HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

An Inventory of His Vice Presidential Civil and Human Rights Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, creator.
	Title:	Vice Presidential civil and human rights [CRT] files.
	Dates:	1960-1968.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Quantity:	18 boxes and 1 partial box.
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Files pertaining to human and civil rights, the promotion and denial of such rights, equal opportunity, discrimination, ideologies, and voting rights. They are largely files of Humphrey staff members John G. Stewart and William Welsh; James F. Sasser, Kenneth E. Gray, Bruce J. Terri, and Berniece M. L. Oertel also appear among the files.

There are also substantial files on the President's Council on Equal (Employment) Opportunity; on Humphrey's assignment by President Johnson to study and make recommendations to coordinate all civil rights activities within the federal government structure (1964); on race relations; and on the Task Force on summer Domestic Programs; and some on Indians and Mexican-Americans.

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ARRANGEMENT

Organized by office file code number, preceded by a set of unnumbered general and subject files.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Hubert H. Humphrey Papers. Vice Presidential Civil and Human Rights Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: Many, see separate Humphrey, Hubert H. accession file.

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 99006951607010429

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Note to Researchers: The box number as assigned to these files during initial processing has been retained. To request materials, please note both the location and box number shown below.


Location	Box
150.E.7.8F	821	General Files:
			Files containing no sub-topic headings or numerical notations. Except as noted below, they are the files of John G. Stewart, the Humphrey staff member with primary responsibility in this subject area.
			John Feild, Memoranda, 1963-1964.
			Correspondence and Miscellany, by date:
				1963-1964.
				January-June 1965. 17 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.7.9B	822			July 1965-November 1966. 17 folders.
			William Welsh Correspondence:
				January-May 1967. 5 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.7.10F	823			June 1967-August 1968. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.3B	826		Correspondence and Miscellany, by date, January-December 1966. 5 folders.
				Correspondence of John G. Stewart and William Welsh, found among the CRT 1 files after the other general files were processed.


Location	Box
150.E.7.10F	823	John Stewart’s Subject Files:
			John Stewart's subject files relating to civil and human rights were determined at the time of initial processing to be probably complete, although the bulk of the materials are dated 1965.
			Alabama, February-May 1965.
			Chicago, August, October 1965.
			Civil Rights Agencies.
				See boxes 826, 829.
			Cleveland Situation, February-July 1965.
			Construction Trades, March-May 1965.
			Contacts, February-May 1965.
			Federal Employment, April-June, November 1965.
			Housing, November 1964-December 1965. 4 folders.
			Invitations, December 1964-November 1965.
			Los Angeles, 1960, 1963, July-November 1965.
			Louisiana, April-August 1965.
			Mississippi, . October 1964-November 1965.
			Negro Colleges, November 1964, May-June 1965.
			Negro Leaders, February-September 1965.
			Newspaper Clippings, 1963-1966. 3 folders.
			Personnel:
				Advisory Commissions, January-May 1965.
				Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), December 1964-December 1965. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.1B	824			General, undated, July 1964-December 1965. 6 folders.
				Poverty, January-October 1965.
				President's Council on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO), January-September 1965.
				Staff: Humphrey, January-October 1965.
			Police, November 1964; January, April 1965.
			PCEEO:
				Area Coordinators Program, March-November 1965.
				Contract Compliance, March-August 1965.
				Employment Complaints, January-September 1965. 2 folders.
				General, undated, July, December 1964.
				General, January 1965-February 1966. 7 folders.
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150.E.8.2F	825			Merger, July-September 1965.
				Plans for Progress, Advisory Council on, August 1964; January-December 1965. 2 folders.
				Unidentified materials removed from notebooks, 1965. 2 folders.
			Printed Materials:
				Package No.1, undated.
				Package No.2, 1961-1963.
				Package No.3, undated, 1964, February-August.
				Package No.4, 1964, September-November .
				Package No.5, 1964, December.
				Package No.6, 1965, January-August.
				Package No.7, 1966-1967.
			Title VI:
				General, undated; March, December 1964; January-June 1965. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.3B	826			General, July-October 1966. 3 folders.
				Materials Relating to the National Conference on Title VI, January 28, 1965.
			Title VII, September 1964-December 1965.
			Title VII, September 1964-December 1965.
			Voting Rights Act, Implementation of, May-November 1965.
			White House Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity, August 1965.
			Women Mobilized for Change, June 1967.
			Civil Rights Agencies, Coordination of:
				These materials relate to an order from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Vice President-elect Humphrey, to study and make recommendations to coordinate all civil rights activities within the federal government structure.
				The files in boxes 826 and 829 were received at two different times and have not been fully coordinated, although obvious duplicates were removed.
				Notes: Package No. 1 , 1964.
					Introductory materials; Agriculture Department; Budget Bureau; Commerce Department; Civil Rights Commission.
				Notes: Package No. 2.
					Defense Department; EEOC; Health, Education and Welfare Department; Justice Department; Labor Department; Office of Economic Opportunity; President's Committee on Equal Employment; President's Committee on Housing; private groups.
				Analysis of Civil Rights Functions of the Federal Government and Recommendations for Their Consolidation in a Single Agency, by LeRoy Collins, Community Relations Service, December 7, 1964.
Location	Box
150.E.8.6F	829			Notes: Introductory Materials, 1961, August 1964-March 1965. 2 folders.
				Notes, by Agency, A-H, 1964-1965.
					Atomic Energy Commission; Defense Department; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Federal Aviation Agency; Health, Education and Welfare Department.
				Notes, by Agency, I-V, 1964-1965.
					Interior Department; Internal Revenue Service; Justice Department; Labor Department; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Post Office Department; Treasury Department; Veterans Administration.
				Unidentified notes, 1964-1965. 1 package.
					A set of photocopies of correspondence and other items.


