Stanford
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Abbreviations

The primary document source notes are followed by an archival code that designates the location of the original source document using standard abbreviations from USMARC Code List for Organizations. Below is the list of abbreviations for all codes used.

Code Organization
ACCP-MdU Office of the President, The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, Md.
ACLUR-NjP-SC American Civil Liberties Union Records, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
ACOA-ARC American Committee on Africa Records, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, La.
AFSCR-PPAFS American Friends Service Committee Records, American Friends Service Committee Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.
AJC-ICHi Archibald James Carey Collection, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Ill.
APRP-DLC A. Philip Randolph Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
BMPP-MBJFK Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
BPD-AB Birmingham Police Department Surveillance Files, 1947–1980, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala.
BRP-DLC Bayard Rustin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
BSCP-DLC Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
BWOF-AB Birmingham World Office Files, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala.
CB-CtY-BR Chester Bowles Collection, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.
CBC Carl Benkert Collection (in private hands)
CBCR Cornerstone Baptist Church Records, Brooklyn, N.Y. (in private hands)
CCCSU Clayborne Carson Collection (in private hands)
CCFA-ICarbS Christian Century Foundation Archives, Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
CLPAC Pacifica Radio Archive, Los Angeles, Calif.
CNP Christopher Niebuhr Papers (in private hands)
CRC-NN-Sc Civil Rights Collection, 1962–1969, Catherine Clarke Series, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.
CRP-NNU-LA Cleveland Robinson Papers, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, N.Y.
CSKC Coretta Scott King Collection (in private hands)
CULC-ICIU Chicago Urban League Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Ill.
DABCC Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Collection (in private hands)
DHSTR-WHi Donald H. Smith Tape Recordings, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
DJG-GEU-S David J. Garrow Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
EBCR Ebenezer Baptist Church, Miscellaneous Records (in private hands)
EMHP-DGU Eugene McCarthy Historical Project, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
ERP-NHyF Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
FBIDG-NN-Sc David Garrow Federal Bureau of Investigation Collection, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.
FORR-PSC-P Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943–1973, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa.
FRC-DSI-FC Folkways Records Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Washington, D.C.
FrLSP-GAMK Fred L. Shuttlesworth Papers, 1953–1969, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
FTaSU Florida State University, Tallahasee, Fla.
GDL-G-Ar Georgia Department of Law, Record group 9, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, Ga.
GESP Glenn E. Smiley Papers (in private hands)
GRVVL-MiEM G. Robert Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University Libraries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
HAJP-PSC-P Homer A. Jack Papers, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa.
HCBP-NcD Harry C. Boyte Family Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
HG-GAMK Hazel Gregory Papers, 1955–1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
JFKCAMP-MBJFK John F. Kennedy Pre-Presidential Papers, Presidential Campaign Files, 1960, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
JFKOH-MBJFK John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
JFKWHCSF-MBJFK John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Central Subject Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
JMRP-GEU-S Jacob M. Rothschild Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
JTPP John T. Porter Papers (in private hands)
JWBC-DcWaMMB Jeanetta Welch Brown Collection, National Park Service Museum Resource Center, National Capital Region, National Archives for Black Women’s History, Landover, Md.
JWD-ARC John Wesley Dobbs Family Papers, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, La.
KLMDA-NNCorI Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
LDPF-GAMK Library Documentation Project Files, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
LDRP-NN-Sc Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.
LewBP Lewis V. Baldwin Papers (in private hands)
LOLP-ICIU Lloyd O. Lewis Papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Ill.
LSP-GU-HR Lillian Eugenia Smith Papers, MS 1283a, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga.
MCDA-AMC Montgomery County District Attorney’s Files, Montgomery County Courthouse, Montgomery, Ala.
MCMLK-RWWL Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga.
MJGC-MiDW-AL Martin and Jessie Glaberman Papers, Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
MLKEC Martin Luther King, Jr. Estate Collection (in private hands)
MLKJP-GAMK Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, 1950–1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
MLK/OH-GAMK Martin Luther King, Jr., Oral History Collection, 1950–1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
MLKP-MBU Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, 1954–1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
MMFR Montgomery to Memphis Film Research Files (in private hands)
MVC-TMM Mississippi Valley Collection, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tenn.
NAACPP-DLC National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
NCCR-PPPrHi National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America Records, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
NF-GEU-S Newsweek File, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
NHBP-DLC Nannie H. Burroughs Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
NNRC Riverside Church Archives (in private hands)
NULR-DLC National Urban League Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
NYDAR-NNRA New York District Attorney Records, City of New York, Department of Records and Information Services Archives, New York, N.Y.
ORS Orsonic Recording Services, Silver Spring, Md. (in private hands)
PGC-GEU-S Paul Good Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
PrRE Evangelical Seminary, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
PV-ARC Preston Valien Collection, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, La.
RBOH-DHU-MS Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C.
RGP Robert Graetz Papers (in private hands)
RPP-NN-Sc Richard Parrish Papers (Additions), 1959–1976, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.
RRML-TxTyU Robert R. Muntz Library, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
RWP-DLC Roy Wilkins Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
SCLCE-GEU-S Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1864–2007, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
SCLCR-GAMK Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1954–1970, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
SHLMP-WHi Scott H. L. McNeil Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
SNCCP-GAMK Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959–1972, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
SOHP-NcU Southern Oral History Program Records, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C.
SPCP-ScCC Septima P. Clark Papers, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.
TMAC-GA T. M. Alexander Collection, Atlanta Public Library, Auburn Avenue Research Center, Atlanta, Ga.
TWUC-NNU-LA Transport Workers Union of America Records, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, N.Y.
UPWR-WHi United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
VHC Vincent Harding Collection (in private hands)
WCFG-KAbE White House Central Files (General File), Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan.
WCFO-KAbE White House Central Files (Official File), Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan.
WONS-KAbE White House Office, Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan.
WPRC-MiDW-AL UAW President’s Office: Walter P. Reuther Collection, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
WHP-GEU-S William B. Hartsfield Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
WRMP-GAMK William Robert Miller Papers, 1955–1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
WYP-NNC Whitney M. Young Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.