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 Title: Boston Black United Front records
Dates: n.d., 1932 (photocopy), 1950 – 2002 (bulk dates 1968 – 1973)
Collection Number: SC1
Series: 1. United Front, n.d. 1932 (photocopy), 1950 - 2002 (bulk dates 1968 - 1971)
Volume: 8.05 cubic ft.
Arrangement: Alphabetical and Chronological
Summary:

This series documents the history of the Boston Black United Front and its struggle to bring together Boston’s Black Community. The first folder in Box 1, Creation of United Front, includes the minutes from the very first meetings held by the United Front.  Also of particular note is the Black Panther Party’s Community newspaper from August 30, 1969, and the United Front of Cairo, IL’s newspapers from September, October, and November of 1970.

 

Box Title

Date
1
Administrative Files:  
Creation of United Front   n..d., 1968

Employees                                                                 

 1971 – 1973

Facilities and Maintenance                                      

 1968 – 1971

Goals                                                                          

 1970 – 1971

Organizational Analysis                                            

 1969  

Statement of Commitment; Statement of Demands; Statement of  Purpose                           

 n.d., 1968 – 1970
Black Solidarity Day                                                       
1970 – 1971
Committees:  

Committee on Crime                                                

 1969 – 1971

April 15th Rally Committee, Change Committee   

 1970 – 1971

Community Committee to Save “Say Brother”       

 n.d., 1970 – 1977

Community Research Review Committee

 1969 – 1971
2

Defense Committee; Economic and  Business                 Development Committee; Education Committee; Election Committee; Entertainment Committee; Housing and Land    Committee; Internal Operations Committee; Justice Committee; Kwanzaa Coordinating Committee; Mobilization Committee                                 

1968 – 1972  

Prison Committee                                                

 1967 – 1978  
Steering Committee:  

Correspondence                                          

 1969 – 1971  
Financial Reports (2 folders)                              1969 – 1972  
Loan Agreements                                           1970 – 1971
Meetings and Joint Meetings (1 folder)        1968 – 1972
3     Meetings and Joint Meetings (4 folders)       1968 – 1972
Motions and Recommendations                      1971 – 1972  
Reports                                                             1968 – 1970  
Retreats   1969 – 1971
Community Security:  
   

Financial Reports                                                      

 1969 – 1971  
4  Playhouse in the Park                                                     1969
Meetings and Reports                                                1970 – 1971
Complaints:  
Agu, Omeka – Cunkscales, Raymond                  1969 – 1972  
Dennis, Dorothy – King, Peter                                    1970 – 1972
Lewis, Henry – Sweet, Reginald                              1969 – 1972
Terrell, LaVerne – Young, Mrs.; Processed Complaints by   Year                                                   1970 – 1973  
Correspondence:  
Incoming (1 folder)                                                     n.d., 1969 – 1972
5 Incoming (3 folders)                                               n.d., 1969 – 1972
Outgoing                                                                   1969 – 1973  
Demonstrations:  
New Bedford, MA; Newark, NJ; Roxbury, MA        1967 – 1970
Financial Records:  
Budgets                                                                       1970 – 1972  
Community Bail Fund                                              1969 -1971
Correspondence                                                             1970 – 1973
Loan Accounts Repaid                                              1970
Long distance telephone calls                            1970
Petty Cash Receipts                                       1971
6    Tax Information (Restricted)                                    1971 – 1972
Meetings:  
General Body; Miscellaneous; Special; Staff         1968 – 1972 
Member Organizations:  
ABCD                                                                          1969 – 1971  

Afro-American Institute; Association of Black Directors; Black Big   Brother Alliance       

 1970 – 1973  
Black Big Brother Alliance                                        1970 –1973  

Black Economic Development Association; Black Ecumenical Commission; Black Music Inc.; Black Panther Party                                      

 1969 – 1970

Black People’s Topographical Research Center; Black Student Union                               

 1968 – 1972  
7 Boston Legal Assistance Project                           1970 – 1971  

Bridge Fund, Inc.; Bromley – Heath Community Center                                           

 1969 – 1972  

Children’s World; CIRCLE, Inc.; Congress Of African People; Community Art Work; F.A.I.T.                                                             

 1969 – 1972  

F.I.R.S.T., Inc.; Freedom Industries; FUND (3 folders)                                                                              

