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                                                         Series 3: United Black Appeal

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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: 3. United Black Appeal n.d., 1967 – 1977 (bulk 1971 – 1974
Volume:  1.4 cubic ft.
Arrangement: Alphabetical and Chronological
Summary:

The United Black Appeal was introduced by the United Front Foundation, Inc. in order to raise funds for Foundation, United Front, and for the community. The Black Community was not receiving what it felt was its fair share of funds from the Massachusetts Bay United Fund and so brought United Black Appeal to the public. They approached large corporations, universities, and businesses within the community and asked that employees be allowed to stipulate that money be withheld from their paychecks for the United Black Appeal. Northeastern University was the first school to allow the deductions.

Box       Title    Date  
30  
Address Book; Articles of Amendment; Articles  of Organization; Attendance sheet; Board of  Directors                                                                         
                                                                      n.d., 1971 – 1973  
Boston Black United Fund; By-laws; Catch 44          
n.d., 1974 – 1978  
Complaints                                                                            
1973 
Contributions A – D (restricted)                                          
1973 – 1974 
31 
Contributions E – G (restricted)                                          
1973 – 1974  
Contributions H – K (restricted)                                           
1973 – 1974 
Contributions L – M (restricted)                                           
1973 – 1974  
Contributions N – Q (restricted)                                          
1973 – 1974  
Contributions R – V (restricted)                                           
1973 – 1974 
Contributions W – Z (restricted)                                         
1973 – 1974 
Contributions:  
ABCD; Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; CIRCLE, Inc.; City Bank and Trust;  Harvard University; IBM; King’s Chapel; Loeb, Rhoades and Company; Mass Bay United Fund; MIT; Mitre Corporation; New England Nuclear Corporation and Subsidiaries; Northeastern University;  Pepsi-Cola; Sears, Roebuck and Company;                  WEEI News-radio                                                 1971 – 1975
32 
Contributors                                                                          
n.d.  
Correspondence (3 folders)                                                 
n.d., 1970 – 1977
Election                                                                                  
1972 
Financial Records:  
Budgets; Correspondence;                                  n.d., 1970 – 1975  
Fund Raising:  
Campaigns                                             1971 – 1974  
33  Correspondence; Course                             n.d., 1970 – 1974
Payroll; Reports; Taxes (restricted)                      n.d., 1970 – 1975  
Grimes Oil Court Case                                                          
1974 – 1975
Information Sharing Sheets; Lewis H. Latimer Foundation, Inc.; Los Angeles Brother Hood Crusade                                                                             
1973 – 1974  
Massachusetts Bay United Fund                                        
1967 – 1974  
Meetings; Memoranda                                                      
n.d., 1970 – 1975  
Miscellaneous File                                                               
n.d., 1972 – 1975
National Black United Fund; Newspaper Clippings;   Police Surveys; Polices                                                  
n.d., 1968 – 1974  
34  
Postal Workers Information                                                
1970 – 1971  
Press Releases; Printed Materials and Logos                
n.d., 1970 – 1973 
Program Profiles                                                                   
1974  
Proposals and Requests:  
Bridge Fund, Inc.; Ecumenical Center In Roxbury                                                              1972  
Terry’s Job Referral Center; W.E.B. Dubois Center                                                                 1973  
Bromley – Heath Community Radio; Community Action and Human Development Program; Denison House; Greater Boston Truckers and Contractors Association;      International Christian Youth Exchange; Miscellaneous Proposals; Roxbury Multi-Service Center; Terry’s Training Center              1974  
Reports; Speeches                                                             
n.d., 1971 – 1974  
Staff:  
Agreement; Allen, Kermit File; Applications; Job Descriptions; Organizational Chart;  Resumes; Time Sheets (restricted)                  n.d., 1971 – 1974  
Suggestions for future campaigns; Taxes;  
Volunteers                                                                    
n.d., 1972 – 1975