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Folder, "1962, HUA - HUG," Master File, VP Papers, Box 23 (Item)

and the invitation to speak at Birmingham's National Veterans Day ohservance November iZtb. I couldn't make it last year, as you know, and I won't be able to make it this year. I am sorry but the pressures of a very full, a very heavy schedule prevent my adding

Folder, "Southern Christian Leadership Conference," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 73a (Item)

. lBE¥lIIAb •• I POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN THE NORTHEASTERfl CARAVfl.M OF THE POOR PEOPLE0 S C{~MPtiICtJ LEFT NEWYORKCITY ADOUTNOONTODAYWITH ABOUTFOURHUNDRED PEOPLEENROUTE TO I-JE~·!ARX$NEW .JERSEY t,JHERE THEY PLAN TO SPErm THE t.JIGHT~ "F'HEC:DOt;I

Folder, "Interim Review of the Billie Sol Estes Matter, U.S. Department of Agriculture, June 26, 1962," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 2 (Item)

Decides on Cotton Allotment Transfers The New Mexico Case The Williams Inquiry The Bridgforth Memorandum Correspondence with Congressman Mahon The Manwaring Memorandum The Regulations are Amended The Estes Scheme The Texas Meetings The Fort Stockton

Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1965," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

. As to Tweed and Segal, they have worked extremely hard without compensation to make this Committee successful. This letter would constitute the only recognition of their efforts. The letter to Seymour and Marshall is important as it might give a new direction

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 1, 3/18/65 - 3/24/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]," WHCF HU, Box 24 (Item)

eport that another bomb had been found in a Birmingham school. A demolition team was sent to take care of it. There is no further information on this at pr esent . [8 of 8] . 3/22/65 FOR THE RECORD : The attached press release constitutes the only

Folder, "Passage and Signature," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)

of S. 3010 as amended, is to centr~lize in one new Cabinet-level department the responsibility for leadership in the development, direction, and coordination of the principal transporta tion policies, functionsJ .and operations of the Federal

Folder, "1961, HUA - HUG," Master File, VP Papers, Box 23 (Item)

for 'her blx'thday. All good.wt&hes to you for a happy HnHday Lyndon B. Jol'tnson Mtsa :Mary B. ~ 405 Bast 63rd Street New York 21, N. Y. LBJ:V\TDT December 8, 1961 Dear Mr. Hughey: • I am sorry that Ambassador Zortn left the ·meeting ln New York

Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)

anticipation of Negro violenc e l ed to heavy- handed uses of official for ce that provoked violence which might not have othe~wi~e occurred , The news media , for their part , sometimes shared in c r e atine a c limate in which viol ence could be expected

Folder, "THE HARVEST OF AMERICAN RACISM: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 1 (Item)

dominant motives . As Negro vi6l~nce begins to abate, a new phase of dis order is inaugurated . . Thi$ is the period in which control authorities begin to re-asserttheir dominance. It is also a _period in wh.;i.ch much of the la,vlessness comes from

Folder, "I," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)

• , • :.•.••.•·.•.--~·,·:~._;.=, ...·•·•.··.· it will s.ay things that people already around it. It is a new version of the =•.:::.>·:....:::··:,.. ·, .'\ . ·; •· · • ·. . " ·~•. •. '. •·f •...: ··:·know; things they know, but haven't Bible story: Jonah has the comfortable-~::•-:,• .. ·i'.i

Folder, "March 12-18, 1965 [Selma Situation]," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 15 (Item)

FOR A MASS CI VIL RI GHTS DEMONSTRAT I ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON I N LAFAYETTE SQUARE JUST ACROSS PENNSYLVANI A VE. FROM THE WHI TE HOUSE . WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY REEDY HELD UP HI S USUAL MI DDAY NEWS BR I EF I NG UNTIL THE CI VIL RI GHTS CO NFERENCES WERE

Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [2 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)

will do so. .... S.., U.S. Sllfli•t,s BtmJs R11,tJMly tm tb, Pdpoll SMmt,s Pl1111 I 75 NEW BRUNSWICK All during the weekend that violence sputtered, · flared, subsided, then flared again in Plainfield, in New Brunswick, less than 10 miles away

Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #3," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)

) Oklahoaa (RM) 1- NISO, New Orleans, Louisiana (RM) GERALDLEWISGEARY OfflCII: Dallas, Texas 1/31/68 FlelclOffice FIieNo., 100-11486 Titles BLACKNATIONALISTIIOVEIIENT DALLASDIVISIOH Chaiacten INTERN.AL SECURITY- BLACKN.ATIONALIS~ 2- Copyto, 2- Repo

