James H. Laue papers

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Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

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George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

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Preferred citation:: James H. Laue papers, C0055, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 43 linear ft.; 100 boxes
Creator:: James H. Laue
Abstract:: This collection contains the working papers of James H. Laue, former professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, legal documents, and memorabilia.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: James H. Laue papers, C0055, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the working papers of James H. Laue, former professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University. The papers document Laue's development as a sociology student and Civil Rights activist in the early 1960s through his career as a mediator and professor of urban sociology and conflict resolution into the early 1990s. Materials in the collection include manuscripts, correspondence, workshop papers, notebooks, legal documents, photographs, audio cassettes, and memorabilia.

Series 1, Correspondence, contains correspondence between Laue and his colleagues, including Civil Rights advocates during the 1960s and Peace Academy Commission members during the late 1970s and early 80s. The series is divided into two subseries of correspondence, the first arranged by date and the second arranged alphabetically by surname.

Series 2, Conflict Resolution Papers, contains materials from various conflict resolution organizations, initiatives, and workshops in which Laue participated as a leader or active member. The series includes mediation workshop materials, manuscript drafts of books and essays on the practice of conflict resolution, and papers documenting Laue's role in mediating such conflicts as the farm debt crisis of the mid 1980s, the Fort Worth I-30 expansion dispute, and the public memory of the 1970 Kent State shootings. Figuring prominently in the series is Laue's work with the Community Crisis Intervention Center at Washington University-St. Louis in the 1970s and the Conflict Clinic, Inc. at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the 1980s (and later at George Mason University).

Series 3, Peace Academy Campaign Papers, documents Laue's leading role in the campaign to establish a U.S. Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. The series includes public hearings conducted by the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace, which Laue chaired in 1978-1980; Congressional records and hearings regarding the establishment of the U.S. Academy of Peace; newsletters, brochures, and meeting minutes of the National Peace Academy Campaign (N-PAC), which Laue co-founded in 1976; and various administrative, financial, and promotional materials from the National Peace Academy Foundation / National Peace Institute Foundation (NPAF/NPIF), and the U.S. Academy of Peace / U.S. Institute of Peace (USAP/USIP).

Series 4, Civil Rights Papers, documents Laue's involvement in the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s. The series is divided into two subseries. Subseries 4.1, Direct Action and Desegregation, covers Laue's activism in the Civil Rights movement during the early 1960s and includes notes, interviews, and other materials used in his dissertation, Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962 as well as later essays on Civil Rights by Laue and others. This subseries also contains memoranda, pamphlets, and newsletters from such prominent Sixties grass-roots organizations as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Southern Regional Council (SRC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Subseries 4.2, Community Relations Service (CRS), documents Laue's work for the CRS under the U.S. Department of Justice in the mid to late 1960s, where he became the head of Program Evaluation and Development. Materials include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, personnel files, and speeches.

Series 5, Academic Papers, contains materials from Laue's work as a student, scholar, and teacher. The series is divided into two subseries. Subseries 5.1, Student Papers, covers Laue's academic career from childhood in River Falls, Wisconsin through college and graduate school at Harvard. The subseries contains sociology papers Laue wrote as a student, college notebooks, course materials, church sermons, and correspondence with professors. Subseries 5.2, Professional Papers, covers Laue's academic career as a researcher at the Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, as a professor of sociology and urban studies at Washington University-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the 1970s and 80s, and as a professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in the late 80s and early 90s. The subseries contains journal articles and commencement speeches written by Laue, course materials, academic exercises used in workshops on conflict mediation, and biographical materials prepared for annual reviews and tenure application.

Series 6, Conferences and Workshops, contains programs, presentations, notes, and correspondence pertaining to various conferences and workshops Laue attended or administered. The folder dates in this series generally refer to the dates the conferences were held and may not encompass the date range of all materials in the folder. Ranging from small local workshops to large international meetings, the conferences cover a range of themes including desegregation, clinical sociology, community conflict intervention, international arbitration, and peace education. Series 7, News Clippings and Articles, contains newspaper articles collected and assembled by Laue. Themes include desegregation and civil rights, international politics, biographical pieces and interviews with Laue, and the peace academy campaign. The series is divided into two subseries, the first arranged by date and the second arranged alphabetically by subject or newspaper title.

Series 7, News Clippings and Articles, contains newspaper articles collected and assembled by Laue. Themes include desegregation and civil rights, international politics, biographical pieces and interviews with Laue, and the peace academy campaign. The series is divided into two subseries, the first arranged by date and the second arranged alphabetically by subject or newspaper title.

Series 8, Photographs, contains mostly black-and-white photographs of Laue from youth through adulthood. The series contains several portraits as well as pictures of Laue with fellow students, family members, and colleagues.

