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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: 2. United Front Foundation, n.d., 1967 – 1974 (bulk dates 1968 – 1972)
Volume:  2.45 cubic ft.
Arrangement: Alphabetical and Chronological
Summary:

The United Front Foundation, Inc. (Foundation) was founded in May of 1968 to be the  first community controlled corporation to allocate funds in the form grants to community organizations and last resort loans to organizations, individuals, and small businesses in the Roxbury Area. Of special note are the proposals and requests received by the Foundation.

Box   Title   Date
24  
Administrative Files:
Application for Certificate of Registration; Articles of Organization; Board of Directors; By-Laws                                                                  1968 - 1971
Creation of United Front Foundation; Facilities and Maintenance; Organizational Structure; Policies                                            1968 – 1971
Committees:
Allocations Committee; Assignments Committee;   Bail Committee; Business Committee; Investigating Committee; Proposal Committee; Special Committee on Attendance at Front Meetings n.d., 1969 – 1973
Election Committee                                                  n.d., 1969 – 1972
Correspondence:
Incoming (4 folders)                                                  n.d., 1967 – 1974
25 Outgoing (3 folders)                                                  n.d., 1969 – 1972
Elections                                                                            
1970 – 1972
Financial Records:
Auditors                                                                      1970 – 1973
Correspondence                                                       n.d., 1969 – 1974
Fund Raising                                                             1970 – 1971
Grant and Loans:
Agreements                                                   1968 – 1974
Correspondence                                            n.d., 1969 – 1972
26 Ledger; Reports                                            1968 – 1971
Invoices; Payroll (restricted)                                     1968 – 1972
Reports and Budgets (2 folders, one restricted)  1968 – 1972
Unity Bank                                                                  n.d., 1969 – 1974
Meeting Minutes and Agendas (1 folder)                     
   n.d., 1968 – 1973
27
Meeting Minutes and Agendas (5 folders)
 n.d., 1968 – 1973
Member Agencies                                                           
   n.d., 1970 – 1973
Miscellaneous File (1 folder)                                             
 n.d., 1967 – 1972
28
Miscellaneous File (1 folder)                                            
  n.d., 1967 – 1972
Press Releases; Programs; Promotional Film                
 n.d., 1968 – 1971
Proposals and Requests:
Franconia College                                                    1967
Arthur D. Little Inc.; Automobile Maintenance
Insurance Firm; Black Panther Party; Inter-communal Youth Institute; Draft Counseling Center; Forrest Simms Citgo   Hi – Hat Service Station; Gibson Liberation School; Greater Boston Community Housing; CIRCLE Associates                                      n.d., 1968
Cambridge Black Liberation Front; Capital Formation; Committee on Urban Responsibility; Daishiki Village Inc., Employment and Market Research Institute; Hamil Associates, Inc.; Michelle’s Beauty Salon; Neighborhood nvolvement for Children’s Education; Open Ear Association; People’s Job Co-Op; Rebellion News; Shopping Center Task Force; Sportsman’s Tennis Club, Inc.; Taxi Medallion                                                       1969
African Presence, Inc.; AVCO; Black Economic Development Corporation of the District of Columbia; Creative Plastics    1970
Delta Opportunities Corporation; Drug Store to sell generic drugs; FUND; Freedom Trans-Atlantic, Inc.; Jet Charitable Hospital; L & L Developers, Inc.; Roxbury Multi-Service Center; Roxbury On-Call Car; Saint Cyprian’s Episcopal Church; Shockley Plumbing and Heating, Inc.; Store-Front Learning; Washington Park Shopping Center; Wolf Syrup Corporation  1970
Citizens Committee to End Lead Poisoning; New Professionals; New Urban League of Greater Boston; Roxbury Medical Technical Institute                                                                   1971
29     Black Ghetto Theater; El Movimiento Hispano En Accion; Ghetto Loan and Investment Committee; Muhammad University of Islam; Roxbury Dental and Medical Group                    1972
Black Big Brother Alliance; El Movimiento Hispano En Accion; Hub Bus Lines, Inc.            1973 – 1974
Active Files                                                                1968 – 1970
Dead Files (2 folders)                                              1969 – 1971
Reports                                                                                 
1969 – 1971
Staff:
Applications; Resumes; Attorney; Insurance; Job Descriptions; Policies; Time Sheets;    Training; Work Study (restricted)             1969 – 1972
30 Cozier, Cecil File (restricted)                                  1972 – 1973
Tax Exemption                                                                  
   1969 – 1973
Youth:
Daycare (2 folders)                                                     1963 – 1973
Education                                                                                1967 – 1972