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Collection processed by K. Kevyne Baar, 2009

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on July 19, 2018
Description is in English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

 Updated by Heather Mulliner to include unprocessed accretion of photographs and audiovisual materials Edited by Maggie Schreiner to reflect updated administrative information Edited by Heather Mulliner to reflect condensed boxes and updated extents  , 2014  , August 2014 , February 2017

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Randolph, John, 1915-2004
Source - dnr: Randolph, Martha
Title: John Randolph Papers
Dates [inclusive]: 1918-1999
Dates [bulk]: 1940-1999
Abstract: Born Emanuel Hirsch Cohen in the Bronx, New York on June 1, 1915, Randolph was renamed Mortimer Lippman at the age of 12 when his mother remarried, and finally emerged as the actor, John Randolph. He began his acting career in the 1930s with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway role came courtesy of the Project when he appeared in Coriolanus in 1938. His final Broadway appearance was as a replacement for the lead in  Prelude to a Kiss in 1991. He won the prestigious Tony Award for his performance in Neil Simon's  Broadway Bound. In January 1942, while on the road with a production of  Native Son starring Canada Lee, John married actress Sarah Cunningham of Greenville, South Carolina, Shortly thereafter he was drafted into the Army Air Corps where he served for the next four years. Television found Randolph in 1948 and lost him in 1951 when he was blacklisted. During the blacklist period he continued to work in theatre and developed new performance opportunities with his fellow blacklistees' actress Phoebe Brand, educator Frederic Ewen, and his wife, Sarah. In August of 1955 John and Sarah both appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) where they both invoked the Fifth Amendment. Randolph's television career began to revive slowly in the early 1960s. His film career got off to a strong start in 1966, when he played a banker who undergoes surgery and awakens as Rock Hudson in John Frankenheimer's  Seconds. He made his final film appearance in 2003. A champion of civil rights, a fighter for more opportunities for performers of color, a lifelong supporter of progressive causes, John Randolph, actor and activist, was silenced by death in Los Angeles, California on February 24, 2004. The collection consists of Randolph's personal and professional files, reflecting his passions for acting, activism, social justice and his intense relationship with his wife, Sarah Cunningham. The materials range from their correspondence during World War II, to opening night telegrams for various Broadway productions, to performance pieces used during the blacklist period and Randolph's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) file.
Quantity: 8 Linear Feet in 8 record cartons and 1 oversized folder
Quantity: 1 videocassette
Quantity: 31 audiocassette on 23 open reels and 8 cassette tapes
Quantity: 1 dvd-r disks
Language: Materials are in English
Call Phrase: WAG.255

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Historical/Biographical Note

John Randolph the actor, as he would always introduce himself, was born Emanuel Hirsch Cohen in the Bronx, New York on June 1, 1915. He was renamed Mortimer Lippman at the age of 12 when his mother remarried, and finally emerged as John Randolph when he began his acting career in the 1930s with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway role came courtesy of the Project when he appeared in Coriolanus in 1938. He received his formal theatre training from the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research under the director of Erwin Piscator. He appeared on Broadway four more times before going on the road with a production of  Native Son starring Canada Lee in 1941. It was during this tour that Randolph had a number of opportunities to demonstrate his strong sensitivity to civil rights.

1941 proved to be a very important year in Randolph's life. On June 22, 1941, as Germany marched into Russia, John came together with a young actress from Greenville, South Carolina: Sarah Cunningham who shared with him not only a passion for acting but for activism as well. It was their acting careers that kept them apart for most of the rest of 1941. On a visit during the run of Native Son, the pair decided to marry. They wed at high noon on Wednesday, January 6, 1942, prior to John's matinee. Hours later Sarah was on her way to back to New York. In April John (as Mortimer Lippman again) was drafted into the Army Air Corps where he served for the next four years.

