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Papers

The collections contains correspondence, reports, schedules, agendas, minutes, speeches, collected items, pamphlets, clippings, and congressional records. All of the items relate to the career and activities of Feild as president of the National Association of Human Rights Workers, NAIRO official, executive director of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, and his involvement in the proceedings of the Democratic National Committee and the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign. An interesting group of items relates to the religious controversy that surfaced during the campaign. Papers document Feilds role in the Civil Rights struggle. Vice Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon are among the correspondents. Other names include Marshall Bragdon, Frank Horne, Herman Long, Carl T. Rowan, Theodore Sorenson, and Roy Wilkins.

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