A Guide to the Southern Elections Fund & Julian Bond Papers 1965-1975
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Southern Elections Fund & Julian Bond Papers, 1965-1975, Accession #10907, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased from Mr. Julian Bond of Washington, D.C., on 9 February 1990.
Biographical/Historical Information
THE SOUTHERN ELECTIONS FUND
The SEF was established in August 1969 as a non-profit
corporation to assist in electing local and state level
candidates for office in the eleven states of the old
Confederacy (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
and Virginia). It provided technical assistance, moral support
and grants ranging from $100 to $400 to slates or individual
candidates, regardless of race, gender, religion, national
origin or political affiliation. These grants, awarded by a
bipartisan selection committee, provided financial
grants-in-aid for election filing fees, campaign and office
materials based on merit, campaign needs, and community
support. The Fund began with a gift of $30,000 from an
anonymous donor after Jack Chatfield, then working with the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in southern
Georgia (and later the SEF's first director), observed much
work being done to register black voters "but little or
nothing available to help black candidates for minor office."
Governed by a board of trustees, the SEF sought private and
corporate donations with the goal of building a financial base
of support for Southern politics within the African-American
community. In 1970 its contributions to the South Carolina
campaigns of three blacks and two in Alabama led to their
becoming the first blacks elected to those states'
legislatures since the end of Reconstruction. Between 1970 and
1975 the SEF contributed campaign funds and technical advice
to over 800 candidates, 70 percent of whom were elected to
office as part of a grass roots process that changed the
nature and color of Southern politics.
JULIAN BOND
Julian Bond, the son of Horace and Julia Bond, was born
in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1940 and lived in Pennsylvania
with his family until he enrolled at Morehouse College in
1957. In 1961 he married Alice Louise Clopton, a student at
Spelman (they eventually had five children: Phyllis, Horace,
Michael, Jeffrey, and Julia). In the same year Bond, one
semester shy of graduation, abandoned his studies to focus on
the civil rights movement; because of an increasingly active
civic and political career he did not earn his bachelor's
degree from Morehouse until 1971. He joined in the growing
civil rights movement of the 1960s and participated in public
protest against racial discrimination and became a founder and
executive secretary of the Committee on Appeal for Human
Rights at Atlanta University. Bond also founded and served as
the communications director for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee during 1961-1966 and worked on behalf
of black voter registration in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and
Mississippi. He also was managing editor for the
Atlanta Inquirer in 1964.
Elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, Bond was denied his seat in January 1966 because of his opposition to the Vietnam War; after winning a special election in November 1966 and a Supreme Court ruling that the House's refusal to seat him was unconstitutional, he was seated in 1967 and served until 1974. In 1968, as head of the Georgia Democratic Delagation at the National Democratic Convention, he was nominated for the Democratic presidential ticket but declined because he did not meet age requirements. He became a member of the SEF's board of trustees shortly after its inception in 1969 and later its chairman, 1969-1974.
Bond was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1974 representing the Fifth District and served until defeated for re-election in the 1986 primary. He became president of the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina in 1987; during 1990 he taught civil rights history at the University of Virginia. Divorced from Alice C. Bond in 1989, he married Pamela Sue Horowitz, a Washington, D. C., attorney, in 1990.
Julian Bond has worked in a variety of capacities for numerous organizations: the Delta Ministry Project of the National Council of Churches; the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund; the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, the Center for Community Sharecropper's Fund (president); the Souther Regional Council; the New Democratic Coalition; the Voter Education Project; Southern Poverty Law Center (president); the NAACP; Southern Correspondents Reporting Racial Equality Wars; the Metropolitan Applied Research Center of New York (visiting fellow); and the Institute of Applied Politics (honorary trustee). His articles and political commentary appeared in numerous periodicals, and currently he is a moderator for "Black Forum," a nationally syndicated television program. He is the author of Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Experiences (Atlanta, 1969), and, A Time To Speak, A Time To Act: The Movement in Politics (New York, 1972). The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Bond has been a distinguished visiting professor (1980-1991) at Drexel University, Harvard, and American University.