Series 9, Memorabilia, contains certificates, drawings, posters, and other memorabilia mostly from Laue's youth. Included are several items from Laue's participation in the Wisconsin American Legion Badger Boys civic activism program as a child.

Series 10, Audio Cassettes, contains audio tape recordings of presentations, sermons, and speeches by James Laue, Jimmy Carter, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Series 11, Oversize, contains newspapers and large format magazines mostly dealing with racial issues, protest, and civil rights.

This series contains correspondence between Laue and his colleagues, including Civil Rights advocates during the 1960s and Peace Academy Commission members during the late 1970s and early 80s. The series is divided into two subseries of correspondence, the first arranged chronologically and the second arranged alphabetically by surname.

Executive Director of the National Peace Institute Foundation (NPIF)

Kansas Congressman

Director of the National Peace Academy Foundation (NPAF)

Letter to Morris Abram, President of the American Jewish Committee, re: SCLC position on Israel and Anti-Semitism

Executive Director of the National Peace Academy Campaign (N-PAC)

Hawaii Senator

Executive Director of N-PAC

This series contains materials from various conflict resolution organizations, initiatives, and workshops in which Laue participated as a leader or active member. The series includes mediation workshop materials, manuscript drafts of books and essays on the practice of conflict resolution, and papers documenting Laue's role in mediating such conflicts as the farm debt crisis of the mid 1980s, the Fort Worth I-30 expansion dispute, and the public memory of the 1970 Kent State shootings. Figuring prominently in the series is Laue's work with the Community Crisis Intervention Center at Washington University-St. Louis in the 1970s and the Conflict Clinic, Inc. at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the 1980s (and later at George Mason University).

by James Laue, Christopher Mitchell, and Peter Swanson

by James Laue

Atlanta, GA

by William Potapchuck, National Civic Review

Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrated Sciences (ISAS) seminar; I-30 controversy

pamphlet

outline with notes

contains correspondence between Bishop Frederick D. Wertz and John P. Adams re: textbook selection controversy in Kanawaha County

project proposal

contributing writers: Martin Blum, Alana Cohen, Gerald Cormick, Frederick Hobby, Martha Kohn

report prepared by Alana S. Cohen, Director, assisted by James Laue

Board for Mediation of Community Disputes (BMCD) and CMCR Monitoring, 3rd Quarter Data

meetings on the Conflict Clinic and Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at GMU

George Mason University

printed announcement on 3x5" cardstock

reprinted from the Handbook of Applied Sociology, pp. 67-90

trainer manual by Elizabeth Rose and Angela Callahan

by James Laue, copied from Engage/Social Action Forum 43

by James Laue

by Hugh Boeving

by George Shaner

by Jonathan Brooks

by Diane LeResche

by Donald Bassett

by Susan Shearouse

by Robert K. Reed

by Peter J. Bryan Swanson

by Frank Dukes

by Brian Polkinghorn

by James Laue

Centre for Intergroup Studies, Southern Regional Council, etc.

prepared by Lonnie Weiss for the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Zion, Illinois

duplicates

The Carter Center, Emory University

by Richard Fogg

journal

by James Laue

invitation soliciting biographical information from Laue at the recommendation of J. R. L. Feilleux

report by Robert A. Baruch Bush for the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR)

notes and proposal for "imagineered" pavilion of conflict resolution at Epcot

by John N. Warfield

"The Siege at Wounded Knee" and "Violence and Nonviolence in the Struggle for Social Justice"

notes and papers on environmental law, the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India, and the settlement of AIDS disputes

by James Laue and Gerald W. Cormick

edited by James Laue and Gerald W. Cormick

duplicate

Center for Correctional Justice, Washington, DC: "Development of Inmate Grievance Procedures" - quarterly reports by John R. Hepburn, project director, and James Laue, principal investigator

US Army Corps of Engineers

by Stephen Erickson and Marilyn McKnight

Minnesota State Planning Agency

magazine of the Fellowship on Reconciliation; cover features Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank

by James Laue

Harvard Medical School's Laboratory of Community Psychiatry designation of Laue as Ford Foundation consultant

by Roger Richman, copied from Public Administration Review

report submitted to John W. Hanley, Chairman of the City-County Task Force of Civic Progress, by Dana L. Spitzer, Regional Government Affairs Director, Monsanto Company

by James Laue, copied from the Journal of Intergroup Relations

notes

by James Laue

by William Potapchuck, James Laue, and John S. Murray; US Army Corps of Engineers Working Paper No. 3, Alternative Dispute Resolution Series

