{"value"=>"<p>The Professional series includes Wilkerson's alphabetical files; these files contain material on Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.'s reelection in 1949, Paul Robeson's struggle to secure his passport, and the attempt by Edna Winston to have the prison sentence of her husband Henry Winston (African American Communist Party leader) commuted. The Employment subseries contains Wilkerson's manuscripts and supporting documentation for the research memorandum, \"Negro in American Education\", 1939-1940, which he wrote for the Carnegie Corporation study, \"The Negro in America\". Wilkerson's years as director of curriculum at the Jefferson School of Social Science, 1948-1956, are represented by his teaching notes, study guides, and curricula for courses he taught in philosophy, psychology, and political economy. There is printed material, including course listings, and files about the closing of the school in 1956. Wilkerson's one-year stint at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas (1959-1960), is documented via a file regarding his forced resignation due to media reports that he was an instigator of student demonstrations. The Yeshiva University files, 1963-1973, focus on his involvement in designing programs for prospective elementary school teachers of socially disadvantaged children; they include a report and related information about Project Beacon and teaching material for the course \"Teaching the Black Experience\". Wilkerson's employment with Mediax Associates, an educational firm, is represented by files for projects such as the Boston Middle School Reading Program, Head Start Program, and various projects for Public Education Associates (PEA). Among the documents in the PEA files is Wilkerson's testimony regarding the value of Board of Examiners' teacher examinations. The Consultancies subseries, 1962-1990, contain files on the American Jewish Congress (New York City school integration project, 1962-1963); Chicago Public Schools; and Norwalk (Connecticut) Public Schools (which includes several programs involving minorities, students of differing socioeconomic statuses, and desegregation). The subseries Subject files, 1947-1987, contains printed material, correspondence, and notes. Of special interest are files pertaining to W. E. B. Du Bois which include his 1947 address, \"The United Nations and Colonies\"; a 1954 typescript by Du Bois, \"The Passing of Alain Locke\"; Wilkerson's manuscript regarding Du Bois's indictment of the Peace Information Center; and correspondence between the two men. In addition, in the folder \"School for Drug Addicts\", 1972, there is information about a New York City school operating independently of a school board. The subseries Writings is divided into Wilkerson's writings about communism and education. Most of his writings concern ways of improving teaching methods for Black and socioeconomic disadvantaged youth, and reporting on the changing social status of Blacks in the North. There are also writings about education by other authors. In the Professional affiliations subseries are files from Wilkerson's service on boards of national- and New York-based educational organizations. Of interest are his addresses given before the American Federation of Teachers (1937), one with an appeal for federal aid to schools in the South teaching Black children (1937-1944). Records from the Little Red School House and the Elisabeth Irwin High School in Manhattan (a progressive private school) include minutes, director's reports, and financial records. Files for the National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children reflect some of the organization's activities.</p>"}