September and October, 1960, 1960

The papers include the minutes of the first meeting of the Executive Board of Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, Local 300 (Sept 24). On Mitchell's activities, including his initial organizing trip to Louisiana as an AMC representative, see his letters to AMC Executive Vice-President Harry R. Poole (Sept 11, 19; Oct 25). Mitchell began to formulate plans for a low-key educational campaign for civil rights in the rural South; see his memorandum to NSF on this subject (Oct 10), as well as his letters to NSF Chairman Frank P. Graham and Board Member Cyrus I. Gordon (Oct 12, 31). There are letters to Dr Graham written in support of Mitchell's proposal from Daniel H. Pollitt (Oct. 14 ) and Gardner Jackson (Oct 20)