By 1948 Randolph was again back on Broadway. Also in 1948, television found him, but just as his television career was beginning to gain momentum in 1951, he was blacklisted. During the blacklist period he considered himself lucky as he was able to continue working in theatre. With the wealth of energy that defined him in the years to come he developed new performance opportunities with his fellow blacklistees, actress Phoebe Brand, educator Frederic Ewen, and his wife, Sarah. They appeared in union halls and Jewish community centers in between theatre engagements. In August of 1955, John and Sarah both appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). They both invoked their rights under the Fifth Amendment. After his HUAC appearance, John got back on the train and returned to his engagement at the Brattle Summer Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As the blacklist period started to fade, in the early 1960s, Randolph's television career began to revive slowly. By this time he was serving on the Council of Actors' Equity and heavily involved with the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors, organizations with which he would remain active for the rest of his life. His film career finally got off to a strong start in 1966, when he played a banker who undergoes surgery and awakens as Rock Hudson in John Frankenheimer's Seconds. Having the good fortune of being a proficient character actor, Randolph never stopped working. One of his more notable performances was as Angelo 'Pop' Partanna in the 1985 film,  Prizzi's Honor. When the film was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Picture, John and Sarah were invited to join the company at the ceremony. During the evening, Sarah excused herself and went to the ladies room; it was there that she died of a heart attack.

For the remainder of his life, Randolph continued working. In 1986, he began a long and successful run in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, in a part tailor-made for him. John won the prestigious Tony Award for this performance. His final Broadway appearance was as a replacement for the lead in  Prelude to a Kiss in 1991. He continued to work in theatre outside of Broadway, as well as in television and film, making his final appearance in film in 2003.

No biography of Randolph and Cunningham would be complete without recognizing the depth of their activism. Their passion for each other was matched only by their passion for the causes they held dear. Champions of civil rights, fighters for more opportunities for performers of color, and voices for the power of the industry that clothed and fed them throughout their lives, they were lifelong supporters of progressive causes. John Randolph, actor and activist, died in Los Angeles on February 24, 2004.

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Scope and Content Note

The John Randolph papers consist of his personal and professional files. They reflect his passions for acting, activism, social justice and his intense relationship with his wife, Sarah Cunningham. The materials range from a very personal, but still political, correspondence with his new wife during the years of World War II to notes sent backstage when he was appearing in Broadway Bound; from his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) file to the work he created to keep him and his fellow blacklistees employed. The papers are organized into three series.

Series I: Correspondence, 1918-1999. Over the years John wrote, and received, letters that ranged from the political to the personal, and often both. This series includes correspondence from around the world; notable are the letters between Randolph and Sarah Cunningham during the years of World War II. The letters begin on July 8, 1941, when each writes a letter to the other. The correspondence carries on through John's (now Mortimer again as far as the army is concerned) service in the Army Air Corps, which begins in April of 1942 and ends in December 1945. Other incoming correspondence includes letters from film and theatre notables such as Jules Dassin and Frank Silvera.

Series II: Subject Files, 1940-1999, contains files illustrating Randolph's political concerns, including the Committee for Employment of Negro Performers and the New York State Commission for Human Rights. As a member and then councilor at Actors' Equity, he was active in the ethnic minorities and Paul Robeson Award committees. His strong involvement with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is seen in files on the blacklist and on the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Material from this period includes clippings from before, during and after his Committee appearance in 1955, as well as related correspondence and his FOIA file. His later involvement in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is also chronicled. Other issues represented include freedom for Angela Davis, international friendship societies, Vietnam, women's rights, and the Rosenberg Case.

