Pollution, Crown Auto Laundry, 1966-1968, inclusive
Bushwick Correspondence, 1980-1983, inclusive
Cobble Hill [-Carroll Gardens Social Service Center], 1978-1981, inclusive
[Major Owens], 1986-2002, inclusive
Marches, Demonstrations - Georgia, Wash DC, NY, Etc., 1963, 1983-2002, inclusive
Health, Vitamins, Etc., 1972-2005, inclusive
House, Outdoors, Indoors, 1983-2003, inclusive
First Annual Leadership Training Institute and Civil Rights Reunion (2 folders), 1990, inclusive
[First Annual Leadership Training Institute and Civil Rights Reunion], 1990-1991, inclusive
[Isaiah House Brochure], circa 1990, inclusive
[Bloodlines, Publication of Rural Organizing and Cultural Center], 1988, 1990, inclusive
[Free at Last, Publication of Southern Poverty Law Center], 1989, inclusive
[Freedom Riders Commemorative Conference], 1991, inclusive
[Appeal to this Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement, Exhibition Catalog], 1994, inclusive
[CORE Reunions] (3 folders), 1989, 1999-2000, inclusive
[CORE Reunion and James Farmer Tribute - Member Contact Effort], 1962, 1966, 1999, inclusive
[Miscellaneous Civil Rights Material], 1998, 2000, inclusive
People I Know (2 folders), circa 1986-2003, inclusive
Death, Obits - CORE, Union, Etc., circa 1985-2004, inclusive
[James Farmer Memorials], 1997, 1999, 2001, inclusive
[Memorials and Tributes], 1988-1989, 2002, 2006, inclusive
[Long Walk to Freedom, Exhibition Pamphlet], 2001, inclusive
[Historical Research Papers, Requests, and Proposals] (3 folders), 1985-2006, inclusive
General
Includes research papers written by Brian J. Purnell concerning CORE actions.
[Clippings], 1983-2007, inclusive
[Lapel Pins and Buttons - Elections, Anti-War, etc.] (2 boxes), circa 1960-circa 2000, inclusive
Series 2: Books, 1943-1993, inclusive
Language of Materials
Extent
Scope and Contents
The Books series includes published material from Arnie Goldwag's library. These are primarily non-fiction books and pamphlets concerning African-Americans, civil rights, race relations, racial violence, black militancy, social conditions, and related topics. A small number of books are inscribed to Goldwag by activists Kwane Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), Dick Gregory, Gloria Richardson, and Conrad Lynn. There are a small number of issues of Landscapes and Nocturne, literary publications from Brooklyn College.
Arrangement
The container list is arranged in alphabetical order by author. The actual books are boxed in no particular order.
Addlestone, David F., Susan H. Hewman, et al., The Rights of Veterans, 1978, inclusive
Adelman, Bob, Down Home: Camden, Alabama, 1972, inclusive
AFSCME, Passing the Bucks, 1984, inclusive
Al-Amin, Imam Jamil (H. Rap Brown), Revolution by the Book, 1993, inclusive
General
Inscribed by author
American Oil Company, American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments, 1963, inclusive
Americans for Democratic Action, A Citizen's Guide to the Right Wing, circa 1978, inclusive
Aptheker, Herbert, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, 1968, inclusive
Aptheker, Herbert, Heavenly Days in Dixie, or The Time of Their Lives, 1974, inclusive
Bailey, F. Lee, The Defense Never Rests, 1972, inclusive
Beck, Robert, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, 1971, inclusive
Belfrage, Sally, Freedom Summer, 1966, inclusive
Bennett, Jr. Lerone, The Negro Mood, 1965, inclusive
Bernard, Mitchell, Ellen Levine, et al., The Rights of Single People, 1985, inclusive
Bettelheim, Bruno, Love is Not Enough, 1965, inclusive
Bill Adler Books, The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, 1968, inclusive