Location	Box
150.E.8.4F	827	1 Equal Opportunity: General Files:
			Correspondence and Miscellany by date:
				John G. Stewart, March, May, December 1965; January-February 1966.
				Stewart, March-November 1966. 3 folders.
				William Welsh?, August-December 1967. 2 folders.
				January-December 1968. 4 folders.
			The One Huge Wrong: A Personal Account of the Struggle of Equal Opportunity, by Hubert H. Humphrey. Typewritten manuscript, 241 pp., 1968? 1 package.


1 President's Council on Equal Opportunity: James F. Sasser files (1965-January 1966):
	Sasser was the Council’s federal programs coordinator.
	Files were organized by the Council offices under a coding system devised by the National Archives’ Records Management Division. Cataloger’s notes that accompany the paper copy of this inventory give additional data on the provenance and organization of these files.
	See also: Administration (ADM) files, box 776.
	Explanatory note and filing manual.
	Administrative Services (ADS).
	Budget and Fiscal (BUF):
		Time and Attendance Records.
		Petty Cash Expenditures.
		Miscellany, including Travel Expenditures.
	Federal Agencies (FED).
	Management and Organization (MAN).
	Personnel (PER):
		Applicants: Miscellaneous, A-T.
		Applicants: Patronage, B-H.
		Applicants: Summer Employees, A-S.
		Applicants: Staff and Others, B-W. 2 folders.
		Miscellany, undated, September 1965.
	Reports and Statistics (RST).
	Miscellaneous uncoded and unidentified items.


Location	Box
150.E.8.5B	828	1 President's Council on Equal Opportunity: John G. Stewart files:
			Stewart was the Humphrey staff member in charge of civil rights matters.
			Cataloger’s notes that accompany the paper copy of this inventory give additional data on the provenance and organization of these files.
			Management and Organization (MAN):
				Memos and Reports, January-October 1965. 2 folders.
				Report: Six Cities, 1965. 1 package.
			Meetings (MTG):
				March 3, 1965.
				May 19, 1965.
				White House Conference: To Fulfill These Rights:
					Planning Session, March-October 1965. 4 folders.
					Planning Session: Transcripts and Agenda Papers.
					Planning Session: Press Coverage, by topic, October-November 1965. 1 package.
					Press Coverage, June 1-8, 1966. 1 package.
					Correspondence and Miscellany, June-July 1966.
			Correspondence and Miscellany, by date:
				November 1963-December 1964.
				January-June 1965. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.6F	829			July-October 1965; January 1966. 2 folders.