World Policy Institute

report and correspondence on lost personal items

by Candace Borland and Garland Landrith III

The United Methodist Council of Bishops

notes, news clippings, and memoranda

CMCR and BMCD monitoring

a Harvard Negotiation Project publication

articles and memoranda

newsletter, notes, articles

coordinated by James Laue

Iowa Memorial Union

Ecumenical Ministries of Iowa; includes notes and correspondence

memoranda, project description, and progress report

journals

speech quotes, press releases, and news clippings

issues include article and book review by Laue

James Laue, special issue editor and contributor

Symposium on the Urban Impacts of Reagan Administration Policies

report on review and vote on series of textbooks; Charleston, West Virginia

press releases and memoranda from Reverend John P. Adams and James Laue

articles, press releases, and correspondence on Justice Department reopening inquiry into Kent State shooting

statement of parents and families of students killed or wounded; correspondence between Kent State trustees and university president, Brage Golding; correspondence re: registration of Kent State shootings location as historic preservation site

notes and memos on meetings with Kent State trustees, administrative representatives, and congressmen

Kent State Weekly (newsletter) and the Daily Kent Stater (newspaper); Kent State FACT (First Amendment Conservation Task-Force), Vol. 1 No. 2; memoranda from William Keeney of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED)

by Thomas R. hensley and Jerry M. Lewis, 176 pages

by Frank M. Coffin

by James Laue

published by An Interchurch Group on Faith and Politics, 138 pages; includes notes for a sermon on peace

by James Laue, 54 pages

report from the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR)

an analysis of the negotiated investment strategy (NIS) by James Laue, 16 pages

Forum for Initiatives in Reparation and Mediation

by Roger Richman

by Dean E. Peachey, Brian Snyder, and Alan Teichroeb for Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region

Faculty Dispute Resolution Seminar

Rev. John P. Adams

St. Louis

Washington, DC

notes

Conflict Clinic, Inc.

hazardous waste management planning

by Marlene Maskornick; rough draft with notes

American Arbitration Association; newsletters, brochures, memoranda

report on Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole; class exercises and training materials

program development; news clippings; consultation materials - "The Processarians"; speech by Jery Wurf, President of the AFSCME; correspondence with Gerald W. Cormick, Director of the Community Crisis Intervention Center

includes letter informing Laue of National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution sponsored by NIDR and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

article and notes

notes and memoranda; Gary, Indiana

notes

report with documents prepared by teams representing the City of Gary, the State of Indiana, and the Region V (Chicago) Office of the Federal Regional Council, United States Government

misc. brochures and newsletters

James Laue and Elliot Stein, Jr.

contains memoranda and meeting minutes; Maurice Macey, director

University of Missouri, St. Louis

Nos. 36-1, 36-2, 36-4, 36-8, 36-9, and 36-11

United Methodist Council of Bishops

correspondence and brochure; community crisis intervention; Harvard Medical School

mediation training packet by Ethan Katsh and Janet Rifkin

by David G. Gil

Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS); Larry Susskind

Lawrence Susskind, Maurice Boisvert, Sylvia Watts, Daniel Donahue

Massachusetts DSS; Public Private Partnership Program (PPPP); NIS; Lawrence Susskind; Wendy Fishbeck; Inter-University Consortium to Improve the Theory and Practice of Dispute Resolution

meeting minutes

NIS, DSS, Lawrence Susskind, Denise Magden

by John Forester, 59 pages

memoranda from John Hepburn to James Laue and Martha Becker

by James Laue

Administrative Conference of the United States

Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts DSS

memorandum from James Laue to John Hepburn and Martha Becker

newsletter of the Conservation Foundation

by David Cox; the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, Background Paper No. 13

Gethsemane Methodist Church

St. Stephen's

Susan Thistlethwaite

Baltimore, Maryland

RF, UCC

by David B. Walker

by James Laue

by John Spiegel, Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence

by David G. Gil

Anne B. Thomas, editor

newsletter of the Committee in Solidarity with Latin American Non-Violent Movements

court cases and report of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis

by Padraig O'Malley

Congressional Hearings on "Research into Violent Behavior"

by Lawrence Susskind and Gerard McMahon, Yale Journal of Regulation

by James Laue

by Gerald W. Cormick and James Laue

by John S. Murray

contains notes, correspondence, and news clippings

includes materials for a workshop on "The Bishop's Role as Conflict Resolver"

by James Laue

prepared by Arthur B. Shostak; 6 pages

contains correspondence, notes, and information on producing a public-access television series

by James Laue

Joh M. Ashbrook , Ohio Senator

International Exposition Center, Cleveland, Ohio

This series documents Laue's leading role in the campaign to establish a U.S. Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. The series includes public hearings conducted by the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace, which Laue chaired in 1978-1980; Congressional records and hearings regarding the establishment of the U.S. Academy of Peace; newsletters, brochures, and meeting minutes of the National Peace Academy Campaign (N-PAC), which Laue co-founded in 1976; and various administrative, financial, and promotional materials from the National Peace Academy Foundation / National Peace Institute Foundation (NPAF/NPIF), and the U.S. Academy of Peace / U.S. Institute of Peace (USAP/USIP).

by Howard B. Christenson

by J. David Singer, printed in The Bulletin

Newscope

note: items under the heading "Commission" pertain to the work of the U.S. Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Laue's statement for Senate Bill 1976 to establish the George Washington Peace Academy

transcript recorded by Anderson Reporting Company

H.R. 5088, H.R. 6182

S. 1976

lists address by Laue titled, "On Penitence and Causing Peace: Are We Ready for a U.S. Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution?"

by William J. Spencer

letter from Laue to Henrietta Buckmaster, editor of the Christian Science Monitor's Home Forum page

article by Mary Liebman in Prioritas

note: N-PAC refers to an official organization working to establish a U.S. Academy of Peace, whereas other files in this series pertain to the peace academy campaign more generally

pamphlet

contains correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, notes, and memoranda

by James Laue

N-PAC Case Study by Regina Ceisler

note: items under the heading "NPAF" pertain to the financial wing of the U.S. Academy of Peace

note: the National Peace Academy Foundation changed its name to the National Peace Institute Foundation in 1985

includes Ralph Nader article, "Neglecting Peace"

alcoholism

newsletter

proposal for National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Focal Point

by James Laue, printed in Engage / Social Action

by Patricia Washburn and Robert Gribbon

by Benjamin Rush, first published in 1789

by Elise Boulding

by James Laue

by Joseph H. Herzberg

by James Laue

Cleveland, Ohio; Albert L. Jeandheur

St. Louis Review

by Milton C. Mapes in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly

by Arthur I. Waskow

note: the U.S. Academy of Peace changed its name to the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1984

revised agenda

by W. Scott Thompson, James Laue, Brian Urquhart, and Chester A. Crocker

newsletter of the USIP

a project of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota in cooperation with the Committee for National Security, Honeywell, Inc., and the League of Women Voters of Minnesota; 104 pages

by Bryant Wedge

by Frederick L. Schuman

This series documents Laue's involvement in the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s. The series is divided into two subseries. Subseries 4.1, Direct Action and Desegregation, covers Laue's activism in the Civil Rights movement during the early 1960s and includes notes, interviews, and other materials used in his dissertation, Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962 as well as later essays on Civil Rights by Laue and others. This subseries also contains memoranda, pamphlets, and newsletters from such prominent Sixties grass-roots organizations as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Southern Regional Council (SRC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Subseries 4.2, Community Relations Service (CRS), documents Laue's work for the CRS under the U.S. Department of Justice in the mid to late 1960s, where he became the head of Program Evaluation and Development. Materials include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, personnel files, and speeches.

This subseries covers Laue's activism in the Civil Rights movement during the early 1960s and includes notes, interviews, and other materials used in his dissertation, Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962 as well as later essays on Civil Rights by Laue and others. This subseries also contains memoranda, pamphlets, and newsletters from such prominent Sixties grass-roots organizations as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Southern Regional Council (SRC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, 103 pages

includes notes, news clippings, and a pamphlet on the civil rights movement in Albany prepared by Students for a Democratic Society

includes notes, news clippings, and an essay on Albany by Howard Zinn, prepared for the Southern Regional Council

includes notes, news clippings, and information on a Prayer Pilgrimage in Albany on August 27

articles by James Laue

by James Laue and Leon McCorkle

includes a special report from the Southern Regional Council titled, "Plans for Progress: Atlanta Survey"

contains notes for a talk titled "Atlanta: on Church and Power Structure"

revised draft by Martin Oppenheimer and James Laue, 150 pages

magazine examining the Black Panther movement, edited by Patricia Sachs, written by J. Alvin Kugelmass, published by Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation

by James Laue and Martin Oppenheimer; annotated manuscript drafts with revisions and comments

by James Laue and Martin Oppenheimer; manuscript draft with comments

chapter notes and outlines

by James Laue and Martin Oppenheimer; manuscript draft with comments

manuscript draft with comments; portion derived from Laue's dissertation, "Direct Action and Desegregation"

annotated partial manuscript draft

manuscript revision later included as chapter 5 of Laue's published dissertation

manuscript revision later included as chapter 6 of Laue's published dissertation

manuscript draft with notes

manuscript draft with comments

includes correspondence with Rev. John P. Adams and a letter from the Black United Front rejecting Laue's proposal for a Community Crisis Intervention Project