Scope and Content Information
This collection, 1965-1975, consists of correspondence, mailing lists, newsletters and other printed items, photographs, slides, and miscellaneous materials originated by officers, administrators, and sponsors of the Southern Elections Fund, Inc., including professional and political correspondence of Julian Bond, civil rights leader and chairman of the SEF board of trustees. Several prominent contemporary political and civic individuals and organizations, particularly African-Americans, are represented in the collection by correspondence and printed materials.
Arrangement
OrganizationThe collection comprises three series:
I. Julian Bond Papers
II. Southern Elections Fund Papers
III. Miscellaneous & Oversize.
Series II contains five subseries:
Subseries A: Leadership/Administrators
Subseries B: Office files
Subseries C: Name files
Subseries D: Fund Raising
Subseries E: Campaigns & Elections.
Folders are arranged chronologically or alphabetically within each series. The original internal order and titles of select folders have been retained. Special items of note, usually letters of distinguished individuals (especially African-Americans) are indicated.
Contents List
There are several items of note including copies of a
Martin Luther King, Jr., telegram to the Georgia
legislature urging it to seat Representative-elect Bond
despite his opposition to the Vietnam War (1966), and,
autographed cards and photographs of Julian Bond with
black California politician Willie Brown (other
photographs are in Box 9, folder "Brandt Fund Raising
Garden Party"). In the folders "Julian Bond letters as
chairman of SEF Board of Trustees" are: a letter from
him, 5 March 1973, in response to a Reverend Jesse L.
Jackson (b.1941) telegram requesting civic, religious,
and political leaders to attend a Chicago, Illinois,
conference to organize protests against President
Richard M. Nixon's budget cuts; a pledge of support of
the SEF from California Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite
Burke (b.1932), 12 March 1974, and a letter from Senator
Henry M. Jackson (b.1912), who regrets being unable to
attend a meeting, 11 July 1974.
The folders "Julian Bond: Political and SEF
correspondence" have letters from Percy E. Sutton
(b.1920), president, borough of Manhattan, New York
City, 9 November 1973, regarding his election victory;
Johnny L. Ford (b. 1942), mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, 6
November 1973; California State Senator Mervyn M.
Dymally (b.1926) [later lieutenant governor and
congressman], 30 January 1974, regarding employment for
his assistant in Georgia; letters of Joseph Robbie
(1916-1990), founder and general manager of the Miami
Dolphins football team, 19 February and 11 April 1974;
Senator Edward W. Brooke (b.1919), 7 January 1974;
Coleman A. Young (b.1918), mayor of Detroit, 18 February
1974, concerning his election as mayor; and an
electrostatic copy of a letter to Georgia Governor Jimmy
Carter (b.1924) [later U. S. president], 4 March 1974,
with Bond's offer of the SEF's assistance for Carter's
1974 "Democractic election efforts."
"Letters to Julian Bond as chairman of SEF Board of
Trustees" folders include a 22 March 1973 letter from
Willie L. Brown, Jr. (b.1934), [later speaker of the
California State Assembly], who is unable to serve on
SEF board but promises his support; a 9 October 1973
letter from Harold E. Ford (b.1945), Tennessee House of
Representatives (later member of U.S. Congress),
regarding a "home rule" bill; letters, 15 October 1973
and 5 November 1974, from Leonard Woodcock, president,
United Auto Workers (b.1911), enclosing donations to the
SEF; and a letter of 29 March 1974 from Lady Bird
Johnson (b.1912) [Claudia Taylor Johnson, widow of
President Lyndon B. Johnson], who regrets being unable
to serve on the SEF's board of trustees.
Also present is Bond's state senate nomination
certificate "to run in the November 5, 1974 general
election as the Democratic Party nominee" in Georgia's
39th District.
This series' folders are arranged chronologically in
Boxes 1 and 2.
- Box 1
Martin Luther King, Jr., telegram to the Georgia legislature on behalf of representative elect Julian Bond 1966 Jan 102 electrostatic copies
- Box 1
Autographed cards and photographs of Julian Bond 1970, n.d.
- Box 1
Julian Bond letters as chairman of SEF Board of Trustees 1970-1975Carbon copies in 4 folders.
- Box 1
Howard Romaine new articles re: Julian Bond 1971
- Box 1
Speeches of Julian Bond 1971 & 1974
- Box 1
Julian Bond's political nad SEF correspondence 1972-1974 Sep2 folders
- Box 2
Julian Bond: Political and SEF Correspondence 1974 Oct-1975
- Julian Bond: Miscellaneous SEF Draft Letters 1973, n.d.
