TY - GEN AU - Forman,James AU - Forman,James AU - Forman,James AU - Forman,James ED - National Black Economic Development Conference TI - James Forman papers, KW - Al-Amin, Jamil, KW - Belafonte, Harry, KW - Bellamy, Fay KW - Braden, Anne, KW - Carmichael, Stokely. KW - Carmichael, Stokely KW - Clinton, Bill, KW - Donaldson, Ivanhoe KW - Drake, St. Clair KW - Fanon, Frantz, KW - Hayden, Tom KW - Holt, Faye KW - Holt, Len KW - Johnson, P. Anna KW - McDew, Charles KW - McSurely, Alan, KW - Meeks, Josie KW - Romilly, Constancia KW - Sarachild, Kathie KW - Sharpe, Monroe KW - Stone, Donald P., KW - Stone, Flora, KW - Warren, Robert Penn, KW - Younge, Sammy, KW - Zellner, Dorothy KW - Zellner, James A. KW - Black Economic Development Conference KW - Black Panther Party KW - Black Workers Congress KW - Congress of Racial Equality KW - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party KW - Mississippi Freedom Labor Union KW - Mississippi Freedom Project KW - Mississippi Freedom Schools KW - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) KW - Unemployed Poverty Action Council, Legal Defense, Education, and Research Fund KW - Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee KW - National Black Economic Development Conference KW - (1969 KW - Detroit, Mich.) KW - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom KW - (1963 KW - Washington, D.C.) KW - Liberation news service KW - Black America news service KW - Capitol Hill express KW - Tempo and the times KW - Washington times (Washington, D.C. : 1980-1981) KW - African American newspapers KW - African American periodicals KW - African American press KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Economic conditions KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Reparations KW - Segregation KW - Social conditions KW - Suffrage KW - Mississippi KW - Black militant organizations KW - United States KW - Black power KW - Civil rights demonstrations KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Civil rights movements KW - Alabama KW - Georgia KW - Human rights KW - Labor KW - Racism KW - Radicalism KW - School integration KW - Voter registration KW - Africa KW - Foreign relations KW - Central America KW - China KW - Middle East KW - Race relations KW - South Africa KW - 1945-1989 KW - 1989- KW - Authors KW - itoamc KW - Civil rights leaders KW - Journalists N1 - Open to research N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125.3 ER -