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)
