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Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Ashmore Collection

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Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 1 Ashmore Collection Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Ashmore Collection, ca. 1922-1997 [bulk dates 1950s-1980s]

Collection number: Mss 155

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Descriptive Summary Title: Harry S. Ashmore Collection Dates: ca. 1922-1997 Bulk Dates: 1950s-1980s Collection number: Mss 155 Creator: Ashmore, Harry S. Collection Size: 20 linear feet (15 record containers, 2 document boxes, and 19 audiotapes). Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Abstract: Addresses and speeches, awards, biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes of the newspaperman, writer, editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and executive for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Awarded the first double Pulitzer Prizes in history for distinguished service in the Little Rock school integration controversy of the 1950s. Physical location: Boxes 1-8 (SRLF); Boxes 9-11 (Del Sur Oversize); Audiovisual (Annex 2). Languages: English Access Restrictions None. Materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation Harry S. Ashmore Collection. Mss 155. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Acquisition Information Multiple donations by Harry S. Ashmore, 1996-1997; transfer from University of South Carolina, 2003. Biography From Ashmore Civil Rights Commission Nomination files, 1976: [Harry Ashmore] was born in Greenville, S.C., in 1916. He received his undergraduate education at Clemson College, and was a Nieman Fellow at . He has been awarded LL.D. degrees by Oberlin, Grinnell, and the University of Arkansas.

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 2 Ashmore Collection He began his journalistic career in Greenville, serving as reporter for the afternoon Piedmont, and later as political writer and state capitol correspondent for the morning News. In 1941 Mr. Ashmore entered the army, and saw combat service in the European Theatre with the 95th Infantry Division. He rose from second lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel, and after V-E day was assigned to the War Department general staff. He was awarded the Bronze Star with two oak leaf clusters. In 1945 he went to the Charlotte (N.C.) News as editor. In 1947 Mr. Ashmore joined the as executive editor, and in 1957 he and the Gazette were awarded the first double Pulitzer Prizes in history for distinguished service in the Little Rock school integration controversy. He was also awarded the 1957 Sidney Hillman Award. He has served as a director of the American Society of Editors. Prior to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision terminating in public education, Mr. Ashmore directed a task force of 45 scholars in a definitive survey of bi-racial education in the for the Fund for the Advancement of Education. In 1955-56 he served as personal assistant to Adlai Stevenson in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the California Democratic Party. From 1960 to 1963 Mr. Ashmore served as editor-in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has been a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. He has written articles for many leading magazines, and is the author of seven books [...] He is the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica's three-volume Perspectives (1968). In 1973-74 he was Senior Fellow in Communications at Duke University. In 1975 he was the first Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. Mr. Ashmore is vice chairman of the ACLU national Advisory Council, and a member of the Board of the National Committee for an Effective Congress. From the CSDI Collection guide (Mss 18): Born: Greenville, S.C., July 27, 1916. Died: Santa Barbara, Jan. 20, 1998. CSDI: Member, Board of Directors, 1958-1979; Executive Vice-President, 1967-1969, 1974-1975; President, 1970-1974; Fellow of the Center, 1965-1983; Senior Fellow, 1969-1975; Associate, 1975-1983. Reporter, writer, editor with several , including Executive Editor, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, 1948-1959; on leave as Assistant to Stevenson for President campaign, 1955-1956. Recipient, Pulitzer Prize, editorial writing, 1958. Editor in Chief, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960-1963; Developer, Editorial Projects, 1963-1966; Chairman, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, 1962-1967; Editor of Britannica Perspectives, 1964-1968. Publications include: The Negro and the Schools (1954), An Epitaph for Dixie (1958), The Other Side of Jordan (1960), The Man in the Middle (1966), Mass Communications (with W. H. Ferry, 1966), Mission to Hanoi: A Chronicle of Double-dealing in High Places (with William C. Baggs, 1968), Fear in the Air; Broadcasting and the First Amendment: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Crisis (1973), The William O. Douglas Inquiry into the State of Individual Freedom (1979), Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan (1982), Unseasonable Truths: The Life of (1989), and Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics 1944-1994 (1994). Scope and Content of Collection Arrangement The collection contains the following series: General. Addresses and speeches, awards (including Pulitzer Prize), materials from youth and college days at Clemson Agricultural Collection and Harvard (Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship), military service record in World War II, and articles about Arkansas Gazette days. Correspondence. Correspondents include Mortimer Adler, Julian Bond, Edmund G. [Pat] Brown, Dale Bumpers, McGeorge Bundy, Walter and Lois Capps, Alan Cranston, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Hugh Downs, Joseph Drown, Clifton Fadiman, William Fulbright, Gary K. Hart, Benjamin Hooks, Robert M. Hutchins, John Lewis, Milton Mayer, Ralph McGill, Maurice Mitchell, Fred Warner Neal, Leon Panetta, Carl Stover, Kenneth Thompson, and Sander Vanocur. Organizations/Issues/Events. Files pertaining to organizations and institutions that Ashmore supported and projects he was involved in, events honoring Ashmore, and related correspondence. Includes material on the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Century Association, Common Cause, Dixiecrats, Little Rock, National Committee for an Effective Congress, Niemann Foundation, Sidney Hillman Foundation, Inc., Southern Regional Council, Adlai Stevenson. Writings. Includes drafts, correspondence, publicity, research files, reviews and other materials pertaining to monographs written by Ashmore, as well as drafts, copies, and correspondence for shorter works such as articles, editorials, and reviews.