1968 - 1972
8  
FUND:  
Contributions (6 folders)                               1968 – 1972  
Financial Records (1 folder)                             1968 – 1972  
9   Financial Records (1 folder)                        1968 – 1972  

Greater Boston Minister’s Alliance; Hawthorne House; Hawthorne Youth; Center; Lower Roxbury Community Corporation                         

 n.d., 1971 – 1973  
Malcolm X Foundation (Malik Hakim)                     1970 – 1971  

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization                                                 

 1968 – 1973  

Massachusetts Law Reform; METCO; Model Cities; Montessori Family Center (2 folders)                                                                 

 1965 – 1973  
10  NAACP, Boston Branch                                            1970 – 1979  

National Center of Afro-American Artists; New Breed of Teachers; N.E.G.R.O.; New School for Children, Inc.                                 

 n.d., 1968 – 1972  
New Urban League of Greater Boston                        1969 – 1971  

O.I.C.; Organization for Voter Education and Registration            

 1976 – 1978  

People’s Elected Urban Renewal Committee; Pro-Com; Project Concern; Republic of New Africa                                              

 1969 – 1973  
Roxbury Action Program                                            1969 – 1975  
11

Roxbury – North Dorchester Community Action Program     Section I                               

 1964  

Roxbury – North Dorchester Community Action Program     Section II                               

 1964  

Roxbury – North Dorchester Community Action Program     Section III; Roxbury Business Development Corporation; Roxbury Chamber of Commerce; Roxbury Children’s Services                                                   

 1964 – 1974  
Roxbury Community College                                   1967 – 2002  

Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center; Roxbury Defenders Committee, Inc.; Roxbury Federation of Neighborhood; Centers; Roxbury Historical Society 1932 (photocopy),                                                                                                                         

1971 – 1975  
Roxbury Institute of Business Management           n.d., 1970 – 1971

Roxbury Medical-Technical Institute; Roxbury Multi-Service Center (2 folders)           

 1965 – 1980  

Roxbury Multi-Service Center; Roxbury YMCA      

 1965 – 1980  
12   

Small  Business Administration; Small Business Development Center                             

n.d., 1969 – 1973    
South End Tenants Council                                          1969 – 1973  

Store – Front Learning Center; Tenants Association of Boston; United Black People for Educational Change; United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury; United South End Settlements; Workers Defense League         

 n.d., 1968 – 1971  
Equipment Loan Forms                                           1971  
Statements of Commitment                                        1969 - 1972  
Memoranda                                                                           
 n.d., 1970  
Miscellaneous Files                                                             
 n.d., 1967 – 1971  
Newsletter                                                                             
1971  
Newsletter (1 folder)                                                            
 1973  
13   
Newsletter (2 folders)                                                          
1973  
Newspaper Clippings                                                          
1969 – 1972  
Political Actions and Community Issues:                                       

Boston Court System (Appointment of Black Judges); Brown, Robert (Killed in Charles St. Jail)                                                              

 1970 – 1972  

Bunte, Doris (Fired from Boston Housing Authority); Culbert, Derek (Shot and killed inside Dudley Street Police Station #2)            

 1971  

Davis, Angela (Arrested by the FBI for allegedly supplying guns to Jonathan Jackson and planning a kidnapping)                                          

 1970 – 1971  

Ford, Willie (was to be extradited from Charles St. Jail to Alabama); Grady, Raymond (Shot by a MBTA Police Officer on MBTA Bus)                                                             

n.d., 1971  

Lynch, Franklin (Shot and killed inside Boston City Hospital by a Boston Police Officer) (2 folders)                                                

 1970  
14    

Operation Stop/Southwest Corridor (I-95) (2 folders)                                                               

 1969 – 1979  
Polaroid Corporation (3 folders)                       1970 – 1974  

Political Platform; Richardson, Victor Defense Fund (Victor was convicted in Northampton, MA of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and possession of dangerous drug); Robell’s – Operation Checkout (Price control and security guards)                                                                    

 n.d., 1970  

Thomas, Cornell (Shot and killed by a Boston Police Office on Norwell St.)                    

