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Coleman Young Papers COLEMAN A. YOUNG PAPERS, PART I State Senatorial Papers, 1964-1973 8 linear feet 1 oversize manuscript box Accession Number 449 The papers of Coleman A. Young were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in 1971 and 1974 by Mr. Young. Coleman Alexander Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 24, 1918. He moved to Detroit at the age of five when his father, a tailor, sought to escape an economic recession in the south. Coleman Young attended public and parochial elementary schools in the city and graduated with honors from Detroit's Eastern High School. He attended technical school briefly and then went to work on the line at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Plant. He joined in the early organizing battles of the United Auto Workers (UAW), took a leadership role in the Wayne County C.I.O., and combined civil rights and labor activities as executive secretary of the National Negro Labor Council. Commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II, Coleman Young served briefly in a Ft. Knox stockade after he and scores of other Tuskegee Airmen in the Air Corps shut down an officers' club that refused to serve black officers. He worked as an insurance executive, a spot cleaner in a laundry, as manager of a chain of dry cleaners, a taxi driver, and a butcher's assistant before plunging into politics full time in 1961 with a successful campaign for delegate to Michigan's Constitutional Convention. In 1964 he captured a State Senate seat from an east side Detroit district, and rose quickly to leadership posts in the Lansing legislature. Michigan Democrats elected him in 1968 to become the first black member ever to serve on the Demo- cratic National Committee. In 1973, pledging to restore peace between the people and police of Detroit, Coleman Young announced as a candidate for Mayor. He defeated the City's former police chief, John Nichols, in a bitter election contest. The papers in this collection reflect the years of Young's state senatorial service -2- Important subjects are: Automobile Insurance Legislation Civil Rights Election Aid to Disadvantaged (see School Campaign, 1966 Police- Aid Formula) Fiscal Community Relations Mayor's Reform Open Housing Committee for Human Legislation Urban Renewal Resources Development Legislation New Detroit, Inc. Among the correspondents are: Brickley, James H. Mazey, Emil Cavanagh, Jerome P, Mazey, Ernest Diggs, Charles C. Ravitz, Mel Girardin, Ray Richardson, Robert Hood, Nicholas Romney, George Humphrey, Hubert Contents 16 manuscript boxes 1 oversize box Boxes 1-17 Correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases, mailing lists, and news- paper clippings. The records are arranged alphabetically. 1964-1973. Non-manuscript material One photograph of the Black Delegates to the 1961-62 Michigan Constitutional Convention was placed in the Archives photograph collection. Three pamphlets have been placed in the Archives Library vertical file. PART 2 STARTS ON PAGE 8. Coleman A. Young Papers, Part 1 -3- Box 1 1. Abortions, 1970, 1973 2. Adult Education, 1965-1968 3. American Civil Liberties Union, 1966 4. Attorney General (Frank J. Kelley) Opinions, 1996-1972 5-10. Automobile Insurance, 1965-1970 11. Bigots 12. Birthday Party, 1968 13. Black Caucus, 1968-1970, 1973 14. Black Panthers and B.S.A. (Northern Michigan University), 1996-1970 15. Blue Cross, Blue Shield, 1972-1973 16. Budget, 1968 17. Bunche Community Council, 1968 18-21. Campaign File for C.A.Y., 1970 Box 2 1. Campaign File for C.A.Y. (Funds and Letters), 1973 2-3. Campaign File for C.A.Y., 1973 4. Canfield Community Center, 1967 5. Cavanagh, Jerome P., 1966 6. Census, 1960-1967 7. Civil Rights, 1973 (Article) 8. Civil Service (Special Committee to Investigate Dept. of Civil Service), 1973 9. Clippings, 1972-1973 10. Commerce Department 11. C.A.R. (Committee Against Repression), 1970 12. Committee for Student Rights, 1965 13. Con-Con Delegates, 1968,1973 14. Congratulations (Mayoral Election Victory), 1973 15-22. Correspondence, 1965-1967 Box 3 1-16. Correspondence, 1968-1973 17. Correspondence and Notes, Undated 18. Edward Darnell, 1970 19. DART, 1969 20. Day Care Legislation, 1965-1967 Box 4 1. Democratic Caucus, 1969-1970 2-3. Democratic National Committee, 1972-1973 4-6. Democratic National Committeeman Material, 1969-1970 7-11. Democratic Party, 1964-1968 12. Democratic Party Spring State Convention, 1973 13. Democratic Staff, 1973 14. Democratic State Central, Committee, 1969-1973 15. Democratic State Central, 1973 16-18. Detroit, 1968-1973 Coleman A. Young Papers, Part 1 -4- Box 5 1. Detroit Charter Revision, 1973 2. Detroit Equity Fund, Inc., 1971-1972 3. Detroit News, Clippings, 1969 4. Detroit Public Library, 1973 5-8. Detroit Public Schools, 1966-1973 9. Donations, 1967 10-12. Drug Education, 1970-1972 13. Eastern Community Council, 1965-1967 14. Eastern High