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 3 Ashmore Collection Photographs. Mainly of Ashmore, including publicity stills, photos in yearbooks, and from time at CSDI. Audiotapes. Mainly talks and interviews with Ashmore on a number of topics, including LBJ, the mass media, and his 1967 trip to . The acronym HSA in the container list refers to Harry S. Ashmore. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Ashmore, Harry S. Civil rights--United States. International relations. Related Materials At UCSB Special Collections: Ashmore [Harry] Oral History (OH 11). Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection, 1950-1991 [bulk dates 1961-1987]. Records of the internationally renowned Santa Barbara-based think tank, emphasizing issues such as education, freedom of the press, international relations, public policy, religion, and science and technology in modern society. Included are materials relating to CSDI leaders such as Robert Hutchins, Harry Ashmore, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, W. H. Ferry, Frank Kelly, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Harvey Wheeler. Also includes papers, talks, correspondence, and other materials relating to hundreds of other well known figures such as Mortimer Adler, Alexander Comfort, William O. Douglas, Mircea Eliade, J. William Fulbright, Hubert H. Humphrey, Clark Kerr, Eugene McCarthy, Gunnar Myrdal, Reinhold Niebuhr, Linus Pauling, James A. Pike, B. F. Skinner, Adlai Stevenson, Arnold Toynbee, UN Secretary-General U Thant, and . (Mss 18). Hutchins [Robert M.] Collection, ca. 1960-1991. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, programs, and other materials mainly regarding Hutchins' role as founder and long-time chief executive officer of the Center for Democratic Institutions (CSDI). (Mss 154). Mitchell [Maurice B.] Collection, ca. 1945-1990. Correspondence, reports, and other, relating to his work with Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and other foundations and institutions such as the Annenberg. Also contains material relating to his interest in the history of printing. (Mss 160). Wheeler [Harvey] Oral History. Interviews with Wheeler re his life - before, during, and after his days with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). (OH 102). Wheeler [Harvey] Papers, ca. 1940s-1990s. Correspondence, writings, and administrative files, mainly relating to Wheeler's long-term association with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. (Mss 201). At Other Institutions: Syracuse University - manuscripts of various books and articles, ca. 1968-1978, including: Arkansas and the Burdens of Change, An Epitaph for Dixie, Fear in the Air, Mission to Hanoi, and The Other Side of Jordan.

General

Addresses/Speeches Box 1 1947-1957 Box 1 1959-1963 Box 1 California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco, 1963 Awards Box 1 Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize in , 1958 Box 1 Sidney Hillman Award, for editorials on school integration, 1958 Box 1 Miscellany - mainly honorary degrees and related materials, at various institutions including Clemson and the University of Arkansas, 1958-1988 Box 1 Calendar, 1982 Box 1 Charlotte Newspaper Clippings, 1947 Box 1 Clemson Agricultural College - ROTC and graduation, 1936-1937 Box 1 Harvard University - Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship, 1941-1942

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 4 Ashmore Collection General

Box 1 Little Rock Showdown - articles and related materials, about HSA and the Arkansas Gazette, 1957 Box 1 Memorabilia - incl. Greenville, S.C. items from HSA's youth and Clemson days, ca. 1922-1983 Box 1 Military Service Record - 95th Infantry Division, mainly World War II Correspondence Scope and Content Note Incoming/outgoing; arranged by surname of correspondent