Folder, "NUCLEAR - Nuclear Detonation - CHICOM Bomb," Files of Charles E. Johnson, NSF, Box 36 (Item)

. 3/19/2009 ---- Initials - THE NEW YORK TIMES, 'Pf[URSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1968 China', Late,t At~m.. Teat I• -Believed a Failure . ~ IIY JORNW. FINNEY -.i .. '1'1111..., Tenll'lmle WASRINGTON,Jan. :f-Pre- '· ,. UJ. lfetn • Ducr,,-c1 off

Folder, "Frankhouser, Roy E.," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)

,A.,KKICK., for Pennsylvania·. _This article quoted DESMOMD as saying that ROY :V,RIU·OOI0USER. had been kick ed out of the Klan because he was too nueh an :American Nazi. · ~e "Reading Fagle," :tn its issue of April 11, 1966., carried a news item denying

Folder, "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68 [3 of 3]," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)

said he was hopeful that we could give Mr. Shearer some encouraging news within the week. Meanwhile, it would be very much in Jamaica's interest to play the whole problem in low key. Mr. Shearer on this understood and thanked Mr. Mann for receiving

Collection, Papers of Virginia Durr (entire collection) (Item)

programs -- overcoming poverty, opening up new opportunity, and making the American system of freedom work. • ·, .• Lady Bird joins me in very warm regards. ·'· Mrs. Virginia Durr 17 Molton Street Building Montgomery 4, Alabama ... l" I ···i

Folder, "Gen LE/AG 5-1 [LEGISLATION - PEST CONTROL]," WHCF LE, Box 27 (Item)

to languish in the Agriculture Committees of both bodieo. Every year Farm Magazines, Trade Journals and the NAC News inform us of the ever-increasing amounts of economic poisons used in agriculture in this Country. The Apr:iJ. 1968 issue of NAC News states

Folder, "Young, Whitney M. (Jr.)," Name Files, WHCF, Box Y-041 (Item)

· Hon. Charles Schultze Harry McPherson YOUNG, Mrs. Whitney 29 Mohegan Place New Rochelle, New York First Floor by the President 17 L.1 on MAY 8, 1967 5: 57p-6:40p - Mansion Mrs. Johnson's RECEPTION in the Conference of Women Poverty REMARKS

Folder, "Demonstration – October 20-21, 1967 [2 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 64C (Item)

from the following areas: Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; Westport, Connecticut; Southern California; Cleveland, Ohio; Madison, Wisconsin; Harpur College, Binghamton, New

Folder, "Jamaica, Visit of Prime Minister Hugh Shearer," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)

-€6dF !DEN l lft.T, Background of Pri~e Hugh Shearer the death leadership. heads Shearer's an intention Shearer will be attending arrive Embassy in Kingston way or another I am new at this President that here, in Washington in London, he

Folder, "Disturbances - Spring 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)

, THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEUBER7, 1964 STA'£E OF NEW YORK New York City July 17 2 1964, through July 31, 1964 • Following the shooting of fifteen-year-old James :>owell, a Negro, in New York City

Folder, "IDA (Institute for Defense Analysis)," Records of the NCCPV (Eisenhower Commission), Series 11, Box 4 (Item)

and days after the news came, it must be pierced or hurt. Envy reaches out to have made countless people feel that pull them down. So there are causes, a there is nothing to count on, nothing pattern of explanation, that can be of secure enough to make

Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1964," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

assassination -- to reassure a nervous world that "the gove nment in Washington lives", and to acquaint millions abroad with the new leader of America and the free world. Minutes after the bullets struck John Kennedy, USIA threw all its resources into this task

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1940-1944]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)

and ;.;.entilled "The New Fight foT ? Freedom:" : .,.. Mr. Chairman and Ladies and : .:Gentlemen: You are officially conferring ~::,.i_pon · me tonight the greatest ~onor ot my life. The office of ~ice President under the Consti• :;:li.i~on serves in a unique way

Folder, "Volume I, Documentary Supplements, Speeches and Remarks Made by the Secretary and the Officials in the Department," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 3 (Item)

to the· total transportation picture in North America and to the role of air transport. - 3 What I will --That ask of you you be aware of --that you be aware.of new technology; of --and that your actions today is quite the desires

Folder, "Vidnjevich, Christopher," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 12 (Item)

from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Post Office Box 783, Birmingham, Alabama. · · Issue No. 69, dated July, 1965-, of "The Thunder-b olt" announced the address of the new headquarters ot the NSRP as Post Office Box 184, Augusta, · Georgia. Issue No. 88

