Box 1

Includes notes for speeches on various topics, including some autobiographical jottings; with clippings and photocopies of published writings of Esau Jenkins.

Includes letters to and from Jenkins on a number of topics, chiefly concerning political, civil rights, and business matters. Also includes a National Geographic article mentioning him; a letter to Jenkins in Septima Clark's handwriting; and a letter from Guy and Candie Carawan.

Includes correspondence and clippings regarding Progressive Club on Johns Island. A school composition essay by Jenkins discusses the founding of the Progressive Club.

Includes correspondence of Jenkins as representative of the Citizens' Committee, a grass roots group working for equality and social change. Includes letters of thanks to officials for keeping the peace during the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969.

Includes clippings, Jenkins' handwritten notes, programs, brochure, grant request, and miscellaneous materials regarding work of Citizens' Committee of Charleston.

Includes clippings and petitions by Citizens' Committee protesting the 1970 shooting death of 18-year-old Wadmalaw African American Robert Brown by a white policeman.

Includes correspondence, lists and programs regarding Citizens' Committee Scholarship Fund, renamed Esau Jenkins Memorial Scholarship Fund, 1971-1977 and undated.

Includes brochure, speech, handwritten notes, statistics, correspondence, and other material regarding the Community Organization Credit Union, which was founded by Esau Jenkins.

Includes a 1965 mimeo letter and member lists of the Political Action Committee of Charleston County, led by Herbert U. Fielding, Esau Jenkins, and others.

Minutes of two meetings dealing with shooting Robert Brown, an African American youth by white policeman.