by Robert Dudnick

pamphlet by Jack Minnis; Organizer's Library Series of the Southern Conference Educational Fund

file includes a pamphlet of the Network on Educational Unrest, surveys on racial perceptions, and a paper titled "The Corp: Its Role, Its Ethics, Its Ideology"

article reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

includes newsletters, memoranda, news clippings, reports, and community resource packets

cover story on student activism, by Robert C. Johansen

contains articles, sermons, notes, news clippings, and meeting minutes from the Fisk Institute on Race Relations

includes newspapers, journals, and public addresses published by the Citizens' Council, as well as an op-ed to the Washington Post, written by Charleton Putnam

includes pamphlet from the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, a pro-desegregation letter to department store presidents from students of Miles College in Birmingham, and a pamphlet titled "Committees on Human Rights in Kentucky"

contains Laue's notes on the Civil Rights movement

contains Laue's notes on department store sit-ins in Atlanta

contain Laue's notes on the Civil Rights movement

published by the Harvard Political Participation Council

article by Tom Hayden in Liberation

includes newsletters, memoranda, notes, and correspondence

includes notes, news clippings, a criminal probation notice to James Laue from the Court of Dade County, Florida, for civil disobedience, and a probation discharge notice the following year

pamphlet with photographs, by James T. McCain, CORE Director of Organization

article by James Laue published in Social Forces Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 315-24

three issues

by Richard Patton and James Laue

from dissertation by James Laue

by James Laue

includes notes, news clippings, press releases, and memoranda

a Southern Regional Council pamphlet by Pat Watters

includes newsletters, reports, memoranda, brochures, articles, and news clippings

by Maya Angelou

contains news clippings, articles, reports, memoranda, and press releases

news clippings

by Martin Oppenheimer, 283 pages

includes statistics and statements about race and segregation in South Carolina

by Anne Braden for the National Committee to Abolish the HUAC

published by the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing

transcript, 4.5 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 2.25 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 3.5 hours

transcript, 2.5 hours

transcript, 3.5 hours

transcript, 3.75 hours

transcript, 4.25 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 1.75 hours

transcript, 2.5 hours

transcript

transcript, 4.75 hours

transcript, 3.5 hours

transcript, 1.75 hours

transcript, 2.75 hours

transcript, 5.5 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 1.25 hours

transcript, 45 minutes

transcript, 2.75 hours

transcript, 3.5 hours

transcript, 2 hours

transcript, 1.5

transcript, 2.75 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 3.25 hours

transcripts, news release, memorandum, and a survey from Fisk University

transcript, 2 hours

transcript, 4.75 hours

transcript, 2 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 1.75 hours

transcript, 2 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 2 hours

transcript, 3 hours

transcript, 2 hours

original interview folders

published jointly by the Southern Regional Council, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Department of Racial and Cultural Relations

pamphlet by Major Johns and Ronnie Moore, Southern University students expelled for their role in the Civil Rights struggle

article by Bayard Rustin in the AFL-CIO American Federationist

by Albert E. Gollin

newsletters and programs

newsletters, correspondence, memoranda, and reports

notes, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures

notes, news clippings, memoranda

article by James Laue

notes, news clippings, and press releases from the Southern Regional Council

notes and news clippings

news releases, news clippings, mailings, etc.

by Martin Timins

published by the American Jewish Committee

article by James Laue from Riots and Rebellion: Civil Violence in the Urban Community

articles, news clippings, newsletters, and press releases

by James Laue, 82 pages

by Fanklin Thomas

on violence and disorder at Republican Convention on August 23

special report by Tom Hayden, president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

articles and memorandum from Carrol Waymon on the future of the Citizens' Interracial Committee

notes and outline for NAIRO talk

news clippings and sheet music for NYC recording session

notes, news clippings, and CORE direct action statistics

essay by James Laue for Social Relations 284 at Harvard, 50 pages

notes on book with Martin Oppenheimer

journal issue includes Laue article, "Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching: a commentary on the role of the moderate"

memoranda and press releases from the SCLC

memoranda and press releases, notes, and appeal to the president by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the centennial of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

memoranda, press releases, and correspondence

sixth annual convention program, press release, and copy of signed letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to James Laue

pamphlets, notes, and news clippings

essays, pamphlets, memoranda, etc.

correspondence, news releases, workshop materials

includes some correspondence and memoranda

notes and student papers

includes news articles and Southern Regional Council special report, "Law Enforcement in Mississippi"

article by Laue, 38 pages; includes letter from Martin Oppenheimer informing Laue of publisher rejections

report, 48 pages

status report of project and statement of research methods

correspondence and a graduate essay regarding the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching

pamphlet for demonstration at International Industrialists Conference

by Martin Oppenheimer

U.S. National Student Association

thirty page pamphlet

press releases and memoranda

contains Laue's article, "The Movement: Discovering Where It's at and How to Get It"

includes Laue's article, "Social Change, Dissent and Violence"

by the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

foundations, organizations, SRC, Branton, etc.