- Box 2
Profile and Interview of Julian Bond 1973, n.d.
- Box 2
Letters to Julian Bond as chairman of SEF Board of Trustees 1973-1975
- Box 2
Travel Schedules of Julian Bond, with fund-raising correspondence 1973-1975
- Box 2
Julian Bond: Democratic nomination certificate, Georgia state senator, 39th district 1974
- Box 2
Speaking Engagements: Julian Bond 1974-1975
Jack Chatfield was the SEF's first director
(1968-1969), and his papers (Box 2) comprise one folder
of correspondence. Of particular interest are a
postcard, 10 June 1969, and letter, 21 September 1969,
on how to solicit whites for fund raising, both from
Virginia F. Durr (b.1903) and a letter, 8 July 1969,
from Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (b.1924) accepting
an offer to become a member of the SEF board.
Robert H. Mitchell was the SEF's treasurer in 1968
and interim treasurer and fund raising director during
1969. His papers (Box 2) comprise two folders of
correspondence. These include a letter, 8 July 1969,
from Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) regarding his possible
membership on the board; an 10 October 1969 letter from
John Conyers, Jr. (b.1929) discussing home rule in the
District of Columbia; and a letter of 10 October 1969
from actor Paul L. Newman (b.1925) enclosing a
contribution.
Antonio Harrison was the first full-time director of
the SEF (1969-1971); his correspondence comprises two
folders (Box 2). Present is a form letter, 19 May 1970,
signed (autopen) by Lilian S. Sandburg [Mrs. Carl
Sandburg], (1883-1976) on behalf of Meharry Medical
College and a 15 September 1970 "financial prospectus"
of American expenditures for the Vietnam War.
Clinton E. Deveaux, executive director from 1971 to
1972, was formerly on the staff of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference and Andrew Young's
campaign finance manager in 1970. After being hired in
February 1971, he relocated SEF headquarters from New
York to Atlanta, Georgia "so it could be closer to the
people it serves." (A few December 1971 documents
describe him as the SEF president.) His eleven folders
(Boxes 3 and 4) contain mostly letter carbons regarding
fund raising. In the folders "Letters to Clinton
Deveaux" are letters from Leonard Woodcock, regarding
the Democratic Policy Council of the Democratic National
Committee, 14 January 1972; a letter of 25 January 1972
from Robert S. Strauss (b.1918), soliciting Deveaux's
membership in a "72 Sponsors Club,"; John Lewis
(b.1940), concerning the Voter Education Project, 28
July 1972; Reverend Ralph David Abernathy (1926-1990),
president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
discussing the SCLC's 15th anniversary convention, 1
August 1972; and a letter of October 1972 from Senator
Edward M. Kennedy (b.1932), regarding his Civilian
Marksmanship Program amendment.
Yancey Martin, executive director from 1973 to 1975,
was formerly a special assistant and national minorities
coordinator for Senator George McGovern and the
Democratic National Committee. His papers (Boxes 4- 5)
are concerned with fund raising and office management.
Among these are 1973 reports of Muriel Mitchel Smith,
director of research. The folders "Letters to Yancey
Martin" include letters from George L. Brown (b.1926),
Colorado state senator, 28 March and 13 April 1973;
Congressman John Conyers (b.1929), 17 December 1973, on
the aftermath of Coleman A. Young mayoralty campaign;
Lawrence Douglas Wilder, 16 April 1973 (b.1931; later
governor of Virginia); California State Senator Mervyn
M. Dymally (b.1926) [later lieutenant governor and
congressman], 12 November & 13 December 1973, 17
January 1974; Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.
(1920-1978) [later commander-in-chief, North American
Air Defense Command], 26 November 1973; Fred David Gray,
member, Alabama House of Representatives [1970-1974],
November 13 & 19 1973; John Lewis, executive
director, Voter Education Project, 1 February 1974,
ending his association with the SEF; and, Senator George
M. McGovern (b.1922), on various subjects, 6 December
1974.
Other administrators whose papers are in this
subseries include Ariel Williams, direct mail specialist
(1973) and executive director (1975-?), and Fran
Toliver, director of information (1975-?).
