Documents involving the Durrs, from microfilm reel #3:

The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists

Series I: Alabama Civil Rights Movement

Sub-series 1: Johnnie Carr and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Date span: 1948-1997 (bulk 1956-1974)

Appendix 1.1A: Listing of printouts from microfilm reels 1 and 2, papers and records of Johnnie Carr and the MIA, 1948-1974

Reel 1, box 1, folder 2, 1959-71

1. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962, 1964 (7 pages)

2. Correspondence: from S. S. Seay, MIA president, thanking Reverend William A. Mack’s congregation for contributions of food and clothing, 1962 (1 page).

3. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 page)

4. Correspondence: Seay’s meeting with Rabbi Balfour Brickner, 1962 (2 pages)

5. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960-1962, 1964 (24 pages)

6. Financial notebook, 1964 (9 pages)

7. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1964 (18 pages)

8. Correspondence: from Wyatt Tee Walker of the SCLC, to Seay, on Martin Luther King’s impending visit to the MIA’s annual institute, 1962 (1 page)

9. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 page)

10. Correspondence: Ebony magazine fund drive, 1963 (1 page)

11. Correspondence: SCLC citizenship teacher training workshop, undated (2 pages)

12. Text: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2 pages)

13. Correspondence: Seay thanking Fred Shuttlesworth for participating in the MIA’s Fifth Anniversary Celebration and Institute on Non-Violence. 1960 (1 page)

14. Documentary film catalogue, circa 1963 (23 pages)

15. Employer’s Tax Guide, 1963 (32 pages)

16. Correspondence: finances, insurance expense, 1960 (1 page)

17. Correspondence: contributions in support of arrested Alabama State College student (2 pages)

18. Correspondence: Seay thanking J. E Lowery for participating in the MIA’s Fifth Anniversary Celebration and Institute on Non-Violence. 1960 (1 page)

19. Correspondence: voter registration drive, 1962 (2 pages)

20. Correspondence: chickens donated to upcoming luncheon, 1962 (1 page)

21. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962 (2 pages)

22. Correspondence: Claressa Chambliss of the Modern Beauticians Association leading an MIA mass meeting, 1962 (2 pages)

23. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1959-60, 1962 (8 pages)

24. Correspondence: contribution in support of arrested Alabama State College student (1 page)

25. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962 (2 pages)

26. Correspondence: Charles Forbes’s upcoming visit to MIA institute, 1962 (1 page)

27. Correspondence: from Shuttlesworth, requesting contributions to Fourth Annual Celebration of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1960 (2 pages)

28. Correspondence: finances, 1962, 1964 (2 pages)

29. Correspondence: from Seay, invitation for choir to perform at Eighth Anniversary meeting, where Ralph Abernathy will speak, 1963 (1 page)

30. Correspondence: contributions to Roosevelt Bracy (for reasons unexplained), 1966 (1 page)

31. Correspondence: invitation for Orsell Billingsley to speak at MIA meeting, 1964 (1 page)

32. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1963 (2 pages)

33. Correspondence: upcoming oratorical contest, 1961 (1 page)

34. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1963 (1 page)

35. Voter registration: clinics, undated (2 pages)

36. Voter registration: individual information cards (55 individuals, 19 pages)

37. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964 (10 pages)

38. Finances: service station receipt, 1966 (1 page)

39. MIA greeting cards, undated (2 pages)

40. SCLC list of board members and members, undated (3 pages)

41. Leon W. Lindsay, “Alabama Testing Ground: When Blacks Take Power,” continued as “Black, White Officials Find Harmony in Alabama,” reprinted from Christian Science Monitor, 1971 (4 pages)

42. List of sponsoring organizations for the Poor People’s Campaign, circa 1968 (10 pages)

43. Alabama Council Bulletin, August 20, 1965 (8 pages as microfilmed; 4 actual pages)

44. Correspondence: Andrew Young to members of SCLC board, 1967 (1 page)

45. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1963 (16 pages)

46. Correspondence: finances, 1964 (1 page)

47. Correspondence: MIA contribution to Tuscaloosa Citisens [sic] for Action Committee, 1964 (1 page)

48. Correspondence: voter registration, 1964 (1 page)

49. Correspondence: request for venue to host MIA meetings, 1964 (1 page)

50. Correspondence: lodging query for upcoming SCLC convention, 1964 (1 page)

51. Correspondence: finances, request to SCLC Voter Education Project to cover its unpaid bills in Montgomery, 1964 (1 page)

52. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964 (18 pages)

53. Correspondence: from Bea Lazar, contributing song lyrics in support of southern students’ struggle for lunch-counter integration, 1960 (3 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 3, 1957-71

54. Correspondence: Highlander Folk School, 1959 (4 pages)

55. Correspondence: to moderator of upcoming MIA panel discussion, 1964 (1 page)

56. Correspondence: to Seay on upcoming appearance, speaking to NAACP, 1959 (1 page)

57. Correspondence: to speaker at upcoming MIA panel discussion, 1964 (1 page)

58. Correspondence: Highlander Folk School, 1959, 1961-1962 (10 pages)

59. Correspondence: to speaker at upcoming MIA panel discussion, 1964 (1 page)

60. Correspondence: voter registration drive, 1965, inclusive of permit for march of February 9, 1965, led by King (6 pages)

61. Correspondence: to speaker at upcoming MIA panel discussion, 1964 (1 page)

62. Voter registration: list of executive committee in Montgomery, undated (1 page)

63. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1961 (1 page)

64. Correspondence: to Princella Howard, on obtaining a National Defense Student Loan, 1964 (3 pages)

65. Correspondence: grant from Voter Education Project, a program of the Southern Regional Council, 1964 (1 page)

66. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1962, 1964 (13 pages)

67. Finances: postal register, 1966 (4 pages)

68. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960, 1962 (6 pages)

69. Correspondence: from Charles P. Forbes, on his research visit to Montgomery and obtaining documents from MIA, 1962 (4 pages)

70. Finances: weekly income voucher, 1967 (1 page)

71. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962, 1963 (2 pages)

72. Finances: invoice for telephone calls made by C. T. Vivian, 1964 (1 page)

73. Correspondence: voter registration drive, 1964 (2 pages)

74. Correspondence: to Martin Luther King, on murals from Danbury (Connecticut) High School students, 1965 (1 page)

75. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962 (2 pages)

76. Page of signatures, undated, unexplained (1 page)

77. Finances: daily income report sheets #333-#337, 1963 (10 pages)

78. Photograph: Solomon Seay, Sr. (1 page); identical to photo in #269 below

79. Correspondence: invitation for Forbes to speak on his thesis research at the MIA Institute on Non-Violence, 1962 (1 page); see #69 above

80. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1963-1964 (3 pages)

81. Finances: withholding tax statements, 1963-1964 (3 forms on 1 page)

82. Finances: bank slip (1 page)

83. Finances: bill for charter bus to Washington, DC, 1959 (1 page)

84. Correspondence: solicitation from Liberty House, Jackson, Mississippi, on the Poor People’s Campaign, undated (5 pages)

85. Finances: life insurance form (1 page)

86. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962 (4 pages)

87. Finances: Atlanta bus trip, with names of attendees and notes for meeting Ralph Abernathy, undated (8 pages)

88. Agenda: meeting, 1968 (1 page)

89. Finances: unknown, undated (1 page)

90. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, undated (12 pages)

91. Correspondence: invitation from Carr to J. E. Lowery to speak at annual MIA anniversary meeting, 1970 (1 page)

92. Correspondence and lists of names and addresses, unexplained, 1960 and undated (6 pages)

93. Finances: Ebony magazine fund drive, 1963 (12 pages)

94. Agenda: executive board meeting, 1962 (1 page)

95. Finances: Ebony magazine fund drive, 1963 (18 pages)

96. 3 names and addresses, unexplained, undated (1 page)

97. Finances: notebook detailing income, 1970-1971 (3 pages)

98. Christmas note from SCLC citizenship education staff.

99. Finances: invoices, unidentified book fund drive, 1958-1959 (20 pages) (Stride Toward Freedom; compare below #159)

100. Finances: miscellaneous bills, 1957, 1965 (3 pages)

101. Beautician’s Handbook (7 pages)

102. Finances: list of MIA long-distance phone calls, March to April, year unknown (5 pages)

103. Finances: daily income report sheets #304-#376, 1963-1964 (73 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 4, 1957-1974