This subseries documents Laue's work for the CRS under the U.S. Department of Justice in the mid to late 1960s, where he became the head of Program Evaluation and Development. Materials include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, personnel files, and speeches.

notes, articles, and correspondence pertaining to Laue's seven-stage model of racial conflict and change

includes correspondence

includes articles and a memorandum on the implications of Nixon's inaugural speech for CRS

correspondence, memoranda, draft reports, news articles

correspondence, memoranda, annual reports, notes, news articles

pamphlets, brochures, and annual reports

This series contains materials from Laue's work as a student, scholar, and teacher. The series is divided into two subseries. Subseries 5.1, Student Papers, covers Laue's academic career from childhood in River Falls, Wisconsin through college and graduate school at Harvard. The subseries contains sociology papers Laue wrote as a student, college notebooks, course materials, church sermons, and correspondence with professors. Subseries 5.2, Professional Papers, covers Laue's academic career as a researcher at the Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, as a professor of sociology and urban studies at Washington University-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the 1970s and 80s, and as a professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in the late 80s and early 90s. The subseries contains journal articles and commencement speeches written by Laue, course materials, academic exercises used in workshops on conflict mediation, and biographical materials prepared for annual reviews and tenure application.

This subseries covers Laue's academic career from childhood in River Falls, Wisconsin through college and graduate school at Harvard. The subseries contains sociology papers Laue wrote as a student, college notebooks, course materials, church sermons, and correspondence with professors.

paper by Laue for Sociology 50

by Seymour Martin Lipset

Social Relations 284

Social Relations 98

articles and news clippings

notes and magazine article

sermons, notes, news clippings, and brochures

news clippings and sermons by David J. Maitland and James H. Laird

St. Anthony Park Congregation Church newsletters and news clippings

by Talcott Parsons

from class with David Riesman

Roanoke, Virginia

bibliography and notes on personality and mental health

essay by James Laue

This subseries covers Laue's academic career as a researcher at the Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, as a professor of sociology and urban studies at Washington University-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the 1970s and 80s, and as a professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in the late 80s and early 90s. The subseries contains journal articles and commencement speeches written by Laue, course materials, academic exercises used in workshops on conflict mediation, and biographical materials prepared for annual reviews and tenure application.

papers by James Laue

CDR

Conflict Clinic, Inc.

Conflict Clinic, George Mason University

R. J. House

by James Laue, reprinted from Social Scientists as Advocates: Views from the Applied Disciplines

correspondence and papers

resume with notes on back

by Roland L. Warren

by James Laue, published in the Journal of Intergroup Relations

by James Laue

Laue's reviews of On Race and Marginal Men and Women, by Charles Willie, and At the Heart of the Whirlwind, by John P. Adams

correspondence and workshop materials

draft chapter by James Laue for The Conflict Resolution Handbook

letter and article re: commission to clean up the Chesapeake

brief article by Laue titled Getting to the Table

draft with corrections

article by Richard H. Patton and James Laue, 58 pages

by McGeorge Bundy, published in the Atlantic Monthly

Alumni Association newsletter

MIT and the Institute for Management and Community Development

includes program for joint meeting on June 10-13 and papers on conflict resolution in South Africa and Northern Ireland

includes correspondence, memoranda, course evaluations, and a letter to Diane Rehm on Waco, Texas

notes and correspondence

program

includes a promotional flyer, invitation, press release, letter from Edwin Lynch to James Laue, and bio sketch, The Story of My Life as told by Vernon M. Lynch 1968

proposal submitted to the Council of Higher Education for Virginia

by James Laue, 17 pages

chapter by James Laue

bio, brochure, memorandum, and mission statement

essay by James Laue, 23 pages

by Libby Rouse

by James Laue and Daniel J. Monti

by James Laue and Daniel J. Monti, 66 pages

by James Laue, 20 pages

GMU Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 102 pages

lists a sermon by Laue, "In the Heart of the Heartland---Where Peace Grows"

GMU Center for Interactive Management

prepared by Vicki Arroyo and Lawrence Susskind

mostly correspondence

printed on 8.5x11" paper

printed in pamphlet form

includes drafts and notes

includes mission statement, press releases, news articles, and correspondence

notes and correspondence re: dedication of Lentz Award to Washington University-St. Louis

Jay Press, Inc., Jossey-Bass, Inc., Hemisphere Publications

by William C. Meulemans

American Sociological Association proposed chapter outline

Council for Community Services, Inc.