Subseries B (Boxes 5-8) constitutes office files
arranged alphabetically. These include SEF articles of
incorporation (1973), board of trustee minutes and
letters (including one from Shirley Chisholm (b.1924),
congresswoman and educator, to Julian Bond, 7 Feb. 1973,
resigning from the SEF due to burdens of her legislative
duties), the Guide To The Southern Elections Fund's
Personnel Policies and Procedures, the 1969 SEF
organizational plan, and photographs of Sheriff Zelma
Wyche, Tallaulah, Louisiana [town marshal and member of
the SEF Board of Trustees], an autographed photograph of
Sen. George McGovern for Yancey Martin, and photographs
of McGovern, Martin, and [Harold Oliver?].
This subseries is a particularly valuable source for
correspondence. The folder "Correspondence--Early SEF"
has an interesting letter from Taylor Branch (b.1947),
author and civil rights historian, to Jack Chatfield, 29
June 1969, declaring his support of the SEF and black
voting activities; an 8 August 1969 letter to Chatfield
bearing a signed autograph endorsement of Maynard H.
Jackson [later mayor of Atlanta] (b.1938), and 19 August
1969 letter of Curtis M. Graves (b.1938) black Texas
state representative [1966-1977] and noted aerospace
professional.
Letters in the "Correspondence (Miscellaneous)"
folders in Boxes 6-7 include:
*John Lewis (b. 1940) Voter
Education Project, 12 April 1973, resigns as an SEF
trustee because of confusion between his roles in the
VEP and SEF
*William P. Robinson, Sr. ,
member, Virginia House of Delegates, 29 May 1973 & 3
July 1973
*Percy E. Sutton (b.1920),
president, borough of Manhattan, 26 June 1973
*Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey (1911-1978) to Julian Bond, 24 May 1973,
congratulating him on his appointment to the Commission
on the Selection of the Vice Presidential Nominee
*George L. Brown (b.1926),
Colorado state senator, to Bond, 8 May 1973, concerning
fund raising problems
*Reverend Jesse L.
Jackson (b.1941), president of PUSH, to Yancey
Martin, 18 June 1973, thank-you note
*Fran Shields, secretary to entertainer Bill Cosby
(b.1937), 6 June 1973, to Bond regretting Cosby's
inability to donate money to SEF
*C. Delores Tucker (b.1927),
secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 24 May
1973
*Ralph David
Abernathy (1926-1990), president, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, 7 March 1973 to Dr.
D.J. Brooks re SCLC expenditures (carbon) incurred by
Reverend Bernard S. Lee and 1 August 1973 letter to
Yancey Martin regarding the SCLC's 16th anniversary
convention
*Walter F. Mondale (b.1928) to
Martin, August 1 & 9, 1973, of his intent to assist
the SEF (electrostatic copy)
*Joseph Robbie (1916-1990),
founder and general manager of the Miami Dolphins
football team, as chair of the Democratic Executive
Committee of Dade County [Florida] 25 August 1973
*F. S. Farley, member of
Petersburg, Virginia, city council 17 July 1973,
thanking the SEF for contributions to his campaign
*Barbara Jordan (b.1936),
member of Congress, 6 July 1973, as a potential SEF
trustee
*Senator Herman
Talmadge (b.1913), 4 August 1973, thanks and good
wishes
*California State Senator Mervyn M.
Dymally (b.1926) 30 July 1973, about a California
fund raiser for SEF
Subseries C's (Box 8) name files are arranged
alphabetically with folders for John Conyers
(biographical sketch and photograph), Charles Evers (b.
1922) first Black mayor of Fayette, Alabama (May 1969),
John Lewis (b. 1940) and his work with the Voter
Education Project (biographical sketch and photograph),
Southern Poverty Law Center (photographs of the Relf
sisters, sterilized without parental notification or
consent) and Mrs. Viola Hart, wrongfully evicted from
her home, and, Andrew Young (b. 1932) of the Atlanta
Community Relations Committee (photographs and items for
his congressional campaign).
Subseries D (Boxes 9-12) has alphabetical folders
concerning SEF fund raising activities such as its
reception for the southern premiere of the motion
picture Claudine [23 April 1974]; the film's stars,
Diahann Carroll [nominated for an Academy Award] and
James Earl Jones, musical composer Curtis Mayfield, and
theme music performers Gladys Knight and the Pips,
appeared on the SEF's behalf at a private cocktail
party. Materials of similar activities are available for
the motion picture Don't Play Us Cheap, directed by
noted black filmmaker and actor Melvin Van Peebles
(b.1932); its world premiere was sponsored by the SEF
and photographs of Peebles with SEF Executive Director
Yancey Martin and SEF Vice-Chair and Congressman Andrew
Young are present.
