The Harold K. Brown Civil Rights Collection

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Title

The Harold K. Brown Civil Rights Collection

Subject

Civil Rights Activism - San Diego, California
The Congress of Racial Equality - San Diego, CA Chapter

Description

Digital versions of selections from the Harold K. Brown Papers, a collection that documents Mr. Brown's participation in the local San Diego Civil Rights Movement, with a heavy emphasis on the San Diego Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which Mr. Brown headed. Highlights include the Congress of Racial Equality's actions against the employment practices of the San Diego Zoo, SDG&E, Montgomery Ward, and Bank of America. The resource includes reel-to-reel audio recordings of the "Viewpoints" program on KSDO Radio, a listener call-in program where viewpoints on civil rights, equal rights, and race relations were presented and discussed.

Creator

Harold K. Brown
The Congress of Racial Equality - San Diego, CA Chapter

Publisher

Department of Special Collections and University Archives in the Library at San Diego State University.

Date

6/17/2016

Contributor

Robert Ray
Head of Special Collections and University Archives
Library & Information Access
San Diego State University

Rights

The copyright interests in these materials have been transferred to San Diego State University.

Relation

http://library.sdsu.edu/exhibits/2009/01/creatingcommunity/index.shtml

Format

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.pdf
.mp3

Language

English
Bantu

Abstract

Digital versions of selections from the Harold K. Brown Papers, a collection that documents Mr. Brown's participation in the local San Diego Civil Rights Movement, with a heavy emphasis on the San Diego Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which Mr. Brown headed. Highlights include the Congress of Racial Equality's actions against the employment practices of the San Diego Zoo, SDG&E, Montgomery Ward, and Bank of America. The resource includes reel-to-reel audio recordings of the "Viewpoint" program on KSDO Radio, a listener call-in program where viewpoints on civil rights, equal rights, and race relations were presented and discussed.

Table Of Contents

Box 1
Folder 8: Arrest of Harold Brown for Bank of America Protest, November 1964
Folder 10: Biography: Harold Brown
Folder 23: Civil Rights Bill, H.R. 7152, February 1964
Folder 24: Civil Rights Movement in San Diego: Brief History
Folder 31: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1963-1965
Folder 32: CORE: Bank of America Employment Practices, 1964-1965

Box 2
Folder 1: CORE Community Involvement
Folder 2: CORE Correspondence, 1964-1965
Folder 3: CORE Demonstration Photographs, 1963-1965
Folder 4: CORE Enterprise Corporation, Inc. Application for Funding Grants
Folder 5: CORE Guidelines for Organizational Expansion, April 1965
Folder 6: CORE-Lator Newsletter, September/October 1964
Folder 7: CORE Leadership Training
Folder 8: CORE Meeting Minutes, 1964-1965
Folder 9: CORE Memorandums, 1965
Folder 10: CORE Montgomery Ward Employment Practices, 1963-1964
Folder 11: CORE National Republican Convention, 1964
Folder 12: CORE Northeast Region, 1965
Folder 13: CORE Safeway Employment Practices, 1963
Folder 14: CORE San Diego Chapter, 1963-1965
Folder 15: CORE San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) Employment Practices, 1963
Folder 16: CORE San Diego Zoo Job Discrimination, 1964-1965
Folder 17: CORE Socialist and Communist Members - Subversive Activities, 1965
Folder 18: CORE Southern Region, 1964-1965
Folder 19: CORE Western Region, 1965
Folder 26: Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle (inscribed by George Stevens)

Box 3
Folder 15: Lesotho, 1968-1970
Folder 16: Lesotho Slides, 1967-1970

Box 4
Folder 17: Photographs

Box 5
Folder 16: "The Racial Issue in San Diego" ... a report of a television program and the reaction to it from the San Diego community ..., September, 1965

Box 6
Item 1: KSDO Viewpoints, October 20, 1966
Item 2: KSDO Viewpoints, October 27, 1966
Item 3: KSDO Viewpoints, November 3, 1966
Item 4: KSDO Viewpoints, November 10, 1966
Item 5: KSDO Viewpoints, November 17, 1966
Item 6: KSDO Viewpoints, December 1, 1966
Item 7: KSDO Viewpoints, December 8, 1966
Item 8: Peace Corps - Africa (Maseru, capitol city of Lesotho)

Date Created

6/17/2016

Is Part Of

http://scua2.sdsu.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=280

Is Version Of

http://scua2.sdsu.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=280

References

http://scua2.sdsu.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=280

Collection Items

KSDO Radio (San Diego) program "Viewpoints" hosted by Harold K. Brown and the Rev. E. Major Shavers. Program was a listener call-in format with the topic of discussion "The White Backlash."

Conflict at a demonstration, 1964
Two individuals engage in physical contact above a row of seated men with linked arms at a demonstration for civil rights in San Diego.

KSDO Radio (San Diego) program "Viewpoints" co-hosted by Harold K. Brown and the Rev. E. Major Shavers. The program format was initial comment by the co-hosts followed by listener call-in questions and comments. The program topic was "Integration."

Protesters outside of Bank of America, 1964
Protesters with signs reading "Does San Diego need Jim Crow?" and "There are other banks" march in front of a San Diego Bank of America.

Protesters holding signs inside Bank of America lobby, 1964
Protesters inside of a Bank of America holding signs. One reads: "We save here . . . we want to work here."

Line of protesters holding signs, 1964
Line of protesters in Downtown San Diego holding signs.

Man in sunglasses holds paper with people in the background, 1964
Person wearing sunglasses holds a paper amidst protesters in Downtown San Diego.

Harold Brown speaking to audience in gymnasium
Harold Brown speaks to an audience in a gymnasium. There are four other presumed speakers in attendance.

Harold Brown with protesters outside of Bank of America, 1964
Harold Brown stands with protesters in front of a Bank of America in Downtown San Diego. One sign reads: "We save here . . . we want to work here . . ."

View of demonstration from the Bank of America doorway, 1964
Protesters outside of the Bank of America in Downtown San Diego.
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