Box 2 A (includes Mortimer Adler) Box 2 Arkansas Gazette (includes 1955 letter to Robert M. Hutchins), ca. 1955-1986 Box 2 B (includes Julian Bond, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Dale Bumpers, McGeorge Bundy), 1977-1997 Box 2 Baggs & McGill Box 2 Baggs, Billie, 1972-1974 Box 2 Banner, Knox Box 2 Blackford, Staige ( Virginia Quarterly Review) Box 2 Bonham, Dorothy Z. Box 2 Brockway, George P., 1960-1982 Box 2 C (includes Walter and Lois Capps, Alan Cranston), 1974-1997 Box 2 Caldwell, Bettye Box 2 Campbell, Robert S. Box 2 Civil Rights Commission (includes Bill Clinton), 1976-1979, 1989-1993 Box 2 Clinton, Bill and Hillary, 1992-1996 Box 2 Crisman, Charles B., 1979-1983 Box 2 D, 1976-1993 Box 2 Darragh, Fred K., Jr. Box 2 Democratic National Committee, 1985-1989 Box 2 Department of Education, 1980 Box 2 Dowd, Bill (WWII), 1944 Box 2 Downs, Hugh, 1972-1974 Box 2 Drown, Joseph, 1965-1982 Box 2 E, 1969-1991 Box 2 Egerton, John Box 2 Emerson, William A. Box 2 Emory University - Oral History Box 2 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1985-1991 Box 2 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 1989-1992 Box 2 Epitaph for Dixie, Norton/Little-Brown, 1991-1992 Box 2 F, 1974-1990 Box 2 Fadiman, Clifton, 1971-1991 Box 2 Fleming, Harold C., 1976-1993 Box 2 Fulbright, William, 1972-1981 Box 2 G, 1976-1994 Box 2 Golden, Harry, 1965-1983 Box 3 Griffin, John, 1964-ca. 1995 Box 3 Guggenheim, Charles, 1959-1986 Box 3 H (includes Gary K. Hart, Benjamin Hooks, James B. Hunt), 1968-1996 Box 3 Harper's Magazine, 1952-1958 Box 3 Hays, Brooks, 1965-1979 Box 3 Heiskell, J. N. ( Arkansas Gazette), 1968 Box 3 Higher Learning - RMH [Hutchins], 1993-1996 Box 3 Hill, Bruce, 1972 Box 3 House, [?], 1988 Box 3 Hughes, Jerry, 1974 Box 3 J, 1977-1995 Box 3 Jackson, Jesse L. (PUSH), 1981 Box 3 Jacoway, Elizabeth [Betsy], 1976-1979

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 5 Ashmore Collection Correspondence

Box 3 K (includes Kim Dae Jung), 1977-1996 Box 3 Kennedy [Robert F.] Book Award, 1994-1996 Box 3 L, 1975-1997 Box 3 Lamb, Ted, 1971-1984 Box 3 Landers, Ann, 1977 Box 3 Lane, John, 1942-1982 Box 3 Laughlin, W. Price, 1972-1974 Box 3 Levinson, Morris, 1970-1987 Box 3 Lewis, John, 1983 Box 3 Little Rock, 1997 Box 3 Loper, James, 1973-1977 Box 3 Lord, Sterling, 1979-1987 Box 3 M, 1976-1997 Box 3 Mc (includes Shirley Maclaine), 1974-1997 Box 3 Manasa, Norman, 1972-1996 Box 3 Mayer, Milton, 1969-1982 Box 3 McGill, Ralph [ Atlanta Constitution], 1955-1984 Box 3 Mitchell, Maurice, 1977-1979 Box 3 Mitchell Fund, 1976-1986 Box 4 N, 1976-1985 Box 4 National Education Project, Inc., 1996-1997 Box 4 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1977 Box 4 Neal, Fred Warner, 1972-1985 Box 4 Nelson, Charles A. - re Scott Buchanan, 1995 Box 4 O, ca. 1977-1997 Box 4 P, 1972-1997 Box 4 Parvin Foundation, 1970-1971 Box 4 Patterson, Hugh [ Arkansas Gazette], 1966-1995 Box 4 Popham Seminar, 1975-1996 Box 4 Potomac Institute, 1981-1988 Box 4 Presidential Commission on Affirmative Action (incl. Ickes, Panetta, Clinton), 1992-1995 Box 4 Push for Excellence (includes Drown Foundation, Peter Tagger), 1977-1984 Box 4 Q, 1978 Box 4 R, 1977-1996 Box 4 Rapoport, Bernard, 1983 Box 4 Roberts, 1956-1990 Box 4 Rosenthal, Robert [University of Chicago Library], 1985-1990 Box 4 S, 1975-1994 Box 4 Separation from The Center [CSDI], 1971-1975 Box 4 Simon's Rock, 1985-1989 Box 4 Squires, Malcom, 1983-1996 Box 4 Stover, Carl, 1977-1990 Box 4 Suitts, Steve [Lilly Endowment Project], 1994-1995 Box 4 Syracuse University - re HSA's papers deposited there, 1968-1978 Box 5 T, 1976-1996 Box 5 Teel, Leonard Ray - Ralph McGill biography, 1997 Box 5 Thompson, Kenneth, 1977-1994 Box 5 U, 1977-1996 Box 5 UCSB and The Center [CSDI], 1979-1984 Box 5 V, 1972-1994 Box 5 Vanocur, Sander, 1972-1977 Box 5 W, 1973-1995 Box 5 Whitmore, Sir John, 1972-1973 Box 5 Wing, Willis Kingsley, 1954-1987 Box 5 Woods, Henry (Medal of Freedom for Ashmore effort), ca. 1981-1997 Box 5 Y, 1973-1996 Box 5 Z, 1972-1977

