Box TP 12
Container
Contains 31 Collections and/or Records:
National Defense: Aero and Space Exploration, 1957-1958, 1961-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_1_0000
Scope and Contents
General correspondence on a variety of topics including space race with Russia and communications; biographical sketch of Thoms P. Stafford. Correspondents include Howard W. Cannon; George Lynn Cross; John O. Pastore; George P. Miller; and Oliver S. Willham.
National Defense: Civil Defense, 1959-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_2_0000
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence on a variety of topics including appropriations, communication equipment, natural disasters, use of surplus property, role of state health departments, and office of religious affairs in the office of civil defense. Memo from Tom Steed. Correspondents include Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
National Defense: Defense Missiles, 1959-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 3
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_3_0000
Scope and Contents
General correspondence re road conditions near Altus site of launching pad and possible elimination of NIKE HERCULES batteries. Correspondents include Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma.
National Defense: Fallout Shelters, 1961-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_4_0000
Scope and Contents
General correspondence re financial aid or tax relief to those families building shelters. Correspondents include J. Howard Edmondson.
National Defense: Mobilization of Manpower and Industry of Disarmament, 1961-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_5_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re increase defense spending; work to suppress Communism; political indoctrination in military; removal of Major General Edwin A Walker from command; and Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
National Poetry Day, 1949
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 6
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_6_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re proposal to establish a National Poetry Day. Correspondents include the Poetry Society of Oklahoma and the National Poetry Society of America.
Negroes and Civil Rights: Race Issues, 1948-1950, 1952, 1954-1957, 1959-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 7
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_7_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re Truman Civil Rights Bill; segregation; use of military to enforce federal law; civil rights legislation; states' rights filibuster; and cloture. Correspondents include Julian Rothbaum; Oliver Hodge of the Oklahoma State Department of Education; and Roy Wilkins of NAACP.
Negroes and Civil Rights: Negro Support for Kerr's Presidential Candidacy, 1952
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_8_0000
Scope and Contents
General correspondence and data sheets. Materials relate to how Kerr helped African Americans when he was governor and senator.
Negroes and Civil Rights: James Meredith/"Ole Miss" Case, 1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 9
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_9_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re admittance of Meredith to the University of Mississippi; states' rights.
Oklahoma Cities: Ada, 1957, 1961-1962
File — Box: TP 12, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_6_12_10_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on a variety of topics, including Water Pollution Research Center for Southwest.