Letters of Leonard Woodcock (president of the United
Auto Workers) are in two folders, "Contributions from
Unions" and "Fund Raising Responses" (3 January 1974). A
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) form letter (signed in
autopen), May 1970, endorsing Planned Parenthood is in
the "Fund Appeals to SEF" folder. Of interest are
electrostatic copies of faculty and staff directories
for Morris Brown College, Clark College, and Atlanta
University, Atlanta, Georgia, in the folder "Mailing
Lists."
Subseries E (Boxes 13-15) includes various
alphabetical folders of materials for SEF campaign and
election activities. The "Candidates Not Funded by SEF"
folder contains letters of application for financial
assistance from Avon Williams Rollins, candidate for the
Knoxville, Tennessee, board of education, and Henrietta
M. Canty, candidate for Atlanta's board of aldermen. The
same is true for the folders "Louisiana" (with
applications for financial assistance and a letter from
sheriff's candidate Zelma C. Wyche, Tallaulah,
Louisiana, enclosing list and handbills of various black
candidates, 15 October 1975) and "Mississippi" (Ariel
Williams letters and photocopies of The Institute of
Politics in Mississippi.)
The "Southern Office Holders Questionnaires" folder
contains biographical information on black elected and
appointive officials in the South. Joseph W. Mallisham's
folder includes guidelines for poll watchers. Political
campaigns by black Virginians are reflected in folders
for William Ferguson Reid, Virginia House of Delegates
(1968-1973), Arthur W. Walls of Arlington County, and
Roland J. Walton of Norfolk. Also of special interest is
the folder of racial violence news articles containing
the chronologies "Some Race Related Deaths in the United
States (1955-1965)" and "Additional Race Related Deaths
in the United States Sept., 1965-June, 1966."
These papers are in Boxes 2 to 15. Subseries A,
arranged chronologically and alphabetically, contains
materials pertaining to SEF administrators other than
Bond. Researchers should note that much of this
correspondence consists of thank-you letters to donors
and there are miscellaneous scattered materials and
references to the SEF leadership throughout the
collection.
- SUBSERIES A: LEADERSHIP/ADMINISTRATORS
- Box 2
Jack Chatfield Correspondence 1969
- Box 2
folder
Robert H. Mitchell Correspondence 1968-19692 folders
- Box 2
Antonio L. Harrison Correspondence 1969-1971
-
Clinton E. Deveaux
- Box 3
Clinton Deveaux: Resume and form letters 1971-1972
- Box 3
Letters to Clinton Deveaux 1971-19725 folders
- Box 3
Clinton Deveaux Letters 1971 Jan-Sep3 folders
- Box 4
Clinton Deveaux Letters 1971 Oct-19722 folders
- Box 3
-
Yancey F. Martin
- Box 4
Letters to Yancey Martin 1973-19753 folders
- Box 4
Yancey Martin Letters 1973-1974 Jan2 folders
- Box 5
Yancey Martin Letters 1974 Feb-1975 Jun3 folders
- Box 5
Cover Letters, SEF Action Bulletin : Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 5
Memoranda of Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 5
Dennis Grubb to Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 5
Muriel Mitchell Smith, Director of Research: Weekly Reports to Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 5
Yancey Martin: Resume and miscellaneous 1973-1974, n.d.
- Box 5
Memoranda to Yancey Martin: Harold Oliver 1973-1974
- Box 4
-
Harold E. Oliver
- Box 5
Harold Oliver, Director of Fund Raising: Memoranda to Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 5
Direct Mail Division Reports: Harold Oliver 1973-1975
- Box 5
- Box 5
Ariel E. Williams Correspondence 1974-1976
- Box 5
Fran Toliver, Director of Information: SEF Fund-raising n.d.
- Box 2
- SUBSERIES B: OFFICE FILES
- Box 5
Apartments 1973, n.d.
- Box 5
Articles of Incorporation, Southern Elections Fund, Inc. 1973
- Box 5
Black Newspapers in the United States 1972
- Box 5
Blank Forms n.d.