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 6 Ashmore Collection Organizations / Issues / Events

Organizations / Issues / Events Scope and Content Note Includes organizations and institutions that Ashmore supported and projects he was involved in, events honoring Ashmore, lectures/speeches by him at various venues, and related correspondence.

Box 5 Alabama, ca. 1958 Box 5 American Assembly (Columbia University), 1972 Box 5 American Civil Liberties Union, National Committee, 1964 Box 5 American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, 1997 Box 5 American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), ca. 1959-1972 Box 5 Arkansas, ca. 1979-1981 Box 5 Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986 Box 5 Arkansas Gazette, 1958-1986 Box 5 Arkansas - Graham [Philip], Washington Post, 1957 Box 5 Arkansas Red Probe – Bennett [Bruce], Attorney General, ca. 1958 Box 5 Aspen Institute (Douglass Cater), 1974-1976 Baggs, William Box 5 Bill Baggs Fund, 1970-1973 Box 5 Papers [at University of Miami] - Guide, 1994 Box 5 Brown [Pat] Campaigns, 1964, 1966 CBS Box 5 Bicentennial Minutes, 1974, 1976 Box 5 Great Challenge, 1962 Box 5 California Democratic Advisory Committee - Foreign Policy Task Force Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Box 5 Clippings Box 5 Ecology Conference - "Steps to Survival: Planning for Action in the Environmental Crisis," Los Angeles, Apr. 25, 1970 Box 5 Equity Dialogue, 1978 Box 5 Eucalyptus Hill Road Site - real estate packet, ca. 1979 Box 6 Mass Media Meeting, 1971 Box 6 New Perspectives Quarterly (successor to CSDI) - issues of magazine, 1990-1995 Box 6 Pacem in Maribus - Program, 1970 Box 6 Meet the Press - Pacem in Terris II, 1967 Box 6 Pacem in Terris [PIT] I - Saturday Review issue, Feb. 13, 1965 Box 6 Pacem in Terris [PIT] II - Program and "Meet the Press," 1967 Box 6 PIT (Pacem in Terris) IV - clippings, 1975 "Public Relations of Peace" Box 6 Center Magazine Correspondence, 1967 Box 6 Letters to the Editor, 1967 Box 6 Race Relations Information Center, 1971 Box 6 Vietnam - Missing Correspondents, Aug. 1970 Box 6 World Spotlight Series - "Public Dialogue on Foreign Affairs," Chicago, Apr. 7-8, 1970 Box 6 Center for the Study of the Environment (Santa Barbara, CA), 1992-1993 Box 6 Century Association, 1961-1993 Box 6 Citizens Crusade against Poverty, 1967-1968 Box 6 General, 1987-1993 Box 6 "Civil Rights and Wrongs Lecture," 1996 Box 6 Clemson Alumni Association - Distinguished Alumni Award, 1967 Box 6 Lane, John D., ca. 1968-1990 Box 6 Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, San Francisco, 1975 Box 6 Committee for New China Policy, Montreal, Mar. 5-7, 1970 Box 6 Common Cause (John W. Gardner), 1970-1975 Box 6 Conference on World Tensions, 1960

