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

in America. Ch~'s death means that we must all become ChE!'s, not idolize him ... " (Suggest short description of Chambers' testimony) - 3 Essentially this is the voice of the Students for a Democratic Society {SDS) with echoes of the Progressive Labor

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

Prison, New Orleans, in lieu of bond awaiting action by the United States District Court. CONPIDENI'L\l. -3- • QQHPIDHH'Hitis SELECTED RACIALDEVELOPMENTS ANDDISTIJRBANCES Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is located at Baton

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

and he wants Jim Cross to give them to the people. I will talk to Jim Cross. I would like aboard the following: (/r ' I , io t Ten copies of "My Hope For America 11 (not the expensive kind) .....- Ball point p ens Small medallions L-- Ten

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

, and their actions further proved our devotion to honest and democratic elections. White asked if Ky and Thieu were taking much advantage of their incumbency. The President said they were, and there was a further problem in their use of our language in talking

Folder, "March 13, 1965, #38, Backup Material For the President’s Press Conferences, Press Office Files, Box 71 (Item)

, the bloodthat was shed, the life that was los~ must strengthen our determination to bring justice to all our people . This is not just the policy of your government or your President . It is the heart and the purpose and the maning of America . ~ 3 We all

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

1, 1967 39205 PAULBENJAMIN BOUTELLE SECURITY MA'lTERSOCIALISTWORKERS PARTY On October 5, 1967, confidential source number one advised that a meeting sponsored by the Tougaloo College Political Action Committee, Tougaloo, Mississippi, was held

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

. Twofold Purpose • • • • • • • 6 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 • • • • • • • • • • • • ., Action Regarded as a Marxist • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • 7
Communist Party of America

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

· -~·- . •.:. ,' ~ . -Yi..J.r · No-vrore !;o-r~;=l~{,.& 7)0tv1ES71G • ScG·r101.J Quality of Life When America celebrated her first hundred years, the fireworks that lit the skies revealed a nation confident it had been blessed by Providence. .i I .I The great

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)

of the disturbances in Los Angeles. COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS Of the direct OEO programs, the Community Action Program appears most relevant. The Los Angeles Community has now resolved its problem of es tablishing a Community Action Agency that would include
the conditions which caused the riots; Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots chaired by John McCone, report and action on report's recommendations [Report filed oversize attachment 186]; and the President's task force on the riots. Several items

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

Association were planning to bomb several puhlic huildings in that city, including the police department headquarters. The Hill P~~iation ts a militant Negro action group in the predominantly Negro Hill section of New Haven. On Novemher 23, 1967, police

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

, MCMILLANhad recently been active with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS (see appendix) group in Dallas and pointing out things an individual can in passing out literature do to avoid the draft. The article described MCMILLANas "a 23 year old Negro

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

anniversary of Spanish settlement of North America with its first day issue scheduled for St. Augustine. this request. No action has been taken on In addition, the Post Office has been asked to vacate the Federal Building it now occupies, and to move

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

or willful disregard of the law. The President emphasized the . urgency of a comprehensive and effective attack up~n the problems of urban America. He emphasized that as far as the rioting in Los Angeles is concerned: .•• we cannot let the actions
the conditions which caused the riots; Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots chaired by John McCone, report and action on report's recommendations [Report filed oversize attachment 186]; and the President's task force on the riots. Several items

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

Bois Clubs of America (DBA) W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of Chicago (DCC) Revolutionary Action Movement 3 (SSOC). (SCEF) (RAM) -- • CE 157-5490 I. EXTREMISTBLACKNATIONALISTORGANIZATIONS 4 --GONFIBEN CE 157-5490 z NORTHCAROLINA NATIONOF ISLAM

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

that it is today. The SNCC is n-:>wmotivated by a revolutionary direct-action, ant iw hite ideology that places no faith in normal democratic procedures. It.follows the Communist Party line in its criticism of United States policy in Vietnam and in its recent

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

. Dear Mr. President: Like everyone else, I have been horrified and profoundly disturbed by the recent events in Selma, Alabama. They have done infinite damage to the fabric of national unity and infi nite damage to the world image of America . I cannot

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

, NJ, 4730/66. Ccmmnmist attiliation ot associates and/or, contacts set torth. Evidence set forth ot JESSB GRAY's opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. Activity in behalf ot Revolutionary Action Movement, Black Panther Party and Coordinating Council

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

will not 'willingly' yield to the democratic concept . of 'majority rule'." lJ)e

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

. stronges:t course of action to prevc11t further cllsruptlvc rioting, Direct . contact ~·71 th ,y.o ung men · from the riot area indicated chronic 1.mcrnpJ.oym~nt and the xis tencc of be:i1Tiers to cconomlc opportunities f 01'" minorl ty youths ·a nd adu
the conditions which caused the riots; Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots chaired by John McCone, report and action on report's recommendations [Report filed oversize attachment 186]; and the President's task force on the riots. Several items

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

acquaintance with Mr. Johnson? P: Oh, I had seen Mr. Johnson at various places when he was in the United States Senate. I'd seen him at the 1960 Democratic Convention, for instance, when he had sought the nomination that John F. Kennedy ultimately won

