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Mss 343
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Part 1 (Mss 343, Audio 824A, Micro 803): Original Collection, 1957-19793.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes), 12 tape recordings, and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Part 1 consists of correspondence, research materials and drafts of Adams' writings, clippings of articles and newspaper reports, papers on organizations with which Adams worked, and other papers. Part 1 is organized into three series: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, SUBJECT FILE, and NEWS CLIPPINGS. The GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE is arranged by month and consists primarily of exchanges with friends, most of whom also were working for social change. Brief correspondence with others in adult education, government officials, foundation executives, organizations, and others is also present. Correspondents include Anne Braden, Ted Carpenter, Steve Dawson, W.W. Finlator, Bob Hall, May Justus, Louis Kools, Herman and Betty Liveright, Buck Maggard, Jennifer Miller, John Ohliger, Sue Thrasher, and Peter Wood. Additional correspondence is grouped by subject and filed in the Subject File. The SUBJECT FILE is arranged alphabetically by topic and contains various types of documents concerning the activities mentioned in the biography and others, such as Adams' work with the East Ghent Neighborhood Association in Norfolk (1961-1963), planning for urban higher education Field Study Centers (1966-1967), and consulting work (1978-1979) with Bertie Industries, a worker-owned garment factory. Especially complete are the files on the Highlander Center. Drafts of some of Adams' writings, clipped articles (except for hid in the biography and others, such as Adams' work with the East Ghent Neighborhood Association in Norfolk (1961-1963), planning for urban higher education Field Study Centers (1966-1967), and consulting work (1978-1979) with Bertie Industries, a worker-owned garment factory. Especially complete are the files on the Highlander Center. Drafts of some of Adams' writings, clipped articles (except for his newspaper reporting), and tape recordings and other research materials are included in this series. The NEWS CLIPPINGS consists of articles by Adams, primarily from his work as a reporter in St. Petersburg and in Norfolk. A few articles from 1973 and 1977 come from The Virginian-Pilot and from In These Times.
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Series: General Correspondence
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Box
1
Folder
1-7
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1957-1979, undated
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Series: Subject File
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Box
2
Folder
1
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Adult Education Association meeting, 1974
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Box
2
Folder
2
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Agriculture Department, Young executives report articles, 1972-1973
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Antioch-Putney graduate study
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Box
2
Folder
3
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Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1964-1966
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Box
2
Folder
4
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Final independent study report, 1966
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Box
2
Folder
5
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Area foundation study of Reynolds Homestead Learning Center, 1978
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Assemblies
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Box
2
Folder
6
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Gates County Assembly, 1973-1979
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Box
2
Folder
7
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North Carolina Community Development Organization, 1973-1975
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Box
2
Folder
8
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Virginia Community Development Organization, 1971-1976
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Box
2
Folder
9
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Bertie Industries, 1978-1979
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Box
3
Folder
1
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Black colleges (article for Change and In These Times and proposal to Southern Exposure), 1978-1979
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Box
3
Folder
2
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Black School Board Members' meetings, 1975
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Box
3
Folder
3
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Central Vermont and Washington County Community Action committees, 1966-1967
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Box
3
Folder
4
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Cobbler's Shop articles, 1976-1979 : See also Audio 824A/8.
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Box
3
Folder
5
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Dayton, Ohio: regarding Journal Herald and Moving Ahead Together (MAT), 1965-1966
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Dombrowski biography
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Correspondence, 1977-1979
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Audio 824A
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Tape-recorded research interviews
Almost all interviews begin and end in mid-sentence.
Audio 824A/1-7 and 10 were transcribed and the transcriptions filed in Box 15 in Part 2 of this collection. The original 8 tape recordings are no longer in the Archives' custody.
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824A/8
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Adams interviewing Lewis Jones, undated : Includes accounts of Eleanor Roosevelt at Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) meetings in Nashville and Birmingham, other “legends,” and discussion of Myles Horton, Virginia Durr, Clark Foreman, Aubrey Williams, Lyndon Johnson, and Dombrowski.