Birmingham, Stephen, The Right People, 1969, inclusive
Blair, Jr. Clay, The Strange Case of James Earl Ray, 1969, inclusive
Blaustein, Albert P.and Robert L. Zangrando, Civil Rights and the American Negro, 1968, inclusive
Boggan, E. Carrington, Marilyn G. Haft, et al., The Rights of Gay People, 1983, inclusive
Boggs, James, The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook, 1963, inclusive
Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters, 1988, inclusive
Breitman, George (ed.), Malcolm X Speaks, 1966, inclusive
Breitman, George (ed.), Malcolm X on Afro-American History, 1967, inclusive
Brooklyn College, Landscapes Fall 58, 1958, inclusive
Brooklyn College, Landscapes Spring 58, 1958, inclusive
Brooklyn College, Landscapes Spring 59, 1959, inclusive
Brooklyn College, Nocturne Spring 1963, 1963, inclusive
Brooklyn College, Nocturne Spring 1967, 1967, inclusive
Brown, Claude, The Children of Ham, 1976, inclusive
Brown, Jr, Turner, Black Is, 1969, inclusive
Carlson, John Roy, Under Cover, 1943, inclusive
Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, 1967, inclusive
Carroll, Ted, White Pills, 1964, inclusive
Chapman, Abraham (ed.), Black Voices, 1968, inclusive
Chrisman, Robert and Nathan Hare (ed.), Contemporary Black Thought, 1973, inclusive
Clarke, John Henrik (ed.), Harlem: A Community in Transition, 1964, inclusive
Cleaver, Eldridge, Soul on Ice, 1968, inclusive
Cleaver, Eldridge, Post-Prison Writings and Speeches, 1969, inclusive
Cohen, Jerry and William S. Murphy, Burn, Baby, Burn!, 1966, inclusive
Collier, John, Indians of the Americas, circa 1960, inclusive
Comer, James, Beyond Black and White, 1972, inclusive
Corwin, Norman, Overkill and Megalove, 1963, inclusive
Countdown Mag (ed.), Countdown 1, 1970, inclusive
Dailey, Louis E., The Sin or Evils of Integration, 1962, inclusive
deCoy, Robert H., The Nigger Bible, 1967, inclusive
Dorman, Michael, We Shall Overcome, 1965, inclusive
Dorson, Richard M. (ed.), American Negro Folktales, 1967, inclusive
Douglas, William O., America Challenged, 1960, inclusive
Douglas, William O., The Right of the People, 1962, inclusive
Du Bois, W.E.B., John Brown, 1962, inclusive
Du Bois, W.E.B., An A.B.C. of Color, 1963, inclusive
Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks, 1968, inclusive
Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, 1968, inclusive
Feldmann, Susan (ed.), African Myths and Tales, 1963, inclusive
Franklin, John Hope (intro), 3 Negro Classics: Up from Slavery [Washington]; The Souls of Black Folk [Du Bois]; The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man [Johnson], 1965, inclusive
Free, Revolution for the Hell of It, 1968, inclusive
Friedman, Paul R., The Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, 1976, inclusive
Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Liberal Hour, 1964, inclusive
Gardner, John W., In Common Cause, 1973, inclusive
Gary, Romain, White Dog, 1970, inclusive
Ginzburg, Ralph, 100 Years of Lynchings, 1969, inclusive
Gitlin, Todd, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, 1987, inclusive
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot, 1967, inclusive
Goodman, Mary Ellen, Race Awareness in Young Children, 1964, inclusive
Goodman, Paul (ed.), Seeds of Liberation, 1964, inclusive
Gover, Robert, Here Goes Kitten, 1964, inclusive
Grant, Joanne (ed.), Black Protest, 1968, inclusive
Gregory, Dick, Nigger: An Autobiography, 1965, inclusive
General
Inscribed by author.
Gregory, Dick, The Shadow That Scares Me, 1968, inclusive
Gregory, Dick, Write Me In!, 1968, inclusive
General
Inscribed by author.
