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In the realm of social responsibility, a department of social relations had been formed in 1927 with Robert C. Dexter, Professor of Social and Political Science at Skidmore College, as executive secretary. After 1940 he was Director of Foreign Churches in the AUA Division of Churches.
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CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE: Robert C. Dexter, Secretary, Department of Social Relations. General office correspondence, 1930-1940.
bMS 524/1 (1) Dexter correspondence, 1930, January-Octoer.
bMS 524/1 (2) Dexter correspondence, 1930, November-December.
bMS 524/1 (3) Dexter correspondence, 1931.
bMS 524/1 (4) Dexter correspondence, 1932, January-February.
bMS 524/1 (5) Dexter correspondence, 1932, March-April.
bMS 524/1 (6) Dexter correspondence, 1932, May-June.
bMS 524/1 (7) Dexter correspondence, 1932, July-December.
bMS 524/1 (8) Dexter correspondence, 1934.
bMS 524/1 (9) Dexter correspondence, 1935, January.
bMS 524/1 (10) Dexter correspondence, 1935, February 1-13.
bMS 524/1 (11) Dexter correspondence, 1935, February 14-28.
bMS 524/1 (12) Dexter correspondence, 1935, March 1-16.
bMS 524/1 (13) Dexter correspondence, 1935, March 17-31.
bMS 524/1 (14) Dexter correspondence, 1935, April-May.
bMS 524/1 (15) Dexter correspondence, 1935, June-December.
bMS 524/1 (16) Dexter correspondence, 1936, January-March.
bMS 524/1 (17) Dexter correspondence, 1936, April.
bMS 524/1 (18) Dexter correspondence, 1936, May.
bMS 524/1 (19) Dexter correspondence, 1936, June.
bMS 524/1 (20) Dexter correspondence, 1936, July-September.
bMS 524/1 (21) Dexter correspondence, 1936, October-November.
bMS 524/1 (22) Dexter correspondence, 1936, December.
bMS 524/1 (23) Dexter correspondence, 1937, January.
bMS 524/1 (24) Dexter correspondence, 1937, February.
bMS 524/1 (25) Dexter correspondence, 1937, March.
bMS 524/1 (26) Dexter correspondence, 1937, April.
bMS 524/1 (27) Dexter correspondence, 1937, May 1-18.
bMS 524/1 (28) Dexter correspondence, 1937, May 19-31.
bMS 524/1 (29) Dexter correspondence, 1937, June.
bMS 524/1 (30) Dexter correspondence, 1937, July-September.
bMS 524/1 (31) Dexter correspondence, 1937, October.
bMS 524/1 (32) Dexter correspondence, 1937, November-December.
bMS 524/1 (33) Dexter correspondence, 1938, January.
bMS 524/2 (1) Dexter correspondence, 1938, February.
bMS 524/2 (2) Dexter correspondence, 1938, March.
bMS 524/2 (3) Dexter correspondence, 1938, April.
bMS 524/2 (4) Dexter correspondence, 1938, May.
bMS 524/2 (5) Dexter correspondence, 1938, June.
bMS 524/2 (6) Dexter correspondence, 1938, July-August.
bMS 524/2 (7) Dexter correspondence, 1938, September-October.
bMS 524/2 (8) Dexter correspondence, 1938, November-December.
bMS 524/2 (9) Dexter correspondence, 1939, January-February.
bMS 524/2 (10) Dexter correspondence, 1939, March.
bMS 524/2 (11) Dexter correspondence, 1939, April-May.
bMS 524/2 (12) Dexter correspondence, 1939, June 1-16.
bMS 524/2 (13) Dexter correspondence, 1939, June 17-30.
bMS 524/2 (14) Dexter correspondence, 1939, July-September.
bMS 524/2 (15) Dexter correspondence, 1939, October.
bMS 524/2 (16) Dexter correspondence, 1939, November.
bMS 524/2 (17) Dexter correspondence, 1939, December.
bMS 524/2 (18) Dexter correspondence, 1940, January-February.
bMS 524/2 (19) Dexter correspondence, 1940, March-December.
bMS 524/2 (20) Dexter correspondence, undated.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT C. DEXTER.
bMS 524/2 (21) Robert C. Dexter and John Howland Lathrop (1932-1940).
bMS 524/2 (22) Robert C. Dexter and Roy C. Cushman (1934-1940).
bMS 524/2 (23) Robert C. Dexter and Louis O. Cornish (1932-1937).
bMS 524/2 (24) Robert C. Dexter and Frederick May Eliot (1936-1940).
bMS 524/2 (25) Robert C. Dexter and John Haynes Holmes (1936-1937).