Series III: Productions and Professional Activities, 1938-1999, contains documentation of most productions Randolph appeared in, from  The Living Flame in 1939 to the original Broadway productions of  Come Back Little Sheba (1950),  Paint Your Wagon (1951),  Sound of Music (1959), and his Tony Award-winning turn in  Broadway Bound (1986). Theatre files also include Off-Broadway, summer stock and road companies (besides  Native Son mentioned earlier, he appeared with Melvyn Douglas in  Inherit the Wind), and there are files on his radio, television, and film work. From the early days of the blacklist onward Randolph gathered material that could be used in concert readings, and saved the notes he had compiled for his work. He excerpted plays, film scripts, stories, and adapted material with the help of Phoebe Brand and Frederic Ewen. Their appearances were often under the banner of Quartette Productions. Also included are scripts for a number of benefit performances. Randolph produced for Stage for Action's  Satire Matinee, presented in 1946 at Café Society; was artistic consultant for the Philadelphia Drama Guild, and, with Sarah Cunningham, helped found the Ensemble Studio Theatre in both New York and Los Angeles.

Series IV: Oversize Material, 1955: contains a scrapbook of clippings and statements re: the 1955 HUAC hearings compiled for a benefit on June 12, 1997 at the Stella Adler Studio in Los Angeles, California, and an ad from  Variety dated July 27, 1955 urging a no vote by AFTRA members on a proposed rule to "fine, censure, suspend or expel any member who fails to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee."

Series V: Photographs and Recordings: contains images and audio related to Randolph's career, family life, and political activism. Randolph's photographs document his career and family life, and contain images of his military service in the 1940s, his children in the 1950s, his acting career, and several portraits. The audio recording in this series relate primarily to Randolph's career and activism and contain training materials, recordings of Randolph's voice work, and political speeches. There are also several recordings of African freedom songs from the 1970s. Most of these recordings are on magnetic reel to reel tapes, while a small portion of recordings are on cassette tapes. Other materials contained in this series include films negatives, slides, a VHS tape, and a CD of Randolph's memorial.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically within each series. Organized into 4 series: I, Correspondence, 1918-1999; II, Subject Files, 1940-1999; III, Productions and Professional Activities, 1938-1999; IV, Oversize Materials, 1955.

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Access Points

Subject Names

  • Brand, Phoebe, 1907-2004
  • Cunningham, Sarah.
  • Elder, Lonne
  • Jules, Dassin, 1911-2008.
  • Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
  • Ewen, Frederic, 1899-
  • Silvera, Frank, 1914-1970
  • Suhl, Yuri, 1908-1986
  • Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966
  • Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993
  • Ntloedibe, Elias L.
  • Norman, Lloyd, 1914-
  • Randolph, Martha

Document Type

  • Clippings (information artifacts)
  • Scripts (documents)
  • Legal documents.
  • Correspondence.

Subject Organizations

  • Ensemble Studio Theatre
  • Philadelphia Drama Guild
  • Actors' Equity Association
  • American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
  • Screen Actors Guild

Subject Topics

  • Blacklisting of entertainers.
  • Motion pictures and theater -- United States.
  • Tony Awards.
  • Actors -- Labor unions -- United States.
  • Actors -- United States.
  • Actresses -- United States.

Subject Places

  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.)

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Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restriction.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by John Randolph was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; John Randolph Papers; WAG 255; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Records of the Actors Equity Association. (Wagner #11)
Records of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. (Wagner #281)
Records of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists-New York Local. (Wagner #282)
Frederic Ewen Oral History Collection. (OH #52)
Frederic Ewen Papers. (Tamiment #277)

Separated Material

Photographs, audio- and video-tapes from the Randolph Papers have been separated to the Non-Print Department of the Tamiment Library.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu, (212) 998-2630 with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by John Randolph's daughter, Martha Randolph, in June 2004. The accession number associated with this gift is 2004.032.

Processing Information

Processing decisions made prior to 2017 have not been recorded. In 2017 underfilled boxes were condensed and box numbers were updated.

