President's Office correspondence, 1958-1968 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The series consists of correspondence of the President's Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), during Martin Luther King's tenure, from 1958-1968. The correspondence consists of notices of board meetings and conventions, letters regarding speaking engagements for King, correspondence from Ella Baker pertaining to administrative functions of the SCLC, and letters from the public concerning the position and activities of King and the SCLC. Topics documented within the correspondence include civil rights demonstrations; integration attempts; and violence in Atlanta (Ga.), Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma (Ala.), and Chicago (Ill.); communist ties of SCLC staff; the Nobel Peace Prize; King's anti-Vietnam War stance; and home rule for Washington (D.C.). Notable correspondents include the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Southern Conference Educational Fund, the NAACP Legal and Defense Educational Fund, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, James Revel, Stokely Carmichael, N. Jay Demerath, Chauncy Eskridge, Jack Greenberg, Lawrence Guyot, Sargent Shriver, and Frank Sloan