Title: Arlie Schardt Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1963-2007 (bulk 1963-1970)

Creator:

• Schardt, Arlie

Call Number: M2017-035

Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (2 records center cartons), 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box), and 1 videorecording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTIONS MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Arlie Schardt, journalist and public interest activist, consisting principally of his notes and original news stories while working for TIME magazine during the 1960s. Schardt covered the civil rights movement including the work done by Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael. His collection also includes several notebooks relating to the Civil Rights Movement as well as material pertaining to the 1987 symposium, "Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement," and material from the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize, which chronicles the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2017035

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Arlie W. Schardt, was a correspondent at TIME magazine, where in the 1960s he covered the civil rights movement in the south. He left TIME in the 1970s when he became involved with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and helped to lead the campaign to impeach President Richard Nixon. He then served as executive director for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). In addition to this, Schardt also worked for Al Gore's 1988 and 2000 presidential campaigns, spent some time at Sports Illustrated where he worked as the Chief of the News Service, and was a reporter for United Press International. In the early 1990s with David Fenton he helped found Environmental Media Services, which provided public relations for environmental issues until 2005 when it merged with the Science Communication Network. Schardt was also involved with other environmental groups including serving on the Board of Directors for Friends of the Earth.

Arlie Schardt died May 25 or 26, 2020 at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 87 years old.

M2017-035	Letters and Papers
Box   1 Folder   1	Field Stories, 1963 Note: Covering: Martin Luther King Jr. and race relations; the NAACP Convention; and Americus, Georgia Insurrection Case.
Box   1 Folder   2	Field Stories, 1964 Note: Covering: 3M news story; the Fifth Circuit Court; Martin Luther King Jr. controversy; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Box   1 Folder   3-4	Field Stories, 1965 Note: Covering: Mississippi Supreme Court Hearings; Selma marches; Federal School Aid in southern schools; Liuzzo murder trial; Bogalusa murder; Governor George Wallace; Segregated juries; Thomas Coleman trial; Natchez, Mississippi; and Mississippi race relations.
Box   1 Folder   5-6	Field Stories, 1966 Note: Covering: Laurel, Mississippi; Hattiesburg murder; Alabama gubernatorial race; African American political candidates; Vernon Dahmer murder; James Meredith shooting and march; Georgia gubernatorial race; and Bill Cosby.
Box   1 Folder   7-8	Field Stories, 1967 Note: Covering: Laurleen Wallace inauguration; Alabama sheriffs; Frank Johnson; Southern school integration; Clyde Brown; Stokely Carmichael arrest; Atlanta riots; Mississippi gubernatorial race; “Great Society and the Ghetto”; Neshoba County trial; Martin Luther King Jr.
Box   1 Folder   9-10	Field Stories, 1968 Note: Covering: Arkansas prisons; Charlie Evers political campaign; Nixon-Rockefeller; Martin Luther King Jr. funeral; Vietnam War; Poverty in the South; George Wallace campaign; Ronald Reagan; Charles Quitman Stephens; and African American voting.
Box   1 Folder   11	Field Story, 1970 Note: Covering: FBI and journalism
Box   1 Folder   12	Field Stories, undated Note: Covering: Greenville, Mississippi sit-ins (circa 1966); George Wallace; Birmingham; and Memphis police brutality.
	Notebooks
Box   1 Folder   13-16	1965
Box   1 Folder   17-18	1966
Box   1 Folder   19	1967
Box   1 Folder   20-21	1968
Box   2 Folder   1	undated
Box   2 Folder   2	Julian Bond speeches, 1998-2007
Box   2 Folder   3	“Covering the South” correspondence, 1984 June-1987 April
Box   2 Folder   4	“Covering the South” material
Box   2 Folder   5	Laurleen B. Wallace 1967 inauguration
Box   2 Folder   6-7	George Wallace presidential campaign coverage
Box   2 Folder   8	Martin Luther King Jr. death and funeral coverage
Box   2 Folder   9	Frank Johnson stories, 1967 March-April
Box   2 Folder   10	Muhammad Ali coverage, 1968 May
Box   2 Folder   11	Laurel, Mississippi coverage
Box   2 Folder   12	Vernon Dahmer coverage, 1966
Box   2 Folder   13	Americus, Georgia coverage, 1965
Box   2 Folder   14	16th Street Church Bombing coverage
Box   2 Folder   15	Eyes on the Prize
Box   2 Folder   16	“White Knights of the KKK”
Box   2 Folder   17	Civil Rights Memorial correspondence, 1988 May-September
Box   2 Folder   18-19	Civil Rights Memorial material
Box   2 Folder   20	Samuel L. Younge Jr.
Box   2 Folder   21	TIME articles, 1964-1969
Box   2 Folder   22	“Tension, Not Split, in the Negro Ranks”
Box   2 Folder   23	The Reporter articles, 1966
Box   2 Folder   24	“Atlanta in Suspense: Crisis of the Constitution”
Box   2 Folder   25	Miscellaneous
Oversize Folder   1	LIFE, 1965 May-1968 April
	Visual Materials
Box   3 Folder   1	“Covering the South” photographs
Box   3 Folder   2	Vernon Dahmer murder investigation photographs
Box   3 Folder   3	Viola Liuzzo murderers trial photographs
Box   3 Folder   4	CORE march commemorating Chaney, Goodman, and Schwermer photographs, 1966 June 22
Box   3 Folder   5	Unidentified photographs
Box   3 Folder   6	Unidentified negatives
Box   26	“Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” : video, 1987