The papers are of interest primarily for the number of organizations in which Bonnie Gordon was active. The papers consist of two folders of general correspondence and financial records, which comprise the PERSONAL PAPERS, and chronologically-arranged ORGANIZATIONAL FILES. Of greatest interest in the organizational files are miscellaneous papers of the Cleveland Congress of Racial Equality; form letters and position papers on an organization in which Rod Holt was active which attempted to place independent Black candidates on the ballot; minutes, mainly 1963-1964, of Cleveland Young Socialists of America; correspondence of the Alexander Defense Committee pertaining to a visit by Franz Lee; and correspondence, minutes, and legal and press material relating to the Vietnam Resolution Committee which sought to place a referendum on U.S. involvement in the war on the ballot in 1966.
The PERSONAL PAPERS are quite fragmentary and are of interest chiefly for allusions contained in some of the letters from Rod Holt about the attitudes of pro-Castro supporters in the early 1960s.