Johns Hopkins University

In Memory of James Laue

a prospectus by John Lofland and Sam Marullo

by James Laue

agenda and list of participants in the Consultation on Dispute Resolution in Higher Education

newsletter and workshop materials

book edited by James Laue, Margaret S. Herrman and Edward S. Weeks

draft chapter outline, memorandum for publishers, prospectus, and publisher correspondence

Wit Business School report by Loet Douwes Dekker; contains Laue Citation

inaugural lecture by James Laue, ICAR Occasional Paper 7

by James Laue and William Danforth

essay by Ronald L. Nuttall, Erwin K. Scheuch and Chad Gordon

by T. E. Lasswell, 20 pages

Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry

Washington University-St. Louis

Wisconsin State University-River Falls

University of Missouri-St. Louis

Washington University-St. Louis

course outlines, tests, reading lists; Washington University-St. Louis

by James Laue, draft paper for symposium on "Advocacy in the Disciplines"

by Gerald W. Cormick and James Laue, 40 pages

correspondence, newsletters, and press releases re: Laue receiving the Jefferson Award

Bureau of Educational And Cultural Affairs University Affiliations Program application notice

correspondence, CVs, news clippings, and articles re: Laue's annual academic review

essay by John Walton, 20 pages

UMSL, Urban Affairs Association, JSAC, Sociology of Education

edited by James Laue and Robert K. Reed

This series contains programs, presentations, notes, and correspondence pertaining to various conferences and workshops Laue attended or administered. The folder dates in this series generally refer to the dates the conferences were held and may not encompass the date range of all materials in the folder. Ranging from small local workshops to large international meetings, the conferences cover a range of themes including desegregation, clinical sociology, community conflict intervention, international arbitration, and peace education. Series 7, News Clippings and Articles, contains newspaper articles collected and assembled by Laue. Themes include desegregation and civil rights, international politics, biographical pieces and interviews with Laue, and the peace academy campaign. The series is divided into two subseries, the first arranged by date and the second arranged alphabetically by subject or newspaper title.

Arlie, Virginia - USIP

contains draft copies of Laue's conference paper, "Development of a U.S. Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution"

hosted by the Provincial Youth Commission of the Diocese of North Carolina

Tucson, Arizona

Report on the 1987 Trinity Symposium Policy Dialogue

Boston, Massachusetts

Athens, Greece / Jerusalem, Israel

Northfield, Illinois

workshop led by James Laue at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

Washington, DC; Conflict Clinic, Inc.

Seattle, Washington; Social Science Institute and Batelle Research Center

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Arlie House; folder contains materials from the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, including a 150 Report to the President submitted on November 26, 1963

brief report and working paper

Amsterdam - SIETAR

conference for CRS by the American Jewish Committee at Columbia University

St. Louis, Missouri

USIP conference

Virginia Center for Foreign Affairs

Washington, DC; Public Affairs Council

New York

Emory University

Conflict Clinic

Iowa City, Iowa

Bonn, Germany

George Mason University

Loyola University of Chicago

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Athens, Georgia; conference organizers and final report

Athens, Georgia; follow-up

Athens, Georgia

University of Missouri-St. Louis

Denver, Colorado

Chicago; includes older conference materials from 1962-1964

Montreal, Canada

National Association for Dispute Resolution

Arlie House, Warrenton, Virginia

meeting proposal

Spokane, Washington

Rancho Santa Fe, California

Atlanta, Georgia

Alexandria, Virginia

Atlanta, Georgia

conference paper by James Laue and Gerald Cormick

Harriman, New York

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Washington, DC

paper by Jane E. McCarthy presented at the annual convention of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution

Washington, DC

New York

Vienna, Austria

This series contains newspaper articles collected and assembled by Laue. Themes include desegregation and civil rights, international politics, biographical pieces and interviews with Laue, and the peace academy campaign. The series is divided into two subseries, the first arranged by date and the second arranged alphabetically by subject or newspaper title.

This subseries contains news clippings arranged by date.

This subseries contains news clippings arranged alphabetically by subject or title.

re: USIP

desegregation / sit-ins

radical "Tactical Manual" published by the Red Buffalo Press

CRS, Wisconsin State University-River Falls, Civil Rights

includes notes

KWMU Radio - NPR in St. Louis

River Falls, Wisconsin

Laue's sports column

includes article on Laue's commencement speech

This series contains mostly black-and-white photographs of Laue from youth through adulthood. The series contains several portraits as well as pictures of Laue with fellow students, family members, and colleagues.

