Forman, James 1928-2005 creator mixed material monographic eng fre spa 79,000 255 containers plus 2 100.2 Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. Documents his work as founder and president of the Unemployed Poverty Action Council, Legal Defense, Education, and Research Fund; and journalist and founder of the Black America News Service. Also documents his involvement with civil rights organizations including the Black Economic Development Conference, Black Panther Party, Black Workers Congress, Congress of Racial Equality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, Mississippi Freedom Project (also known as Freedom Summer), Mississippi Freedom Schools, and the National Black Economic Development Conference, Detroit, Mich., 1969, and its Black Manifesto. Subjects include Africa; black power; civil rights; civil rights movement in the U.S. primarily in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi; economic and working conditions of African Americans; human rights; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; foreign relations chiefly with Africa, Central America, China, the Middle East, and South Africa; labor issues; national and District of Columbia political affairs including Forman's unsuccessful campaigns to be the first Democratic senator of the District of Columbia; reparations; school integration; segregation; and voter registration. Includes material pertaining to Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), Stokely Carmichael, Frantz Fanon, P. Anna Johnson, and Sammy Younge. The writings file includes drafts Forman's books, The Making of Black Revolutionaries; a Personal Account (1972); Sammy Younge, Jr.: the First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement (1968); his unpublished novel, The Thin White Line; and his thesis published as Self-determination & the African-American People (1981). Also includes Forman's newspapers and periodicals, Capitol Hill Express, Tempo and the Times, and the short-lived Washington Times, as well as the Liberation News Service. Correspondents include Harry Belafonte, Fay Bellamy, Anne Braden, Stokely Carmichael, Bill Clinton, Ivanhoe Donaldson, St. Clair Drake, Tom Hayden, Faye Holt, Len Holt, P. Anna Johnson, Charles McDew, Alan McSurely, Josie Meeks, Constancia Romilly, Kathie Sarachild, Monroe Sharpe, Donald P. Stone, Flora Stone, Robert Penn Warren, Dorothy Zellner, and James A. Zellner. Open to research. Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Some periodicals transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. Some photographs and posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Author, journalist, and civil rights leader. Collection material in English, French, and Spanish. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125 Al-Amin, Jamil 1943- Belafonte, Harry 1927- Correspondence Bellamy, Fay Correspondence Braden, Anne 1924-2006 Correspondence Carmichael, Stokely Carmichael, Stokely Correspondence Clinton, Bill 1946- Correspondence Donaldson, Ivanhoe Correspondence Drake, St. Clair Correspondence Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961 Hayden, Tom Correspondence Holt, Faye Correspondence Holt, Len Correspondence Johnson, P. Anna (Patricia Anna) Johnson, P. Anna (Patricia Anna) Correspondence McDew, Charles Correspondence McSurely, Alan 1936- Correspondence Meeks, Josie Correspondence Romilly, Constancia Correspondence Sarachild, Kathie Correspondence Sharpe, Monroe Correspondence Stone, Donald P 1935- Correspondence Stone, Flora Correspondence Warren, Robert Penn 1905-1989 Correspondence Younge, Sammy 1944-1966 Zellner, Dorothy Correspondence Zellner, James A Correspondence Black Economic Development Conference. Black Panther Party. Black Workers Congress. Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. Mississippi Freedom Project. Mississippi Freedom Schools. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Unemployed Poverty Action Council, Legal Defense, Education, and Research Fund. Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.) 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Racism United States History Radicalism United States School integration United States Segregation United States Voter registration United States Africa Africa Foreign relations United States Central America Foreign relations United States China Foreign relations United States Middle East Foreign relations United States Mississippi Race relations South Africa Foreign relations United States United States Foreign relations United States Foreign relations Africa United States Foreign relations Central America United States Foreign relations China United States Foreign relations Middle East United States Foreign relations South Africa United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1989- United States Race relations Washington (D.C.) Politics and government Authors Civil rights leaders Journalists Forman, James, 1928-2005 Forman, James, 1928-2005 Forman, James, 1928-2005 National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.) mm2007085371 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125.3 Open to research. DLC 070606 20260227111731.0 mm2007085371