Box 27
Container
Contains 83 Collections and/or Records:
Telegram from Elmer A. Benson, Carey McWilliams, and Vincent Sheean for Initiating Committee to Congresswoman Douglas, 1946 April 23
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0002
Scope and Contents
Telegram discusses Discharge Petition #12 and a meeting of the Congress on Civil Rights in Detroit on April 27, 1946 regarding the Wood Rankin Committee.
Statement by the Civil Rights Congress entitled "The Contempt Citations by Wood-Rankin Committee Are Illegal", undated
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0003
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence from and to the Civil Rights Congress on the reports and citations of the House Un-American Activities Committee or the Wood-Rankin Committee.
Statement by the Civil Rights Congress entitled "The Organizations The Wood-Rankin Committee Seeks to Cite For Contempt", undated
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0004
Scope and Contents
Information on The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and The National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.
Statement by the Civil Rights Congress entitled "The Organizations The Wood-Rankin Committee Seeks to Cite for Contempt", 1946 June 18
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0005
Scope and Contents
Information on The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and The National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.
Statement by the Civil Rights Congress entitled "The Contempt Citations by Wood-Rankin Committee Are Illegal", 1946 June 18
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0006
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence from and to the Civil Rights Congress on the reports and citations of the House Un-American Activities Committee or the Wood-Rankin Committee.
Form letter from the Civil Rights Congress, 1946 June 19
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0007
Scope and Contents
Form letter signed by George Marshall, Chairman of the Board, and Milton Kaufman, Executive Director. The letter discusses a report released by the House Un-American Activities Committee, covering its operations since its establishment as a permanent committee, which the Civil Rights Congress considered an attack on the Joint Anti-Facist Refugee Committee.
Statement by the Civil Rights Congress entitled "The Organizations The Wood-Rankin Committee Seeks to Cite for Contempt", 1946 June 18
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0008
Scope and Contents
Information on The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and The National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. A handwritten annotation can be found at the end of the paragraph on The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
Form letter from the Civil Rights Congress, 1946 June 24
Item — Box: 27, Folder: 6b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_6b_0009
Scope and Contents
Form letter is signed by Milton Kaufamn and discusses the citations of the top officers of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. Contains a handwritten annotation.
Surplus Property-Department and Publications.
File — Box: 27, Folder: 1a
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_1a_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...
Surplus Property.
File — Box: 27, Folder: 1b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_27_1b_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...