Grier, William H. and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage, 1968, inclusive
Griffin, John Howard, Black Like Me, 1962, inclusive
Guevara, Che, Guerrilla Warfare, 1961, inclusive
Guggenheim, Martin and Alan Sussman, The Rights of Young People, 1985, inclusive
Haley, Alex, Roots, 1976, inclusive
Halsell, Grace, Soul Sister, 1970, inclusive
Hentoff, Nat, The New Equality, 1965, inclusive
Hernton, Calvin C., Sex and Racism in America, 1966, inclusive
Herrick, Arnold and Herbert Askwith (ed.), This Way to Unity, 1945, inclusive
Hersey, John, The Algiers Motel Incident, 1968, inclusive
Hirschfield, Robert S., The Constitution and The Court, 1965, inclusive
Holmes, Beth, The Whipping Boy, 1979, inclusive
Hughes, Langston (ed.), The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, 1967, inclusive
Huie, William Bradford, 3 Lives for Mississippi, 1965, inclusive
Huie, William Bradford, The Hiroshima Pilot, 1965, inclusive
Hunter, John Francis, The Gay Insider/USA, 1972, inclusive
Hunter, Kristin, The Landlord, 1969, inclusive
Jackson, George, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, 1970, inclusive
James, Beauregard, The Road to Birmingham, 1964, inclusive
John Birch Society, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 1961, inclusive
Joseph, Stephen M. (ed.), The Me Nobody Knows, 1969, inclusive
Kelly, Philip J., How to Grow Old Rebelliously, 1963, inclusive
Killens, John Oliver, The Cotillion, 1971, inclusive
Killian, Lewis and Charles Grigg, Racial Crisis in America, 1964, inclusive
Kohl, Herbert, 36 Children, 1968, inclusive
Kozol, Jonathan, Death at an Early Age, 1968, inclusive
Lanternari, Vittorio, The Religions of the Oppressed, 1965, inclusive
Lavan, George (ed.), Che Guevara Speaks, 1968, inclusive
Lederer, William J., A Nation of Sheep, 1962, inclusive
Leinwand, Gerald, Problems of American Society: The Negro in the City, 1968, inclusive
Leinwand, Gerald, Problems of American Society: Poverty and the Poor, 1968, inclusive
Leinwand, Gerald, Problems of American Society: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, 1968, inclusive
Leinwand, Gerald, Problems of American Society: The Slums, 1970, inclusive
Lester, Julius, Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama, 1969, inclusive
Levine, Roy, The New Apology, 1960, inclusive
Lewis, Anthony, Gideon's Trumpet, 1964, inclusive
Lewis, Oscar, Five Families, 1959, inclusive
Lewis, Oscar, La Vida, 1968, inclusive
Lipsyte, Robert, The Contender, 1969, inclusive
Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax, Folk Song U.S.A., 1966, inclusive
Lomax, Louis E., When the Word is Given . . ., 1963, inclusive
Ludwig, Bernard, Problems of American Society: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 1968, inclusive
Lynn, Conrad J., How to Stay Out of the Army, 1967, inclusive
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Lyon, Danny, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1992, inclusive
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Maas, Peter, The Valachi Papers, 1969, inclusive
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965, inclusive
Marshall, Paule, Soul Clap Hands and Sing, 1961, inclusive
Marshall, Paule, Brown Girl, Brownstones, 1970, inclusive
Marwick, Christine M., Your Right to Government Information, 1985, inclusive
Meier, August and Elliot Rudwick, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968, 1975, inclusive
Milbauer, Barbara and Gerald Leinwand, Problems of American Society: Drugs, 1970, inclusive
Mills, C. Wright, The Causes of World War Three, 1961, inclusive
Monte, Anita and Gerald Leinwand, Problems of American Society: Riots, 1970, inclusive
Moody, Anne, Coming of Age in Mississippi, 1968, inclusive