- Box 6
Cash receipts/Disbursements 1969-1971Bound volume
- Box 6
Board Members 1971, n.d.
- Box 6
Board of Trustees: Minutes and Letters 1971-1974
- Box 6
Business cards and Office Equiptment n.d.
- Box 6
Catalogs 1972-1973
- Box 6
Conference Invitations 1971-1972
- Box 6
The Coolidge Company (Direct Mail) 1971-1972
- Box 6
Correspondence: Early SEF 1968-1970
- Box 6
Correspndence (Miscellaneous) 1973 Jan-Jun2 folders
- Box 7
Correspondence (Miscellaneous) 1973 Jul-19742 folders
- Box 7
Financial Records: Citizens Trust Company receipts 1971-1972
- Box 7
Financial Records: Invoices, Recepits, Bills paid 1973-1974
- Box 7
Financial Records: New York and SEF 1971
- Box 7
Financial Statements Report 1972
- Box 7
Georgia Department of Family & Child Services: Minimum Standards for Group Day Care Services 1969
- Box 7
Guide to the SEF's Personnel Policies and Procedures 19732 copies
- Box 7
The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 On Active Social Welfare Organizations, with a letter to Antonio Harrison, SEF Director 1970
- Box 7
Letters and Speech drafts 1973
- Box 7
List of Georgians n.d.
- Box 7
Memoranda 1973
- Box 2
folders
Miscellaneous Printed Material 1969-1975
- Box 8
Newsletters 1973-1974
- Box 8
Photographs n.d.3 photographs
- Box 8
Press Releases 1971-1975
- Box 8
SEF Action Bulletin 1972-1973
- Box 8
SEF Organizational Plan ca. 1969
- Box 8
Telephone Log 1973
- Box 5
- SUBSERIES C: NAME FILES
- Box 8
Black Congressional Caucus 1971
- Box 8
John Cashin, Chairman, National Democratic Party of Alabama 1971
- Box 8
Center for Community Change 1971
- Box 8
Center for Political Reform n.d.
- Box 8
Shirley Chisholm -- Presidential campaign 1972
- Box 8
Citizens' Research Foundation n.d.
- Box 8
Concept Films, Inc. 1971
- Box 8
John Conyers 1971
- Box 8
Shirley W. Cooks 1971
- Box 8
Creative Systems, Inc., Social Systems Division n.d.
- Box 8
Charlie Evers, mayor, Fayette, Mississippi 1973
- Box 8
The Medgar Evers Fund, Inc. 1971
- Box 8
FOCUS : Newsletter of the Joint Center for Political Studies 1972-1974
- Box 8
Jated Green, Jr. n.d.
- Box 8
Martin Luther King Foundation 1973
- Box 8
Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (Ben Peterson) 1973
- Box 8
John Lewis, Voter Education Project 1971
- Box 8
Medical Aid for Indochina, Inc. (Ken Coplon) 1973
- Box 8
Charles Morgan, Jr., American Civil Liberties Union 1965
- Box 8
NAACP Legal Defense Fund 1973
- Box 8
National Priorities Alert 1973
- Box 8
New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1970
- Box 8
Channing Phillips n.d.
