UMKC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Ø MILLER NICHOLS LIBRARY
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT
RICHARD W. BOLLING COLLECTION
CIVIL RIGHTS/ DESEGREGATION LEGISLATION FILES
Box & Folder
Folder Description
Box 4 F 13
Special Interest; Stevenson, Adlai E.: Correspondence, Civil Rights Speeches of Gov. Stevenson.
Box 5 F 19
Civil Rights Discharge Petition – Petition to get Civil Rights Bill of 1964 onto House Floor for a vote.
Box 8 F 24
Civil Rights Bill 1957.
Box 10 F 11
Civil Rights 1955 – Legislation.
Box 12 F 43
Civil Rights 1956.
Box 13 F 21
Civil Rights 1957 – Legislation.
Box 13 F 23
Civil Rights 1957 – Legislation. Includes cases of discrimination and letters from Sen. Paul Douglas.
Box 15 F 38
Civil Rights 1958 – Subject Matter.
Box 17 F 36
Civil Rights 1959 – Legislation. Includes copies and reactions to Civil Rights Bill of 1959.
Box 20 F 26
Civil Rights 1960 – Legislation (86th Congress – 2nd Session).
Box 24 F 19
Civil Rights 1961 – Legislation (87th Congress – 1st Session).
Box 29 F 5
Civil Rights 1963 – Legislation (88th Congress – 1st Session). Participated in Special Orders October 17, 1963, to
denounce racial violence; voted against H.R. 4897 Wartime Sedition Act Extension.
Box 30 F 3
Civil Rights Steering Committee 1963 – (88th Congress, 1st Session).
Box 32 F 9
Civil Rights 1964 – Legislation. Speech outlining Bolling's position on civil rights and measures he had worked to
get passed; also report on local Missouri actions in civil rights.
Box 32 F 10
Civil Rights 1964 – Legislation (88th Congress – 2nd Session). Report on new Civil RightsAct of 1964;
congratulatory letter from President Johnson on passage.
Box 33 F 13
Civil Rights Steering Committee 1964 – Subject Matter (88th Congress – 2nd Session). Bolling's positions on
debate for the Civil Rights Bill.
Box 41 F 15
Civil Rights 1965 – Subject Matter. Pertaining to Voting Rights Act (P.L. 89-110) – statements refuting Rep.
William L. Dickinson's version of events on the Freedom March.
Box 43 F 18
Civil Rights 1966 – Subject Matter (89th Congress – 2nd Session).
Box 49 F 37
Civil Rights 1967 – Legislation (90th Congress – 1st Session).
Box 57 F 12
Civil Rights 1968 – (90th Congress – 2nd Session). Information on P.L. 90-284 the Civil Rights Act of 1968 – the
Fair Housing Law; includes Bolling’s Press Conference on the issue. [Box one of two.]
Box 57 F 13
Civil Rights 1968 – (90th Congress – 2nd Session) [Box two of two.]
Box 57 F 16
Civil Rights 1968 – Letters For and Against [Box one of two.]
Box 57 F 17
Civil Rights 1968 – Letters For and Against [Box two of two.]
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Box 61 F 11
Independent Agencies 1969 – (91st Congress – 1st Session) United States Commission on Civil Rights report:
“Federal Enforcement of School Desegregation.”
Box 66 F 1
Civil Rights 1956-57 – Timeline and provisions with background of the 1956 and 1957 Civil Rights Bills.
Box 66 F 14
Civil Rights 1969 – (91st Congress – 1st Session).
Box 73 F 13
Civil Rights & Civil Disorders 1970 – 91st Congress – 2nd Session [Box one of two: reports on the causes of
campus unrest; reaction to the Kent State killings]
Box 73 F 14
Civil Rights & Civil Disorders 1970 – 91st Congress – 2nd Session [Box two of two]
Box 83 F 16
Civil Rights & Civil Disorders 1971 – (92nd Congress – 1st Session)
Box 95 F 3
Civil Rights & Civil Disorders 1972 – (92nd Congress – 2nd Session)
Box 113 F 8
Civil Rights & Civil Disorders 1973 – (93rd Congress – 1st Session)
Box 142 F 8
Rules Committee 1968 – (90th Congress – 2nd Sesson). List of bills with action taken; transcript of meetings
dealing with Civil Rights Legislation.
Box 179 F 16
Subcommittee On Fiscal Policy 1976 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Bolling served as chair; letter asking for
study by CBO on inflation; Bolling criticisms of Labor Department for lack of enforcement of civil rights rules. [Box
one of three.]
