Social Action Poster Collection, circa 1965-circa 1990 (bulk 1970s-1980s)

Container Title
M2002-100
Part 2 (M2002-100, Audio 851A/2-8): Additions, 1955-1992, 1996-2000
Physical Description: 6.0 cubic feet (4 record center cartons and 5 archives boxes), 7 tape recordings, and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs and transparencies (2 folders) 
Scope and Content Note: Additional papers, 1955-1992, 1996-2000, documenting John Salter’s (Hunter Gray) professional and personal interests in civil rights, American Indian affairs, labor and community organizing, and teaching. Also documented is Salter’s UFO encounter, the peyote case United States v. Warner, and the White Earth Anishinabe Nation’s land claims battle in Minnesota. Included are correspondence and news clippings; speeches, reports, and writings by Salter and by others; his FBI files; transcripts of two interviews with Salter; biographical and family history information; photographs of Salter-Gray family and Salter alone and with others; and sound recordings primarily related to the Anishinabe Indian land claims. Also includes an 1889 note from activist Jane Addams to Mrs. Salter. This accession includes 53 formerly unprocessed accessions. The audio tapes have been assigned call number Audio 851A.
Civil rights
Box   1
Folder   1
NAACP/Jackson Movement papers
Box   1
Folder   2
Programs
Box   1
Folder   3
NAACP membership cards, 1962
Box   1
Folder   4
Writings and speeches
Box   1
Folder   5
The Southern Patriot, 1962 January-1966 April
Box   1
Folder   6
The Student Voice (Tougaloo), 1963-1964
Box   1
Folder   7
Senate hearings
Box   1
Folder   8
Publications
Box   1
Folder   9
Legal papers
Box   1
Folder   10
“Organizing the Community for Action”
Box   1
Folder   11
“On Our Knees: the Story of the Jackson Church Visits”
Box   1
Folder   12
Christmas in Mississippi
Box   1
Folder   13-19
Publications
Box   1
Folder   20
Broadsides
Box   1
Folder   21
Writings by others and background
Box   1
Folder   22-23
Sovereignty Commission, news articles and briefs, 1980s-1998
Box   1
Folder   24
Native American ancestry and Salter-Gray family background
Box   1
Folder   25
Ephemera, 1960s-1980s
Box   1
Folder   26-27
Clippings, 1960s-1992
Box   1
Folder   28
Kinatuinamot Illengajuk, Labrador Inuit Association newsletter, 1976-1978, 1980
Note: 4 issues.
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   29
John Salter letters to his parents, 1960-1964
Box   1
Folder   30
1967
Box   1
Folder   31
Eldri Johanson letters to parents, 1960-1970
Note: Regarding civil rights activities.
Box   1
Folder   32
Regarding surveillance
Box   2
Folder   1
Personal and family, 1955-1983
Box   2
Folder   2
Regarding Civil Rights, 1962-1966
Box   2
Folder   3
Rochester Diocese correspondence and articles, 1978
Box   2
Folder   4-7
General and professional, 1960s-1985
Box   3
Folder   1-2
General and professional, 1988-1991
Box   3
Folder   3-4
Background information on Salter (Hunter Gray) activities, circa 1973-1989
Box   3
Folder   5
Curriculum vitae, Salter (Hunter Gray), circa 1984
Box   3
Folder   6
Chicago Commons Association, Arthur Hillman, correspondence, writings
Box   3
Folder   7
UFO encounter account, Salter's (Hunter Gray), 1988-1990
Box   3
Folder   8
News clippings, 1988-1989
Box   4
Folder   1
Jane Addams note to Mrs. Salter, 1889
Box   4
Folder   2
Memos and news articles, regarding Salter and University of North Dakota (UND), police policy, 1984-1986
Box   4
Folder   3
Community organizing and Navajo Community College, circa 1980
Box   4
Folder   4
College catalogs, 1961-1962, 1980-1981
Writings by and about Salter (Hunter Gray)
Box   4
Folder   5
Reviews, writings, remarks, 1960s, 1980s
Box   4
Folder   6
Reviews and book correspondence, 1979-1982, 1987
Box   4
Folder   7
Book reviews, writings, conference programs, 1962, 1979-1988
Box   4
Folder   8
Correspondence, reviews, articles, writings, 1986
Box   4
Folder   9
Writings, reviews
Box   4
Folder   10
News clippings, 1990-1991
Box   4
Folder   11
Civil rights news clippings, correspondence, articles, 1960s-1980s
Box   4
Folder   12
Civil rights miscellany and correspondence
Box   4
Folder   13
Labor unions organizing
Box   4
Folder   14
John Beecher, articles on
Box   4
Folder   15
Salter (Hunter Gray) interview, transcript, for John Stennis oral history project, 1990 December 26
Box   4
Folder   16
Salter interview, transcript, conducted by Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1981
Box   4
Folder   17
Maine Indian land claims, articles, 1985
Box   4
Folder   18
News clippings from Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi
Box   4
Folder   19
Action newsletter, Student Action Superior State College, 1961
Box   4
Folder   20
Labor, miners, and other organizing
Box   4
Folder   21
Dissertation by James Helten, UND, “Do What the Spirit Say Do, John Beecher and His Poetry”
Box   4
Folder   22
“Reflections on Ralph Chaplin, the WOBBLIES, and organizing …” / by Salter (Hunter Gray), 1984
Box   4
Folder   23
Writings by others, 1980s-2000
Box   4
Folder   24
Indian affairs
Box   4
Folder   25
Background, news clippings, correspondence on peyote case, United States v. Warner, police force, 1984-1988
Box   4
Folder   26
Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, speech and ephemera, 1989
Anishinabe land claims
Note: Contains information related to the White Earth Anishinabe Nation's land claims on the Minnesota Reservation.
Box   5
Folder   1
Historical background
Box   5
Folder   2
Legislative and legal background information, historic
Box   5
Folder   3
Legislative and legal documents, 1972-1978, 1985-1986
Box   5
Folder   4
Lawsuit against White Earth Land Settlement Act, 1986
Box   5
Folder   5
White Earth Anishinabe Nation printed materials
Box   5
Folder   6
“Notes on White Earth Mineral Study”
Box   5
Folder   7
News clippings, 1980-1988
“Dispute at White Earth: Suffering in Silence No More,”
Box   5
Folder   8
Slide-tape presentation transcript and slide information, by Becky LeFebvre
PH Box   2
Folder   2
Slide show transparencies for Part 1
Note: Images of people, meetings and demonstrations.
851A/2-3
Audio for slide show
851A/4
Winona La Duke, Grand Forks, North Dakota, early 1985
851A/5
Maggie Hawks and Mary Jane Wilson, 1983 August 8
851A/6
Fred Weaver with Winona La Duke, 1983 August 8
851A/7
Interview with Salter (Hunter Gray) regarding the United States v. Warner peyote case
851A/8
Talk on American Indians by Salter (Hunter Gray), Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1976
M2002-100
Box   6
Folder   1-7
FBI files and FOIA requests, Salter's (Hunter Gray)
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note: Contains correspondence primarily between Salter and his colleagues and friends.
Box   7
Folder   1-23
1959-1988
Box   8
Folder   1-17
1989-1991
Box   9
Folder   1-3
1991
Photographs
PH Box   2
Folder   1
Salter-Gray individual and family photographs, circa 1911-1989; John Salter Jr. (Hunter Gray) meeting with United Negro College Fund officials, 1963