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Container List

Series I: Correspondence, 1918-1999

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 1 Folder : 1 Correspondence: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1970
Box: 1 Folder : 2 Correspondence: Coalition for Economic Survival
1998
Box: 1 Folder : 3 Correspondence: Lonne Elder, III re: Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (includes reviews for 1973 Philadelphia production)
1965-1966
Box: 1 Folder : 4 Correspondence: Frederic Ewen and Miriam Gideon Ewen
1960
Box: 1 Folder : 5 Correspondence: Freedomways (includes Esther Jackson, Managing Editor)
1969
Box: 1 Folder : 6 Correspondence: Robert Frey (includes manuscript of article by Frey about JR)
1970-1971
Box: 1 Folder : 7 Correspondence: Germany
1982
Box: 1 Folder : 8 Correspondence: In memory of Sarah
1986-1987
Box: 1 Folder : 9 Correspondence: JR
1935, 1941-1946, 1959
Box: 1 Folder : 10 Correspondence: JR
1961-1969
Box: 1 Folder : 11 Correspondence: JR
1970-1974
Box: 1 Folder : 12 Correspondence: JR
1980, 1986-1987
Box: 1 Folder : 13 Correspondence: JR
1994-1999
Box: 1 Folder : 14 Correspondence: JR and SC
1946-1980
Box: 1 Folder : 15 Correspondence: JR to SC/SC to JR
1953-1971
Box: 1 Folder : 16 Correspondence: Letter from JR's Father, Louis Cohen, to Cohen's brother
Jun 3, 1918
Box: 1 Folder : 17 Correspondence: Letters to SC (not from JR)
1940, 1980, undated
Box: 1 Folder : 18 Correspondence: Norman Lloyd
1970s
Box: 1 Folder : 19 Correspondence: Maudlyn "Mitzie" Martin employment with the Randolphs
1968
Box: 1 Folder : 20 Correspondence: National Black Theatre Workshop, Barbara Ann Teer President
1969
Box: 1 Folder : 21 Correspondence: New Theatre for Now Tour Cancellation
1969
Box: 1 Folder : 22 Correspondence: New York Apartment
1998-1999
Box: 1 Folder : 23 Correspondence: Elias Ntloedibe from Kenya (mostly regarding song recordings)
1969-1970
Box: 1 Folder : 24 Correspondence: Elias Ntloedibe from Tanzania (includes press clippings and related materials)
1969-1973
Box: 1 Folder : 25 Correspondence: Erwin Piscator, Director of the Dramatic Workshop
1941-1942
Box: 1 Folder : 26 Correspondence: Andrea Primdahl
1990s
Box: 1 Folder : 27 Correspondence: Randolph in Support of Lonne Elder, III and Elder's Essay
1963
Box: 1 Folder : 28 Correspondence: Ralph Russell
1963
Box: 1 Folder : 29 Correspondence: Frank Silvera
1968-1969
Box: 1 Folder : 30 Correspondence: Alan Simpson (United States Senator from Wyoming)
1989-1990
Box: 1 Folder : 31 Correspondence: Yuri Suhl
1964
Box: 1 Folder : 32 Correspondence: Tony Award Congratulations
1987
Box: 1 Folder : 33 Correspondence: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) (includes Steve Nelson and Moe Fishman)
1962, 1969-1972
Box: 1 Folder : 34 Correspondence: James Whitmore
1970S
Box: 1 Folder : 35 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Jul 1941-Oct 1941
Box: 1 Folder : 36 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Jul 1941-Aug 1941
Box: 1 Folder : 37 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Nov 1941-Dec 1941
Box: 1 Folder : 38 Correspondence: World War II, JR and SCs Wedding
1942
Box: 1 Folder : 39 Correspondence: World War II, letters to JR (not from SC but sent to her for safe keeping) from Jules Dassin, Frank Silvera, John Berry and Others
1942
Box: 1 Folder : 40 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC (Mrs. Randolph as of January 6th)
Jan 1942-Aug 1942
Box: 1 Folder : 41 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR (now known as Private Mortimer Lippman)
Apr 1942-May 1942
Box: 1 Folder : 42 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Jun 1942-Sep 1942
Box: 1 Folder : 43 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Sep 1942-Dec 1942
Box: 1 Folder : 44 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Jan 1943-Mar 1943, undated
Box: 1 Folder : 45 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Jan 1943-Mar 1943
Box: 1 Folder : 46 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Apr 1943
Box: 1 Folder : 47 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Apr 1943
Box: 2 Folder : 1 Correspondence: World War II, JR (a corporal as of June) to SC
May 1943-Sep 1943
Box: 2 Folder : 2 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Mar 1943-Jul 1943
Box: 2 Folder : 3 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Oct 1943-Dec 1943
Box: 2 Folder : 4 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Aug 1943-Dec 1943
Box: 2 Folder : 5 Correspondence: World War II, letters to JR (not from SC, includes Jules Dassin and Frank Silvera)
1943
Box: 2 Folder : 6 Correspondence: World War II, letters to SC (not from JR)
1943
Box: 2 Folder : 7 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Jan 1944-Jun 1944, undated
Box: 2 Folder : 8 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Jan 1944-Jun 1944
Box: 2 Folder : 9 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
Jul 1944-Dec 1944
Box: 2 Folder : 10 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Jul 1944-Dec 1944
Box: 2 Folder : 11 Correspondence: World War II, letters to JR (not from SC)
1944
Box: 2 Folder : 12 Correspondence: World War II, letters to SC (not from JR)
1944
Box: 2 Folder : 13 Correspondence: World War II, JR to SC
1945
Box: 2 Folder : 14 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
Mar 1945-Apr 1945
Box: 2 Folder : 15 Correspondence: World War II, SC to JR
May 1945-Dec 1945
Box: 2 Folder : 16 Correspondence: World War II, letters to JR (not from SC)
Jan 1945-Aug 1945
Box: 2 Folder : 17 Correspondence: World War II, letters to SC (not from JR)
Sep 1945-Dec 1945
Box: 2 Folder : 18 Correspondence and Related Materials: Martha Randolph
1960-1997

