Reverend Joseph H. Jackson was president of the National Baptist Convention at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes Jackson’s correspondence during his time as the organization’s president, minutes of meetings, Jackson’s annual addresses to the National Baptist Convention, and some of his writings on civil rights and civil disobedience. The collection also includes a major series of Jackson sermons from 1928-1988, and personal records focused on his years as a graduate student from 1925-1945.
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Reverend J. H. Jackson and the National Baptist Convention, 1900-1990
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Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II in December 1941, the Roosevelt administration decided that for reasons of “military necessity,” the government would evacuate all persons of Japanese heritage from the West Coast states. The Records of the War Relocation Authority document the day-to-day running of the 10 relocation camps from 1942-1946. The collection is organized by relocation center. Records include reports and correspondence on issues such as security, education, health, vocational training, agriculture, food, and family welfare.
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New Deal and World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies, 1933-1945
Digital access to materials documenting the Great Depression, the New Deal, America's involvement in World War II, the internal workings of the Roosevelt administration, and Roosevelt's personal leadership style. Includes FBI Reports of the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Releases; Records of the Committee on Economic Security; Department of Treasury records; and a special set of documentary records on the Roosevelt Presidency.
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World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
Digital access to documents related to WWII, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Records of the War Department Operations Division, U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports, Records of the Office of War Information, Papers of the War Refugee Board, George C. Marshall Papers, FBI Files on Tokyo Rose, Manhattan Project documents, Potsdam Conference Documents, and records on lend-lease.
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American Politics in the Early Cold War: Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961
Access to major White House files from the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. The Cold War takes center stage in the Truman files on international relations and the stalling of Truman's Fair Deal program is documented in the files that pertain to domestic concerns. The Eisenhower files focus to a large degree on national defense and economic issues, two of the areas that Eisenhower had the most personal interest in.
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Confidential U.S. State Department and Diplomatic Post Special Files, Asia, 1945-1966
The confidential U.S. State Department "Special" or "Lot" files are primary source documents related to U.S. political affairs. Materials cover the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II, development of postwar Japan, the San Francisco Peace Conference of 1951, and economic conditions in Japan; the Korean War, peace negotiations, U.S.-Korea relations, and the rebuilding of South Korea after the end of fighting in the Korean War; military and economic relations between Japan, Korea, and the U.S. in the 1950s; ANZUS treaty talks with Australia and New Zealand; Nationalist and anti-colonial resistance movements in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaya; and efforts to establish a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process, 1942-1998
Digital access to documents covering the diplomatic, legal and political maneuvering during and after World War II regarding German art looting in Europe, recovery of cultural objects dispersed during World War II, efforts by the U.S. and other Allied Powers to prevent the secreting of Axis assets, claims from victims for financial or property restitution from the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), other claims cases, and meeting minutes and background materials regarding the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold.
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Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969
The Children's Bureau was a federal agencies founded in 1912 as part of the federal government's new commitment to promoting individual and family welfare. Includes access to correspondence, research reports, brochures, court hearings and speeches.
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Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Digital access to 26 collections from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The focus is on the Colonial Era, the Revolutionary War, and the Early National Period, with some collections extending into the Civil War era.
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Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement, 1958-1981
Digital access to records and documents from 12 different anti-Vietnam War organizations. The two largest collections are the records of Students for a Democratic and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Other organizations represented include: AMEX-Canada; Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars; Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee; Indochina Peace Campaign; National Peace Action Coalition; New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Paris American Committee to Stop the War; Student Peace Union; Teachers Committee for Peace in Vietnam; and Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
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U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945
Digital access to correspondence and reports from American diplomats stationed around the world. Diplomatic post records are those kept at the embassies or legations rather than those kept in Washington. They contain the incoming messages from Washington, retained copies of outgoing dispatches, locally gathered information, and background material on decision making.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
Comprehensive documentation of developments and events in the key nations of the world during the period from World War I to the final campaigns of World War II. After World War I, the U.S. military developed a sophisticated intelligence gathering capability. Concerned with much more than strictly military intelligence, American military attaches and their staffs reported on a wide range of topics, including the internal politics, social and economic conditions, and foreign affairs of the countries in which they were stationed.
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FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
Digital access to records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972. Highlights include J. Edgar Hoover's office files; documentation on the FBI's so-called "black bag jobs," as they were called before being renamed "surreptitious entries"; and the "Do Not File" File. The "Do Not File" file consists of records that were originally supposed to be destroyed on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's order, however, through both intended and inadvertent exceptions to this order, large portions of these files survived.
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Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration: Records of the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs, 1979-1981
In the summer of 1979, the Carter Administration created the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs in order to address issues of critical importance to the Latino community. Major topics covered in this collection include inflation, bilingual education, police brutality, political unrest in Latin America, Haitian refugees, and immigration, Puerto Rican self-determination, and the U.S. Navy’s use of Vieques Island.
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Progressive Era: Robert M. La Follette Papers, 1879-1924
Digital access to the papers of Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator, Robert Marion La Follette, one of the crucial figures of the Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century. La Follette’s papers focus on his fight to reform corruption and injustice in the political system of the state of Wisconsin. They include correspondence with Andrew Carnegie, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and other major figures of the Progressive Era.
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Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War, 1865-1877
Access to digital primary source documents covering the early Reconstruction period in the American South. Includes the correspondence of the U.S. Army's Office of Civil Affairs, letters, petitions, court proceedings and internal documents related to elections.
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Socialist Party of America Records
The Socialist Party of America Papers includes correspondence, position papers, memoranda, financial records, pamphlets and broadsides, and leaflets. The records reflect the party's internal disputes, including the 1919 split, which resulted in the formation of the American Communist Party.
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Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990
Digital access to records of three important women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance.
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World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era (1915-1927)
Digital access to documents on the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I as well as materials on U.S. intelligence operations and the post-war peace process. AEF documents consist of correspondence, cablegrams, operations reports, statistical strength reports and summaries of intelligence detailing troop movements and operations of Allied and enemy forces.
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American Federation of Labor Records: The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937
Digital access to documents from the American Federation of Labor (AFL), 1877-1937. As leader of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) championed a set of tactics and an ideology, rooted in craft-union traditions, which profoundly shaped the course of American labor history. Most of the records in the collection date from the formation of the AFL in 1886 until Gompers’ death in December 1924, but there are a few materials from before 1886 and after 1924.