Americans for Democratic Action. Greater Washington Chapter Records, 1946-2003

Container Title
M70-231
Part 1 (M70-231): Original Collection, 1946-1974
Physical Description: 14.0 c.f. (14 record center cartons) and 1 folder of photographs 
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by subject.
Box   1
A
Box   1
Activities, 1971-1973
Box   1
ADAction, 1947-1948, 1961-1965
Box   1
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) calendars, 1947-1948
Box   1
ADA Massachusetts
Box   1
ADA national-general
Box   1
Adams/Morgan assorted statements, 1965
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Metropolitan Washington housing program
Box   1
Organizations
Box   1
[General]
Box   1
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Box   1
Community Relations Service
Box   1
Apartment advisory committee
Box   1
Autograph party, 1967
Box   1
Benefits, 1949, 1954
Box   1
Bills payable [per capita membership payment to ADA]
Box   1
Boren Chertov-treasurer
Box   1
Business, office, miscellaneous
Box   1
C
Box   1
Chapter elections, 1973
Box   1
Citizens Council for the District of Columbia
Box   1
Citizens Council for a Clean Potomac
Box   1
[Civil disobedience]
Box   1
Civil rights seminar
Box   1
Constitution and bylaws
Box   1
Consumer protection
Box   1
Conference, 1964-1965, 1967
Committees
Box   2
[General]
Box   2
Arts, 1950, 1952
Box   2
Civil liberties, 1948-1962
Box   2
Civil rights
Box   2
Civil rights, 1952-1958
Box   2
Committees on Committee report, 1965
District affairs
Box   2
General, 1958-1962
Box   2
Aid to Dependent Children
Box   2
Budget, taxes, 1947-1955
Box   3
Budget, taxes, 1955-1961
Box   3
Charitable solicitations, 1957
Box   3
D.C. budget, 1965-1966
Box   3
D.C. budget, assorted statements, 1965-1966
Box   3
D.C. transit fare fight, 1959
Box   3
General, 1947-1953, 1957
Box   3
Political action, 1964
Box   3
Public utilities
Box   3
Capital Transit Company, 1955
Box   3
General, 1948-1954
Box   3
Pepco refinancing, 1957
Box   3
Tax on groceries, 1957
Box   3
Domestic affairs
Box   3
McCarthy, communism, anti-communism, 1947-1957
Box   3
Miscellaneous, 1947-1954
Box   3
Education, 1946-1954
Box   4
Education, 1953-1962
Box   4
Foreign affairs
Box   5
General, committee preferences of members, 1958-1962
Box   5
Health and welfare, citizen's committee
Box   5
Health and welfare, 1946-1954
Box   5
Home rule, general
Box   5
Home rule, 1947-1962
Box   6
Home rule, 1963, 1966
Hays Bill
Box   6
Arlie house meeting
Box   6
Legislation
Box   6
Letters to and from Congress
Box   6
Morse Amendment
Box   6
Press
Box   6
Press releases, House and Senate Bills
Box   6
Other organizations interested in representation
Box   6
Testimony, statements, speeches, etc.
Box   6
Housing, 1946-1953
Box   6
Housing, zoning and redevelopment, 1954-1962
Box   7
Labor standards , 1946-1956
Box   7
Legislative, 1947
Box   7
Maryland affairs, 1962
Box   7
Membership [general]
Box   7
Membership, 1961-1962
Box   7
Mental health
Box   7
Montgomery County, 1947-1949
Box   7
National affairs, 1959-1963
Box   7
Natural resources, 1955-1962
Box   7
Political action, 1948, 1952, 1956-1962
Box   7
Virginia Northern, 1947-1950
Box   7
Welfare
Box   7
Conference, 1963
Box   7
Continuous groups
Box   7
Conventions-ADA national, 1948-1966, 1973
Box   7
Consumer affairs
Correspondence
Box   7
General, 1963-1966
Box   7
Home Rule
Box   7
[Leon Shull]
Box   7
Members, 1967
Box   7
Criticisms, beginning 1947
Box   8
College of Youth Democratic Clubs of America
Box   8
D
Box   8
D.C.
Box   8
Bankruptcy
Box   8
Committee workshop, 1949
Box   8
Crime bill
Box   8
Fiscal affairs
Box   8
Minimum wage hearing, 1965
Box   8
Programs
Box   8
Schools, track system, 1965
Box   8
Urban renewal
Box   8
E
Education
Box   8
Boycott
Box   8
Correspondence
Box   8
Information (statistics, studies, reports, etc.)