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 7 Ashmore Collection Organizations / Issues / Events

Box 6 Corning Conference, May 18-20, 1961 Box 6 Dixiecrats - incl. correspondence, clippings, and address by Strom Thurmond, 1948-1949 Box 6 Duke University Seminars, 1973-1974 Box 6 Early Education Project, ca. 1980, 1994 Box 6 Encyclopaedia Britannica - Ashmore appointed editor-in-chief, 1960 Box 6 Florida Segregation Brief, 1954 Box 6 Fund for the Advancement of Education, n.d. Box 6 Gerontology Center, 1979 Box 6 Greater Los Angeles Press Club Awards Dinner - Remarks, 1975 Box 6 Hearing, Educational Aid and Research Foundation, Inc - Minutes of the Board of Directors Meetings, Nov. 2, 1976-Feb. 27, 1979 Box 6 Johnson [LBJ] Campaign, 1964 Box 6 League of Women Voters Education Fund, 1973-1974 Box 7 Little Rock (Arkansas), 1958-1991 Box 7 "Little Rock: 1954-1964. A Selective History" - Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr., typescript, n.d. Box 7 McCarthy [Eugene] Campaign, 1968 Box 7 McGovern [George] Campaign, 1972 Box 7 Miles College Box 7 Moscow Trip by HSA, May 2-16, 1971 Box 7 National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials (NAIRO), 1962 Box 7 National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1966-1988 Box 7 National Council for Civic Responsibility, 1964 Box 7 National Council of Churches (Commission on Religion and Race), 1963-1965 Box 7 Naval War College, 1973 Box 7 Nieman Foundation, 1960-1995 Box 7 Politics - General, 1968-1973 Box 7 San Jose Mercury News, 1978 Box 7 Sidney Hillman Foundation, Inc., ca. 1967-1980 Box 7 South Carolina Academy, 1995 Box 7 Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA) - Public Broadcasting, 1983-1985 Box 7 Southern Methodist University - Dallas - Lecture: "The Great Re-Awakening," 1972 Southern Regional Council Box 7 General, 1984-1996 Box 7 Smith Award, 1982-1985 Box 7 Southern Symposium - The Southern Soul, 1972 Stevenson, Adlai Box 7 General, 1952-1955 Box 7 Presidential Campaign, 1956 Box 7 Town Meeting (ABC) - "What Should We Do about Race Segregation?" 1948 University of Arkansas Box 7 History Society Speech, 1981 Box 7 Honorary Degree, 1972 Box 7 Integration Symposium, 1987 Box 7 University of Denver, 1967 Box 7 University of Georgia - School of Journalism, 1977-1978 Box 7 University of Iowa - Address: "Journalism: The State of the Art," 1970 Box 7 University of Michigan (HSA visiting professor), 1975-1976 Box 7 University of Wisconsin - Public Relations, 1971 Box 7 Urban League - Omaha - Report, n.d. Box 7 Utsunomiya, Tokuma - Korea (re Kim Dae Jung), 1974 Box 7 Whitewater, 1996 Box 7 World Veterans Federation Seminar - University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1959 Box 7 World Tensions Conference, 1960 Writings

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 8 Ashmore Collection Writings Monographs

Monographs Scope and Content Note Includes drafts, correspondence, publicity, research files, and reviews

Box 8 Arkansas: A Bicentennial History [New York: Norton, 1978] Box 8 Arkansas: A History [New York: Norton; Nashville, The Association, 1984] Box 8 Black Man's Burden [published under this title?] Box 8 Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1994 [New York: Pantheon, 1994] Box 9 Epitaph for Dixie [New York: Norton, 1958] Box 9 Fear in the Air: Broadcasting and the First Amendment [New York: Norton, 1973] Hearts and Minds [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982] Box 9-10 Drafts Box 10 Carter, Gladys Box 10 Ford Foundation Grant, ca. 1980-1983 Box 10 Reviews, ca. 1982 Box 10 Rollins, Bryant Box 10 Shapiro, Lori Box 10 Revised edition - Seven Locks Press Mission to Hanoi, with William C. Baggs [ New York: Putnam, 1968] Box 10 Pit-Hanoi newspaper clippings, ca. 1966-1967 Box 10 Hanoi editorials, ca. 1967 Box 10 Logs Box 10 Reviews, Publicity and Public Relations, ca. 1968 Box 10 The Negro and the Schools [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954] Box 10 The Other Side of Jordan [New York: Norton, 1960] Unseasonable Truths - Hutchins biography [Boston: Little, Brown, 1989] Box 10 Reviews Box 11-12 Drafts Box 13 Research Files

