Box 11

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Regarding the Fifth Ecumenical Workshop sponsored by IDEAS, held at the Highlander Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Between Robinson and Brian Beum, President of IDEAS, regarding the utilization of recorded audio Highlander interviews of Southern civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials, photographic materials, and audio recordings document Bernice V. Robinson's role (late 1950s-1980s) as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development, with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview, detailing her life and family; race relations in...

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Includes letter, project proposal, and brochure regarding Robinson's application to the program.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials, photographic materials, and audio recordings document Bernice V. Robinson's role (late 1950s-1980s) as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development, with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview, detailing her life and family; race relations in...

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Regarding Eutaw, Alabama, the initial site for the Civil Rights Oral History Program. Typescript by Robinson regarding Eutaw's experimental school.

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With proposal review and project summary. Includes letters to Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Jr., John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, Marion Barry, Jr., Maxwell Hahn, Lloyd K. Garrison and others.

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Regarding Robinson seeking employment after project was terminated due to lack of funding. Includes correspondence with Mendel J. Davis.

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Regarding funding foundations for Oral History project and community action guide for Washington D.C.