The records of the Washington Interracial Workshop, 1942-1956 (primarily 1948-1956), include information on its general structure and operations as well as on specific activities, especially the Rosedale Playground campaign.
The general operations records include a constitution, minutes, general correspondence, correspondence and reports to national CORE, publications, and lists of attendance at meetings and of potential donors. These give a very sketchy overview of the Workshop's role in civil rights work in the period 1948-1956. The papers for 1953-1956 give more information about Albert Mindlin's civil rights activities than those of the Workshop.
The records of specific activities include information on the Council for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital, on campaigns to integrate Washington's Fire Department, hotels, the Metropolitan Police Boys Club, and playgrounds. The year-long struggle to open the Rosedale Playground is the most fully documented aspect of the Workshop's activities and includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, minutes and attendance lists of meetings, reports, research and legal material, publicity information, and clippings.
