- Creator
- Stein, Robert, 1924-2014
- Call number
- Sc MG 138
- Physical description
- 1 linear foot
- Preferred Citation
- Robert and Anita Stein papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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In 1963 Robert Stein, a member of the American Ethical Union (of the Ethical Culture Society) was made Field Manager for the Chicago Ethical Society's Commission on Race and Equality. As part of Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Commission worked to eliminate bigotry in the South by having African Americans and whites interact in social settings. The commission therefore sponsored "Creative Inter-Racial Recreational Programs" such as Inter-Racial Vacations (summer camps in the North for Southern African American children), tutorial programs and remedial classes for adult African Americans and whites. Begun in the summer of 1963, the programs continued until 1977, when loss of money and camp sites put an end to these activities. The Robert and Anita Stein Papers document the efforts of the American Ethical Union to further interracial harmony in the South through social interaction: seminars, tutorial programs and summer camps for African American children. The papers consist mainly of evaluations submitted by staff members for the summer projects in Mississippi and Alabama. Also included are camp yearbooks, staff and camper responses to the program, and an interview with Robert Stein after his 1963 fact-finding trip to Birmingham, Alabama. Additionally,there is correspondence and budgetary records as well as camp brochures, year-end reports, news clippings and curricula for the tutorial program and adult seminars. Included are newspapers such as the Alabama Council Newsletter published by the Alabama Council on Human Relations, the Birmingham News, the Tuskeegee News and New America.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Robert and Anita Stein, 06/--/1987Key terms
Names
- Stein, Robert, 1924-2014
- Stein, Anita
- Chicago Ethical Society
- Chicago Ethical Society. Commission on Race and Equality
- Mississippi Freedom Project
Subjects
- African American children -- Alabama
- African American children -- Mississippi
- Camps -- United States -- Management
- Race relations -- United States
Titles
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor