State and Local Organizations and State and Local Central Bodies, 1955-1979

This series documents the relationship between the Civil Rights Department and state/ local organizations and state/local central bodies on civil rights issues. It is comprised primarily of correspondence sent mostly to directors Boris Shishkin, Donald Slaiman, and William Pollard. The series also contains reports of the activities of organizations and central bodies, materials pertaining to conferences and conventions of organizations and central bodies, correspondence from central bodies to affiliated local unions and outgoing Civil Rights Department correspondence.

This series contains printed, near print, and manuscript material (correspondence, agendas, reports, press releases, clippings, minutes, speeches, resolutions, publications, conference materials, legal briefs, and newsletters). There may be some overlap with records in other series, particularly the Departmental and Administrative Files series.