Folder, "General Analine Film Corp - Alien Property Settlement (see also Jack Frye) [I. G. Farben]," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 283-1 (Item)

on June 30, 1.Wli WESTERN UNION ~~ PRE~§..M~~~AGE ~~~ WESTERN UNION PRE~~-.M~§~AGE ~- ~ i.--1 ~---- ~·.t "\is, ~. -----1. ~- @) ~ .:t- ...t..,w:JL. ~ ..~.J~- I HOWARD WATSON P, 0, BOX 277 WESTFIELD, AMBRUSTER NEW Tltl.lORAM ■~ JERSEY

Folder, "Ex FG 731 President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity 5/20/64 - 6/9/64," WHCF FG Subject Files, Box 402 (Item)

••• &D4peace. Aa wo move now In the battle• apln•t poverty &114dl1c.-\m 1oattma. we aaJute bl• memo17 bf advancln1 bla propam. to buU4 a Great Soclet,. Slllcue11, le Mr. WIJJtem PoUock Prosldont >'\ ~ TextUo Workaa UnloD of Amorlca "Hilton Hotel, New York

Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1943]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 24 (Item)

r To the aaall buaine,? \ it mean• tree enterprise dthout tnr to sahool. tajt•, -~r unjust g0vemaent. of bic monopoly, 1.Jlpoeaible \ ta 'tory ~~ in the armed service• are talldng • "ni• oolllllOll aon in the 'l'bey haff learned new skill

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 24, March 16 - 31, 1967 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 14 [2 of 2] (Item)

~l:~ _step needed be£o~ promulgatio~·.0£ t~e • :,,. . ~;:,:.:;•'·,;: ··. . ··•· ·. new Constitution, la _a pptc,val by t,he anned .torce~ council .;. and I. , I 0 .-

Folder, "Final Profiles - Working Copy," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)

map across the room. Curvin 10 & 11 p. 40 - Last paragraph. The carloads of police officers were not reinforcements; they were officers reporting in for a new shift. Melchior 8 p. 41 - First full paragraph. The molotov cocktails were thrown just

Folder, "Volume I - Narrative History, Part III, Administration of the Department," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 1 (Item)

considerably Secretary easier in to the new Depart made the transition than it might otherwise have been. Besides personnel and personnel from Mr. Boyd's Bureau at Commerce, functions were transferred to the Department ~Agency, Coast Guard

Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, February, 1960," Telephone Transcripts, Office Files of Walter Jenkins, Box 1 (Item)

. '11be people in New Orleans are upset. They are watching the MutiGraa very care.fully. l talked with a friend of mine who ts With the nmesPicayune. He says It ls unfortunate that this Civil Rights bill ls coming up Just \1Uhenthey are having all

Collection, Papers of James Cato Pattillo (entire collection) (Item)

, 1960. Mrd. Lyndon B. Johnson, 4921 Thirtieth Place, Washington, D.c. Dear Lady Birci: Seeing the enolo£zd clippings in The Birmingham News, I thought it might be of interest t~ you. I e.m always much interested in everything I see in the papers

Folder, "Gen AG 5-1, 11/22/63 – 6/30/64 [PEST CONTROL]", WHCF AG, Box 8 (Item)

and interested parties in Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program 1. Resolution - New Mexico Cattle Growers Association 2. Letter - Chairman New Mexico Screwworm Committee 3. Resolution - Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association 4. Letter - Texas and Southwestern Cattle

Folder, "Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) - FBI Reports - Detroit" Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 18 (Item)

in the @on!hpan:,ot ·BAKER or an, other loo.al RAM meambers few an appreciable peri-i()d of ti11me,, DE Te=il advised that .KENNETHJOHN WATSON9 along wit-Ji ·o.U1er l·ocal nntlitant Negroes~ is attempt.in.g· to. publish a Blac-k .Power type :new~paper

Folder, "Civil Rights – St. Augustine, Fla.," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION GSA FORM 7122 (7·721 Re-Pr int From Da y tona Beach News Journal 4

Folder, "Personnel," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 32 (Item)

, 6/8/67 7/10/67 C form Information Needed Concerning New Personnel, Phyllis I

Folder, "Interim Report - Office of Investigations - Reports of Investigators 1967-1968 [Cities]: Detroit [1 of 3]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 2 (Item)

the name of it. While we waited for the garage to put some new tires on, we discussed how important words were. I had commented on the - 3 word "rebellion" as opposed to "riot" Joyce said, is more positive historically the master slave-concept. In Joyce's