		1.1 Equal Opportunity: Administration of Justice:
			Correspondence and miscellany by date.
			Unattributed, September-December 1965.
			John G. Stewart, January-November 1966.
			Kenneth E. Gray; William Welsh, .
			The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, February 1987.
			Gray; Welsh, March-December 1987. 3 folders.
			Bruce J. Terris; Welsh, January-July 1968. 5 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.7B	830		Terris; Welsh, August-December 1968. 3 folders.


		1.2 Equal Opportunity: Business and Industry:
			Stewart, October 1965-August 1966.
			Terris; Welsh, June 1967-November 1968. 3 folders.


1.3 Equal Opportunity: Education:
	Stewart, November 1965-October 1966. 2 folders.
	Racial Isolation in the Public Schools, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February 1967. 2 packages.
		Draft and published version.
	Welsh, May 1967-December 1968. 3 folders.


		1.4 Equal Opportunity: Employment:
			Edward B. Firmage, August-December 1965.
			Stewart; Welsh, January 1966-May 1967. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.8F	831		Welsh; Gray, June-December 1967. 6 folders.
			Welsh, January 1968-January 1969. 8 folders.


		1.4 Equal Opportunity: Employment: Plans for Progress:
			Plans for Progress was established by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, as the first program of the PCEEO. The signators of the agreement were Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Courtlandt Gross of Lockheed Aircraft. Its intent was to enlist the voluntary support of leaders of business and industry to establish programs to attract and train minority youth. An advisory council, consisting of 25 businessmen and an administrative staff, was established in August, 1963. This council also sponsored the Vice President’s Task Force for Youth Motivation program in 1965, some information on which appears in these files.
			See also: Box 825, above.
			Stewart, January-July 1966. 3 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.9B	832		Stewart, August-December 1966. 2 folders.
			Stewart; Gray; Welsh, January-December 1967. 2 folders.
			Welsh, January-August 1968.


		1.5 Equal Opportunity: Health Facilities and Service:
			Stewart, October 1965-September 1966.
			Stewart; Welsh, December 1967; May-October 1968.


		1.6 Equal Opportunity: Housing:
			Stewart; Welsh, January-December 1966. 2 folders.
			Stewart; Welsh; Gray, February-December 1967. 2 folders.
			Stewart; Terris; Welsh, 1968.


		1.7 Equal Opportunity: Public Accommodations: Stewart (?), 1966, 1968.


		1.8 Equal Opportunity: Transportation, January, May 1968.


		1.9 Equal Opportunity: Voting: Stewart; Welsh, December 1965-October 1968.


		1.10 Equal Opportunity: Negro Groups, Contacts and Leaders:
			See also: CRT 4: Civil Rights Organizations.
			Stewart; Welsh, January-October 1966. 2 folders.
			Stewart; Welsh; Gray, June, July, November 1967; September, November 1968.


		2 Freedoms and Race Relations:
			General Files (John G. Stewart): Correspondence and Miscellany, 1966.
			General Files (William Welsh):
				Maruyama Manuscript on Prison Reform, June 1967.
				Spiegal Manuscript on Racial Tensions, June 1967.
				Institute of Public Affairs, UCLA, Manuscript on Racial Tensions, June 1967.
				Correspondence and Miscellany, 1967. 4 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.8.10F	833			Correspondence and Miscellany, 1968. 16 folders.