CORRESPONDENCE: Roy M. Cushman, Chair, Social Relations Committee.
bMS 524/2 (26) Cushman correspondence (1936-1937).
CORRESPONDENCE: John Howland Lathrop (1930-1935).
bMS 524/2 (27) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, October 18-24.
bMS 524/2 (28) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, October 25-28.
bMS 524/2 (29) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, October 29-31.
bMS 524/2 (30) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, November 1-5.
bMS 524/2 (31) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, November 6-10.
bMS 524/2 (32) Lathrop correspondence, 1930, November 11-14.
bMS 524/2 (33) Summary of letters received in answer to questionnaire dated December 3, 1930.
bMS 524/2 (34) Lathrop correspondence, 1931-35.
bMS 524/2 (35) Lathrop correspondence, undated.
CORRESPONDENCE: Frederick May Eliot
bMS 524/2 (36) Eliot correspondence (1938-1940).
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE: Department of Social Relations (1930-1940).
bMS 524/3 (1) General Correspondence, 1930-31.
bMS 524/3 (2) General Correspondence, 1932-34.
bMS 524/3 (3) General Correspondence, 1935.
bMS 524/3 (4) General Correspondence, 1936-37.
bMS 524/3 (5) General Correspondence, 1938.
bMS 524/3 (6) General Correspondence, 1939.
bMS 524/3 (7) General Correspondence, 1940.
bMS 524/3 (8) General Correspondence, undated.
bMS 524/3 (9) Correspondence with Fellowship for Social Justice (1940).
PAPERS: New England School for Democracy, 1940, Mach 27-30.
bMS 524/3 (10) Program, financial statement, evaluation.
bMS 524/3 (11) Address on Civil Liberties by Freda Kirchway.
bMS 524/3 (12) Correspondence between Robert C. Dexter and Elizabeth Whiting.
bMS 524/3 (13) Correspondence to those invited to attend.
bMS 524/3 (14) Correspondence with program participants.
CIRCULAR LETTERS: on Social issues from the Department to ministers & churches, 1928-1940.
bMS 524/3 (15) Circular letters, 1928-1930.
bMS 524/3 (16) Circular letters, 1931.
bMS 524/3 (17) Circular letters, 1932.
bMS 524/3 (18) Circular letters, 1933, January-June.
bMS 524/3 (19) Circular letters, 1933, July-December.
bMS 524/3 (20) Circular letters, 1934, January-August.
bMS 524/3 (21) Circular letters, 1934, September-December.
bMS 524/3 (22) Circular letters, 1935, January-September.
bMS 524/3 (23) Circular letters, 1935, October-December.
bMS 524/3 (24) Circular letters, 1936, January-August.
bMS 524/4 (1) Circular letters, 1936, September-December.
bMS 524/4 (2) Circular letters, 1937, January-March.
bMS 524/4 (3) Circular letters, 1937, April-May.
bMS 524/4 (4) Circular letters, 1937, June.
bMS 524/4 (5) Circular letters, 1937, July-December.
bMS 524/4 (6) Circular letters, 1938, January.
bMS 524/4 (7) Circular letters, 1938, February-March.
bMS 524/4 (8) Circular letters, 1938, April-1940, December.
bMS 524/4 (9) Circular letters, undated.
PAPERS: Program of Social Action, 1934-1935.
bMS 524/4 (10) Tentative program of social action, 1934, October.
bMS 524/4 (11) Memo on program of social action, 1934, November 2.
bMS 524/4 (12) Memo on proposed program of social action, 1934, November 8.
bMS 524/4 (13) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 16-18.
bMS 524/4 (14) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 19.
bMS 524/4 (15) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 20.
bMS 524/4 (16) Comments on program of social action, 1934, November 21, A-H.
bMS 524/4 (17) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 21, I-Z.
bMS 524/4 (18) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 22.
bMS 524/4 (19) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 23-25.
bMS 524/4 (20) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 26.
bMS 524/4 (21) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 27.
bMS 524/4 (22) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 28.
bMS 524/4 (23) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Nov. 29-30.
bMS 524/5 (1) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 1-2.
bMS 524/5 (2) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 3.
bMS 524/5 (3) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 4-8.
bMS 524/5 (4) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 9-13.
bMS 524/5 (5) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 14-15.
bMS 524/5 (6) Comments on program of social action, 1934, DEc. 16-19.
bMS 524/5 (7) Comments on program of social action, 1934, Dec. 23-1935, Jan. 4.
bMS 524/5 (8) Replies received from advisors on program, 1935.
bMS 524/5 (9) Program of social action (tentative), 1935, Jan. 3.