Shorter Works: Articles, Editorials, Reviews

Center Magazine (includes some accompanying correspondence) Box 14 Indices (with references to HSA articles) Box 14 "BLACK POWER & White Inertia," Jan. 1968 Box 14 "Containment, Confrontation & Détente," Nov-Dec. 1972 Box 14 "Electoral Reform," Jan. 1969, Mar. 1969 Box 14 "Ghetto Education: A Special Supplement," with Robert F. Kennedy, Kenneth B. Clark, Oscar Lewis, Neil V. Sullivan, and Robert M. Hutchins), Nov. 1968 Box 14 "Government by Public Relations," Sept-Oct. 1971 Box 14 "Jesse Jackson's Revolutionary Message," Jan-Feb. 1978 Box 14 "The Liberal: Friend or Foe," Nov. 1969 Box 14 "Limits of Dissent," Nov. 1968 Box 14 "Marx as a Moderate," Sept-Oct. 1972 Box 14 "Of Theory and Practice," Sept. 1970 Box 14 "The Only One There Is," Nov-Dec. 1984 Box 14 "Pentagon Papers as a Case History: Government by Public Relations" Box 14 "The Pentagon Papers Revisited," Nov-Dec. 1971 Box 14 "The Perils of Loving," Jan. 1968 Box 14 "The Planners Dilemma," March 1969 Box 14 "The Plight of the Parties," with John L. Perry, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Harvey Wheeler, Mar. 1968 Box 14 "The Policy of Illusion, the Illusion of Policy," May 1970 Box 14 "The Politics of Prevarication," Mar-Apr. 1974 Box 14 "The Public Relations of Peace," Oct-Nov. 1967 Box 14 "Return of a Native," May 1968

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 9 Ashmore Collection Writings Shorter Works: Articles, Editorials, Reviews

Box 14 "Small Talk with 'A Very Reactionary Old Gentleman'," May-June 1966 Box 14 "Uncertain Oracles," Nov-Dec. 1970 Box 14 "Vanishing Liberals?" Sept. 1969 Box 14 "Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" July 1969 Box 14 "Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" Cary James Exchange, Nov-Dec. 1969 LA Times Box 14 Correspondence, ca. 1973-1976 Box 14 Reviews by Ashmore Box 14 Seidenbaum, Art Box 14 Topical Comment (J. Bassett), 1967 Box 14 "What Kind of World?" correspondence and columns, 1969-1976 Miscellaneous papers, articles, book reviews, letters to editors, speeches, and related correspondence (includes material transferred from University of South Carolina, 2003) Box 15 African American Review - book review, ca. 1994 Box 15 Amherst College - address, Mar. 10, 1949 Box 15 Arkansas, by John Gould Fletcher - Introduction by Ashmore Arkansas Gazette Box 15 Editorials by Ashmore, ca. 1948 Box 15 Review by Ashmore Box 15 Starr, John R. Box 15 Arkansas Library Association - address, Sept. 19, 1978 Box 15 "Arkansas: They Didn't Want a Man of Reason" - re Brooks Hays, The Reporter, Nov. 27, 1958 Box 15 "Belly Dancing," unpublished, ca. 1973 Box 15 "Below the Bottom Line," Virginia Quarterly Review, 1986 Box 15 B'nai B'rith Dinner honoring Stanley Kramer - "Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" Feb. 7, 1971 Box 15 Book Reviews - by Ashmore (publication unknown) Box 15 Boston Globe - reviews by Ashmore Box 15 "The Brown Decision," Constitution, ca. 1988 Box 15 Brown v. Board of Education - 30th anniversary articles, 1984 Box 15 Brown v. Board of Education articles, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, ca. 1994 Box 15 Butler Commentary - on Hearts and Minds, 1985 Box 15 California Magazine, n.d. Box 15 Capps [Walter H.] on [Jerry] Falwell - HSA response, 1982 Box 15 "A Case for Professionalism," Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Nov/Dec. 1970 Box 15 Chancellor [John] Panel, 1997 Box 15 Charlotte News - articles and editorials by Ashmore, ca. 1946-1947 Box 15 Chicago Sun-Times - reviews by Ashmore Box 15 Chicago Tribune - reviews by Ashmore Box 15 "The Civil Rights Act after Twenty Years - Part One: Where We've Been and Where We Are," Southern Changes, Mar-Apr. 1982 Box 15 "The Civil Rights of White Males," 1985 Box 15 "The Coming Showdown in the Race Crisis," Look, July 16, 1963 Box 15 "Criminal Justice and the Press" - panel discussion with Ashmore, part of the Criminal Justice in America series for PBS, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1974 Box 15 Cultural Information Service - articles on JFK, also Civil Rights and the South, ca. 1983 Box 15 "A Delayed Tribute to Archie House," n.d. Box 15 "Doubling the Standard," Virginia Quarterly Review Box 15 "Drugs, Crime and the Political Process," ca. 1990 Box 15 "The Durable Issue," American Scholar, Autumn 1961 Box 15 Early Fiction, n.d. Box 15 "Education in a Time of Testing," Washington University Magazine, Feb. 1959 Box 15 "An Epitaph for the Old Lady" - re demise of Arkansas Gazette, 1991

