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Box 12

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Contains 37 Results:

E, 1958-1966

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

1958, 1960-1962, 1964-1966. Correspondence with Beryl and Sam Epstein, and with Franklin Watts relating to Konvitz's suggestions that someone write a book on Hitler and Nazism that would be suitable for adolescents (June-July 1958). Other routine correspondence.

Dates: 1958-1966
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

E, 1946-1962

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents 1946-1949, 1951-1953, 1955, 1957-1959, 1962. Correspondence with Jerome C. Eisenberg, attorney, regarding the case of Seawell versus MacWithey in which the city of East Orange excluded blacks from a temporary veterans housing project giving priority to white veterans. While Konvitz agrees with Eisenberg that the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in this case was wrong, he advises him not to appeal the decision to the United States supreme Court. Konvitz comments that a direct attack on the...
Dates: 1946-1962
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

E - General correspondence, 1957-1980

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents 1957, 1959, 1961-1962, 1965-1968, 1971-1976, 1978-1980. Correspondence with Clifford L. Alexander, Junior, Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alexander asked Konvitz if he was interested in full-time summer employment as a Commission conciliator under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (November 30, 1967). Doctor Konvitz was also asked to serve as a conciliator by Alexander's predecessor, Stephen N. Shulman (April 12, 1967). Konvitz declined both offers. Other routine...
Dates: 1957-1980
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Edelman, Hyman, 1947-1980

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

1947-1949, 1955-1964, 1966, 1973, 1980. Routine and personal correspondence with Hyman Edelman, attorney and personal correspondence with Hyman Edelman, attorney. Edelman is a relative of Doctor Konvitz.

Dates: 1947-1980
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Eisenberg, Milton, 1950-1978

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents 1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1960-1965, 1969, 1976-1978. Correspondence with Milton Eisenberg, attorney and Administrative Assistant to United States Senator Kenneth B. Keating; Konvitz mentions that he believes the attack on Judge Youngdahl in the Lettimore case is not justified (October 14, 1954). Konvitz comments that he stressed the work of Congress in the 1860s and 1870s in his Constitution and Civil Rights (1947) and A Century of Civil Rights books. Konvitz also mentions that he continued to...
Dates: 1950-1978
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Eisenberg, Milton, 1949-1959

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

1949-1957, 1959. Routine Correspondence.

Dates: 1949-1959
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Elmira, 1950-1952

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence with Alex Rosen, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center. In a letter to Rosen Konvitz explains the point on pragmatism he made in his January 18, 1951 address at the American Association for Jewish Education Conference. Konvitz believes that pragmatism left persons free to formulate their own philosophies and that without pragmatism mental and spiritual freedom would not be possible. Also correspondence regarding various other speeches Konvitz gave at the...
Dates: 1950-1952
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Emancipation Proclamation, 1960

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with dean John McConnell, Industrial and Labor Relations School; Major General Almenin C. O'Hara, Chief of Staff to the Governor of New York and a member of the Civil War Centennial Commission; and Caroline K. Smith, Secretary of the State of New York, regarding Professor Konvitz's suggestions that the Governor appoint a special commission to organize a celebration of the centenary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (November 23, 1960).

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Emerson - 20th Century View, 1960-1978

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

1960-1961, 1962, 1965-1966, 1968-1971, 1973-1976, 1978. Correspondence with Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, and others on publication of The Twentieth Century Views - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Dates: 1960-1978
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

Emerson's Letters - 1 volume edition [Columbia University Press], 1963-1964

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Columbia University Press regarding Konvitz's proposal for a one-volume edition of Emerson's letters.

Dates: 1963-1964
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / /4039, Milton R. Konvitz Papers / Series I: Correspondence

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