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Series II: Subjects, 1940-1999

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 2 Folder : 19 Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
1945-1974
Box: 2 Folder : 20 AEA: "Broadway Blackout" clippings and notes
1960
Box: 2 Folder : 21 AEA: Council Election with JR Running by Petition
1962
Box: 2 Folder : 22 AEA: Ethnic Minorities Committee
1962-1966, 1974
Box: 2 Folder : 23 AEA: John Randolph Charges against Douglas Gregory
1967-1968
Box: 3 Folder : 1 AEA Paul Robeson Award Committee
1972-1998
Box: 3 Folder : 2 Agency Agreements: Sid Gold-Jack Fields, Abrams-Rubaloff
1967, 1988
Box: 3 Folder : 3 Air Force Songs (sheet music)
1943
Box: 3 Folder : 4 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA): General
1962-1998
Box: 3 Folder : 5 AFTRA: Los Angeles Local
1999
Box: 3 Folder : 6 AFTRA: Washington-Baltimore Local
1998-1999
Box: 3 Folder : 7 Announcer's General Operation Manual (with notes)
1938-1939
Box: 3 Folder : 8 Award: Advertising Club of New York, "Andy"
1968
Box: 3 Folder : 9 Award: Golden Laurel
1997
Box: 3 Folder : 10 Biographical and Resume materials: JR
1955-1995
Box: 3 Folder : 11 Biographical and Resume materials: SC
1961-1972
Box: 3 Folder : 12 Blacklist: AFTRA Amendment against
1956
Box: 3 Folder : 13 Blacklist: AFTRA Amendment in Support
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 14 Blacklist: AFTRA Members Anti-AWARE, Inc. Resolution
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 15 Blacklist: Anti-Subversive Committee, Cook County Council, the American Legion
May 1956
Box: 3 Folder : 16 Blacklist: Authors League of America
1952
Box: 3 Folder : 17 Blacklist: Correspondence
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 18 Blacklist: Letters to Actors' Equity
1950s
Box: 3 Folder : 19 Blacklist: Red Treason on Broadway by Myron Fagan
1954
Box: 3 Folder : 20 Blacklist/House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC): Douglas Gregory Case Correspondence and Related Material
1968
Box: 3 Folder : 21 Blacklist/ HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1951
Box: 3 Folder : 22 Blacklist/ HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1952
Box: 3 Folder : 23 Blacklist/ HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1953
Box: 3 Folder : 24 Blacklist/ HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 25 Blacklist/ HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1961-1997
Box: 3 Folder : 26 Brotherhood of Artists: Mako, Chairman
1970
Box: 3 Folder : 27 Class Day Skit written by Sarah Cunningham
Jun 1940
Box: 3 Folder : 28 Clippings: General
1944, 1971, undated
Box: 3 Folder : 29 Clippings: General, JR
1994, undated
Box: 3 Folder : 30 Clippings: General, SC
1940, 1951, undated
Box: 3 Folder : 31 Clippings: Political Issues
1964-1996
Box: 3 Folder : 32 Commission for Human Rights, State of New York
1967-1968
Box: 3 Folder : 33 Committee for Employment of Negro Performers
1962, undated
Box: 3 Folder : 34 Czechoslovakia—Lessons for Us All (manuscript attributed to R.P.D.)
1968
Box: 3 Folder : 35 Diary [date book]
1940
Box: 3 Folder : 36 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) File: John Randolph a/k/a Mortimer Lippman, a/k/a Emmanuel Cohen
Apr 11, 1977
Box: 3 Folder : 37 Funeral Records of Dorothy Lippman (JR's Mother)
1969
