Title: Mary E. King Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1960-1999 (bulk 1962-1981)

Creator:

• King, Mary E., 1940-

Call Number: M82-445; M90-039; Audio 1224A

Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet, 3 tape recordings, and 8 photographs

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:

Papers of Mary E. King, civil rights activist (1962-1965) and deputy director of ACTION (1977-1981), containing correspondence, press releases, reports, speeches, clippings, and memoranda. The civil rights papers cover her time in SNCC including WATS reports, position papers, information on Freedom Schools, SNCC staff biographies, and a few photographs while in Mississippi. Speeches, written by King, are from Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign and from her time at ACTION. Also includes recordings of a few speeches; and a transcript of an interview of King (1999).

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m82445

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This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 2 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (M82-445; Audio 1224A/1): Original Collection, 1960-1982
• Part 2 (M90-039; Audio 1224A/2-3): Additions, 1965-1999

The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the richest collections of Civil Rights movement records in the nation, which includes more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. More than 25,000 pages from the Freedom Summer manuscripts are available online as the Freedom Summer Digital Collection.

Digital reproductions available for part of the Mary E. King Papers in the Freedom Summer Digital Collection.

Use Restrictions

COPYRIGHT RESTRICTION: Audio 1224A/2-3 may not be distributed nor rebroadcast.

Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M82-445, M84-186, M88-274, M90-039, M2000-098

M82-445	Part 1 (M82-445, Audio 1224A/1): Original Collection, 1960-1982 Physical Description: 1.8 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 2 archives boxes), 8 photographs (1 folder), and 1 audio recording  Scope and Content Note Selected papers of Mary E. King, deputy director of ACTION during the Jimmy Carter presidency, 1977-1981, and civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1962-1965. Contains correspondence, press releases, reports, clippings, speeches, memoranda, photographs, and audio recordings. The civil rights papers contain personal correspondence, including letters from Jane Stembridge, Tom Hayden, and Casey Cason Hayden; original WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) reports taken by King as SNCC communications staff in Atlanta, Georgia, and Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964; SNCC press releases written by King and Julian Bond (1963-1964); photographs taken by King while in the South; personal notebooks (1965); and miscellaneous SNCC reports and newsletters. The Carter administration files comprise memoranda from King to Carter regarding women's issues and health policy (King was the president's major campaign advisor on women's issues); speeches on these topics which she drafted for Carter; memoranda from King and her husband Peter Bourne to Carter, advising him on possible appointments following his 1976 campaign victory; correspondence and clippings regarding Carter's appointment of King as deputy director of ACTION; a complete set of King's speeches for ACTION (written primarily by her speechwriter, Judith Axler Turner); and a tape recording of Carter's major campaign speech on women, delivered to the National Women's Agenda Conference, and drafted by King.
	Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) line calls
Box   1 Folder   1	before 1964 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   2	1964 January Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   3	1964 February Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   4	1964 March Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   5	1964 April Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   6	1964 May Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   7	1964 June Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   8	1964 July Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   9	1964 August Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   10	1965 January Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   11	SNCC press releases, 1964 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   12	SNCC press releases, 1963 and undated Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   13	SNCC staff biographies, undated Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online. Note: Biographies include pictures of staff.
Box   1 Folder   14	SNCC's Communication Department in Atlanta Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online. Note: Includes press contact lists, summer project staff lists, and internal memos and miscellaneous documents.
Box   1 Folder   15	Electoral politics in Mississippi Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online. Note: MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party), voter registration, DNC (Democratic National Committee) challenge, Freedom vote.
Box   1 Folder   16	Freedom schools, 1964 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   17	Meeting minutes, 1964-1965 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   18	SNCC position papers and retreat at Waveland, Mississippi, 1964 November Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   19	SNCC position papers, undated Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   20	SNCC position papers and reports, 1963-1965 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   21	Mississippi Freedom Summer miscellaneous files, 1964 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   1 Folder   22	Miscellaneous files, 1963-1965
Box   1 Folder   23	Notebooks, circa 1964-circa 1965
Box   1 Folder   24	Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969-1977
Box   2 Folder   1	Speeches about Jimmy Carter, 1976
Box   2 Folder   2	Speeches made by and about Jimmy Carter, 1976-1979
1224A/1	Jimmy Carter campaign speech / written by Mary King, 1976 October 2
M82-445	ACTION speeches
Box   2 Folder   3-4	1977
Box   2 Folder   5	1978
Box   2 Folder   6	1979
Box   2 Folder   7	1980
Box   2 Folder   8	Speeches, 1982, undated
Box   2 Folder   9	ACTION press releases, editorials, and clippings, circa 1979-1980
Box   2 Folder   10	ACTION miscellaneous, circa 1977-1980
Box   3 Folder   1	SNCC Communications Section, 1963-1964 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   3 Folder   2	Meeting minutes, 1964 June 10-1965 Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
Box   3 Folder   3	Personal, 1962-1967
Box   3 Folder   4	Clippings and magazine articles, 1963-1966
Box   3 Folder   5	Jane Stembridge writings, 1963-1965
Box   3 Folder   6	Miscellaneous
Box   3 Folder   7	Tom Hayden correspondence, 1964 Note: Includes biography on Hayden from 1982 campaign for California State Assembly.
Box   3 Folder   8	Summer workshops, 1965
Box   3 Folder   9	Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke, Dr. Luther W. King and Mary King correspondence, 1963, 1967-1968
Box   3 Folder   10	YWCA Human Relations project, 1962-1963
Box   3 Folder   11	Ohio Wesleyan, 1960-1962
PH Box   16	Photographs Note: SNCC Staff barbeque Full Gospel Revival Center, Indianola, Mississippi, 1965 April Winstonville City Hall, 1965 April Natchez, Mississippi, 1965 “Under the Shadow,” 1965
M90-039	Part 2 (M90-039, Audio 1224A/2-3): Additions, 1965-1999 Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) and 2 audio recordings  Scope and Content Note: Addition to Mary King's civil rights activism papers and consisting of tape recordings of the speech King delivered at the 1988 Carter Presidential Center Conference on Women and the Constitution interviews with King at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, and introductory remarks about King's background. Also included are four letters, a memorandum, seminar program, and the closing speech King delivered at the “Women and the Constitution” symposium describing her activism. Among King's successes is her 1988 honorable mention for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for her book, Freedom Song. Use Restrictions: COPYRIGHT RESTRICTION: See notes for Audio 1224A/2-3.	⇧
Box   1 Folder   1	Notes and letters, 1965-1988
Box   1 Folder   2-3	Women and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective speech, 1988
1224A/2	The New American Gazette: Sandra Day O'Connor and Mary King, 1988 August 11 Use Restrictions: This recording may not be distributed nor rebroadcast.
1224A/3	“Soundings” from the National Humanities Center, undated Use Restrictions: This recording may not be distributed nor rebroadcast.
M90-039 Box   1 Folder   4	Phone interview transcript by Abigail Sara Lewis, 1999 April 26