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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: Critical Mass Bulletin: News of the Selection on Collective Behavior and Social Movements; In this paper Killian discusses "Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency" by Doug McAdam, critiquing McAdam's work as well as divulging in the positive data that came from it.

: Dilemma of the Negro Revolution; This paper discusses the "Negro Revolutions" victory that happened when the President of the United States spoke to the Joint Session of the Congress to the people of the nation. At this point in time, the chief executive had drafted the most drastic civil rights bill to date and was calling on the 89th Congress to pass another Civil Rights act.

: Drafts of chapters 16 and 17 "Another New South" and "A New South, A New Look"

: Gandhi, Frederick Douglass, and Affirmative Action; This paper covers subjects of protective discrimination in India, gaps in knowledge in the United States of this discrimination, compensatory discrimination, the emergence of preferential treatment in the US, and the cost of affirmative action and its foreseeable future.

: Generals, the Talented Tenth, and Affirmative Action; This article explains W.E.B. Du Bois idea of the Talented Tenth and its link to affirmative action.

: Harvard Educational Review; In this paper, Lewis Killian concludes that busing can best be understood as a political issue rather than in terms of an education effect when comparing the origin of school busing in Britain and the United States.

: How Red is the Federal Council of Churches?; Pamphlet questioning the communist or socialist nature of the Federal Council of Churches. It urges people to read the "facts" provided to "draw your own conclusions.

: Interaction of Political and Popular Definitions in the Generation of Racial and Ethnic Identity; Paper written by Lewis Killian detailing analysis of specific referents of the terms "race" and "ethnicity" in the Supreme Court decisions affirming the constitutional use of the terms and in other government documents. Killian posits that this analysis offers clues to an implied definition of the terms, which is coming to have official standing.

: Inventory of Community Living Conditions and Attitudes in Daytona Beach, Florida; This is a social survey type study done on the community of Daytona Beach to answer questions of what kinds of people make up this community, their level of material comfortability, and how they feel about Daytona Beach as a place to live. It answers questions of migration effects; race age, and sex composition; dependency ratio; and selected characteristics of white and black samples.

: Jacksonville Community Facilities Statistics; In this correspondence statistics for clinics, physicians, police, welfare agencies, and specific populations for individuals hospitals and facilities is presented.

: Jacksonville Looks at its Negro Community; Detailed is the changes made in health related facilities and services ten months after the publication of a Jacksonville health survey.

: Joys of Autobiographical Writing; This paper discusses both the popularity of and joy from writing autobiographies from Lewis Killian's experience.

: Last Lecture Series: Science, Scientism, and Human Values; This speech is focused on the idea of a "Last Lecture" for professors and teachers and especially for the social scientist. Killian posits that the last lecture is something a social scientist is sensitive to and find most important in the grand understanding of human values, behavior, and customs.

: Leadership in American Society: A Case Study of Black Leadership; Case study focused on the history and understanding of black leadership

: Leadership in American Society: A Case Study of Negro Leadership; Teacher manual for a case study focused on the history and understanding of black leadership which showcases the rhetoric and ideas of those during the civil rights era.

: Leadership in American Society: A Case Study of Negro Leadership; Student manual for a case study focused on the history and understanding of black leadership which showcases the rhetoric and ideas of those during the civil rights era.

: Negro Perceptions of Organizational Effectiveness; This pamphlet introduces the questions: "What does the Negro want" and "How does the Negro think he can best attain this general goal?" It discusses the social problems Black Americans face and evaluation of Black organizations.

: Negro Protest Leaders in a Southern Community; This pamphlet covers a study done on the assessment of structure of African American leadership, finding that there is a significant change in leadership between the "Pre-Boycott" and "Post-Boycott" periods.

: Newspaper article about Benjamin O. Davis Jr., first black general to serve in the Air Force.; Newspaper article on Benjamin O. Davis Jr., first black general to serve in the Air Force. Details his life, military career, and achievements.

: Optimism and Pessimism in Sociological Analysis; This paper was presented at the spring meeting of the Massachusetts Sociological Association in Boston. It covers the optimistic era sociology was born into and the seedings of pessimism which followed, as well as the goal of sociologists to describe "the plight of humanity" with realism.

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