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824A/8 (continued)
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Adams interviewing an unidentified black woman in South Carolina, undated : Woman discusses Dombrowski and some of her experiences. Adams discusses the Gates County activities which have grown out of his shoe shop.
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824A/9
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Adams interviewing E.D. Nixon, undated : Brief discussion of Dombrowski but more extensive information on Nixon's role in the Montgomery Improvement Association, other civil rights experiences, non-violence, and Aubrey Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., and A. Phillip Randolph.
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824A/11
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Adams interviewing Modjeska Simkins, undated : Discusses Dombrowski, red-baiting, the racial atmosphere of the 1940s, a Birmingham meeting where Dombrowski and Glenn Taylor were arrested, and some of her own experiences.
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824A/12-14
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Adams conversing with several of Dombrowski's contemporaries at Emory University concerning recollections of him, 1976 October 25
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Mss 343
Box
3
Folder
7
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Edenton, North Carolina - Negro boycott items and historical outline, 1962, undated
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“Facing South”
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Box
3
Folder
8
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Correspondence with Institute for Southern Studies staff, 1976-1978
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Trip, 1977
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Box
3
Folder
9
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Columns, notes, drafts, book material
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Box
3
Folder
10
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Notebooks
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Box
3
Folder
11
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Miscellaneous correspondence
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Box
3
Folder
12
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Ford Foundation correspondence and reports, 1977-1978
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Box
3
Folder
13
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Workshop at Highlander, 1977
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Box
4
Folder
1
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Fair Housing Law Committee, Burlington, Vermont, Branch, NAACP, 1966
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Box
4
Folder
2-3
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Field Study Centers, 1966-1967
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Box
4
Folder
4
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Ford Foundation consultancy on Boston School desegregation, 1978
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Frederick Douglass fellowships in journalism, 1969
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, Virginia, undated
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Box
4
Folder
7
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Gates County Arts Council, 1974-1975
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Box
4
Folder
8
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Gates County Human Relations Commission, 1975-1977
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Box
4
Folder
9
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Gates County Public Schools, 1972-1978
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Goddard College
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Box
4
Folder
10
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Adult Degree Program correspondence and study reports, 1963-1965
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Box
4
Folder
11
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Miscellaneous files, 1963-1967 : Includes memorabilia, syllabi for courses Adams taught, notes, and other papers.
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Box
4
Folder
12
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Colloquium and Commencement address, 1977
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To Know for Real (Goddard history)
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Box
4
Folder
13
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Papers, 1975-1978
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824A/15
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Interview with Tim Pitkin by Ann Giles Benson, undated : Pitkin talks about his youth and family, general biographical information, and the sources of his ideas.
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Mss 343
Box
5
Folder
1
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Grimke-Brown Coalition, 1969
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Highlander Research and Education Center
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Box
5
Folder
2-3
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General correspondence with staff, 1966-1979
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Staff meeting minutes, 1971-1975
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Box
5
Folder
5
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Brochures and statements drafts, 1978, undated
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Box
5
Folder
6
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Bicentennial Project, 1970-1974
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Box
5
Folder
7
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Elderly Program, 1970-1971
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Box
5
Folder
8
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Master's Program, 1973
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Mimeo materials
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Box
5
Folder
9-11
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1968, 1971-1977
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Box
6
Folder
1-2
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1978-1979
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824A/16-17
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Recording of Myles Horton speaking informally to a group in Madison, Wisconsin, 1978 November 25 : Horton talks about Highlander today and in the past, its philosophy, work with the Textile Workers Union, and the United Mine Workers.
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Mss 343
Box
6
Folder
3
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Miscellaneous files, 1974, undated
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Highlander history (Unearthing Seeds of Fire) : See Box 4, Folder 13.