		2 Freedoms and Race Relations: Riots:
			Correspondence and Miscellany, August-December 1965.
				Most of these are letters that were answered by Robotype machine; there are very few carbons of Humphrey office replies.
Location	Box
150.E.9.1B	834		General, J July-October 1966. 2 folders.
			General, June-September 1967. 12 folders.
			Martin Luther King Death: Secret Service Reports, D.C. Riots, April 5-9, 1968. 3 folders.
			Martin Luther King Death: Robotype Letters, April 1968. 2 folders.
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150.E.9.2F	835		Martin Luther King Death: Robotype Letters, April 1968. 3 folders.
			National Conference of Christians and Jews: Reports, July-September 1967.
			New Orleans Speech: Editorial Comment and Correspondence, 1966.
			Reconstruction: Miscellaneous, July-November 1967.
			Reconstruction: Watts, California, October-November 1966; May, July-September 1967.
			Maddox-Humphrey Meeting, April-September 1967.
				Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia.
			Selma, Ala., March and Death of Mrs. Viola Luizzo, March-April 1965. 2 folders.
				Robotype letters.


		2.1 Freedoms and Race Relations: Press, September 1966/William Welsh (?) correspondence.


		2.2 Freedoms and Race Relations: Speech/William Welsh Correspondence, January 1966-August 1968.


		2.3 Freedoms and Race Relations: Worship: Correspondence, February 1966; March-July 1968.


		3 Genocide: Correspondence, April 1968.


		4 Civil Rights Organizations:
			Correspondence and Miscellany, John G. Stewart and William Welsh, 1966.
			Correspondence and Miscellany, William Welsh, August, December 1967; January, May 1968.


		4 Civil Rights Organizations: Summer Task Force:
			John G. Stewart files. The full title of this project was Task Force on Summer Domestic Programs. Its activities were implemented by the Youth Opportunity Task Force.
			Correspondence and Miscellany, undated, February-June 1966. 4 folders.
			Reports, etc. from Cities and Profiles of Cities:
				Folder 1: Atlanta-Cleveland. June-August 1966.
					Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo (New York), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland.
				Folder 2: Dallas-Washington, D.C., June-August 1966.
					Dallas, Detroit, East St. Louis, Gary (Indiana), Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland (California), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Rochester (New York), St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Syracuse (New York), Tampa-St. Petersburg, Washington (D.C.)
			Correspondence and Miscellany, July-October 1966. 2 folders.
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150.E.9.3B	836		College Students, May-September 1966.
			Los Angeles Project, May-September 1966. 2 folders.
			Los Angeles Project: Alfred Jarrette Correspondence, June-November 1966.
			Philip F. Zeidman Project, April-September 1966.


		4.1 Civil Rights Organizations: Non-Governmental: William Welsh file, February-November 1966.


		5 Prisoners and Parolees:
			William Welsh Correspondence, January 1957-June 1968. 13 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.9.4F	837		William Welsh Correspondence, July-December 1968. 5 folders.


		5 Mexican-Americans: John G. Stewart Correspondence, May 1966-March 1967. 2 folders.
			File manual designation for this topic is CRT 7. However, the papers and their file folders were found to be coded CRT 5.


		6 Immigration:
			Berniece Oertel Correspondence, January-December 1967. 10 folders.
			William Welsh Correspondence, January-February 1968. 2 folders.
Location	Box
150.E.9.5B	838		Berniece Oertel and William Welsh Correspondence, March 1968-January 1969. 20 folders.


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150.E.9.6F	839	7 Mexican-Americans:
			Foundation for Mexican-American Studies: Printed Materials, 1961-1964, 1966.
			William Welsh (?) Correspondence, 1967.
			William Welsh Correspondence, April-December 1968.


8 Indians:
	William Welsh Correspondence, February, September, December 1966.
	Correspondence, May-December 1967.
	Amos Hopkins Correspondence, June-September 1967.
		Consists of 35 packets of letters, with enclosures.
	National Council on Indian Opportunity: Neal Peterson Correspondence, May 1967; January-October 1968.
	Neal Peterson Correspondence, January-December 1968. 6 folders.


		9 Foreign Claims: William Welsh and Berniece M. L. Oertel Correspondence, November 1967-January 1969.

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

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