bMS 524/5 (10) Comments on program of social action, 1935, Jan. 5-FEb. 13.
bMS 524/5 (11) Comments on program of social action, 1935, Feb. 14-20.
bMS 524/5 (12) Comments on program of social action, 1935, Feb. 21-22.
bMS 524/5 (13) Comments on program of social action, 1935, Feb. 25-26.
bMS 524/5 (14) Comments on program of social action, 1935, Feb. 27-March 11.
bMS 524/5 (15) Comments on program of social action, 1935, March 12-14.
bMS 524/5 (16) Comments on program of social action, 1935, March 15-31.
bMS 524/5 (17) Comments on program of social action, 1935, April 1-May 1.
bMS 524/5 (18) Comments on program of social action, undated.
bMS 524/5 (19) Program of Social Action proposal, undated.
bMS 524/5 (20) Program of Social Action, press release, 1935, Feb. 4.
bMS 524/5 (21) Program of Social Action, pamphlet, 1935, March 28.
MINUTES OF MEETINGS of the Deparrment of Social Relations (1926-1938).
bMS 524/5 (22) Minutes, 1926.
bMS 524/5 (23) Minutes, 1928.
bMS 524/5 (24) Minutes, 1929.
bMS 524/5 (25) Index to minutes of meetings held 1933-1938.
bMS 524/5 (26) Minutes, 1933, December 12 to 1934, May 23.
bMS 524/5 (27) Minutes, 1934, May 24-October 9.
bMS 524/5 (28) Minutes, 1935, January-February.
bMS 524/5 (29) Minutes, 1935, March.
bMS 524/5 (30) Minutes, 1935, April-May.
bMS 524/5 (31) Minutes, 1935, June 1-October 21.
bMS 524/5 (32) Minutes, 1935, October 22-November 24.
bMS 524/5 (33) Minutes, 1935, November 25-December 31.
bMS 524/5 (34) Minutes, 1936, January-February.
bMS 524/5 (35) Minutes, 1936, March.
bMS 524/5 (36) Minutes, 1936, April.
bMS 524/5 (37) Minutes, 1936, May.
bMS 524/6 (1) Minutes, 1936, June-December.
bMS 524/6 (2) Minutes, 1937, January-February.
bMS 524/6 (3) Minutes, 1937, March-April.
bMS 524/6 (4) Minutes, 1937, May-September.
bMS 524/6 (5) Minutes, 1937, October-November.
bMS 524/6 (6) Minutes, 1937, December, to 1938, February.
bMS 524/6 (7) Minutes, 1938, March-April.
PAPERS OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE,
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS, 1936-1940.
MINUTES OF MEETINGS, Social Relations Committee, 1936-1940.
bMS 524/6 (8) Minutes, 1936.
bMS 524/6 (9) Minutes, 1937.
bMS 524/6 (10) Index to meetings held 1938-1940, listed by subject.
bMS 524/6 (11) Minutes, 1938, May-October.
bMS 524/6 (12) Minutes, 1938, November to 1939, April.
bMS 524/6 (13) Minutes, 1939, May-October.
bMS 524/6 (14) Minutes, 1939, November-December.
bMS 524/6 (15) Minutes, 1940, Janaury-February.
bMS 524/6 (16) Minutes, 1940, March.
bMS 524/6 (17) Minutes, undated.
CORRESPONDENCE: Social Relations Committee, 1938-1939.
bMS 524/6 (18) Correspondence, 1938: John Howland Lathrop, Alfred Whitman, Judge J. Ward Healey.
bMS 524/6 (19) Correspondence, 1938-39: Larry Davidow, David Stickney, General H.C. Newcomer.
bMS 524/6 (20) Correspondence, 1938, November, to 1939, February: Anna Fenn.
bMS 524/6 (21) Correspondence, 1939, March-April: Anna Fenn.
bMS 524/6 (22) Correspondence, 1938-39: miscellaneous.
CORRESPONDENCE: Massachusetts Social Relations Committee, 1939-1940.
bMS 524/6 (23) Correspondence, Robert C. Dexter.
bMS 524/6 (24) Correspondence, Thaddeus B. Clark.
bMS 524/6 (25) Correspondence between Robert C. Dexter and Thaddeus B. Clark.
bMS 524/6 (26) Correspondence and papers, 1940, miscellaneous.
