Arthur Brann Caldwell Papers, 1912-1975 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, memoranda, addresses, reports, photographs, printed materials, and other records created, received, or collected by Caldwell. Most items are dated in the period 1950-1970,Specific areas to which materials pertain include: University of Arkansas Glee Club, 1927-1928; Arkansas and national political affairs, ca. 1917-1974; Japanese-Americans in the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. War Relocation Authority relocation centers in World War II; civil rights legislation and civil rights violations, especially in Arkansas; the Little Rock, Arkansas school integration crisis of 1957; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, law enforcement, police administration reforms, and investigations of prison brutality in Arkansas and elsewhere; Caldwell's lectures and addresses to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, Fulbright scholars orientation program, Agency for International Development, and various classes, seminars, conferences, and congresses at the Brookings Institution and at sundry colleges, universities, and other institutions.Files 1-7 of Box 1, Series 1, pertain to creator's father, John Hamilton Caldwell.Correspondents include: John W. Anderson, Leslie L. Biffle, Herbert Brownell, Jr., William Jennings Bryan, Bruce T. Bullion, John Hamilton Caldwell, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, Thom.as Joseph Dodd, James William Fulbright, William H. Hadley, Lawrence Brooks Hays, John Edgar Hoover, Archie F. House, Walter John Lemke, John Little McClellan, Warren Olney, III, Joseph Taylor Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt.Topics of interest include:1. Arkansas--Politics and government, 1917-1974.2. Caldwell, John Hamilton, 1881-1959.3. Civil Rights Arkansas.4. Civil Rights--United States.5. Concentration camps--U.S.6. Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-7. Japanese in the U.S.8. Little Rock, Arkansas--Public schools.9. Negroes--Little Rock, Arkansas10. Prisons--Arkansas.11. Prisons--U.S.12. Ratterman, George William.13. U.S. Dept. of Justice14. U.S. Dept. of Justice. Bureau of Investigation.15. U.S. War Relocation Authority.Loc. 946-962