580a. SOUTHERN ELECTIONS FUNDS PAPERS
ca. 5,500 items, ca. 1968-1975
Papers of the Southern Elections Fund including professional and
personal correspondence of Julian Bond, the
fund's chairman. Included are correspondence, mailing lists, newsletters,
printed material, photographs, slides, videotapes, and miscellany produced
by the various officers and trustees of the organization. The fund was
established to funnel campaign funds and technical assistance to progressive
southern political candidates. Support from the fund was instrumental in the
election of many southern Afro-American candidates. Among the correspondents
are Robert Struass, Lawrence
F. O'Brien, Anne Wexler, Hubert Humphrey, William
Brown, John Lewis, John Conyers, Andrew Young, Ralph David
Abernathy, and Walter Mondale.
(Acc. 10907)
