Civil Rights During the Eisenhower AdministrationKansas Historical Society microfilm rolls MF 7173 – MF 7186Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Administration, Part 1: White House Central Files, Series A: School Desegregation, brings together a large amount of material on the civil rights issues, events, and personalities that rose to prominence during the 1953–1961 presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a critical period in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.
Collection SummaryRepositoryKansas State Historical Society (Topeka) TitleCivil rights during the Eisenhower administration Dates1953-1961 Quantity14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. AbstractCivil Rights During the Eisenhower Administration, Part 1: White House Central Files, Series A: School Desegregation, brings together a large amount of material on the civil rights issues, events, and personalities that rose to prominence during the 1953–1961 presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a critical period in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. The collection also contains documents on discrimination affecting other groups, including Indians, Jews, and Asians, as well as documentation of the efforts by states and localities to obtain federal funding for greatly needed school facilities construction. The majority of documents in this collection consists of letters to the president or other officials with responsibility for directing or implementing civil rights policies, and answers to these letters. IdentificationMicrofilm MF 7173-MF 7186 LanguageText is in English NotesThis finding aid describes materials on microfilm held by the Kansas Historical Society. Microfilm may be used in the State Archives and Library during regular research hours. Microfilm may also be borrowed through interlibrary loan for your use at a participating public, academic, or research library. Information on interlibrary loan is available from the Kansas Historical Society and on its web site, http://www.kshs.org. Support for telephone, mail and online research and reference is limited. In a continuing effort to improve the completeness and accuracy of finding aids, revisions are made as more or new information becomes available. Consequently finding aids in paper format, on microfilm, and on the Society's web site may differ slightly. Other Finding AidThe microfilm is accompanied by a printed reel guide compiled by Dan Elasky, entitled: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Administration. Copies also available at the State Archives & Library, Kansas Historical Society (Topeka). Indexes to the RecordsIndex in the printed reel guide. Index TermsPersonsEisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Corporate NamesUnited States. President (1953-1961 : Eisenhower) Geographic NamesUnited States–Politics and government–1953-1961–Sources. SubjectsAfrican Americans–Civil rights–History–20th century–Sources. Restrictions on AccessNone Acquisition InformationPurchase, 2006. Location of OriginalsThe documents reproduced in this publication are from the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the custody of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, National Archives and Records Administration. NotesPurchased with funds from the Interlibrary Loan Development Program, Kansas Library Network Board. The Kansas Historical Society State Archives & Library has: pt. 1. White House central files: Series A, School desegregation. Detailed Description of the CollectionAdditional details on the contents of each roll may be obtained from the published Guide to the microfilm, available in the Kansas Historical Society’s State Archives & Library or on the publisher's website: http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/101149_CivilRightsEisenhowerPt1SeriesA.pdf Reel 1 (MF 7173) School Facilities Reel 2 (MF 7174) School Facilities cont. Vocational Education Land-Grant Colleges White House Conference on Education Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis Reel 3 (MF 7175) Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis cont. Segregation and Desegregation Reels 4–7 (MS 7176–MS 7179) Segregation and Desegregation cont. Reel 8 (MS 7180) Segregation and Desegregation cont. Material Relating to Brown v. Board of Education Decision Reels 9–10 (MS 7181–MS 7182) Material Relating to Brown v. Board of Education Decision cont. Reel 11 (MS 7183) Material Relating to Brown v. Board of Education Decision cont. Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis Reels 12–13 (MS 7184–MS 7185) Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis cont. Reel 14 (MS 7186) Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis cont. New Orleans, Louisiana, School Integration Crisis Little Rock Situation: Eisenhower Address |
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