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

and Dallas. . ' ~ .' ·:. " ., The Food Stamp· Program is a new program operating to date in two counties -• . Jefferson and Walker. The Federal contribution through June 1965 in the · . two counties was $3,694,265. Lauderdale County was approved fo

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 1, 11/23/63- 3/17/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]," WHCF HU, Box 24 (Item)

· the court order d banning the new Selma march Y ca11e on yesterday issued by Federal nbly to pass District Judge Frank l\I. John· lcmnlng the son, who has consistently up· Solm11. held desegrei::ilion Jaws. ·y, president Desplte the colIDt ordc1•, Union 0

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Oct. - Dec. 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

SELECTEDRACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTURBANCES FIVE PERSONSARRESTED,NEWHAVEN, CONNECTICUT,IN PLOT TO BOMBPUBLIC BUILDINGS Since November, 1967, the New Haven, Connecticut, Police Department had under investigation a report that members of the Hill Parents

Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #1," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)

• a.re aot to be diatrlbuted out•td■ you 1111•ncr,. UN.iTED STATES DEPARTMENT ()F J"'.;iflCE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 1 1 1 1 Copy~: Reportof: Date, - OSI, GAFB - NIC, New Yor~, N. Y. • 108th MIG, Albany, N. Y. - u. s. Secret Service

Folder, "Civil Rights Boycotts – Alabama and Mississippi," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

at which various aspects of the Alabama boycott were discussed. For good measure, I am also sending you a brief report on the meeting held in Birmingham last Friday, convened by the Alabama members of our National Citizens Committee. This is the meeting

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Feb. - March 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

Coordinating Committee, a militant black nationalist organization, stated, ''New Orleans was ready to go:•and that''Baton Rouge, particularly Southern University there, was hot." Brown stated that only time was necessary to mobilize forces and has requested his

Folder, "History I. A Short Narrative History," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)

was a Negro. Picketing the construction site of a new city conven tion hall, to protest lack of Negro membership in building ' - trades unions, produ_c ed no results. When the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who had led the Negroes in the Birmingham march

Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)

. )l.Yl''t \~ -~ e turning point was reached in the summer of 1963. ~ ~ -Yl·~-(, ("(,") The most massive demonstrations the South had seen .,_'-' 4 . ~ Cur~ . ""' - l.e - , ~t~le;('I-began in Birmingham, Alabama. The white response was a series

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

the document. (Cl Closed In accordance with ntstrtctiona contained in the donor'• dead of gift. 11/1/2007 --UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In &ply, PleaaeReferSO FU.No. Newark, New Jersey August 31, 1967 NATIOrTAL

Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #2," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)

, is also in charge of the Temple Luncheonette on South McDowell Street (new address Belmont and Davidson Streets, supra), Charlotte, which is owned by the mosque. In addition to this cafe, the mosque rents farm land near Mint Hill, North Carolina

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, "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

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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "Homicide," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 79 (Item)

. To New Grace Hosp._ Shot in front of 19218 Livernois. JOHNSONis a private guard. 1:26 AM 7/25 (Prsnr) ??/N. Shot r,un pellets upper portion of RONALDPOWh""LL, To DGF (CB). Refused to halt body & face, also rt hip. at Lycaste .& Goethe on orders

Folder, "Epton, William Leo, Jr.," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)

of: WILLIAMC. KASH Date: New York, New York Offke1 AUG3 1 1967 Fleld Office FIie I: 100-138651 Title: WILLIAMLEO EP.rON, JR. Character: INTERNALSECURITY-PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY Bureau File l:100-432251 Subject resides at Apartment ~, 1470 Amsterdam

Folder, "Boutelle, Paul Benjamin," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 7 (Item)

; approximately twenty-five white persons were present during this meeting. Howard Spencer, Leader of the Political Action Committee at Tougaloo introduced the principal speaker, one Paul Boutelle from Harlem, New York, who is seeking the office of Vice President

Folder, "Gray, Jesse Willard," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)

content• are not to be dlatrtbuted outatd~ your aqency. QOllPIBlll4'IA'1 UN ------------:o STATES DEPARTMENT - OF JI 'ICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Copy loa l - Secret Service, New York City (.RM) 3 - 108th MI Group, New York City (RM

Folder, "Black Liberation Front - FBI Reports, March 22, 1966," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 13 (Item)

no information as to the existence of a. Black Liberation Front organ ization in the New York area.. New York confidential sources advised in February, 1966,. that they could furnish no information reflecting the existence of an organization known as the Black