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Box
6
Folder
4
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Correspondence with Myles Horton and Joyce Dukes, 1969-1974
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Box
6
Folder
5
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Correspondence on publishing attempts, 1972-1974
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Correspondence with Quadrangle and Blair, 1969-1974
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Box
6
Folder
7
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“Education for Social Change,” abridged version, 1972
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Box
6
Folder
8
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Harvard Educational Review article, 1972-1979
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Box
6
Folder
9
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Chapter 1 design and drafts
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Box
6
Folder
10-12
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Revised draft
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Box
7
Folder
1
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Footnote drafts
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Box
7
Folder
2
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Scattered revisions
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Box
7
Folder
3
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Research notes
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Box
7
Folder
4
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Industrial Workers of the World, 1970-1978
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Box
7
Folder
5
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“Legal Aspects of Open Preservation in Vermont,” 1964-1965
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Box
7
Folder
6
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National Sharecroppers Fund Executive Director position, 1978
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Box
7
Folder
7
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Niggerhead Pond, 1965-1967
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Norfolk, Virginia neighborhoods
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Box
7
Folder
8
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Beacon Light Civic League, 1961-1964
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Box
7
Folder
9
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Ghent Neighborhood League, 1962-1964, undated
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Box
7
Folder
10
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East Ghent, 1963-1964
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Box
7
Folder
11
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Ghent and East Ghent clippings, 1961-1964
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Box
7
Folder
12
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Background materials
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Box
8
Folder
1
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North Carolina Association of Volunteer Administrators (NCAVA) Conference talk, 1978
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Box
8
Folder
2
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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1973-1974
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Box
8
Folder
3
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Portsmouth, Virgina, sit-in manuscript by Edward Willis Rodman, circa 1961
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Prison work
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Box
8
Folder
4-5
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Correspondence, 1973-1978
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Box
8
Folder
6
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Clippings, mimeo items, etc., 1969-1977
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Quaker activities
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Box
8
Folder
7
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Alden Resolution, 1967
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Box
8
Folder
8-9
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American Friends Service Committee investments study, 1967-1970, undated
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Box
8
Folder
10
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Friends Committee on National Legislation Executive Council, 1967-1969
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Box
8
Folder
11
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MOTSU Project, 1973
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Box
9
Folder
1
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National Conference of Friends on Race Relations, 1965
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Box
9
Folder
2
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Peace Bridge (medical supplies to Vietnam), 1966-1967
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Box
9
Folder
3
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General, 1965-1970
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Box
9
Folder
4
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Radical Education Project Urban and City Planning and History Study Group, 1966-1967
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Box
9
Folder
5
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Research Triangle Park article for Change, 1978
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Box
9
Folder
6
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Robeson County Indians, 1973
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Box
9
Folder
7
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Southeastern Black Press Institute Conference, 1977
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Box
9
Folder
8
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Southern Exposure, 1977-1979 : See also “Facing South.”
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Box
9
Folder
9
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Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice, 1978-1979
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Box
9
Folder
10
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Regarding Taxes, 1968-1977
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Box
9
Folder
11
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Twin Oaks article for Change, 1973
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Box
9
Folder
12
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University of Wisconsin Extension talks, 1974
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Box
9
Folder
13
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Virginia Council on Human Relations, 1967-1969
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Box
9
Folder
14
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Warren Wilson College, 1976-1979
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Writings - miscellaneous
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Box
9
Folder
15
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Printed copies of articles, book reviews, and letters to the editor, 1959-1960
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Box
9
Folder
16
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Typescripts, 1957-1978, undated
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Miscellaneous
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Box
9
Folder
17
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Papers, 1961-1979, undated
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824A/18
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Interview by Jim Dombrowski with Mike Ross, undated : Ross was an organizer for the United Mine Workers in 1941 in Saltsville, West Virginia; Harlan County, Kentucky; and Rockwood, Tennessee.
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824A/19
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Adams interviewing Sgt.? Brady concerning charges against her of insubordination : Brady was a soldier at Fort Jackson. The reason for Adams' interest in Sgt. Brady's story is unclear.
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824A/20
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A compiled program concerning poverty in Vermont, circa 1965? : Probably a radio broadcast or the sound track of a film. : The program consists of narration and readings by Richard Lear interspersed with interviews with several unnamed people offering perspectives on the existence of poverty in Vermont, the surplus commodities program, health care for the poor, and the problems of the poor in schools. Adams begins to read credits at the end of the program but is interrupted by the end of the tape. His connection to the program is unknown.
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Micro 803
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Series: News Clippings
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Reel
1
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1957-1964, 1973, 1977
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