104. Office supplies and equipment, 1967, 1971 (3 pages)

105. Finances: Ebony magazine fund drive, undated and 1963 (4 pages)

106. Correspondence: Levi Watkins declines to attend MIA 16th anniversary, 1971 (1 page)

107. Finances: bill for used car, 1957 (1 page)

108. Membership report forms, 1961 (8 pages)

109. Note on Rev. A. W. Watkins and (?his) singers, undated (1 page)

110. Membership report forms, 1961 (2 pages)

111. Membership campaign, worker’s report envelope, undated (1 page)

112. Envelope from United States Senate Committee on Commerce to Barbara Howard, 1964 (1 page)

113. Voter registration project, potential voter’s survey, undated and 1965 (55 individuals, 20 pages)

114. Envelope with pre-printed MIA return address (1 page)

115. Correspondence: to N. W. Stevenson regarding his sermon on the MIA’s “Morning Devotions” radio program, 1962 (2 pages)

116. Correspondence: to C. T. Vivian on the SCLC staff visit to Montgomery, 1964 (1 page)

117. Name and address list of “Churches Announcers,” undated (2 pages)

118. Correspondence: to Rufus Lewis, on decision not to fill a vacant MIA staff position, 1958 (1 page)

119. Correspondence: from Adrienne Coleman, thanking MIA executive board for its support of her university studies, 1958 (2 pages)

120. Finances: MIA cash receipt book, 1960 (7 pages)

121. Finances: MIA disbursements 1962 and proposed budget 1963 (8 pages)

122. Finances: Ebony magazine fund drive, 1963 (4 pages)

123. Finances: proposed budget February 1959 through January 1960 (3 pages as filmed; actually 2 pages)

124. Finances: handwritten budget calculations, April 1960 (4 pages)

125. Finances: income receipts #10503-#10802, 1960-1961 (52 pages)

126. Finances: bank deposit forms, undated (3 pages)

127. Finances: offices supplies receipt, 1960 (1 page)

128. Finances: MIA membership campaign form (1 page)

129. Finances: expenses, 1959 (2 pages)

130. Finances: MIA membership campaign form (1 page)

131. Finances: expenses, 1960 (8 pages as filmed; actually one large sheet)

132. Finances: expenses, undated (2 pages as filmed; actually one page)

133. Finances: Rent income, 1971 (1 page)

134. List of elected officers, 1972-1974 (3 pages)

135. Finances: income, 1972 (2 page)

136. Names and address for new MIA membership cards, undated (1 page)

137. Finances: office supply expenses, February, the year unknown (1 page)

138. Finances: I.O.U. to MIA, 1963 (1 page)

139. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1965 (1 page)

140. Voter registration project, 1963 (18 pages)

141. Finances: phone bill and related correspondence, 1965 (3 pages)

142. Correspondence: Jesse L. Douglas to K. K. Mitchell, 1965 (1 page)

143. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1965 and undated (3 pages)

144. Minutes, Birmingham meeting on SCLC affiliates, May, the year unknown (3 pages)

145. Finances: property insurance, 1965 (1 page)

146. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961, 1965 (17 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 5, 1957-1966

147. Finances: financial reports, 1957, 1958 (13 pages)

148. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1965 (1 page)

149. Correspondence: film shown at MIA, 1965 (1 page)

150. Finances: correspondence on SCLC phone bill, 1965 (1 page); see also #154, #191, #193, #221, #229, and #230 below

151. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (5 pages)

152. Correspondence: apology to Hazel Gregory, 1965 (2 pages)

153. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (7 pages)

154. Finances: correspondence to Ralph Abernathy on SCLC unpaid bills, 1965 (1 page)

155. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (17 pages)

156. Finances: amount on deposit, 1957 (1 page)

157. Finances: disbursement, April, the year unknown (1 page)

158. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (18 pages)

159. Finances: book fund drive (Stride Toward Freedom), 1958 (3 pages)

160. Finances: check #2653, 1958 (2 pages)

161. Finances: 8th anniversary meeting, donation card, 1963 (1 page)

162. Finances: bank deposits and daily income report sheets #68-#78, 1959 (16 pages)

163. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1965 and undated (3 pages)

