Series: Audio Recordings

Carl Rachlin dictations, undated (1964-1968?)
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Audio 956A/1: Though not identified, these dictations were most likely recorded by Carl Rachlin. The first recording includes a draft of an article on the way desegregation was inadvertently leading to the closure of Black law schools and causing diminished access to education. In the article, Rachlin offers several remedies for this situation. On the second recording, he dictates a letter on the inadequacies of the Social Security Amendments of 1967 (HR12080), citing their harsh qualifying provisions and suggesting that they will result in the further limiting of access to welfare and incentivize the breaking up of families.

Audio 956A/2: Though not identified, these dictations were most likely recorded by Carl Rachlin. Included are a letter declaring that the prices for children's clothing were increasing faster than the welfare provided to purchase them; a memorandum to Marvin Rich concerning a meeting he had with George Wiley on the subject of training welfare aids; a letter to Theodore N. McDowell, of the Evening Star Broadcasting Company, concerning a perceived bias in an upcoming program on George Wiley; a letter concerning California Proposition 14, which proposed to repeal a recent ban on landlords' and property owners' ability to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their ethnicity; and a possible article on the need for lawyers to re-evaluate their hesitation to participate in cases concerning welfare recipients, victims of fraud, and apartment tenants.

Audio 956A/3: Though not identified, the majority of these dictations were most likely recorded by Carl Rachlin. Beginning the tape, an unidentified woman dictates a second draft of an article for the Minnesota Bar Journal, entitled "The Lawyer and Civil Rights." Following this, Rachlin begins dictating a letter about the need for welfare recipients to receive expedited access to hearings before their benefits are rescinded. This is followed by several letters to Ray Louchheim, demanding hearings for clients being improperly denied welfare benefits. Rachlin then dictates a letter on his firm's employment of law students and expresses the hope that the college program providing them be expanded. Another letter addresses the need for law students to study labor relations in other countries in order to more creatively practice the law. Stephen M. Nagler then dictates a letter providing a list of Baltimore lawyers.

Stephen M. Nagler dictations, undated (circa 1964-1968?)
Scope and Content Note: Included are a letter to Ray Louchheim, requesting a hearing for a client not receiving appropriate welfare benefits; a letter to Brian Glick, concerning an amendment of the New York constitution protecting individuals from needing to waive any of their other rights when receiving welfare; letters to Michael Terzian (RCA Institute, Inc.) and E. Percivel (Non-Residence Welfare Center) about the legal authorization to release student records; and another letter requesting a hearing for a welfare client.

Discussion on the role of non-violence in the civil rights movement, undated
Scope and Content Note: The speakers discuss whether the civil rights movement's adoption of non-violence was simply a tactic or fundamental to its philosophy. The speakers are unidentified.

WNAZ, "Are the Civil Rights Groups Communist Influenced?" radio show, hosted by Haywood Vincent 1964 May 25
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Audio 956A/6: The program, hosted by Haywood Vincent, contains an interview with Julia Brown. She had spent nine years as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and shares her experiences in the civil rights movement. Brown expresses her belief that Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders were "Communist dupes." WNAZ was broadcast out of Albany, New York.

Audio 956A/7: This tape is primarily composed of call-in responses to Brown's claims.