{"value"=>"<p>Subseries document his membership in various professional and political organizations in the 1970s: the African Heritage Studies Association, the Boston Area Black Studies Consortium, the Institute of the Black World and the National Association of Black and Ethnic Studies Directors among others. He was an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha and helped organize testimonial dinners for Judge Myles Paige and A. Philip Randolph in 1955 and 1962. The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History folder contains letters from executive director J. Rupert picott, conference programs and notes, printed matter and an annotated biographical essay on African-American labor leader Willard Townsend by Patricia Romero, as well as materials documenting Guinier's efforts to develop ASALH branches in the New England region. The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship files include correspondence and minutes of the executive committee, Guinier's lecture notes and speeches, fact sheets and programs of activities, and several printed matter and clipping files on U. S. - Soviet relations. A diary of Guinier's first visit to the Soviet Union is also included with this body of papers.</p>"}