9 black and white photographs featuring Laue and other Commission members, including Hawaii Senator Sparks Matsunaga

5 black and white photos, 1 color postcard

1 black and whit photo, 2 color photos of Laue and colleagues

3 color photos

5 black and white photos of man in space-age three-wheeled go cart

6 portraits of Laue, mostly from the Peace Commission era

postcard featuring numerous famous psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists at conference

color photograph of attendees

This series contains certificates, drawings, posters, and other memorabilia mostly from Laue's youth. Included are several items from Laue's participation in the Wisconsin American Legion Badger Boys civic activism program as a child.

includes a Badger Boys Citizens Manual, some badges and merit certificates, hand drawn voting signs, and an American Legion hat

5 color drawings and collages; subjects include horses, landscapes, famous comedians, and a self-portrait

embossed certificate signed by George Johnson

cardboard fan with wooden handle advertising Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign

featuring Laue's reflections on personal experiences with MLK

This series contains audio tape recordings of James Laue, Jimmy Carter, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jimmy Carter speaking at the National Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution

Laue speaking at a conference

excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in Memphis on the eve of his assassination

Laue giving guest lecture for CONF 643

Laue delivering sermon

This series contains newspapers and large format magazines mostly dealing with racial issues, protest, and civil rights.

10x13" magazine

8.5x11" magazine

newspaper

news clipping

newspaper

Biographical / historical:

James H. Laue was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1937. Laue graduated from high school in 1955 and went to college in his home town at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he took a major in sociology. After earning his Bachelor's degree in 1959, Laue was admitted to the Harvard graduate program in sociology with a Danforth Fellowship, where he studied race relations and the sociology of religion under such distinguished sociologists as Talcott Parsons, Gordon Allport, and David Riesman.

During his graduate studies, Laue became involved in the Civil Rights movement, attending lunch counter sit-ins, church "kneel-ins," and protests organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Laue's 1966 doctoral dissertation, "Direct Action and Desegregation: Toward a Theory of the Rationalization of Protest," grew out of a combination of diligent sociological analysis and first-hand experience in the Civil Rights movement. These experiences, along with a pious adherence to the core tenets of Christianity, influenced Laue's approach to conflict analysis, which he described in his 1976 University of Missouri tenure application as "a conscious and explicit linking of scholarship and action."

Combining social theory and practical problem-solving into a new practice of clinical sociology, Laue helped to establish the field of conflict resolution as a distinct academic discipline, and his career reflects both the academic and the activist sides of the field. From 1965-1969, Laue served on the US Department of Justice's Community Relations Service (CRS), an agency established under the 1964 Civil Rights Act to help resolve racial conflicts. After leaving the CRS, Laue held academic positions at the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1969-1971), Washington University-St. Louis (1971-1974), the University of Missouri-St. Louis (1975-1986), and finally, George Mason University (1986-1993) where he became the first Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution. Laue also served as President and Executive Director of the Conflict Clinic, Inc., a non-profit dispute-resolution organization, from 1984 - ca. 1989.

In 1976 Laue co-founded and chaired the National Peace Academy Campaign (N-PAC), which sought to establish a national institute for peace research and education. Three years later, President Jimmy Carter appointed Laue Chair of the congressional Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. The evidence gathered by the Commission at public hearings across the US, along with Laue's testimony before Congress in the early 1980s, was instrumental in establishing the US Institute of Peace and its funding counterpart, the National Peace Institute Foundation, which Laue also chaired during the 1980s.

Throughout his long and prodigious career, Laue participated in dozens of academic conferences, taught numerous classes and workshops on dispute resolution, published scores of academic papers, collaborated with Civil Rights activists and arms-control advocacy groups, delivered sermons at churches and speeches at graduate commencements, and remained active in the field of peacemaking and conflict resolution until his death in 1993.

Acquisition information:

Collection donated by Mariann Laue Baker in 1999.

Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in April 2009.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged by subject.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1960-1993 (Box 1-3)
Series 2: Conflict Resolution Papers, 1967-1993 (Box 3-31)
Series 3: Peace Academy Campaign Papers, 1947-1990, bulk 1976-1990 (Box 31-50)
Series 4: Civil Rights Papers, 1956-1988, bulk 1960-1970 (Box 50-68)
Series 5: Academic Papers, 1947-1999 (Box 69-87)
Series 6: Conferences and Workshops, 1962-1992 (Box 87-93)
Series 7: News Clippings and Articles, 1936-1992 (Box 93-97)
Series 8: Photographs, 1942-1992 (Box 97-98)
Series 9: Memorabilia, 1949-1993 (Box 98)
Series 10: Audio Cassettes, 1968-1991 (Box 99)
Series 11: Oversize, 1960-1980 (Box 100)

Indexed terms

Subjects:: African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States--History--20th century.
Conflict management.
Photographic prints.
Sound recordings.

Collection