Title: Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Records
Inclusive Dates: 1971-1983

Creator:

• Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice

Call Number: M84-143; Tape 1108A

Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (3 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) and 12 tape recordings

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Southern Organizing Committee (SOC), a successor to the Southern Conference Educational Fund, which was co-chaired by Anne Braden and Ben Chavis. The materials document the group’s administrative and organizing activities from 1971 to 1983 through correspondence, newsletters, meeting minutes, work reports, and conference and workshop materials. The files of project director Judy Hand are included in the collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m84143

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Judy Hand, Birmingham, Alabama. Accession Number: M84-143

M84-143	Administrative Files
Box   1 Folder   1-8	Correspondence, 1976-1983
Box   2 Folder   1-2	Material used in newsletters, 1978-1980
Box   2 Folder   3	Southern Fight-Back newsletters, 1976-1983
Box   2 Folder   4	Executive committee meeting minutes, 1976-1983
Box   2 Folder   5	Action bulletins, 1976-1983
Box   2 Folder   6	Events, 1978-1981, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	First annual city-wide worship service for peace, May 30, 1982
Box   2 Folder   8	Work reports - Judy Hand (field representative), 1976-1983
Box   2 Folder   9	Fundraisers, 1976-1982
Box   2 Folder   10	Southern Organizing Committee (SOC) - local work, 1976-1981, undated
Box   2 Folder   11	Literature, 1971-1981, undated
Box   2 Folder   12	Press releases, 1980-1983
Box   2 Folder   13	Memos to executive committee, 1975-1983
Box   2 Folder   14-16	Form letters and other send-outs, 1976-1982, undated
Box   4 Folder   5	Reprints, 1978-1982, undated
Box   4 Folder   6	Other organizations' newsletters using SOC material, 1978-1982, undated
Box   5 Folder   1	Petitions, undated
Box   5 Folder   2	Event announcements/press releases, 1982, undated
Box   5 Folder   3	Tuomey Hospital, Sumpter, South Carolina, 1979-1981, undated
Box   5 Folder   4	Johnny Harris (Imani), 1979-1982, undated
Box   5 Folder   5	Claude and Joyce Williams, 1972-1977, undated
Box   5 Folder   6	Year-end fund raiser, 1982
	Project Files
Box   3 Folder   1	Columbia, South Carolina workshop - confirmations
Box   3 Folder   2	Memphis, Tennessee workshop, March 6, 1976 - transcript of addresses
Box   3 Folder   3	Papers on expanded executive committee meeting, Highlander, Tennessee, October 10-12, 1980
Box   3 Folder   4	Birmingham Alliance and SOC - hearing on Ku Klux Klan, April 19, 1980
Box   3 Folder   5	Solidarity day, September 19, 1981
Box   3 Folder   6	B-1 bomber, 1975-1976
Box   3 Folder   7	Maggie Bozeman/Julia Wilder, 1981-1982, undated
Box   3 Folder   8	Continental walk, 1976
Box   3 Folder   9	Chattanooga, March 16, 1982
Box   3 Folder   10	Carl Farris, 1979, undated
Box   3 Folder   11	March - Greensboro, North Carolina, February 2, 1980
Box   3 Folder   12	March - Laurel, Mississippi, May 17, 1980
Box   3 Folder   13	Mueller Steam, Robeson, North Carolina, 1981-1982, undated
	North Carolina Organizing Project on Human Needs and Military Spending
Box   3 Folder   14	Fayetteville, North Carolina workshop, November 8, 1980
Box   3 Folder   15	Correspondence, 1979-1983
Box   3 Folder   16	Miscellaneous workshop literature, 1979-1981, undated
Box   3 Folder   17	Charlotte, North Carolina workshop on human needs and military spending, March 29, 1980
Box   3 Folder   18	Documents, 1978-1979, undated
Box   3 Folder   19	Jobs with Peace - Charlotte, North Carolina, 1981-1982, undated
Box   3 Folder   20	Papers - Birmingham, Alabama meeting, March 19, 1982
Box   3 Folder   21	Work and experience reports, 1979-1980, undated
Box   3 Folder   22	Attendance/mailing lists, 1979, undated
Box   3 Folder   23	Birmingham, Alabama - organizations, 1980-1981, undated
Box   3 Folder   24	Martin Luther King, Jr. workshop on human needs and military spending, Birmingham, Alabama, June 2-3, 1979
Box   4 Folder   1-3	Shuttleworth event, September 24, 1978
Box   4 Folder   4	Conference recordings - information and transcripts, undated Note: Handwritten notes corresponding to audio tapes.
Tape 1108A	Audio recordings Scope and Content Note: Taped proceedings of a workshop held in Birmingham, Alabama; speakers include Anne Braden among others. Titles of the tapes are taken from the description of the content.
No.   1108A/1	Introduction of weekend workshop, undated
No.   1108A/2	Birmingham, Alabama workshop, undated
No.   1108A/3	Workshop - union organizing, race relations, undated
No.   1108A/4	Conference talk on moral majority, Jones on police crimes, undated
No.   1108A/5	Speakers on civil rights, undated
No.   1108A/6	Discussion on civil rights movement, undated
No.   1108A/7	Organizing labor, union busting, undated
No.   1108A/8	Discussions on civil rights, race relations, undated
No.   1108A/9	Discussion on big business, race relations, undated
No.   1108A/10	Sunday morning discussions, organizing in the south, undated
No.   1108A/11	Discussion on politics and other topics, undated
No.   1108A/12	Conclusion - gaining church support, review of meeting topics, undated