Irving Jay Fain papers (MSS-0003)

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Series 1. Civil rights and urban development papers, 1957-1974
0.40 cubic feet

This series contains records relating to the Fair Housing Law and Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law in Rhode Island, Citizens United, Inc., and urban development. Items in this series include budgetary information, minutes and agenda of various organizations, reports, news clippings, and tape recordings.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law in Rhode Island: Correspondence	1962-1965
Box 1, Folder 2	Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law in Rhode Island: Membership List	1959-1962
Box 1, Folder 3	Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law in Rhode Island: Printed Material	1957-1965
Box 1, Folder 4	Citizens United, Inc.: Correspondence	1967-1968
Box 1, Folder 5	Citizens United Renewal Enterprises, Inc.: Minutes	1969-1970
Box 1, Folder 6	Citizens United Renewal Enterprises, Inc.: Reports and Budgets	1968-1970
Box 1, Folder 7	Fact Finding Committee	1969
Box 1, Folder 8	Federation of Southern Cooperatives	1968
Box 1, Folder 9	National Welfare Rights Organization	1967-1970
Box 1, Folder 10	Planned Communities, Inc.	1968-1969
Box 1, Folder 11	Progress for Providence	1966-1968
Box 1, Folder 12	Providence Human Relations Commission	1963-1964
Box 1, Folder 13	Providence Redevelopment Agency	1964
Box 1, Folder 14	Report of the Rhode Island Advisory Committee	circa 1960-1969
Box 1, Folder 15	Rhode Island Commission Against Discrimination	1960-1965
Box 1, Folder 16	Urban Coalition: Clippings	1968-1969
Box 1, Folder 17	Urban Coalition: Correspondence	1967-1970
Box 1, Folder 18	Urban Coalition: Conference on Rhode Island Urban Coalition	1969
Box 1, Folder 19	Urban Coalition: Membership Lists	1969
Box 1, Folder 20	Urban Coalition: Minutes	1967-1970
Box 1, Folder 21	Urban Coalition: Printed Materials	1969-1970
Box 1, Folder 22	Urban Coalition: Urban Coalition of Rhode Island	1970
Box 1, Folder 23	Urban League	1963-1974

Series 1. Subseries 1a. Civil rights and urban development papers. Subseries 1a: Tape recordings, 1959-1960
0.20 cubic feet

This series contains tape recordings regarding discussions of the Rhode Island Fair Housing Bill during 1959-1960. They consist of three WJAR World Affairs Programs; a WEAN radio broadcast of extracts from the first Rhode Island House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Hearing on the bill; a debate concerning fair housing that was televised by WPRO-TV; a WEAN radio interview with Mrs. Rossella Switzer, Regional Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, during which discrimination and fair housing is discussed; and a partial recording of a WPRO-TV program on the Fair Housing Bill.