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

at Valparaiso University today. Brown is an outspoken militant who in the past has advocated the use of dynamite to bomb the Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago du in the Sun.1~r.of 1968. The Valparaiso Police Departmen and the Indiana State

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

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Senate but not necessarily in the field of civil rights. I don't think his reputation good. As a matter of fact, with the 1960 Democratic Convention, the fight over his nomination for the Presidency was much around--the opposition was to the fact

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Baptists is that it's very easy to fill the a minister and never be ordained. rol~ of You have access to the pulpit, and the democratic practices of the church make it easy. F: I tell you what I've thought about the Baptists, even with occasional

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

this way: the place of Black Power in " •·slack Power in reference to whi tc America will not be lilte White Po-:.-er in. l"eference to blacl~- America nor to America as a whole. White Power - in its varied segments (for it is not whol~) -has failed us

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

leadership that counseled moderation and a legalistic, non-violent approach was challenged to demonstrate how that approach had led to social and economic improvement for the Negro. In the South, non-violent action frequently engendered a violent response

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

self defense wu.s to attack. Many· speakers, however, ·warned that N~groes were not yet ready to confront the 11 \•1hi te power structur~." - Even _Rap Brown warned that it would be"self genocide" to challenge whitci America to physical

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

- The following are .my recommendations as. to the action you should take to put this proposal into effect: I ·. Designate .the 12 most critical pockets of poverty in which this program will be applied. I recommend that, as a first step, you designate
the conditions which caused the riots; Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots chaired by John McCone, report and action on report's recommendations [Report filed oversize attachment 186]; and the President's task force on the riots. Several items

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it would not be good with my constituents if I voted carte blanche with everything that the administration was doing. I think they also felt that I was a Democrat and would support most of these things and would give them support in the crunches, and I

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

as an action group, which enjoys the cooperation of both civil rigQ.ts organizations and state and local bar associations. A unanimous resolution was passed by the Mississippi State Board of Bar Commissioners last May ur ging cooperation with the Committee

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

. advises just enough ·moderate violence to get twenty million niggers the hell .out of America." CONNIELYNCHthen S?Oke. In opening his remarks he greeted everyone· in the name of JESUS CHRIST. He said "We want to briefly introduce ourselves to you, well

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Luther King's death and problems encountered 1 Shocked at the potential for simultaneous multiple disorders 3,18 Secretary Reser 5,6,7,8 Democratic Convention in Chicago LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence

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

pursuin should put ·g: Sisk {California) (Colorado} Aspinall Hull (Missouri) !chord {Missouri) Steed (Oklahoma) {Oklahoma) Jarman Slack (West Virginia} (Wisconsin) Zablocki The other Democrats we consider hopeless. [4 of 7] Giaimo, Monagan

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

often than not by some quite ordi11ary and proper action by a policeman. Thry were dclihcralc in the sense that they were dirceted, lo an extent that varied From city to city, against specific targets." J. Edgar Hoo,·cr, director or the Federal Bureau

Telephone conversation # 3839, sound recording, LBJ and LUTHER HODGES, 6/23/1964, 4:14PM (Item)

LBJ REPORTS JAMES EASTLAND'S OPINION OF LEROY COLLINS AS POSSIBLE APPOINTEE TO HEAD COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE; COLLINS' ACTIONS AT 1960 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

Telephone conversation # 8166, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/21/1965, 12:05PM (Item)

Latin America
RESULTS OF GROUND, AIR ACTION AGAINST VIET CONG IN SOUTH VIETNAM; POOR PRESS COVERAGE OF RAID; GUAM OR OKINAWA AS AIR OPERATIONS BASE; BRIEFING FOR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ON RAID; LABOR STRIKE IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ANNOUNCEMENT OF VIETNAM TROOP

Telephone conversation # 11363, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 1/16/1967, 6:17PM (Item)

Latin America
LESTER MADDOX'S REQUEST TO MEET WITH LBJ ON HIGHWAY FUNDS; RUSSELL PRAISES MADDOX'S ACTIONS AS GOV.; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO HOLD DOWN SPENDING; DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AUTHORIZATIONS, EXPENDITURES; HOUSING, HIGHWAY FUNDS; COPPER SHORTAGE; US ECONOMY

Folder, "Gen HU 2/ST 1, 3/9/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]", WHCF HU, Box 27 (Item)

. :> i .·.R 9 .,.1 I 22 WA076 PD STAMFORD CONN 8 616P EST THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE IMPORTANT YOU TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN ALABAMA ONE MORE DAY OF SAVAGE TREATMENT BY LEGALIZED HATCHET MEN COULD LEAD TO OPEN WARFARE BY AROUSED NEGROES AMERICA

Folder, "April 5, 1968 - 11:10 a.m. President's meeting with Negro leaders after death of Martin Luther King," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

with nothing. THE PRESIDENT: I have sent letters to the Speaker of the House and Congressman Ford urging action. Another letter has been prepared -- this is not public. You may be sure that this leader will do all he can to make this a reality and get

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