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 10 Ashmore Collection Writings Shorter Works: Articles, Editorials, Reviews

Box 15 "Face the Nation," CBS News, Sept. 29, 1957 Box 15 Faubus article, Washington Times, Dec. 21, 1994 Box 15 "The Ghost of John C. Calhoun Walks Again," n.d. Box 15 "The Great Reawakening," Virginia Quarterly Review, ca. 1974-1975 Box 15 Greenville News - articles by Ashmore, ca. 1937-1940 Box 15 "Ham Moses," n.d. Box 15 Harvard Magazine - review by Ashmore, 1982 Box 15 "Has Our Free Press Failed Us?" Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 29, 1960 Box 15 Huckaby, Elizabeth - Crisis at Central High, foreword by Ashmore, ca. 1980-1981 Box 15 Indianapolis Public Schools - "The Brown Decision in Retrospect, 1954-1976," Sept. 2, 1976 Box 15 "Is There a Southern Point of View," Southern Fireside, [ca. late 1940s-early 1950s] Box 15 "It Happened in My Town," ADL Bulletin, Nov. 1957 Box 15 "The Legacy of Orville Faubus," 1997 Box 15 "The Legacy of White Supremacy," ca. early 1980s Box 15 "The Lessons of Little Rock," Media Studies Journal, Spring 1997 Box 15 Letter to Editor, in American Scholar, re Edward Shills' essay on Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1990 Box 15 "Little Rock Story," Nieman Reports, 1958 Box 15 Martin Luther King - Santa Barbara News Press, Jan. 20, 1985 Box 15 McNamara, Robert S. - review by Ashmore, of McNamara's In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, in various newspapers, 1995 Box 15 Mississippi State - talk re Hodding Carter, Feb. 3, 1979 Box 15 "The Mournful Numbers," keynote address, Conference on "The Meaning of Commercial Television," Stanford-University of Texas Seminar, Asilomar, California, Apr. 24, 1966 Box 16 The Nation - articles on Gestalt theory of education, 1949; Brown v. Board of Education, 1954; and on Jimmy Carter, 1976 Box 16 The Nation - review by Ashmore Box 16 National Neighbors Conference, Bellwood, IL - keynote address, June 17, 1983 Box 16 "New Problems for an Old Agenda," address at Grinnell College, May 31, 1962 Box 16 New York Herald Tribune - reviews by Ashmore, 1958, 1964 Box 16 New York Times Book Review - review by Ashmore, 1994 Box 16 Nieman Reports - reviews by Ashmore, 1985-1986 Box 16 "Of Liberals and Libertarians," Harry Girvetz Memorial Lecture, UCSB, May 23, 1985 Box 16 Paulson, Dennis, 1983 Box 16 "The Pentagon Papers: A Case History of Government by Public Relations," 1971 Box 16 Perspectives - agreement to write article on Black / Jewish relations, 1983 Box 16 "The Price of Public Office," n.d. Box 16 "A Program for Race Relations," New South, Dec. 1951 Box 16 "Publishers' Textbook," Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Jan. 1, 1948 Box 16 Reader's Digest article - first rejection notice, 1958 Box 16 "Rights and Responsibilities," Southern Fireside, Nov. 1949 Box 16 "Robert Hutchins's Platonic Grove," The Nation, Jan. 30, 1988 Box 16 St. Louis Post-Dispatch - article by Ashmore, on Pulitzer Prize for Raymond A. Mc Connell, Jr., 1949 Box 16 Saturday Evening Review - articles on desegregation, 1959, 1964 Box 16 "Searchlight on America," n.d. Box 16 Shaef Junket - reports from Europe and North Africa, by Ashmore, 1952 Box 16 Simpson Case - articles in the Santa Barbara Independent re O. J. Simpson, 1994-1995 Box 16 Southern Changes - book review, May 1991 Box 16 Southern Political Science Association - address by Ashmore, Oct. 22, 1948

