Elmer W. Henderson Papers, 1937-2001

Contents List

Container Title
M2002-058
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
Box   1
Folder   1
Formation and background
Correspondence and memos
Box   1
Folder   2
General
Box   1
Folder   3-4
Field operations, 1942-1945
Box   1
Folder   5
Chicago regional office, 1946
Box   1
Folder   6-7
Regional directors' memoranda, 1943-1945
Box   1
Folder   8-10
Field letters, 1943-1945
Box   1
Folder   11-12
Field instructions, 1943-1945
Box   1
Folder   13
Press Releases, 1941-1945
Box   1
Folder   14
Press clippings digest, 1942
Box   1
Folder   15-27
Publicity clippings, 1943-1944
Box   2
Folder   1-15
Publicity clippings, 1944-1946
Box   2
Folder   16
Minutes - national, 1941-1942
Box   2
Folder   17
Salaries and expenses, 1946
Reports
Box   2
Folder   18
General, 1942-1945
Box   2
Folder   19
Racial situation [report], Gary, Indiana, 1944
Box   2
Folder   20
McQuay-Norris case - committee decision, 1944
Box   2
Folder   21
Meeting reports, 1943-1945
Box   2
Folder   22
Summaries of hearings, 1942-1943
Box   2
Folder   23
Regional-weekly, bi-weekly and monthly, 1943-1946
Box   2
Folder   24
Henderson field work, 1941-1942
Box   2
Folder   25
Negroes and the war survey, 1942, 1945
Box   2
Folder   26
Railroad case, 1943 September-December 14
Box   2
Folder   27
Model state FEPC bill
Box   2
Folder   28
Philadelphia Transportation Company case
Box   2
Folder   29
War Manpower Commission procedures, Regions II and VI
Box   2
Folder   30
Chicago Surface Lines case, 1944-1946
Box   2
Folder   31
National Urban League - Chicago, 1943-1945
Box   2
Folder   32
Speech - Illinois General Assembly, 1945 April 17
Box   2
Folder   33
U.S. Cartridge Company case, 1944
Box   2
Folder   34
Hearings - Birmingham, Alabama, 1942 June 20
Box   2
Folder   35
Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1946
Box   2
Folder   36
Employment of Negroes in the Federal Government, 1945, 1957
Box   2
Folder   37
Chicago Rapid Transit Lines, Inc. case, 1943-1946
Box   2
Folder   38
Railroad case, 1943-1944
Box   3
Folder   1
Western Cartridge Company case, 1944-1945
Box   3
Folder   2
Chicago, 1946
Box   3
Folder   3
Dickerson, Earl B., 1942, 1961, 1987, 1989
Box   3
Folder   4
25th Anniversary Reunion, 1966
Box   3
Folder   5-6
Miscellaneous
Illinois State Commission on the Condition of the Urban Colored Population
Box   3
Folder   7
General, 1940-1941
Box   3
Folder   8
Scrapbook [photocopied], 1940-1941
Box   3
Folder   9
Reports, 1941
Box   3
Folder   10
Chicago city wide forum, 1939-1941
American Council on Human Rights (ACHR)
Box   3
Folder   11
Correspondence and press releases, 1948-1955
Box   3
Folder   12
Political statements - Henderson, 1948, 1952
Box   3
Folder   13-14
Board of directors minutes, 1948-1956
Box   3
Folder   15
Reports to board of directors, 1949-1954
Box   3
Folder   16
Ephemera
Political involvement
Box   3
Folder   17
Democratic national convention - press correspondence, 1952
Box   3
Folder   18
Stevenson campaign, 1956
Box   3
Folder   19
Stevenson campaign trail, 1956
Box   3
Folder   20
Democratic civil rights platform analysis, 1956
Box   3
Folder   21
Stevenson - civil rights, 1956
Box   3
Folder   22
Democratic National Committee and civil rights, 1956-1958
Box   3
Folder   23
Correspondence - Democratic National Committee, 1958
Box   3
Folder   24
Nixon - civil rights, 1959
Box   3
Folder   25
Kennedy campaign, 1960
Box   3
Folder   26
Democratic party, 1962
Box   3
Folder   27
Campaign correspondence, 1964
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   28-29
Personal, 1941-1986
Box   3
Folder   30
Professional, 1941-1952
Box   3
Folder   31
Hate mail [Supreme Court decision], 1950
Box   3
Folder   32
Miscellaneous
Clippings - personal
Box   3
Folder   33-39
1939-1949
Box   3
Folder   40
Henderson v. Southern Railways, 1949-1950
Box   3
Folder   41-48
1950-1959
Speeches and writings
Box   3
Folder   49
Speeches, 1937, 1956, 1963, 1968
Box   3
Folder   50
67th Anniversary of greater institutional AME church, 1967
Box   3
Folder   51
Preparation material, undated
Box   3
Folder   52
Writings, 1940-1943, 1951
Box   3
Folder   53-55
Black Metropolis research, 1939
Box   4
Folder   1-2
Black Metropolis research, 1939 (continued)
Box   4
Folder   3
Conference of Southern Democrats, 1962
Box   4
Folder   4
State of the Race Conference, 1956
Box   4
Folder   5
Case file - Wilkinson v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1952
Box   4
Folder   6
Henderson v. Southern Railways - Complainant brief, 1946
Box   4
Folder   7
Armed forces - Negroes, 1962-1963
Box   4
Folder   8
American Council on Race Relations, 1944-1947
Box   4
Folder   9
[Segregation in Washington, D.C., 1946-1947]
Box   4
Folder   10
Dillard University, 1941
Box   4
Folder   11
Clyde Dillard, 1953
Box   4
Folder   12
40th Anniversary of Henderson v. Southern Railways, 1990
Box   4
Folder   13
Henderson tributes, 1974, 1981, 2001
Oversize Folder  
Political ephemera, 1940s-1960s
PH Box   3
Photographs