Wisconsin. Governor's Commission on Human Rights: Records, 1934, 1945-1971

Container Title
Series 1001
Part 6 (Series 1001, Audio 646A): Tape Recordings, 1952-1963
Physical Description: 25 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Consists of twenty-five reels of tape and includes addresses, radio broadcasts, a lecture, and recordings of the 1955 annual meeting of the Commission and of the 1963 Governor's Conference on Human Rights. Subjects include brotherhood, women, migrants, and African Americans. The tapes should be requested by call number “Audio 646A.”
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronological.
646A/1-2
1952 February, Brotherhood Week address by Commissioner James Dorsey
Physical Description: 90 minutes 
646A/3
1953 October 30, radio broadcast on WHA's Homemakers program by Rebecca Barton entitled “Women in New Fields”
Physical Description: 20 minutes 
Note: Duplicated in Disc Recordings (Series 1002), No. 5.
646A/4
1955 Brotherhood Week program presented by Aimee Isgrig and students and entitled “Brotherhood in Action--Our Wisconsin Youth Board Story”
Physical Description: 14 minutes 
Note: Duplicated in Disc Recordings (Series 1002), No. 9.
1955 October 28, annual meeting of the Commission
Physical Description: 480 minutes 
Note: Summaries of these tapes are in Minutes and Related Materials (Series 996).
646A/5
Director's report
646A/5
Youth Advisory Board presentations to the Governor
646A/6
Governor Kohler's response
646A/6-7
Panel on “Controversial Issues,” with L.H. Adolfson, Chairman, and Carl Strassburg, Grace Kelly, and Theodore Shannon
646A/7-8
“Evaluation of the Commission's Approach by Representatives of the Press” with Robert Schacht, Chairman, and Helen Matheson, David Lippert, and Irvin Kreisman
646A/9
Informal talk by Selig Perlman on his recent visit to Israel
646A/9-10
“Report on Menominee Indian Project” by Mayor Greene, chairman of the Commission's Indian Affairs Committee, and David Ames, Commission research associate. Related comments by Mr. Frechette.
646A/11-12
“Evaluation of Commission's Approach by Commissioners,” Mrs. Ernest Anderson, discussion chairwoman
646A/13
1956 February, Brotherhood Month radio program on the Youth Advisory Board's “Brotherhood in Action--Wisconsin in Human Rights.” Bill Thiesenhusen is moderator; other speakers include Pauline Coggs, Father Kennedy, Peter Pappas, Betty Lamb, and Governor Kohler.
Physical Description: 14 1/2 minutes 
646A/14
1957 September 20, radio broadcast on WHA's Homemakers program entitled “Helping the Migrant in Work and Play.”
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
646A/15-18
1957 December 7, UW Freshman Forum address by historian Howard K. Beale on “The Changing Position of the American Negro.”
Physical Description: 120 minutes 
646A/19
1963 June 30, address by Walter Raushenbush, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, entitled “Dare We Be Christians.”
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Note: Transcript is in Publications and Public Statements (Series 999): Articles and Speeches.
September 23, 1963 Governor's Conference on Human Rights, Madison, proceedings
Physical Description: 360 minutes 
Note: Transcriptions of portions of these tapes are in the General Correspondence and Subject File (Series 997), Box 15, Folder 7.
646A/20
Welcome to the delegates by Robert Levine
646A/20
Address: “The American Commitment to Freedom” by Dr. David Fellman (A survey of the development of human rights in American and Wisconsin history.)
646A/20-21
Panel on “The Role of Religion in the Extension of Human Rights”
646A/21-22
Panel on “The Role of the School in the Extension of Human Rights”
646A/22-23
Luncheon address by Governor John W. Reynolds on “Emancipation: Our Unfinished Business”
646A/23-24
Panel on “The Role of Government in the Extension of Human Rights”
646A/24-25
Panel on “The Role of Business and Labor in the Extension of Human Rights”
646A/25
Closing address by Dr. J. Martin Klotsche on “The Promise and Fulfillment of American Democracy”
646A/25
Closing remarks by Dr. G. Aubrey Young, new Director of the Governor's Commission