- Box 8
John S. Saloma III, M.I.T. 1971
- Box 8
Selma Inter-religious Project ( SIP Newsletter ) 1970
- Box 8
Southern Poverty Law Center 1973
- Box 8
Voter Education Project 1969-1973
- Box 8
Dae Walker: Dae, Palmer & Associates 1973
- Box 8
Andrew Young: Atlanta Community Relations Committee 1970, 1975
- Box 8
- SUBSERIES D: FUND RAISING
- Box 9
Joseph P. Antonow 1973-1974
- Box 9
Boulder Fund Raiser 1973
- Box 9
Brandt Fund Raiser Garden Party (East Hampton Party, Summer 1970), with photographs of Julian Bond 1970
- Box 9
California Lists 1973
- Box 9
Century Club: Correspondence and Certificates 1973-1975
- Box 9
Century Club: Letters to members 1973-1974
- Box 9
Century Club: Roster and Mailings 1973-1974
- Box 9
Change of Donor Addresses 1971-1974
- Box 9
Chicago Fund Raiser 1974-1975
- Box 9
Claudine : SEF reception and premiere 1974
- Box 9
Columbia, South Carolina Fund Raiser 1973
- Box 9
Contacts 1970-1971
- Box 9
Contributions/Donations 1973
- Box 9
Contributions from Black Elected Officials 1973
- Box 9
Contributions from Unions 1973-1975
- Box 9
Contribution Thank-yous 1970
- Box 9
Corporation Appeals and Responses 1973-1974
- Box 9
Correspondence re: List Exchanges 1973-1974
- Box 9
CRF Listing of Political Contributions of $500 or more in 1968 1971
- Box 9
Denver Fund Raiser 1973
- Box 9
Des Moines Fund Raiser 1973
- Box 10
Dinners 1970
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Black Elected Officials Mailing Analyses 1974
- Box 10
Direct Mail Fundraisers, Inc. 1973-1974
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Letters and Reports 1971-1974
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Lincoln Graphic Arts, Inc. 1973
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Prices for supplies and suggestive lists 1973
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Sample SEF enclosures 1973
- Box 10
Direct Mail: Schneider and Rich Associates 1973-1974
- Box 10
Direct Mailing Test: Upcoming Mailings 1973
- Box 10
Donor Letters in response to mailings 1971-1976
- Box 10
Donor Mailings 1975, n.d.
- Box 10
Donors of $100 and Over 1970-1975
- Box 10
Donors of less than $100 n.d.
- Box 10
Don't Play Us Cheap : Invitation Letters 1973 Mar-Apr2 folders
- Box 10
Don't Play Us Cheap : Invoices, Photographs and Press Releases
- Box 11
Fiegen Fund Raising Party 1970
- Box 11
Fund Appeals to SEF: Letters 1970-1971
- Box 11
The Fund Raising Institute 1974
- Box 11
Fund Raising (Form) Letters 1968, 1970-1975, n.d.3 folders
- Box 11
Fund Raising Lists (Inactive) 1970 & 1972
- Box 11
Fund Raising Material: California Physicians & Dentists 1968, n.d.
- Box 11
Fund Raising Material: California Trip 1971
- Box 11
Fund Raising Miscellaneous 1970 & 1975, n.d.
- Box 11
Fund Raising Responses 1973-1975
- Box 11
Fund Raising Seminars 1973
- Box 11
Gary & Lee Hart Fundraising Reception 1973
- Box 11
Hubert H. Humphrew: Fundraiser letter in support of SEF 1973
- Box 11
Sen. Edward Kennedy Fundraiser Party: Addresses 1974
- Box 11
Los Angeles Fund Raiser: Thank-you Letters 1973
- Box 12
Mailing Lists 1970-1972, n.d.4 folders
- Box 12
Mailing Lists: Albert & Miriam Ornstein to Yancey Martin 1973
- Box 12
Mailing Lists: Political Associates 1973, n.d.
- Box 12
Maryland & Massachusetts Thank-yous 1972-1974
- Box 12
Mobile, Alabama Thank-yous 1973
- Box 12
New York Fund Raiser 1973
- Box 12
Oakland & Oregon Thank-yous 1973
- Box 12
Potential Donors n.d.
- Box 12
Princeton, New Jersey: Fundraising contacts 1970
- Box 12
Rainbow Sign Luncheon (Berkeley, California): Thank-yous 1973
- Box 12
Rap & Collins, Inc.: McGovern Donor List 1973
- Box 12
Recording Sheets for SEF Contributions 1973-1974
- Box 12
Howard Samuels Fund Raisers 1970-1971
- Box 12
San Francisco & Seattle Contributions 1973-1974
- Box 12
Sharecroppers Fund 1973-1974
- Box 12
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1973
- Box 12
SEF Picnic, Rockville, Maryland 1971
- Box 12
Sperry Party (San Francisco) Thank-yous 1973
- Box 12
Stockton Thank-yous 1973
- Box 12
Thousandaire Club Rosters & Letters 1973
- Box 12
- Box 9
- SUBSERIES E: CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS
- Box 13
Alabama Corrupt Practices Law 1974
- Box 13
Black Elected Officials/Voter Registration 1968-1970
- Box 13
Candidates Funded by SEF 1968-1970, 1973
- Box 13
Candidates not Funded by SEF 1969
- Box 13
Democratic National Committee 1971-1974
- Box 13
Democratic National Convention: Delegate Selection Process 1971-1972
- Box 13
Democratic Policy Council 1971
- Box 13
Election 1970: Arkansas, Black Candidates 1970
- Box 13
Election 1970: Candidate Funding Requests 1970
- Box 13
Election 1970: Miscellaneous 1970
- Box 13
Election 1970: "Referendum '70" notebook 1970
- Box 13
Election 1970: SEF Candidates 1970-1971
- Box 13
Greene County, Alabama: Special & General Elections 1969-1970
- Box 13
Joseph W. Mallisham, candidates, Associate Police Commissioner, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1969
- Box 13
National Roster of Black Elected Officials 1970
- Box 13
New articles re: racial violence 1965-1968
- Box 14
News Articles 1968-1974, n.d.