Box: 3 Folder : 38 Harlem: Proposal for an Independent Board of Education
1967
Box: 3 Folder : 39 Honoring John Randolph Events
1988, 1995-1997
Box: 3 Folder : 40 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
undated
Box: 3 Folder : 41 HUAC: Correspondence Received before and after Testifying
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 42 HUAC: Hate Groups and the Un-American Activities Committee, Pamphlet by David Wesley
1961
Box: 3 Folder : 43 HUAC: National Committee to Abolish
1960s
Box: 3 Folder : 44 HUAC: Pamphlets and Related Materials Used in Preparation for Hearings
1955
Box: 3 Folder : 45 HUAC: Press Clippings and Related Material
1961
Box: 3 Folder : 46 Issues: African-Americans (includes early materials on the "Negro performer")
1953-1973
Box: 3 Folder : 47 Issues: Anti-War
1960s
Box: 3 Folder : 48 Issues: Freedom for Angela Davis
1971-1972
Box: 3 Folder : 49 Issues: Friendship Societies
1983-1999
Box: 3 Folder : 50 Issues: General
undated
Box: 3 Folder : 51 Issues: National Committee against Repressive Legislation/Wilkinson v. FBI
1986-1987
Box: 3 Folder : 52 Issues: Resolution on the U.S. Office of Repertory Theatres/Sala Staw
1962
Box: 3 Folder : 53 Issues: Rosenbergs (includes the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case)
1975-1988
Box: 3 Folder : 54 Issues: Vietnam
1965-1971
Box: 3 Folder : 55 Issues: Women
1952-1953, undated
Box: 3 Folder : 56 Itinerary for JR
May 9, 1996-Jul 15, 1996
Box: 3 Folder : 57 Kazan, Elia, Lifetime Achievement Oscar: Randolph Statement and Related Materials
1999
Box: 3 Folder : 58 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Aug 28, 1963
Box: 3 Folder : 59 Membership and Business Cards
undated
Box: 3 Folder : 60 Military Service
1941-1945
Box: 3 Folder : 61 Neighborhood Artists
1988
Box: 3 Folder : 62 New York Apartment
1997
Box: 3 Folder : 63 Patterson, William L. Foundation (JR and SC , founding members)
1979-1980
Box: 3 Folder : 64 People's Weekly World Banquet (Chicago)
1992, 1998
Box: 4 Folder : 1 Phone Lists, Contact Sheets, Date Book
1960s-1970s
Box: 4 Folder : 2 Erwin Piscator: Memorial Service
Jun 4, 1967
Box: 4 Folder : 3 John Reed Centennial Celebration
1989
Box: 4 Folder : 4 Paul Robeson: Celebrations, Articles and Related Materials
1958-1978
Box: 4 Folder : 5 Screen Actors Guild (SAG): 1971 Elections and Related Materials (includes John Gavin letter)
1971-1973
Box: 4 Folder : 6 SAG: Committees (includes Legacy and Conservatory Committees)
1980
Box: 4 Folder : 7 SAG: Delegation to the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
1979-1980
Box: 4 Folder : 8 SAG: General
1972-1999
Box: 4 Folder : 9 SAG: Strike
1980
Box: 4 Folder : 10 Showbiz by Maxwell Glanville, Volume 4, Number 4
Apr 1987
Box: 4 Folder : 11 "Slouching towards a National Theater" in New Federal One
Apr 1996
Box: 4 Folder : 12 Supreme Court Decisions: Quinn and Watkins
1954, 1957
Box: 4 Folder : 13 Theatre and Human Rights: Panel with SC
1970
Box: 4 Folder : 14 "Theatre People for Peace"
1962
Box: 4 Folder : 15 "This Is the Year" (also known as "From Chungking to Frisco"), Sheet Music
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 16 "Trial of Traitors" Meeting Speech by Allan Sloane
Jan 29, 1950
Box: 4 Folder : 17 War Department Employment Records for SC
1945
Box: 4 Folder : 18 Women Strike for Peace
1963

