Guide to the Lambert C. Mims Papers

Series 1. Sub-series C. Civil Rights, 1967-1972, 1977, 1979, 1981. 1 cubic foot.
This is an artificial series containing a compilation of various civil rights-related material found scattered throughout the collection. It is arranged alphabetically by subject and consists of newspapers and newsclippings, flyers, and other documents that cover a range of civil rights issues including job discrimination, police profiling, marches, and free speech. Of particular interest is information about the Glenn Diamond mock-lynching- police-brutality case, the Neighborhood Organized Workers, the United Student Action Movement, and the Mobile Area Committee for Training and Development, along with a 1968 report written by Mims discussing race relations in Mobile.

File 1 – Employment Discrimination, 1968
File 2 – Loose Documents
File 3 – Minority Business
File 4 – NAACP Response, 5/17/1979
File 5-6 – Neighborhood Organized Workers, Unlabeled Folder/Miscellaneous, 1969
File 7-10 – Newspaper Clippings, 1968
File 11 – Newspaper, Inner City News
File 12 – Newspaper, The Mobile Beacon and Alabama Citizen
File 13 – Newspaper, The New Times
File 14 – Newspaper, The Southern Courier
File 15 – Police Department, 1967-1972
File 16 – Police File, Ku Klux Klan Marches, 1977 & 1979
File 17 – Racial, Glenn Diamond, 3/1976*
File 18-22 – Racial Relations (Confidential), Mobile Area Committee for Training and Development, Inc.
File 23 – "Race Relation in Mobile: Past, Present, and Future," A Report by Lambert Mims, 2/05/1968
File 24 – Record on Minorities since 1981 Election

*Additional material on the Glenn Diamond case can be found in Bolden v. City of Mobile case in the United States District Court collection, our accession number 85-09-72. See Plaintiffs' Exhibit 65, Box 1, folder 65, and Defendant's Exhibit 85, Box 2, Folder 85. Also see the Social Justice Commission portion of the Blacksher, Menefee, and Stein Records for more information on Glenn Diamond.