Lewis M. Killian Papers

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The Lewis M. Killian Papers consists of publications, typescripts, speeches, and correspondence documenting the academic career of Lewis M. Killian, professor of sociology at Florida State University (1952-1968) and University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1969-1985), especially concerning his research in disaster study and race relations in the United States.

The digital collection is only selections from the physical collection. For more information about the collection and its contents, see the collection's finding aid.

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: Address to the United Church Women, Tallahassee, Florida; Address given by Lewis Killian to the United Church Women on the subject of race relations and desegregation.

: Affirmative Action and Protective Discrimination: A Comparison of the United States and India; The schedule of the 1980 United States census of population included the most extended and detailed series of questions concerning race, ethnicity, and descent used since the first enumeration in 1790. This paper discusses the purpose of this identification by comparing protective discrimination, affirmative action, Gandhi's opposition, and policies in India and the United States.

: Affirmative Action and Protective Discrimination: A Comparison of the United States and India and Comparative Approaches to Multi-Culturalism and Education in Britain; Lewis Killan's paper is based on a research seminar given at the University of London Institute of Education and details the purpose of this identification by comparing protective discrimination, affirmative action, Gandhi's opposition, and policies in India and the United States.Martin McLean's paper comes from a seminar he gave on 23 April 1981 at the Institute of Education. It details how comparative analysis can aid understanding of multicultural issues in British education, namely how minority group students don't share fully in opportunities for social mobility offered in the education system and how the cultural identity and aspirations of minority groups are denied within the education system.

: African American - Why Now?; Original document for African American - Why Not? as written by Lewis Killian

: Analysis of the Attack on SRC In the Firing Line of May 15, 1957; This serves as an analysis of the Firing Line publication of the American Legion's National Americanism Commission, which accepted without question the testimony and charges of professional accusers "long since discredited" on the Southern Regional Council.

: Biracial Committee as a Response to Racial Tension in Southern Cities; This pamphlet discusses the use of a biracial committee to allow African Americans to participate in the decision making process in their communities.

: Birth of a Book: Collaboration, Personal and Professional; In this paper, Lewis Killian discusses his relation to Ralph Turner and their journey in writing a book in collective behavior and what went into building and publishing such a book in four editions.

: Black Power and White Reactions: The Revitalization of Race-thinking in the United States; This paper questions how "the emergent governmental policy of collecting statistics based on descent as a means of identifying the "victims" in the society constitutes both a revival of race-thinking and a simplistic solution to the question of who are the deserving have-nots."

: Brief Report of the Biracial Follow-Up Committee; Detailed is the changes made in health related facilities and services twenty-one months after the publication of a Jacksonville health survey.

: Civil Rights Act and Community Action; Speech given to delegation of southern women on their importance in the fight for "human dignity" and he great women who spearheaded this movement.

: Communism and Race Relations; This paper explores the topic of Communism and race relations and the ample warrant for elucidating the true nature of the relationship between them.

: Community Resistance to and Acceptance of Desegregation; This is a reprint from the Journal of Negro Education in the Summer of 1965. It discusses the "intervening decade" of 1954 to 1964 as a decade of hope and promise for "Negro Americans" as well as one of frustration. It covers topics of tokenism, structural resistance, residential segregation, protests, school desegregation, voting, housing, violence, and evasion in public accomodations.

: Community Structure and the Role of the Negro Leader-Agent; This pamphlet discusses how in some areas the Black community remains a peaceful "service community" which accommodate the needs of the majority white populace, and how in others cities the Black community took on a new significance as it both retains its old form and comes to life as the "Negro revolt" sweeps the nation.

: Conflicting Definitions in Race Relations Since 1960: Integration, Color Consciousness and Class Consciousness; This is an introduction to Lewis Killian's paper on the importance of choice in defining race relations since 1960.

: Copy of African American - Why Now?; Copy with editor markings of African American - Why Not?

: Correspondence and letters between Lewis Killian and various individuals.

: Correspondence between Lewis Killian and Virginia Wright, 1959; In this correspondence, statistics on the availability of hospital facilities for the black population of Jacksonville as opposed to white is given.

: Correspondence between Margaret Andersen and Lewis Killian on Gallup Data for racial or ethnic labels.; Margaret Andersen and Lewis Killian discuss how "very few say they are offended if not called their preferred term" in context of racial or ethnic labels

: Crisis in Race Relations; The critical point of decision which was May 17, 1954 "Black Monday" is discussed in this paper. The "latent conflicts in significant themes in American culture, along with correlative conflicts in the motives of individual" which pressed for a resolution are also discussed.

: Crisis of Civil Liberties; The topic of the United States "graves crisis in the field of civil liberties" is discussed here as "recent" decisions of the Supreme Court with regards to "freedom from compulsory religious observances, the right to counsel, freedom of association, and other individuals rights, marked the decade as that which the principle of the inalienable rights of the citizens has been more rigorously applied than ever before."

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