Series VI: Race and Civil Rights, 1932-2008, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This series contains material reflecting Howard Zinn's involvement in the struggle for civil rights including articles and special reports written by Zinn; documents from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization for which he was an advisor; transcripts of interviews he conducted, including one with Stokely Carmichael; many clippings, court documents and publications. In addition, there is a good deal of research material on race, slavery, reconstruction and the civil rights movement.

Abolitionism: Slavery and the Ante-Bellum South, 1953-1966, undated

Box: 27, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Abolitionist": Article Reviewing Books by Staughton Lynd (with Zinn annotations), 1968, inclusive

Box: 27, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Abolitionists: Black, White (and other white reactions), 1951, 1964, undated

Box: 27, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Abolitionists: Lecture Materials, 1962-1968, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Acts of Violence (includes WATS Reports from SNCC and COFO), 1959-1977, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Affirmative Action, 1966, 1988, 1994-1995, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African Studies in America - The Extended Family - A Tribal Analysis of U.S. Africanists: Who They Are; Why to Fight Them, 1970, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Albany, Georgia: Charles Sherrod / SNCC, 1961-1964, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Albany, Georgia: Reports Written by Howard Zinn for the Southern Regional Council, 1962, 1963, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Articles Based on "The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort" (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights), 1970, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Atlanta (notes), 1960, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Atlanta: 30th Anniversary, The Atlanta University Center Civil Rights Movement (includes Certificate of Merit, Zinn, signed by Maynard Jackson), 1990, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Birmingham (articles), 1963, 2001, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Chronicle, 1971, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Justice, 1965-1970, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Justice, 1971-1978, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Movement, 1960s, 1977, 1988-1989, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Nationalism, 1966, 1968, 1983, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Black People and the Tyranny of American Law" by Haywood Burns, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nightmare?" by Gary Oldfield and Chungmei Lee, 2004, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1963-1965, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Civil War Issues, 1963-1975, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DuBois, W.E.B.: Writing Annotated by Zinn and Biographical Article, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Early Twentieth Century: Federal Government and the Negro, 1960, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Federal Involvement, 1963-1967, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Federal Involvement, 1963-1969, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Federal Involvement, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Georgia Justice, 1959, 1962, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Goodman (Andrew), Schwerner (Michael) and Chaney (James Earl), 1964, 1988-1989, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hampton, Fred, 1970-1976, undated

Box: 28, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hampton, Fred (includes copies of FBI documents and COINTELPRO materials), 1974-1977, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hampton, Fred: Court Documents (copies), 1975-1976, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hampton, Fred: Newspaper Clippings (copies), 1974-1976, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

In Memphis: More than a Garbage Strike by J. Edwin Stanfield, 1968, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Johnson and Civil Rights, 1958-1962, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Johnson and Civil Rights, 1963-1973, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Justice in the American South by Anthony Lester (pamphlet published by Amnesty International/UK), [1964], inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1960-1965,1984, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

King, Martin Luther Jr.: Race and Class, 1965-2007, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Law and Negro Rights 1960-1964, 1961-1967, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi (includes clippings re: James H. Meredith, enrollment at University of Mississippi), 1962-1964, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi: City of Hattiesburg v. Robert Moses - Hearing Transcript, Jan 23, 1964, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1992-2001, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi Summer, 1964, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi Summer: Clippings, 1964, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mississippi Summer: "Project Volunteers Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reunion Journal", 1989, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Negro History, 1948-1981, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer, 1965, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New Deal and the Negro, 1932-1973, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New South Volume 27 Number 4, 1972, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes and Draft: Zinn Review of The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, [1982], inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Post-Civil War Politics, 1954-1955, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1960-2008, undated

Box: 29, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1961-2002, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1963-1983, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1964-1995, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1870-1900 ("Overthrowing Radical Reconstruction"), undated

Box: 30, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race, 1945-1970, 1956-1969, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race - Notes, Drafts, Fragments, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Race-based Intelligence Controversy, 1980, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Racial Barriers in Sports, 1989, 1990, 1992, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Racism and the Death Penalty: James Victore Poster, 1993, inclusive

Flat-File-Folder: 7 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Reconstruction, 1950-1977, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reconstruction: Blacks and Law, 1963-1977, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reconstruction: Blacks and Law, 1965, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reconstruction: Radical Reconstruction, 1965-1975, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Robert F. Williams, 'Black Power,' and the Roots of the African American Struggle" by Timothy B. Tyson, 1998, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scottsboro (notes), 1980, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Slavery, 1968-1976, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Slavery, 1985-1991, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Slavery: Early Slavery, 1960-1976, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Southern Exposure Volume 11, Numbers 2 and 3, 1974, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Speech Transcripts: Bob Moses and Bayard Rustin, 1963, 1985, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Strategies, Electoral, 1977, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Documents, 1962-1965, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Documents, 1966, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Supreme Court, 1962-1989, undated

Box: 30, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transparencies, undated

Box: 31, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transparencies (includes Martin Luther King, Jr.), undated

Box: 31, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Trouble in Mind: The Bicentennial and the Afro-American Experience" by Leon F. Litwack, 1987, inclusive

Box: 31, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Various Materials, 1950-2002, undated

Box: 31, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Voting Rights, 1950, 1962-1967, undated

Box: 31, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Voting Rights, 1960-1968, undated

Box: 31, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Zinn Interview Transcripts: Mrs. Mattie Pilcher and Stokely Carmichael, 1963, inclusive

Box: 31, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)