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Reel 1	WJAR radio: World Affairs Program Contents Note: Side 1: Panel discussion of civil rights for Black people in Providence and the proposed Fair Housing Law. Participants are: Marjorie Vinal, commentator; Irving Jay Fain, chairman of Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law; Shirley Lee, chairman of Rhode Island Committee on Discrimination in Housing; and Andrew J. Bell, past-president of the Rhode Island Urban League. Side 2: Blank.	1959 January 4
Box 3, Reel 2	WJAR radio: World Affairs Program. Contents Note: Side 1: Panel discussion of housing discrimination and the proposed Fair Housing Law in Rhode Island. Participants are: Marjorie Vinal, commentator; Irving Jay Fain, chairman of Citizens United for a Fair Housing law, Edward N. Gronneberg, president of the Providence Board of Realtors; and Edward A. White, president of the Roger Williams Savings and Loan Association. Side 2: Blank.	1959 January 11
Box 3, Reel 3	WJAR radio: World Affairs Program Contents Note: Side 1: Panel discussion of the proposed Fair Housing Law. Participants are: Marjorie Vinal, commentator; Irving Jay Fain, chairman of Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law; John H. Chafee, Republican Leader in the Rhode Island House of Representatives (R-Warwick); and John F. Doris, Deputy-Democratic Leader in the Rhode Island House of Representatives (D-Woonsocket). Side 2: Blank.	1959 February 8
Box 3, Reel 4	WEAN radio broadcast of extracts from the first Rhode Island House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Hearings on the Fair Housing Bill Contents Note: Side 1: The radio commentator is Harry McKenna; the speakers are: James Williams, executive director of the Urban League of Rhode Island; William H. Edwards, member of Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law; Rabbi Abraham Chill, president of the Rabbinical Association of Rhode Island; and the Reverend Edward Flannery, Editor of The Providence Visitor. Side 2: Blank.	1959 January 30
Box 3, Reel 5	WPRO-TV broadcast of a debate on the Fair Housing Bill by members of the Rhode Island Bar Association Contents Note: Side 1: The moderator is Milton Stanzler; speaking in favor of the bill are Melvin L. Zarier and Edward F. Burke; and speaking against the bill are Edward Gnyes, Jr. and John Mutter. Side 2: Blank.	1959 March 17
Box 3, Reel 6	WEAN radio Record Radio Press Conference Contents Note: Side 1: Harry McKenna of WEAN radio interviews Mrs. Rossella Switzer, Regional Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Discrimination in Rhode Island, the Fair Housing Bill, and Brotherhood Week are discussed. Side 2: Blank.	1959 May
Box 3, Reel 7	WPRO-TV Close-up Contents Note: Recording begins after the program has already started. The news program focuses on the proposed Fair Housing law. Mort Blender of WPRO-TV interviews: Milton Stanzler, executive director of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; Dennis Lynch, chairman of the Committee on Housing Legislation of the Rhode Island Real Estate Boards; William H. Edwards, member of Citizens Side 1: United for a Fair Housing law; and Annetta Miller, member of the Greater Providence Women's Conference on Intergroup Relations. Side 2: Blank.	1960 April 20

Series 2. Nutrition papers, 1962-1970
0.20 cubic feet

This series pertains to studies Fain undertook relating to nutrition in 1970. Subjects pertain to food fortification, fish protein, and the school lunch program.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 24	Correspondence: Subjects include price lists, vitamin information, providing breakfast to school children, daily nutrient requirements	1966, 1968, 1970
Box 1, Folder 25	Fish Protein Concentrate: Informational materials, governmental newsletters, journal articles	1966-1970
Box 1, Folder 26	Fortification	1970
Box 1, Folder 27	Office of Economic Opportunity: Emergency Food and Medical Services	1969-1970
Box 1, Folder 28	Press Releases on hunger and malnutrition	1968
Box 1, Folder 29	Prices of vitamins and Calcium Phosphate Dibasic USP	undated, 1970
Box 1, Folder 30	Printed Material	1962-1970
Box 1, Folder 31	Recommended Dietary Allowances	1969-1970
Box 1, Folder 32	School Lunch and Breakfast: Includes monthly food calendar	1970

