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Irving Jay Fain papers (MSS-0003)

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Inventory

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