School Friends Committee, 1965-1966 15-17. Education, 1967 Box 6 1. Education, 1970 2-3. Education (Department of), 1972-1973 4. Education Task Force,1973 5. Education Package, 1969 6-10. Elections, 1964-1966 11. Elmwood II, 1967 12. Employment Discrimination, 1965 13-15. Equal Education Opportunity, 1965-1967 16. Ferndale Co-op Credit Union, 1973 Box 7 1-7. Fiscal Reform, 1965-1967 8. Franklin Settlement, 1965-1968 9. Fraternal Organizations-Elks 10. Friends of Coleman Young Committee, 1970 11. Governor's Committee on a Commission on Investigations, 1969 12. Governor's Special Committee on Crime, 1967 13-14. Governor's Conference on Higher Education, 1973 15. Grievances, 1965-1966 16. Health, Welfare, and Recreation, 1967 17. Higher Education, 1970 18. Highway Commission, 1973 19. Hospital Utilization Committee, 1968 20. Industrial-Commercial and Merchants Private Police Act 21. Inkster Public Schools, 1968 22. Intermediate Schools, 1967 Box 8 1-14. Invitations, 1967-Nov 1973 Box 9 1. Jackson Prison, 1967 2. Judiciary, 1967 3. Dr. William F. Johntz (Project Seed), 1969-1970 4. Kennedy, Robert, Campaign Coleman A. Young Papers, Part 1 -5- 5. Kirwood General Hospital. 1970 6. Legislative Conference (5th Annual State), Report, 1969 7. Legislative Service Bureau, 1969 8. Libraries, 1967 9-10. Liquor Control Commission, 1969, 1973 11. John McGee, 1970 12. Mailing Lists 13. Marriage Counseling 14-19. Mayor's Committee for Human Resources Development, 1967-1968 Box 10 1. Meat Inspection Program, 1968 2. Medicaid, 1966-1967 3. Medicare, 1965 4. Mental Health, 1968 5. Metropolitan Fund, Inc., 1972-1973 6-7. Michigan AFL-CIO, 1967 8. Michigan Catholic Conference, 1968 9-16. Michigan Civil Rights Commission, 1965-1968 Box 11 1-2. Michigan Civil Rights Commission, 1969-1973 3. Michigan Civil Service Commission, 1965-1966 4. Michigan Constitution 5. Michigan Housing Associates, 1971 6. Michigan Housing Authority, 1967 7-9. Michigan Legislature Apportionment, 1964-1965 10. Michigan State Council for the Arts, 1967 11. Michigan State University, 1972-1973 12. Migrant Labor, 1965-1966 14-15. Miscellaneous Material, 1965-1966 16. Mott Foundation 17. NAACP, 1970 18. National Black Convention, 1972 19-20. National Committee for Support of Public Schools, 1968 21. (Department of) Natural Resources: Water Resources Commission, 1973 22. New Bill Information, 1972 23. New Detroit Committee, 1969-1970 Box 12 1-2. New Detroit, 1973 3-5. New Detroit Agenda,1973 6. New Detroit-Public Safety Committee, 1973 7. Northern High School Architectural Committee, 1968 8. Nutrition Week Executive Declaration, 1973 9. Observation Balloon, 1968 10. Office of Economic Opportunity, 1973 11-14. Open Housing Bill, 1967-1968 Coleman A. Young Papers, Part 1 -6- Box 13 1. Overland Systems, 1973 2. Parent Teachers Association 3. Parochiaid, 1969-1970 4-5. Personnel (Current), 1972-1973 6. Piquette Armory (W.O. //HO, 07-2750-013), 1973 7. Poindexter, Thomas, 1965 8-9. Police (Detroit), 1970,1973 10-13. Police Problems, 1967-1968 14-16. Police-Community Relations, 1963-1966 17-21. Press Releases, 1965-(1973) 22. Private Schools, 1968 Box 14 1-3. Public Act 244 (635), 1969-1970 4. Public Service Commission, 1973 5. (Dept. of Agriculture): Racing Commissioner, (1973) 6. Real Estate Fraud, 1967 7. Receiving Hospital, 1968 8. Riverside Co-op, 1967-1968 9-10. Romney, George, 1964-1967 11. St. Anthony Community Council, 1965-1966 12-14. Scholarship Program, 1966-1973 15-17. School Aid Formula, 1967-1968 18. School Aid, 1973 Box 15 1-3. School Financing Report, 1967 4. Selective Service-Wayne County Board, 1969 5. Senate Bill 211-Corres. (Public Employement Relations Act), 1973 6. Senate Bill 896 (Appropriation), 1971 7. Senate Business, 1971-1973 8. Senate Race, 1972 9. Senate Voting Statistics, 1965 10. Senatorial Legislative Task Force (4th District)-Memos, 1970-1973 11-12. Senior Citizen Housing, 1965-1967 13. Senior Citizen Tax Exemption, 1967 14. Bill Shambaugh, 1970 15. Social Services, 1968-1970 16. Social Welfare and Health Committee, 1967 17. Special Session File, 1967 18. Stadium Working Group, 1969 19. State Aid for the Disadvantaged, 1969 20. State Housing Authority, 1969 21. State Police, 1967-1969 22. Taxation, 1967 23. Telegrams, 1972-1973 24-27. Thank You Letters, 1968-1973 Coleman A. Young Papers, Part 1 -7- Box 16 1. T.U.L.C., 1970 2. Transportation Systems (Report), 1972 3. UAW, 1969-1970 4. Urban Alliance, 1968 5-7. Urban Law Program of University of Detroit, 1966-1968 8-11. Urban Renewal, 1965-1966 12. Victimless Crime Study, 1972 13. Wayne County, 1967-1968 14. Wayne County Community College 15. W.C.C.C.(Wayne County Community College), 1973 16. Wayne County Drain Office, 1973 17-18. Wayne State University, 1969-1973 19. Welfare, 1973 20. Welfare Study Commission, 1970 21. Wolverine Bar Association, 1967 22. Women's Caucus, 1973 23. Women's Reformatory Committee, 1967 24.
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