Folder, "Interim Report - Office of Investigations [Weapons, Fires (1 of 2)]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

Attached are editorials on a recently published SNCC News letter which urged that President Johnson be spit upon. Oneedition is from the New York Times; the other is from the Washington Post. ~ We will ~7 Hanoi show that this year. The Atlanta

Folder, "Communism and the Negro Movement – A Current Analysis," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 63a (Item)

A Dedicated Communist One of the individuals, for example, who have greatly :facilitated King's rise to prominence in rec.ent years is Stanl.ey David Levison. Ostensibly only a New York City attorney and successful businessman who has been helping King, he

Folder, "Ex SP 2-3/1965/HU 2-7/Pro/K [SPECIAL MESSAGE / 1965 / VOTING RIGHTS]," WHCF SP, Box 68 (Item)

.•.Siste r Mary Joseph .....;~ '-·"

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 3/21/66- [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

and to visit skill centers and adult training centers. His views would interest me greatly and would bear on my final judgments of the progress being made in our negro districts. The violence -of Detroit seems to indicate a new phase of the negro problem

Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

take. One thing _we have had going for us in our second century is · abundance. Nothing in the world's experience has matched Ainerica 1 s r .• . growth since the Civil War. Between. Appomatox and 1900, we hewed out of the wilderness enough new

Folder, "FBI - Disturbances and Racial Disturbances," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)

, 1964 . 'SUl~JARY_ANALYSI~ OF THE RACIAL : DISTURBANCES ANDRIOTING DURING : THE PERIOD FROMJULY 17, 1964, THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7, 1964 STATEOF NEWYORK New York City ~uly 17, 1964, through

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 8/24/65-9/11/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

is that it is 6n its way to becoming [9 of 26] - 6 - a paper of major national influence. Certainly, its new crew, headed by the young Chandler, is genuinely con cerned about exercising ' leadership to straighten out the sorry state of affairs politically

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

- l August 5, 1967 NOTES OF MEETING OF PRESIDENT WITH MEL ELFIN, NEWSWEEK: JOHN STEELE OF TIME: JACK SUTHERLAND OF U.S. NEWS, JULY 28, 1967 The President had a general discussion with these three magazine writers on the Detroit riot and civil

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Jan. 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

a news item on January 30, 1968, indicating that an organization known as Force Associates, which is an all-white·group, will conduct a vigil in downtown Dayton today. The purpose of the vigil is to show the group's support of the 500 Negroes who

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

ca lled in to Agent Helges e n . . He l gesen said he could do noth i ng unt i l called by the New Orleans FBI of f i ce. i 9 : 00 AM: Robe r t Weil i n J a c kson cal l e d t he Highway Pat rol . Though they ha d been ca lled a t l ea st r'onr

Folder, "Ex LE/HU 2-7, 11/22/63 - 9/3/65 [LEGISLATION - VOTING RIGHTS]," WHCF LE, Box 66 (Item)

) Hungate (Missouri) Thompson (New Jersey) Delaney (New York) Edmondson (Oklahoma) Duncan (Oregon) - next week St Germain (Rhode Is land) Hicks (Washington) Young (Texas} Thomas (Texas) Roncalio (Wyoming) - next week De La Garza (Texas) Purcell (Texas

Folder, "Ex HU 2, 1/1/65 - 4/20/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES]," WHCF HU, Box 3 (Item)

] news re ease ~ 10 FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLICITY DIVISION 1730 K STREET, N. w. FOR I MMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 31, 1965 WASHINGTON 6, D.C. FEDERAL 3-8750 B - 4003 President Johnson Warns Cabinet, Agency Heads of Their Civil

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 9/12/65 - 3/20/66 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

fields, and at the subprofes sional level in mental hospitals, schools, child care aides, recreation, social work, and probation. 5. The funds would come in part from existing Federal programs like OEO but substantial new funds would be needed. Note

Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1966," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 20, 1966 TO: Mr. Lee C. White FROM: Clifford L. Alexanderj Jr. ~ The attached appeared in today 1 s New York Times. It is certain to stimulate a good deal of reaction. I think it would be useful

Folder, "Civil Rights – Watts, Los Angeles Riots," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)

with m.atiagement and other assistance aimed at giving the beneficiary a fair cha.nee to compete. There is no precedent in existing law for non-interest bearing working capital loans to domestic, private businesses. They have not been provided in New York, where