Alvin Friedman correspondence
1949
uac197
One folder with seven letters. - 0.25 Linear Feet
- One half-size letter document box.
The Alvin Friedman correspondence contains seven letters sent to Phi Sigma Delta member Alvin Friedman in 1949 endorsing the Fraternity's decision to offer membership to Weather Sykes, the first black student to join an all white fraternity at the University of Wisconsin. Friedman wrote to a number of prominent Americans seeking statements of support for Sykes's admission to the fraternity, hoping, according to his nephew Barry Temkin, that the support of well known people would advance his cause with the fraternity's national headquarters. The letters include statements of support from First Lady Elanor Roosevelt, American Civil Liberties Union director Roger Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Marshal Field.
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