Moon, Bucklin, The Darker Brother, 1943, inclusive
N.Y. Committee to Free Angela Davis (ed.), Lectures on Liberation by Angela Y. Davis, circa 1970, inclusive
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968, inclusive
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility, 1971, inclusive
Nelson, Truman, The Torture of Mothers, 1964, inclusive
Neuborne, Burt and Arthur Eisenberg, The Rights of Candidates and Voters, 1980, inclusive
Norfleet, Marvin Brooks, Forced School Integration in the U.S.A., 1961, inclusive
Norwick, Kenneth P. and Jerry Simon Chasen, The Rights of Authors and Artists, 1984, inclusive
O'Neill, William L. (ed.), Echoes of Revolt: The Masses, 1911-1917, 1966, inclusive
Orben, Bob (ed.), Dick Gregory: From the Back of the Bus, 1966, inclusive
Outten, Wayne N. and Noah A. Kinigstein, The Rights of Employees, 1984, inclusive
Pevar, Stephen L., The Rights of Indians and Tribes, 1983, inclusive
Pioneer Publishers (ed.), Two Speeches by Malcolm X, 1965, inclusive
Rainwater, Lee, Behind Ghetto Walls, 1970, inclusive
Randall, Dudley and Margaret G. Burroughs, For Malcolm X, 1967, inclusive
Reeves, Ambrose, Shooting at Sharpeville, 1961, inclusive
Ritter, Bruce, Sometimes God Has a Kid's Face, 1988, inclusive
Robertson, John A., The Rights of the Critically Ill, 1983, inclusive
Rogers, J.A., From "Superman" to Man, 1953, inclusive
Rogers, J.A., 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro, 1957, inclusive
Rosengarten, Theodore, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, 1975, inclusive
Ross, Susan Deller and Ann Barcher, The Rights of Women, 1983, inclusive
Roth, Philip, Our Gang, 1973, inclusive
Rubin, David and Steven Greenhouse, The Rights of Teachers, 1984, inclusive
Rubin, Jerry, Do It!, 1970, inclusive
Ruchames, Louis (ed.), A John Brown Reader, undated
Scheer, Robert (ed.), The Diary of Che Guevara, 1968, inclusive
Schneir, Miriam (ed.), Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, 1972, inclusive
Schulman, L. M. (ed.), Come Out the Wilderness, 1965, inclusive
Seale, Bobby, Seize the Time, 1970, inclusive
Sforza, Count Carlo (ed.), The Living Thoughts of Machiavelli, 1958, inclusive
Slim, Iceberg, Mama Black Widow, 1969, inclusive
Smith, Edgar, Brief Against Death, 1969, inclusive
Smith, Edgar, A Reasonable Doubt, 1971, inclusive
Smith, Huston, The Religions of Man, 1963, inclusive
Smith, Lillian, Strange Fruit, 1944, inclusive
Smith, Lillian, Killers of the Dream, 1961, inclusive
Southern Labor Institute, Now Is the Time, 1986, inclusive
Stahl, David, Frederick B. Sussman, et al., The Community and Racial Crises, 1966, inclusive
Stang, Alan, It's Very Simple, 1965, inclusive
Stark, James and Howard W. Goldstein, The Rights of Crime Victims, 1985, inclusive
Stearn, Jess, Sisters of the Night, 1956, inclusive
Sterling, Philip (ed.), Laughing on the Outside, 1965, inclusive
Stetson, Erlene (ed.), Black Sister, 1981, inclusive
Stone, I.F., In A Time of Torment, 1967, inclusive
Stringfellow, William, My People is the Enemy, 1966, inclusive
Summers, Clyde W. and Robert J. Rabin, The Rights of Union Members, 1979, inclusive
Sussman, Alan and Martin Guggenheim, The Rights of Parents, 1980, inclusive
Sutherland, Elizabeth (ed.), Letters from Mississippi, 1966, inclusive
Suttles, Gerald D., The Social Order of the Slum, 1973, inclusive
Tanner, Leslie B. (ed.), Voices from Women's Liberation, 1971, inclusive
Taylor, Telford, Grand Inquest, 1961, inclusive
Thomas, Piri, Down These Mean Streets, 1968, inclusive
Toffler, Alvin, Future Shock, 1970, inclusive
Ture, Kwane (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, 1992, inclusive
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