RESOLUTIONS, 1923-1938
bMS 524/6 (27) Resolutions on problems in U.S. Democracy, 1923-38.
bMS 524/6 (28) Resolutions on international relations, 1923-38.
bMS 524/6 (29) Resolutions on civil and religious liberty, 1923-1938.
bMS 524/6 (30) Various resolutions and votes on social questions, Board of Directors, AUA, 1926-1933.
bMS 524/6 (31) Resolution on narcotic drugs, 1931.
bMS 524/6 (32) Resolutions regarding Department of Social Relations, 1933-1934.
bMS 524/6 (33) Resolutions concerning internal AUA matters, undated.
STATEMENTS AND REPORTS
bMS 524/7 (1) Robert C. Dexter, Report to the Department of Social Relations and The Next Step in a Unitarian Social Program, 1928.
bMS 524/7 (2) Report on trip through South and Southwest, 1929-1930.
bMS 524/7 (3) Robert C. Dexter, report to President of the AUA, 1930.
bMS 524/7 (4) Robert C. Dexter, report on the situation at Marion, North Carolina, 1930.
bMS 524/7 (5) Report on the Textile Situation in the Southern States, 1930.
bMS 524/7 (6) Rebort on the Activities of the Social Relations Department, Robert C. Dexter, 1930.
bMS 524/7 (7) Report on Study Conference on Disarmament, 1931.
bMS 524/7 (8) Rebort on the Ministers' Institute, 1934.
bMS 524/7 (9) Roy M. Cushman, report to Directors of the AUA, 1935.
bMS 524/7 (10) Roy M. Cushman, report to the Committee on Administration, 1936.
bMS 524/7 (11) Report on activities and plans of the Department of Social RElations, 1936.
bMS 524/7 (12) Robert C. Dexter, report by Secretary of the Department of Social Relations.
bMS 524/7 (13) Statement on the Council Ideal, no date.
bMS 524/7 (14) Report on crime and the penal system, no date.
bMS 524/7 (15) Statement on Functions of Department of Social Relations, no date.
bMS 524/7 (16) Reobert C. Dexter, report on growth and integration as characterizing the Department of Social Relations, no date.
bMS 524/7 (17) AUA Statement of Duties of Secretary of Department of Social Relations, no date.
bMS 524/7 (18) Statement on the Immediate Future in the Department of Social Relations, no date.
bMS 524/7 (19) Statement on Summary of Report on Activities of the Social Relations Department, no date.
bMS 524/7 (20) Statement on Collective Bargaining, no date.
bMS 524/7 (21) Robert C. Dexter, report on Western trip, no date.
UNION NOW
bMS 524/7 (22) Promotion of Clarence Streit's book, Union Now.
bMS 524/7 (23) Comments on Union Now, 1940, March 1-20.
bMS 524/7 (24) Comments on Union Now, 1940, March 21-25.
bMS 524/7 (25) Comments on Union Now, 1940, March 26-31.
bMS 524/7 (26) Comments on Union Now, 1940, April.
bMS 524/7 (27) Comments on Union Now, no date.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
bMS 524/7 (28) Publicity Releases, various dates and undated.
bMS 524/7 (29) Program of Social Action pamphlet, 1934.
bMS 524/7 (30) Letters "to the Editor" of various publications.
bMS 524/7 (31) Newspaper clippings.
MISCELLANEOUS
bMS 524/8 (1) Summary of Attitudes of the Unitarian Body toward Social Questions, 1880-1920.
bMS 524/8 (2) Summary of Letters on Social Action Program, 1930.
bMS 524/8 (3) Correspondence on printing costs of Program of Social Action, 1934-1935.
bMS 524/8 (4) Newsletter of Unitarian Ministerial Union, 1936.
bMS 524/8 (5) Distribution of Program of Social Action and General Mailing List, 1935-1937.
bMS 524/8 (6) Questionnaire: Social Activities of Unitarians, 1937.
bMS 524/8 (7) Laymen's League Minister-Laymen Partnership Document, 1937.
bMS 524/8 (8) Delta Cooperative Farm venture, correspondence and Newsletter, 1938.
bMS 524/8 (9) Correspondence with legislators on issues of Civil Liberties, 1938, October-November.
bMS 524/8 (10) Correspondence with legislators on issues of Civil Liberties, 1938, December to 1939, March.
bMS 524/8 (11) Issue of Czechoslovak appeal, 1939.
bMS 524/8 (12) Summary of replies received from advisors on social program, no title.
bMS 524/8 (13) Questionnaire: Program of Social Action proposed for the Unitarian church, no date.
bMS 524/8 (14) Questionnaire: Social Forces in Religion, no date.
bMS 524/8 (15) Department of Social Relations: Aims, Purposes, Resolutions, no date.
bMS 524/8 (16) Reports by churches on social relations issues and interest, no date.
bMS 524/8 (17) Miscellaneous papers, no date.