Box 188 F 4
Civil Rights Commission Report 1976 – Final publication. Folder holds paper used for campaign.
Box 188 F 5
Desegregation – On efforts to desegregate KC school district.
Box 188 F 6
Civil Rights Commission Report 1976 – First draft and summary. Report on education in Kansas City.
Box 270 F 11
Hew/Desegregation File 1980 – (96th Congress – 2nd Session).
Box 270 F 12
Education/Civil Rights Kansas City 1980 – (96th Congress – 2nd Session). Includes letter notifying Bolling of
Federal Emergency School Aid Act funds.
Box 277 F 18
Hew/Desegregation File 1981 – (97th Congress – 1st Session). Includes report on school desegregation in the St.
Louis and Kansas City areas by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Box 316 F 10
Civil Rights 1964 – Information flyers on labor & campaign – pulled campaign posters & cards.
Box 340 F 17
Bolling Personal Campaign Matters 1964. One of seven folders including clippings, campaign materials, Bolling
letter to supporters, fundraising information; letter from Tom Eagleton notifying Bolling that Wayne Morse
(distributed pamphlets labeling Bolling a communist) will be indicted; quotes from RFK supporting Bolling; report
on Bolling’s civil rights record by NAACP; schedule of RFK’s visit to Kansas City; endorsements (local unions,
President Truman). All information relates to 1964 primary race against Hunter Phillips and the local factions.
Box 340 F 27
Clippings, Correspondence, etc. 1964 – For election. Includes copies of letter from President Johnson thanking
Bolling for work on the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Box 353 F 1
Hale Boggs – Includes information Boggs contested election; Boggs civil rights record.
FILES ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Box 72 F 4
Judiciary 2 1970 – (91st Congress – 2nd Session). Information on school prayer – Bolling’s opposition to
government action (Dirksen School Prayer Amendment); information on attempt to impeach Justice William O.
Douglas; information on proposed Equal Rights Amendment-Bolling supported. [Box one of three.]
Box 83 F 1
Judiciary 1, January-August, 1971 – (92nd Congress – 1st Session). Contains information on the Equal Rights
Amendment and School Prayer. [Box one of three.]
Box 125 F 17
James Loeb Comments on Mansfield-Aiken Proposal w/ Return Letters – Proposal for a Constitutional
Amendment for Presidential Primaries; contains background information as well.
Box 145 F 12
Kansas City Bussing 1975 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Includes anti-bussing letters, pro-constitutional
amendment to halt bussing; situation report for the KC School District. [Box one of four.]
Box 153 F 5
Judiciary Committee, January-May 1975 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Includes information on the Equal
Rights Amendment. [Box one of two.]
Box 153 F 7
Judiciary Committee, August 1975 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Includes information/opinions on the Equal
Rights Amendment. [Box one of four.]
Box 285 F 19
Judiciary 2 1981 – (97th Congress – 1st Session). Contains proposal by Mo. Gov. Kit Bond for Constitutional
Amendment to give president line-item veto. [Box one of two.]
Box 286 F 7
Judiciary Committee Budget 1981 – (97th Congress – 1st Session). Opinions mainly pro-balanced budget
amendment.
Box 320 F 19
LC Research Service Reorganization – Includes summaries of testimonies & recommendations on legislative
reorganization for Rules Committee; agenda for staff meetings; reports on Constitutionality of issues. [Box one of
two.]
Box 329 F 17
H.J. RES 317, 1969 – (91st Congress – 1st Session). Constitutional Amendment for direct election of President
and Vice-President. Co-sponsor. Notes on strategy for passage of bill.
Box 329 F 32
H.J. Res. 198 - Constitutional Amendment to implement the Voting Rights Act (18-yr old vote). Co-sponsor.
Box 329 F 33
H.J. Res 243, February 1, 1971 – (92nd Congress – 1st Session). Equal Rights for men and women.
Box 331 F 41
H.J. Res 209, January 18, 1973 – (93rd Congress – 1st Session). Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the
Electoral College. Co-sponsor.
Box 332 F 14
H.R. 9492, September 9, 1975 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Constitution for Guam.
Box 332 F 15
H.R. 9608, September 17, 1975 – (94th Congress – 1st Session). Constitution for the U. S. Virgin Islands.
Box 376 F 47
Reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Box 402 F 28
Project ’87, 1980-1982 – The American Constitutional Bicentennial.
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