NARA Collection lbj-lwhite — Collection lbj-lwhite

March 1964 summaries from various agencies (including Justice, USIA, HEW, NASA, SBA, VA, Interior, AEC, and State) of civil rights achievements in the first one hundred days of the Johnson Administration; April 1964 draft campaign fact sheet on civil rights based on these summaries and entitled “Administration Record: Established Equal Opportunity.”

Material, including a list of targeted companies and an estimate of impact, concerning SCLC plans for a 1965 Alabama boycott; correspondence, estimate of impact, and other items regarding a 1965 Mississippi boycott.

Fact sheet on Autauga County; 8/12/65 memo from Hubert Humphrey to the President on the Title VI notice of hearing to Alabama; 3/11/65 summary of federal efforts in Selma; 1/29/64 report on Birmingham.

Two 5/27/64 memos regarding black unrest.

October 1963 memo on blacks appointed to positions in the Ohio state government.

Includes material on housing patterns, development of a directory of persons working for equal opportunity programs in the government, foreign service membership in segregated recreation clubs, the withdrawal of government sponsorship from a segregated seminar, inclusion of race designation on government forms, open housing for government employees, the reported closing of a Masonic lodge at Brookley AFB, requests for travel funds, antidiscrimination efforts by the military, discrimination in housing in an Illinois Motorola plant, an SBA pilot plan for loans to black businessmen, and suggested responses to magazine editors’ inquiries. Other items are James Farmer’s proposal for literacy training, a summary of functions and structure of civil rights agencies, a BOB agenda for a Task Force on Civil Rights Issues, an eight-page statement by the governor of the Virgin Islands, and drafts and press releases of presidential statements.

Material on compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, challenges to the seating of the Mississippi congressional delegation [by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party or MFDP], placement of race designation on government forms, a proposal for a Black astronaut, the release of "The Negro Family" (the Moynihan Report), racial tensions in Bogalusa, Louisiana, the resignations of two men from the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, Alabama’s non-compliance with federal civil rights legislation, jail conditions in Selma, Alabama, Treasury Secretary Fowler’s address to an all-white group in Birmingham, Alabama, AID hiring practices, the legality of making a government plane available to the widow of murdered civil rights leader Reverend Reeb, and a discussion of a response to the request by attorney William Kunstler that a federal Post Office building in Greenwood, Mississippi, be used to take depositions; notes from a 9/13/65 meeting with members of CORE, and excerpts from an NAACP annual report.

Memo and clipping regarding the refusal of the Georgia Legislature to seat Julian Bond; correspondence concerning a proposed state civil rights act in Kentucky.

Includes June-July 1964 material on voter registration and use of federal personnel for law enforcement, an April 1963 memo on curtailment of SBA financial assistance, a Mississippi Summer Project chronology of contacts with federal agents concerning the Philadelphia, Mississippi, murders, an October 1964 report on racial unrest in McComb and a UPI release on a 9/24/64 meeting between the President and three black women from Mississippi.

September 1963 – July 1964 material on federal participation in the Quadricentennial of the city, racial unrest, and SCLC request for protection and charges of federal inaction during a demonstration, including a 5/29/64 telegram from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the President and many other King-related items; SCLC pamphlet entitled “St. Augustine, Florida: 400 Years of Bigotry and Hate Supported and Maintained by Northern Tourist Dollars.”

Memoranda and other items regarding August 1965 rioting, possible federal disaster relief, and loans to black construction firms.

Correspondence and other material, including several items on the disappearance of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi, a list of New England students involved in the project, and a letter signed by thirty-eight northeastern educators requesting protection for the students.