The State Historical Society of Wisconsin obtained these papers on August 31, 1971, from August Meyer and Eliot Rudwick, both professors at Kent State University, Ohio, who were then writing a history of the Congress of Racial Equality. Because Professors Meyer and Rudwick received these papers of the New Haven chapter from Robert Abramovitz, they stipulated that the papers be named after him, rather than the chapter, although they give only a fragmentary picture of the activity of either the chapter or Abramovitz.
