Robert Chester Papers, circa 1944-1976

Scope and Content Note

Additions including chapter files, subject files, committee materials, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, press releases, platforms, speeches and Congressional testimony, financial reports, fund raising letters, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, Congressional voting records issued by ADA, convention materials, and papers on special events such as the annual Roosevelt Day Dinners, the ADA Roosevelt Centennial Conference (1982), and the ADA Citizens' Energy Oversight Hearings (1981). Also included are records of UDA, the predecessor of ADA; ADA (formerly UDA) Educational Fund, Inc.; the ADA Political Action Committee; the ADA Youth Caucus (formerly Students for Democratic Action and Campus ADA); and the first half of an unpublished history of ADA. The records also document the ADA's relationship with the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic National Party, and the active role taken by Leon Shull, who became national director in 1964.


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