164. Finances: court exhibit, MIA income, expenses, activities, and goals, 1958 (16 pages as filmed; actually 2 letter-sized pages and 7 legal-sized pages)

165. Finances: proposed budget, February 1959-January 1960 (3 pages as filmed; actually 2 pages)

166. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (6 pages)

167. Finances: office supplies, paper price list, 1962 (4 pages)

168. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1964-1965 (14 pages)

169. Finances: daily income report sheet #1, various dates in 1958 (1 page)

170. Finances: daily income report sheet #1, #3-#25, #25 [sic: #26]-#56, February 1958-January 1959, and some deposit slips (61 pages)

171. Finances: membership report forms, 1961 (4 pages)

172. Sample ballot, 1964 (2 pages)

173. “Section 10” and Section 7” (meaning unknown), lists of names, addresses, and phone numbers, written on the reverse of MIA news release blank stationery (5 pages)

174. Office supply advertisement (1 page)

175. Membership campaign, worker’s report envelope, undated (1 page) (as #111 above)

176. Correspondence: plan for anniversary meeting, 1966 (1 page)

177. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1963-1964 (4 pages)

178. Finances: check stop payment, 1964 (1 page)

179. Finances: account balance, 1964 (1 page)

180. Finances: checks #5229-#5234, #5236-#5237, #5239-#5241, #5243, 1964 (4 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 6, 1957-1968

181. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1959-1966 (76 pages)

182. Finances: daily income report sheet, December, the year unknown (1 page)

183. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1963 (16 pages)

184. Finances: membership drive and membership report forms, 1965 (8 pages)

185. Finances: membership report forms (6 pages)

186. Finances: envelopes, 1968 and undated (5 pages)

187. Finances: license to sell soft drinks, 1957 (1 page)

188. Finances: Stride Toward Freedom book fund drive correspondence, 1959 (2 pages)

189. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960-1961 (4 pages)

190. Finances: correspondence, fund drive (?Ebony magazine), 1963 (1 page)

191. Finances: correspondence and bills for SCLC, 1964 (11 pages)

192. “Handbook for Testing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Alabama” (4 pages)

193. Finances: correspondence and bills for SCLC, 1964 (7 pages)

194. Non-MIA finances: 2 contributions to SCLC, 1968 (1 page)

195. Finances: diverse bills and payments, 1964-1965, 1967-1968 (32 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 7, 1958-1964 (CLOSED)

196. Individual income and withholding taxes for MIA employees, 1958-1964 (107 pages)

Reel 1, box 1, folder 8, 1959-1965

197. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1964 (9 pages)

198. Correspondence: election to MIA executive board, 1964 (1 page)

199. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1963 (9 pages)

200. Correspondence: to Anne Braden, consequences of lawsuit, Seay forced to resign as executive secretary of MIA, 1961 (1 page)

201. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1964 (9 pages)

202. Correspondence: visitor to anniversary meeting, 1965 (1 page)

203. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1964 (63 pages)

204. Correspondence: research query from sociology professor Cox, 1962 (1 page)

205. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1963 (9 pages)

206. Correspondence: research query from sociology professor Cox, 1961-1962 (2 pages)

207. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1959-1961 (8 pages)

208. Correspondence: arrest of Seay, McMurray College students and faculty; Alabama State University students expelled, 1960 (5 pages); see above, #200

Reel 1, box 1, folder 9, 1957-1966

209. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1959 (1 page)

210. Correspondence: request for assistance for expelled students, undated [?1960] (1 page)

211. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960-1961 (2 pages)

212. Description of MIA weekly meetings and monthly luncheons, 1961 (2 pages)

213. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960-1961 (6 pages)

214. Correspondence: to Ralph Abernathy, blurred film, illegible, 1960 (1 page)

215. Correspondence: to Judge Price, protesting sentencing of two young boys for kissing a young girl, undated (1 page)

216. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1962 (11 pages)

217. Correspondence: arrangements for student visit from Mennonite Bible Seminary, 1960 (2 pages)

218. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1960 (1 page)

219. Correspondence: Seay, with apologies, unable to answer research query on Rosa Parks, 1959 (1 page)

220. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1960-1962 (5 pages)