Box   8
School Board candidates
Box   8
School district boundaries
Box   8
Testimony, statements, etc.
Box   8
Election, 1964
Box   8
[Elections, D.C. City Council, 1977]
Box   8
[Elections, D.C. School Board, 1968]
Box   8
Elections-Presidential, 1968
Box   8
Election materials, 1972
Box   8
Employment-D.C.
Box   8
Executive board, chapter, 1946-1947
Box   9
Executive board, chapter, 1948-1968
Box   9
Executive board, election of officers and members, 1946-1960
Box   9
Executive board materials, 1971-1973
Box   9
Executive committee-chapter
Box   9
Fair housing
Box   10
Fair employment
Box   10
Finances, 1947-1965
Box   10
Fundraising
Box   10
General
Box   10
H
Box   10
Hatch Act
Box   10
Home Rule
Box   10
Housing [general]
Box   11
I
Box   11
L
Box   11
Local issues file, 1972-1973
Box   11
M
Members
Box   11
Meetings, 1972
Box   11
Members and applications
Box   11
Members
Box   11
Correspondence, 1955-1966
Box   11
Membership committee, 1946-1958
Box   11
Opinion survey
Box   11
Prospects, 1956-1958
Prospective-correspondence
Box   11
1960-1962
Box   11
1962
Box   11
Resignations, deaths, dropped, 1953-1962
Box   11
Rejects, 1947
Box   11
Survey of committees preferences, 1962
Box   11
[Membership] for auditors
Box   11
Membership
Box   11
Complaints
Box   11
Drives
Box   11
Membership and funds
Box   11
Inventory, 1970
Box   11
Mailings
Box   12
Meetings, 1946-1962
Box   12
Memos, minutes, correspondence
Box   12
Metropolitan Buyer Committee
Box   12
Metropolitan government, challenge of-conference, 1958
Box   12
Metropolitan problems of Washington area-conference, 1959
Box   12
Model cities
Box   12
Miscellaneous
Box   12
Miscellaneous questions
Box   12
National ADA-memoranda and correspondence, 1962
Box   12
Neighborhood meetings, 1947-1948
Box   12
[News clippings]
Box   12
Newsletters, 1972-1973
Box   12
Nominating committee, 1972-1973
Box   12
North central freeway-assorted statements, 1965
Box   12
Office-general
Box   12
Office-membership meeting
Box   12
Ombudsman
Box   12
Organization of chapter work-beginning , 1948
Box   12
Organizations-correspondence, 1962
Box   12
Organization of ADA (structure, aims, principles), 1947-1954
Box   13
Parties, picnics, receptions, 1946-1959
Box   13
Personnel (paid office staff)
Box   13
Pledge campaign, 1962-1963
Box   13
Police department
Box   13
Police-community relations
Box   13
Political workshop of Washington chapter, 1960
Box   13
Potomac basin
Box   13
Poverty-welfare
Box   13
Press clippings
Box   13
Prince George's [County] branch
Box   13
Procurement-office supplies
Box   13
Publications-ADAction, 1960
Publicity
Box   13
Committee
Box   13
Press releases, 1959-1962
Box   13
“Public Relations Primer,” by Susan H. Davis
Box   13
Press, radio and TV
Box   13
Press releases
Box   13
Radio forum, 1949
Box   13
Recreation, D.C.
Box   13
Reports on chapter activities-beginning , 1949
Box   13
Resumes of interviewees for executive director
Box   13
Resolution-chapter, 1966-1967
Box   13
Roosevelt Day Dinners, 1950, 1960-1968
Box   14
S
Box   14
Schools
Box   14
School board questionnaires, 1965
Box   14
Self determination for D.C., 1973-1974
Box   14
Shaw, Kennedy
Box   14
Student conference, 1965
Box   14
Speaker's Bureau, 1948
Box   14
Staff procurement-correspondence, 1962
Box   14
Statements of income and expense, 1963
Box   14
Task force/organization
Box   14
Test ban treaty
Box   14
Testimony and statements, 1955-1960
Box   14
Theater parties, 1964
Box   14
Transit-D.C.
Box   14
Transportation-D.C.
Box   14
Union for Democratic Action (UDA), 1946-1947
Box   14
United Community Services of Washington, 1948, 1950
Box   14
United Planning Organization
Box   14
Useful information
Box   14
V
Box   14
W
Box   14
Watchdog committee, 1973-1974
Box   14
Welfare
PH Box   24
Photographs of ADA members and events, including photographs of Orville Freeman, who spoke at one of the events