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 11 Ashmore Collection Writings Shorter Works: Articles, Editorials, Reviews

Box 16 "The South's Year of Decision," Southern Packet, Nov. 1948 Box 16 "Special Favorite of the Laws," n.d. Box 16 "Speculation: A Conversation with Harry S. Ashmore," interviewed by Keith Berwick for Center Report, Dec. 10, 1970 Box 16 State of the Future Conference, Los Angeles, Oct. 1, 1966 Box 16 "Statement by the Chief of Police of Gotham City," Civil Liberties Review, Jan. 3, 1975 Box 16 Stevenson, Adlai - obit, 1965 Box 16 "The Strange Case of Kim Dae-Jung,"first appeared as CSDI Dialogue, May 21, 1974; Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1974 Box 16 Terry [Adolphine] Cinner, 1966 Box 16 The Thinking Man's Shelter," re CSDI, Esquire Box 16 "Vietnam: Matters for the Agenda," Center Occasional Paper, June 1968 Box 16 Washington Star-News - articles on Watergate and Jimmy Carter, ca. 1974-1975 Box 16 "What I Saw Up North," Pageant, Oct. 1938 Box 16 "What Really Happened in Little Rock," New Leader, n.d. Box 16 "What Should We Do about Race Relations?" Town Meeting, Nov. 9, 1948 Box 16 "The White House as Masthead," Nieman Reports, Spring 1986 Box 16 Miscellany - includes early material by/about Ashmore, ca. 1920s-1950s Photographs

Box 17 ASTC Scroll (Arkansas State Teachers College yearbook, with Ashmore photo as Board member), 1952 Box 17 Ashmore (publicity stills, b/w, various sizes) Box 17 Ashmore - portrait proofs Box 17 Ashmore - Life Magazine (b/w), ca. 1958 Box 17 The Bonhomie ( yearbook), 1941 Box 17 CSDI (b/w, various sizes, publicity) Box 17 Hutchins (photos for Unseasonable Truths) Audiotapes

7" open-reel tapes (see also: CSDI Collection tapes) Tape No. Adams, Alex - interview with Ashmore (NPR), 1978 A10057/R7 Tape No. Ashmore, Aug. 8, 1961 A10058/R7 Tape No. Baggs, Bill - in Memoriam, ca. 1969 A10059/R7 Tape No. "DeGaulle, Skybolt, and Europe," 1963 A10060/R7 Tape No. Downs, Hugh - interviewing Ashmore on news reporting, Feb. 29, 1972 A10061-10062/R7 Tape No. Equal Time - editorial by Ashmore, Jan. 9, 1968 A10063/R7 Tape No. "Freedom's Fall" - commencement address at Grinnell, June 1, 1962 A10064/R7 Tape No. "Have Our Mass Media Failed Us?" May 10, 1961 A10065/R7 Tape No. "Humor and Social Criticism," V. S. Navasky and Ashmore, Feb. 19, 1963 A10066/R7 Tape No. LBJ - Joseph Frantz (UT Austin, Oral History Project) interviewing Ashmore on A10067-10068/R7 Ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jan. 31, 1970 Tape No. Vietnam Trip - Ashmore report to Founding CSDI Members, Jan. 19, 1967 A10069/R7 Tape No. "What Kind of World?" - with Justice [William O.] Douglas, Judge Carswell, and A10070/R7 Ashmore, Feb. 9, 1970 5" open-reel tapes

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 12 Ashmore Collection Audiotapes

Tape No. "Constitution," NBC TV News and Today Program interview, 1970 A10071/R7 Tape No. Press Interview on Trip to North Vietnam, 1967 A10072/R7 Tape No. "Report to Founding Members," Dinner Address, 1967 A10073/R7 Tape No. "Report to Center Staff on Trip to North Vietnam," [1967] A10074/R7 Tape No. Sargent, Tony - interview with Ashmore on CBS radio "American Week," Sept. 14, A10075/R7 1970

Preliminary Guide to the Harry S. Mss 155 13 Ashmore Collection