221. Finances: correspondence to SCLC on bills due for buses at Selma March, 1965 (2 pages)

222. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 page)

223. Correspondence: Hazel Gregory to Ralph Abernathy, contribution, 1962 (1 page)

224. Correspondence: Seay to Andrew Young at SCLC, meeting plans, 1962 (1 page)

225. Correspondence: Martin Luther King’s visit to MIA, 1962 (2 pages)

226. Correspondence: Jesse Douglas to Abernathy, soliciting contributions, 1964 (1 page)

227. Correspondence: with Abernathy, Carr’s visit to Atlanta, representing MIA, 1962 (2 pages)

228. Correspondence: Gregory to King, transportation to Washington March, 1963 (1 page)

229. Correspondence: Seay to Young, contact for setting up operations in Opelika, Alabama, 1962 (1 page)

230. Correspondence: Gregory to Young, vouchers for expenses, and voter registration project, 1963 (1 page)

231. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 page)

232. Correspondence: Gregory to W. G. Anderson, speaking at MIA 7th anniversary, 1962 (1 page)

233. Correspondence: Seay to Abernathy, thanks for contribution, 1963 (1 page)

234. Correspondence: Abernathy to Gregory, speaking at MIA 7th anniversary, 1962 (1 page)

235. Correspondence: Gregory to Septima Clark, training program for Citizenship School Teachers, 1962 (1 page)

236. Correspondence: Gregory to C. T. Vivian, bill for phone calls, March, the year unknown (1 page)

237. Correspondence: Rufus Lewis to Young, voter registration project, 1963 (1 page)

238. Correspondence: Seay to Abernathy, thanks for contribution, 1964 (1 page)

239. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962-1963 (3 pages)

240. Finances: financial report for 1960 institute (7 pages)

241. Committee meeting minutes, 1961 (5 pages)

242. Finances: receipts for office supplies, 1961 (5 pages)

243. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1964 (28 pages)

244. Finances: query on check signature, 1964 (1 page)

245. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1962 (9 pages)

246. Correspondence: voter registration project, 1964 (1 page)

247. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 pages)

248. Correspondence: Seay to E. Franklin Jackson, appeal for help, the subject unspecified, 1962 (1 page)

249. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 pages)

250. Correspondence: Seay to Burke Marshall, protest arrests in Louisville, 1962 (1 page)

251. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1961-1962 (4 pages)

252. Notice of final rites for Mrs. Eddie Mays, 1964 (1 page)

253. Correspondence: MIA membership and contribution, 1962 (1 page)

254. Correspondence: Seay to Washington Post, church burning in Montgomery, 1962 (1 page)

255. Finances: social security tax publication (1 page)

256. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1957, 1961-1964, 1966 (28 pages)

257. Subscription form, Mississippi Free Press (1 page)

258. Correspondence: MIA membership and contributions, 1959-1964 (40 pages)

Reel 2, box 1, folder 10, 1948-1974

259. Correspondence: announcement of MIA program honoring Rosa Parks, 1960 (1 page)

260. Program: banquet honoring Rosa Parks at SCLC ninth annual convention, 1965 (4 pages)

261. Photograph, unidentified (1 page) (?related to #285 and #307 below)

262. Newsletter: M.I.A., volume 1, no.12 (1959) (6 pages as filmed, actually 3 legal-sized pages)

263. Correspondence: form letter to parents, MIA school integration plans, 1964 (3 pages)

264. Program: MIA 15th anniversary, 1970 (1 page)

265. Finances: membership drive report, May to July, the year unknown (1 page)

266. Program: mass meeting, 1964 (1 page)

267. Correspondence: Seay to executive board, announcing his resignation as president, 1964 (1 page)

268. SCLC agenda for school transfer project, undated, with handwritten annotations on reverse (4 pages)

269. Program: MIA 5th anniversary, 1960 (16 pages)

270. Program: MIA 14th anniversary, 1969 (2 pages)

271. Program: memorial services for James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, 1965 (3 pages)

272. Program: NAACP charter day, honoring Rosa Parks, 1965 (2 pages)

273. L. D. Reddick, “The Bus Boycott in Montgomery,” [Dissent, winter 1956; reprinted in Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963] (March 15, 1956), 1-11