- Box 14
Political Campaigns: Miscellaneous 1969-1975
- Box 14
Poll Watchers n.d.
- Box 14
William Ferguson Reid, member, Virginia House of Delegates 1969
- Box 14
Bertha C. Scales, candidate, Orlando, Florida school board 1970
- Box 14
Scrapbook: Southern Voting Districts 1965-1969
- Box 14
Scrapbook: Civil Rights & Elections 1968-1969
- Box 14
SEF Contributions to Louisiana Candidates 1971
- Box 14
Southern Office Holders Questionnaires 1969
- Box 14
"Volunteer": The Lifeline of a Campaign by Mello Cotton and John Szostak 1970
- Box 14
Arthur W. Walls, candidate, Virginia House of Delegates, Arlington County 1969
- Box 14
Ronald J. Walton, candidate, commissioner of revenue, Norfolk, Virginia 1969
- Box 14
Rev. Charles H. Wilhite, candidate, county commissioner, Troup County, Georgia 1969
- Box 14
Alabama & Arkansas 1970, 1974 & 1975
- Box 14
Georgia 1973-1975
- Box 15
Louisiana 1969 & 1975
- Box 15
Mississippi 19752 folders
- Box 15
Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia 1970 & 1975
- Box 15
- Box 13
. It contains ca. 92 slides, 1963-1968, of persons
and events associated with the civil rights era such as
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Nobel Peace Prize, the
March on Washington, Ku Klux Klan activities, school
integration, and black Sheriff Tom Gilmore of Greene
County, Alabama. A videotape of unidentified content is
present but researchers should note that at present the
University of Virginia Library does not possess a tape
player that will enable viewing it. The remainder of
this series' materials consist of donor index cards,
computer print-outs, and oversized accounting records.
This series (Boxes 15-16) is arranged alphabetically
and chronologically.
- Box 15
Slides: Civil Rights activities 1963-196865 black & white slides
- Box 15
Slides: "Life Klan Story/Bruce Roberts/Charlotte" n.d.
- Box 15
Color slides
- Box 15
Slides: Sheriff Tom Gilmore, Greene County, Alabama n.d.7 color slides
- Box 15
Videotape with unidentified contents n.d.
- Box 16
Index Cards: [SEF Contributors] 1970 & 1973
- Box 16
Index Cards: [Names & Telephone Numbers] n.d.
- Box 16
Index Cards: Address cards by name n.d.
- Box 16
Address cards by state n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
Southern Elections Fund-Operations: Income, Expenditures 1971 Mar-1972 DecGreen binder
- Oversize box
S-26
"House" -- August & Sept list of contributors 1971
- Oversize box
S-26
"House List" 19712 sheets
- Oversize box
S-26
"Mailings/Fund-raising -- Sept. 19, Oct, Nov. 9th" 1971-1972
- Oversize box
S-26
"House List Returns -- Oct '70 Mailing" 1972-1973Green binder
- Oversize box
S-26
"Master File [of donors/donations?] 1973 Dec 4Computer printout of 185 sheets
- Oversize box
S-26
Computer printout of New York donors, pp. 47-74 n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C-2 "Political Donors of Large Sums" n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C-3 "Donors Supporting liberal appeals" n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C 5-1 "Freedom Contributors" n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C 5-2 "Politically aware donors" n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C 5-3 CORE n.d.
- Oversize box
S-26
C 5-4 "Involved Donors to a liberal cause" (Connecticut) n.d.