{"value"=>"<p>The Early career and activism efforts subseries contains materials for O'Dell's work with the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King, Jr., SCLC, the Medgar Evers Fund, and <span class=\"title\">Freedomways</span>. The Committee to Defend Martin Luther King, Jr. files consist of financial records (amounts of donations, tickets purchased, and receipts). The SCLC files include O'Dell's roles as the director of voter registration, the organizer of the Martin Luther King, Jr. film project, and director of the New York offices. The director of voter registration file contains a report, flyer, and a photocopied letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., about O'Dell's Communist affiliation, along with additional correspondence. O'Dell was the staff coordinator of a film festival in 70 cities for the showing of the documentary, <span class=\"title\">King, a Filmed Record: Montogomery to Memphis</span>. These files mainly consist of correspondence and memos, budget information, and contact lists. The Medgar Evers fund includes correspondence and lists of donations. <span class=\"title\">Freedomways</span> files contain correspondence, drafts, and final publications of O'Dell's articles, such as \"Charleston's Legacy to the Poor People's Campaign\", <span class=\"title\">Freedomways</span>, third quarter, 1969, and \"Over the Rainbow: U.S. Foreign Policy and World Development\", <span class=\"title\">Freedomways</span>, vol. 24, #1, 1984. The PUSH and NRC files are combined since these two non-profit organizations founded by Jesse Jackson were merged into Rainbow/PUSH in 1996. Besides containing files related to O'Dell's roles as the director of chapter expansion and staff development (1973-1976), director of the international affairs department (1976-1974) of PUSH, and director of international affairs for NRC, they also include materials related to O'Dell's role as an adviser to Jackson during his two presidential runs and consultant to Jackson on international affairs. Although some of these materials fall oustide of the PUSH/NRC purview, they are included here because of the immense overlap in dates and overall work with Jackson in these various capacities. The subseries Work with other organizations is comprised of material related to O'Dell's participation as a Board member, advisory member, or consultant with the following civil rights organizations: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center; Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC); Committee for a National Health Service; American Friends Peace Service Committee (AFSC); World Festival of Youth and Students; Pacifica Foundation; Palestine Human Rights Campaign; SANE/Freeze; Palestine Solidarity Committee; 30th Anniversary of the Mobilization of the March on Washington; W. E. B. Du Bois Foundation; Institute for Community Leadership; Charleston Laureate Lecture Series; and Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). The documents in this subseries include correspondence and memos, reports, printed matter, and handwritten notes. The Appearances and engagements subseries is comprised of interview and appearance requests and printed matter for events in which O'Dell participated. These events and appearances occurred outside of his work with PUSH and NRC. Included are published interviews, event flyers, conference programs, handwritten notes, press releases, and meeting notes. The final subseries, Writing, contains published and unpublished writing by O'Dell, mostly written independently of any association with an organization. Published writing includes <span class=\"title\">Afro-Americans Stand Up for Middle East Peace</span> (edited by James Zogby and O'Dell, 1980) and \"Race, Class, and Gender in the Struggle for Substantive Democracy\" in <span class=\"title\">Jack O'Dell: The Fierce Urgency of Now</span> (2005; signed by all authors, including O'Dell), among others. Unpublished writing includes early handwritten notes on anti-colonialism and international relations, speech drafts and notes, possible article drafts, and fragments.</p>"}