274. Typewritten outline of the principles underlying the Montgomery bus protest, undated (1 page)

275. Correspondence: announcement of school integration project, 1964 (1 page)

276. Program: MIA 7th anniversary, 1962 (12 pages)

277. Speech: handwritten, unidentified, undated (3 pages)

278. Correspondence: announcement of film on Martin Luther King, and handwritten note from Johnnie Carr, urging attendance, 1970 (5 pages)

279. Pamphlet: This is SCLC, 1970 (20 pages)

280. Announcement of MIA Annual Institute on Non-Violence, 1962 (1 page)

281. Reprint of “They Asked for It,” Alabama Journal (July 15, 1964), on school integration (1 page)

282. White supremacy flyer on Democratic executive committee election, 1959 (2 pages)

283. Correspondence: resignation of MIA board member, 1960 (2 pages)

284. Emancipaton Celebration: 100 Years: A Century of Negro Progress in Alabama (cover page only; for entire text, see below, #342)

285. Photograph: banquet panorama, unidentified occasion, 1948 (3 pages; actually 1 photo with caption on reverse) (the same event as #307 below: NAACP national meeting, Kansas City)

286. Newspaper articles on King assassination, Montgomery Advertiser, April 6, 1968 (6 pages; actually 1 page of newspaper)

287. Program: memorial service for King, 1968 (4 pages)

288. Johnnie Carr personal papers: award certificates, 1966-1967, 1974 (6 pages)

289. Program: MIA 3rd anniversary, 1958 (4 pages)

290. Program: Emancipation Proclamation Association, draft for 1972 celebration, 1971 (9 pages)

291. Meeting minutes: fragment, unidentified, undated (1 page)

292. Johnnie Carr personal papers: award certificates, 1966 (2 pages)

Reel 2, box 1, folder 11, 1948-1974

293. Typewritten manuscript outlining the history of the MIA from 1957 to 1964 (4 pages)

294. Correspondence: announcement of MIA Board meeting from Johnnie Carr, First Vice President, 1967 (1 page)

295. M.I.A. newsletter, vol.1, no.10, 1958 (6 pages; actually 3 legal-size pages)

296. Finances: Christmas merchandise, 1968 (2 pages)

297. Finances: bill for moving office equipment, 1967 (1 page; see also #326)

298. Correspondence: form letter soliciting jobs for minorities, undated (1 page)

299. Finances: receipt, undated (1 page)

300. The Truth, vol.1, no.1, March 1957 (7 pages; actually 4 pages)

301. “Expel Negro Sitdowners College Told,” Montgomery Advertiser, February 26, 1960 (1 page; continued in #303 directly below)

302. Correspondence: Martin Luther King to Johnnie Carr, on her election to the SCLC board, 1967 (1 page)

303. Continuation of Montgomery Advertiser, February 26, 1960 (5 pages; actually two newspaper pages)

304. “Senators Kill Wallaces’s Bill”; “All-White Jury Frees Wilkins”; and other articles, Southern Courier, October 30-31, 1965, 1-2 (12 pages; 2 newspaper pages; (continued in #306 directly below)

305. Jim Peppler, photographer: “Sunday in Montgomery: King Spoke—And then the Klan Spoke, and Marched, and Burned,” Southern Courier, November 16-17, 1967, 3 (6 pages; 1 newspaper page)

306. Continuation of Southern Courier, October 30-31, 1965, 3-6 (24 pages; 4 newspaper pages

307. Panoramic photograph, Southeast delegation, NAACP national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, 1948 (3 pages; actually 1 photo with caption on reverse)

308. Newspaper photo of Mrs. Johnnie Jordan (later, Johnnie Carr), assistant secretary to the local NAACP, undated (1 page)

309. Program: MIA meeting, 1966 (3 pages)

310. Bruce Nichols, “‘I’ve Never Felt So Uncomfortable in My Whole Life,” Alabama Journal, May 21, 1974 (on Carr’s son, Arlam Carr, Jr., entering a white high school in the 1960s) (4 pages; 1 newspaper page)

311. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. John C. Bennett, Dr. Henry Steele Commager, Rabbi Abraham Heschel Speak on the War in Vietnam (New York, 1967) (31 pages)

312. Unidentified calculations (1 page)

313. Program: Baptist State Convention of Illinois, 1957 (11 pages; actually 15 pages)

314. Program: Martin Luther King memorial service, 1968 (9 pages; actually 15 pages)

315. Program: King memorial service, 1968 (4 pages)

316. SCLC directory, undated (9 pages; actually 14 pages)

317. SCLC flyers and publications, 1967 and undated (12 pages)

318. Correspondence: to MIA, Christmas present donations, 1968 (2 pages)

319. SCLC news flyers, 1972 (7 pages)

320. Correspondence: Coretta Scott King to Carr, thanking MIA for contribution to Martin Luther King center, 1972 (3 pages)

321. Memorandum: MIA to ministers, reminder on King’s memorial birthday, 1972 (1 page)

322. Flyer: MIA 12th anniversary, 1967 (1 page)

323. Program: Martin Luther King memorial service, 1974 (1 page)

324. Correspondence: repetition of #298 above (1 page)

325. Correspondence and flyer: form letter, MIA appeal to assist SCLC financial crisis, 1973 (2 pages; continued as #327 directly below)

326. Finances: bill for moving office equipment, 1967 (1 page)

327. Program: MIA civil rights rally for SCLC, 1973 (3 pages)

328. March permit from City of Montgomery, 1969 (1 page)

329. Correspondence: State Historical Society of Wisconsin solicits MIA records, 1967 (2 pages)

330. Correspondence and receipt: acknowledging MIA contribution of University of Alabama student Willie Lee Williams, 1972 (2 pages)

331. Program: MIA 12th anniversary, 1967 (2 pages)

332. Flyer: MIA as affiliate of SCLC, undated (1 page)

333. Correspondence: MIA to H. L. Green Company, Montgomery, soliciting jobs and equal pay for negroes, 1966 (1 page)

334. Flyer: from SCLC, memorial birthday services for Martin Luther King, 1969 (1 page)

335. Finances: MIA establishing memorial King scholarship, 1969 (1 page)

336. Finances: MIA contribution to SCLC, 1968 (1 page)

337. Correspondence: contribution to MIA, 1968 (1 page)

338. Telegram: J. E. Lowery to Carr, services for King, 1968 (1 page)

339. SCLC finances: budget for Montgomery County, undated (1 page)

340. Vincent Harding, “Black Power and the American Christ,” Christian Century, January 4, 1967, 10-13, reprint (4 pages)

Reel 2, box 1, folder 12, 1954-1971

341. Correspondence: Carr protests new Montgomery public housing for negroes, fire danger with only one entrance; city denies there is a danger, 1967 (4 pages)

342. A century of Negro Progress in Montgomery City and County, Centennial Edition, 1863-1964, 100 Years (83 pages)

343. SCLC Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 10, July 1963 (4 pages)

344. Program: banquet, Alabama State College, with Thurgood Marshall as guest speaker, 1954 (10 pages)

345. Drum Major, vol.1, no.1, summer 1971 (47 pages)

Reel 2, box 1, folder 13, 1956-1974

346. Correspondence: Thomas Gilliam, graduate student in history, to Carr, seeking contacts for MIA thesis research, undated (1 page)

347. Spiral-bound notebook: handwritten MIA office notes, inclusive of speeches, 1970 and undated (28 pages)

348. Spiral-bound notebook: handwritten MIA office notes, inclusive of speeches, 1956-1957 (31 pages)

349. Typewritten manuscript with handwritten annotations: “A People Struggling for Freedom and Human Dignity through Love and Non-Violence,” early 1956 (9 pages)

350. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Walk for Freedom,” Allan Knight Chalmers, “Hope in Mississippi,” and other articles, Fellowship, vol. 22, no.5, May 1956 (19 pages; actually 35 pages)

351. Book of poetry: Eve Merriam, Montgomery, Alabama, Money, Mississippi, and Other Places, 1956 (21 pages; actually 40 pages)

352. Nicholas Katzenbach, “Justice, Justice, Shall ye Pursue . . .,” 1964 (15 pages)

353. Program: Alabama State University centennial, 1974 (28 pages)

Reel 2, box 1, folder 14, 1975

354. Invoice for microfilming, inclusive of listing for “Personal letters, papers, documents, manuscripts of Mrs. J. R. Carr, February 25, 1975”