Waring Letters,, 1956

Letters with photocopied newspaper clippings from June to December 1956. Topics include Septima Clark dismissal from Charleston County School District; talking to Ralph Bunche; visit from Maude Veal discussing her husband's assignment as Allen University's President; Septima Clark working on John's Island for the Highlander Folk School; supporting Roy Wilkins work with the N.A.A.C.P; Thurgood Marshall; meeting with Marion Wright; attending Ralph Bunche daughter's wedding reception; telephone request from Benjamin Mays; discusses journalist Jimmy Hicks [James L.] contract with C.B. Powell and Philip Savory of The Amsterdam News; supporting Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; Poppy Cannon White's book regarding husband Walter; opinions re presidential election [Eisenhower vs. Stevenson, II] with concern regarding "Negro Vote" and praising Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper and magazine clippings topics include Alabama's Bus Boycott by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Republicans and the Negro Vote; comments on Poppy Cannon's book regarding Walter White.