Series 3. Other papers, 1940-1970
0.40 cubic feet

This series contains reports, research materials, and items related to nutrition, urban development, and fair housing.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 33	Correspondence: Subjects include housing, Advisory Commission on Educational Television, urban development, interest in purchasing West African sculptures, and household purchases	1961-1970
Box 1, Folder 34	Des Moines Commission on Human Rights Report of Housing Subcommittee; Ordinance to amend the Municipal Code of Des Moines 1962 regarding housing discriminatory practices	1961, 1964
Box 1, Folder 35	“The Enlightened Civil Rights Organization and the Liberal Synagogue: A Case of Conflict” by Rabbi Robert J. Marx	undated
Box 1, Folder 36	North Minneapolis Telephone Census	undated
Box 1, Folder 37	Presentation by Floyd B. McKissick, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality, to the United States Senate Committee on Urban Affairs	1966 December 8
Box 1, Folder 38	Providence Census Statistics	1940-1965
Box 1, Folder 39	“Racial Integration in Housing” by Morris Milgram and Roger N. Beilenson	1968
Box 1, Folder 40	“Report on a Southern Trip. Made by 15 Hunter College Students and I to Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, April 5-11, 1961” by Judith Speyer	1961
Box 1, Folder 41	“A Report on the Southside Pilot Study and Recommendations for a Southside Community Council” prepared by Cleo E. Lachapelle, prevention coordinator of the Rhode Island Juvenile Court and field Worker for the Providence Recreation Department	1961
Box 1, Folder 42	“Sermon Delivered by Robert F. Drinan”	1967
Box 1, Folder 43	“The Sixties Belong to the City: A New Approach to Urban Renewal Conceived by the Residents of Brooklyn Heights”	undated
Box 1, Folder 44	Dean Stenning speech on civil rights; “Fair Housing Debate Begins” 1962 article	undated, 1962
Box 1, Folder 45	“Summary of Highlights of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968”	1968
Box 1, Folder 46	Tougaloo College Commencement Address by E. Frederick Morrow; Tougaloo News Vol 75 No. 5	1965
Box 1, Folder 47	“Toward Open Housing for All” by Morris Milgram and Roger N. Beilenson	1968
Box 1, Folder 48	Urban Development Corporation	undated
Box 1, Folder 49	“A Proposal to Establish an Urban Educational Center in Providence, Rhode Island” draft	1968 May
Box 1, Folder 50	New England Real Estate Journal editorial: excerpts from Rev. Walter H. Hards sermon on fair housing	1964
Box 1, Folder 51	House of Representatives rolls calls and votes for Fair Housing Legislation	1963-1964
Box 1, Folder 52	Rhode Island Committee on Discrimination in Housing	1961
Box 1, Folder 53	Rhode Island Fair Housing Bill draft and Joseph Robison’s comments	1961
Box 1, Folder 54	“Three Tragic Fallacies that Encourage Rioting” by Frederick Barnays Wiener, delivered before the Rhode Island Bar Association	circa 1967
Box 1, Folder 55	Report to the Rhode Island Governor’s Commission on Civil Rights	1963
Box 1, Folder 56	Citizens United Bill, H107, Equal Housing in Rhode Island	1964
Box 1, Folder 57	Statement of Robert C. Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Before the Subcommittee on Housing of the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives on HR 15624 “Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968” and HR 15625 “National Insurance Development Corporation Act of 1968”	1968 March

Series 4. Clipping files, undated, 1954-1970
0.25 cubic feet

This series contains newspaper clippings and journal articles relating to the civil rights movement, housing, and nutrition.

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 1	Clippings	1954
Box 2, Folder 2	Clippings	1956, 1960-1962
Box 2, Folder 3	Clippings	1961-1962
Box 2, Folder 4	Clippings	1964-1965
Box 2, Folder 5	Clippings	1964-1965, 1967
Box 2, Folder 6	Clippings	1968
Box 2, Folder 7	Clippings	1968-1970
Box 2, Folder 8	Clippings	1969-1970
Box 2, Folder 9	Clippings	undated
Box 2, Folder 10	Clippings	undated

Series 5. Political cartoons, undated, 1968-1969
0.40 cubic feet

This series contains political cartoons that were given to Fain by John Fawcett.

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Item 1	“Count Down”: Anti-poverty (Original)	undated
Box 4, Item 2	“The Cross of Maddox”: Race Tragedies in Georgia (Original)	undated
Box 4, Item 3	“Don’t Run, Boy—Shuffle”: Nixon Administration Court Case to Delay Integration in South (Original)	1968
Box 4, Item 4	“How Can they Accuse Us?—Why, I Never Even Give the Negro a Thought”: White Racism Blamed for Riots (Original)	1969
Box 4, Item 5	“Off the Hook”: Commitment to the South on School Integration Slow Down (Original)	undated
Box 4, Item 6	“Thompson’s Dream House”: Rhode Island Fair Housing (Copy)	undated

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