 1972  

WILD (Blocking sale of radio station out-of-state and violations of FCC regulations); WBUR – The DRUM (Elimination of Black Programming on WBUR); Zayre’s Department Store (Boycott of Store due to brutal force used on an alleged shoplifter)                                                               

 1969 – 1976  
15 
Political Conventions (National and Boston)                    
1971 – 1972  
Press Releases                                                                   
1967 – 1972  
Programs                                                                             
n.d., 1971  
Proposals and Requests:  

Dennis, Dickerson and Wilkins; Moral Imperative; Robert Rose Taxi Cab; Transcom Lines, Inc.                                         

 n.d.  

Betty and Frank’s Variety; Lytle, William; Sonny and Jean’s Meat Market                          

 1968  

Cambridge School of Ballet; Green Power Superette; Nicky Blue’s Fry All                            

 1969  

Boston Black Community Urban and Environmental Planning Studio; Shopping Center Task Force; Williams, Ernest                  

 1970  

Community Communication Information Center; Community Elections; Memorial Day Tour of Bermuda; Operation DRUM           

 1971  
Related Organizations:  

Washington, DC; Cairo, IL; St. Louis, MO; Newark, NJ                                                              

 1969 – 1971
Angola; Canada; Eritrea; Ghana; Guinea             1966 – 1972  
Mozambique; Puerto Rico; South Africa               1969 – 1974  
16     South Africa; West Indies; Zimbabwe                     1969 – 1971  
Reports                                                                                
n.d., 1971  
Reports: 
Rust, Obalajii (3 folders)                                             1970 – 1971  
Staff:  
Applications (restricted)                                           1969 – 1972  
Boston, Leroy                                                           1969 – 1970  
Daily Activity Sheets; Time Sheets                         1970 – 1971  
17  

Health Insurance; Job Descriptions; Job Training; Payroll (restricted)                          

1969 - 1973 
Polices; Work-study program                                  1969 – 1970  
Subject Files:  
Africa – Atkins, Thomas                                            1969 – 1979  
Articles (2 folders)                                                      1965 – 1974  

Bay State Banner – Black Community Construction                                                                                                  

 1969 – 1974  
18    Black Journal – Black Think Tank                            1969 – 1974  
Bolling, Royal – Boston Urban Foundation                1968 – 1979  
Cambridge Institute – Center City Vol. I                  1969 – 1970  

Center City Vol. II – Citizens for Participation Politics

                                                                                                         

 1969 – 1972  

City-Wide Black Community Council Philadelphia, PA – Colleges and Universities      

 1968 – 1972  
19 

Colleges and Universities – Community House, Inc.                                                                                                   

 1969 – 1977  

Commonwealth Republic Club – Dupont Family                                                                                                           

 n.d., 1966 – 1973  
Education (2 folders)                                                   1967 – 1973
Family Development Study – Funding                        1970 – 1974  
20 

General Convention Special Program – Hispano Population of Cambridge                     

 1969 – 1974  
Horse’s Mouth – Housing                                        n.d., 1969 – 1971  

Internal Security Act – Joint Apprenticeship Program                                                                                                        

 1950 – 1974  

Joint Center for Inner City Change – Joint Center for Political Studies                                 

 1967 – 1974  

King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. – Metropolitan Rural Development for Equal Opportunity          

 1966 – 1974  

Mississippi Products – National Association of Black Journalists                                                  

   1968 – 1981  
21        National Business League – Newsletters A – B    1970 – 1979  
Newsletters B – N                                                     1966 – 1989  
Newsletters R – U                                                   1967 – 1973  
Newsletters U – V                                                    1970 – 1971  

News Media – Pan Africa Liberation Committee                                                         

 n.d., 1970 – 1978  

Partnership for Profit – Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts                                           

n.d., 1950 – 1974  
22 

Record-keeping Requirements – South End Handbook                                                                            

 1970 – 1979  

Student Organization for Black Unity – Stalinist Workers Group for Afro-American National Liberation                                               

 1969 – 1971  
Sutton, Percy – US Department of State                1970 – 1977  

US Office of Economic Development – US Military Manual on Survival                               

n.d., 1970  

Vehicles of Government Control of the Black Community – Vietnam                              

n.d., 1965 – 1967  
Vietnam Summer – Violent Crime                         1967 – 1971  
23   

Volunteers for International Technical Assistance – WBUR-The DRUM (2 folders)       

 1969 – 1971

Winston Burnett Construction Company – Yaki Yakubu and Henry Dee Defense Fund; Universal  Dimentionalists                                                   

 n.d., 1971  
Youth                                                                                     
1970 – 1977  
Youth:  
Black Student Boycott                                                  1971