Subseries 4.1
William Rutherford files, 1965-1968
Boxes 197 - 199
Biographical Note
William Rutherford became Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the staff retreat held in Frogmore, South Carolina in 1967. Before joining SCLC, Rutherford was a journalist living in Switzerland. Throughout the 1950s, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Time, Life and CBS. In fact, Rutherford was the first African American to serve as a foreign correspondent for CBS. In 1953 he opened Rutherford Associates, a public relations consulting firm based in Zurich. The turbulence of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-1960s inspired Rutherford to contact Martin Luther King, Jr. and offer his services to SCLC. He served as Executive Director from December 1967 through the fall of 1968.
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of the files of William Rutherford from 1965-1968. Correspondence, memoranda and subject files illuminate his administrative duties within the organization, especially his involvement in planning and executing the Poor People's Campaign in 1968. The subseries also reflects Rutherford's efforts to impose new rigor on SCLC's financial and administrative practices.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order.
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 197 | 1 | Atlanta Committee for International Visitors, 1967 |
| 197 | 2 | Brownlee, Henry, 1968 |
| 197 | 3 | Chapters and Affiliates, Virginia state unit, 1966-1968 [See also Subseries 5.3: Chapter files] |
| 197 | 4 | Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1968 |
| 197 | 5 | Consumer Education lesson plan, undated |
| 197 | 6 | Contact lists, Atlanta press and Black media organizations, circa 1968 |
| 197 | 7 | Correspondence, 1967 July-December |
| 197 | 8 | Correspondence, 1968 circa |
| 197 | 9 | Correspondence, 1968 January-March |
| 197 | 10 | Correspondence, 1968 April |
| 197 | 11 | Correspondence, 1968 May-June |
| 197 | 12 | Correspondence, 1968 July-September |
| 197 | 13 | Correspondence, 1968 October-November |
| 197 | 14 | Curriculum vitae, 1967 |
| 197 | 15 | Eskridge, Chauncey. 1968 |
| 197 | 16 | Financial records, receipts, 1968 |
| 197 | 17 | Fragments, undated |
| 197 | 18 | Hate mail and threats, 1967-1968 |
| 197 | 19 | Jeanette Rankin Brigade, circa 1968 |
| 197 | 20 | Kirkpatrick, F.O. (Reverend), 1967 |
| 197 | 21 | Legal records, 1965 |
| 197 | 22 | Legal records, 1966 |
| 197 | 23 | Legal records, 1967-1968 |
| 197 | 24 | Levison, Stanley D., 1967-1968 |
| 197 | 25 | Meeting minutes and notes, undated |
| 198 | 1 | Memoranda, 1967-1968 |
| 198 | 2 | New Breed Industries, 1968 |
| 198 | 3 | New Jersey, 1968 |
| 198 | 4 | New York Office, 1968 |
| 198 | 5 | North Carolina Political Conference, 1967 |
| 198 | 6 | North and South, December 1967 [See also Subseries 6.3: Publications] |
| 198 | 7 | Payton, George A., congressional campaign, South Carolina, 1968 |
| 198 | 8 | Personnel, staff assignments, 1968 |
| 198 | 9 | Personnel, staff roster, circa 1968 |
| 198 | 10 | Playboy Club, 1968 |
| 198 | 11 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1968 |
| 198 | 12 | Poor People's Campaign, 1967 [See also Subseries 2.2: President Ralph David Abernathy files and 10.3: Poor People's Campaign records] |
| 198 | 13 | Poor People's Campaign, 1968 circa |
| 198 | 14 | Poor People's Campaign, 1968 January-February |
| 198 | 15 | Poor People's Campaign, 1968 March-October |
| 198 | 16 | Publicity, 1968 |
| 198 | 17 | Report to the Board of Directors, 1968 |
| 198 | 18 | Requests and authorization for travel, 1968 |
| 198 | 19 | Research Committee, 1968 |
| 198 | 20 | Rutherford, William A., "Hamlet or Horatio," 1968 |
| 198 | 21 | Schedules and itineraries, 1967-1968 |
| 198 | 22 | School desegregation, undated |
| 198 | 23 | SCLC Timeline, 1957-1970 |
| 198 | 24 | Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1968 |
| 199 | 1 | Southern Regional Council, 1968 |
| 199 | 2 | Staff retreat, Frogmore, South Carolina, November 17-December 1, 1967 |
| 199 | 3 | Steering Committee, 1967 |
| 199 | 4 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1968 |
| 199 | 5 | Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project, 1965 |
| 199 | 6 | Telephone system, 1967-1968 |
| 199 | 7 | Thomas Emberton Houck, Jr. v. Charles L. Goodson, Selective Service System Local Board No. 75, Selective Service Local Board No. 61, Colonel Harold C. Wall, Colonel Michael Hendricks and Ramsay Clark, undated |
| 199 | 8 | Urban League, 1967-1968 |
| 199 | 9 | Washington D.C. Office, 1968 |
| 199 | 10 | Wilcox County, Florida, undated |
| 199 | 11 | Williams, Juanita Terry, biographical sketch, undated |
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