In These Times, Jan. 10-16, 1979

Ed kept detailed records about his contacts, and these note cards have been organized alphabetically across a few differing categories.

The General Correspondence Series (2.1 linear ft.) contains much of Ed’s miscellaneous correspondence--both with friends and his family. Ed saved many newspaper articles pertaining to civil rights and the Vietnam War. These have been categorized by topic in the section bearing the obvious name. Included in this series is the entire “Port Huron Statement” clipped from the New York Times. A final smaller section includes Ed’s collected posters and bumper stickers--all found in the Oversized Materials Series.

The Personal and Biographical Series includes materials related to Ed’s education at Union University, the University of Tennessee as well as Jackson High School. Along with the scholastic miscellany, the series includes materials on Nashville politics, religious organizations in which Ed took part, resumes, job materials as well as pamphlets brochures and newsletters.

The Newspaper Clippings Series contains information on Civil Rights Movement, Nursing, and other issues that raised Ed’s interest.

The Notecard Series consists of contact cards created through social activism work. They contain names, addresses, and phone numbers of people with like interests.

The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and White Folks Project (WFP) Series contains correspondence, reports, and publications from these two organizations as well as some material from SNCC. The information is primarily from the 1960’s.

The Community of Performing Arts (COPA) Series contains information on a joint New York State and Vermont project for teenagers. It consists of administrative files, payroll, and information on the formation of the organization.

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Series is a small series about the organization and has material Ed collected from the FCC as the bulk of the items.

The Mississippi Schools Materials Series and the South Carolina Schools Materials Series both consist of collected items from the desegregation of the schools and the problems encountered when that happened. Statistical data, publications, and notes taken by Ed comprise the majority of these two series.

The Nursing Series, one of the largest sections of the Ed Hamlett Papers (9.2 linear feet), spans Ed’s involvement in psychiatric nursing at Vanderbilt. It includes notes, publications, meeting notes and various other materials associated with the Tennessee Nurses Association, the American Nursing Association and nursing at Vanderbilt University, where Ed spent the majority of his nursing career.

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Series deals with information collected about the organization and Ed’s work with the group during the 1960’s.

The Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Series like the SDS series is comprised of material about the organization collected as Ed worked in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. Both are small series compared to the SSOC series.

The Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) Series represents the bulk of Ed’s work in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. He was an active member of this organization and was employed full-time for the group working with ollege and universities across the South. The series contains correspondence, reports, publications, and other primary sources that document the organization’s history, purpose, and objectives.

The Tennessee Council on Human Rights (TCHR) Series documents Ed’s association with the group in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The Vanderbilt Divinity School Series contains items from Ed’s career as a student of the school and primarily consists of syllabi and course materials.

Ed participated in many different groups working to effect social change in a variety of venues. Some of the minor projects with which he was associated make up the Miscellaneous Organizations Series (3.3 linear feet). Ed was a vocal activist against Vietnam, was involved in the project to “Save our Cumberland Mountains,” and participated in a group discussing the use of nuclear power in Huntsville. These sections, along with the others, house assorted pamphlets and flyers (as the rest of the organizations do), notes and publications.

The Great Speckled Bird Series contains issues of the publication from 1968 to 1974.

The last series contain a wealth material in the Miscellaneous Publications Series (9.17 linear feet). This is an assorted collection of various print related items that he collected throughout his life. Ed’s interest in politics, the South and student issues infuse this portion of the collection. From underground newspapers like the NOLA Express and fairly extensive collection of the Great Speckled Bird, to publications on Marxism as well as the nearly ubiquitous Newsweek and Time magazines, this series houses Ed’s collection of a broad range of printed matter.

The Ed Hamlett Papers contain one box of material Ed has labeled as restricted. It consists mainly of correspondence and will not be available for research.