{"value"=>"<p>The <em render=\"bold\">HARLEM UNEMPLOYMENT CENTER/FIGHT BACK series, 1964-1983 (3 linear feet)</em>contains correspondence, memoranda, articles, newsletters, clippings, fliers, legal documents, financial records (including those of Fight Back's tax-exempt fundraising arm, the Equal Employment Council), and miscellaneous printed matter documenting Haughton's outspoken efforts to increase the number of minorities hired on construction projects in New York City. The series was organized to reflect both the activities of Fight Back and the written material produced by Haughton and his associates. There is significant documentation in the correspondence, articles, newsletters, and fliers of his work with unions, government officials, and corporate leaders to bring about changes in laws and policies through negotiations and lobbying, as well as demonstrations and boycotts. The correspondence includes letters to construction company officials discussing discriminatory hiring and the development of apprenticeship programs. There is also an exchange of letters with William L. Patterson, former International Labor Defense and Civil Rights Congress official, commenting on the draft of a 1972 article by Haughton and discussing issues of race and class. A miscellaneous folder of lists and notes indicates Haughton's organizational style, once described in a <em render=\"italic\">New York Times Magazine</em>profile (September 14, 1969): “Tacked to a wallboard is his filing system - a maze of small slips of paper with names, phones numbers and assorted notes.”</p> <p>Several folders in the Programs and Projects sub-series trace the evolution of the New York Plan and its successors, as the City attempted to create standards for equal employment opportunity such as increased job training and regulations for minority representation in construction unions and projects.</p> <p>In his role as Executive Director of Fight Back, Haughton also participated in numerous coalitions and committees concerning a variety of local and national employment issues. The Committees and Coalitions sub-series contains important material including newsletters, position papers, and fliers documenting the struggle of rank and file and minority caucuses in unions representing construction, transit, and auto workers, longshoremen, and farm laborers. Additional folders in the sub-series reflect his service on the Board of Directors of the National Employment Law Project and the National Citizen's Lobby (later renamed Confrontation with Congress), which lobbied for passage of the 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act and for funding to provide minority construction jobs for the many new housing projects the Act generated.</p> <p>Haughton also organized and attended numerous conferences and seminars related to minority employment issues, for which programs and background material are found in the Conference sub-series. The Rank and File Workers Conference folder contains minutes, statements, and correspondence regarding efforts by Haughton and others in 1969 to develop national rank and file movements in various unions and to associate them with the anti-war movement.</p>"}