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Series III: Productions and Professional Activities, 1938-1999

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 4 Folder : 19 After the Fall (play) with JR and SC
1966
Box: 4 Folder : 20 All Aboard! by Ben Bengal (play)
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 21 American Clock by Arthur Miller (play)
1980
Box: 4 Folder : 22 An Evening's Frost (play) at Theatre De Lys, University of Michigan and Possible USSR Tour
1965-1967, 1973
Box: 4 Folder : 23 Animal Kingdom (play) at Bucks County Playhouse
1951
Box: 4 Folder : 24 Herbert Aptheker and the Negro Struggle: Excerpts for Readings
1960s
Box: 4 Folder : 25 Back in the Race (play)
1980
Box: 4 Folder : 26 Ballad of the Winter Soldiers (play)
1964
Box: 4 Folder : 27 Barsky (Dr. Edward) Tribute Dinner (script)
Feb 24, 1967
Box: 4 Folder : 28 Barroom Monks (play script) with SC
1962-1963
Box: 4 Folder : 29 Beryl Isaac, Miracle of Hashno Rabo, Tit for Tat, Yom Kippur Scandal (play scripts) by Sholem Aleichem
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 30 Born Yesterday (play)
1972
Box: 4 Folder : 31 Brecht, (play script, excerpts from his work) presented at Columbia University with Frederick Ewen and the "Angry Arts" Peace Program
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 32 Broadway Bound (play): Broadway and on Tour
1986-1995
Box: 4 Folder : 33 Broadway Bound: Letters of Congratulation during Broadway Run
1986
Box: 4 Folder : 34 Broadway Bound: Letters of Congratulation during Broadway Run
1987
Box: 4 Folder : 35 Brotherhood on Broadway (reading, script)
1965
Box: 4 Folder : 36 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: Excerpts from Letters, Sonnets and Poems
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 37 Cable Car Murder (television movie)
1971
Box: 4 Folder : 38 California Wine (play) with SC
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 39 Camera Three (television program) with JR and SC
1965
Box: 4 Folder : 40 Carnegie Hall program on the Rosenbergs (script)
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 41 Case of Libel (play)
1963
Box: 4 Folder : 42 Cause of it All (excerpts) by Leo Tolstoy
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 43 Celebration with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee and Friends
1987
Box: 4 Folder : 44 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: Program and Clippings
1969
Box: 4 Folder : 45 Chekov notes, including "Olga Knipper Chekhov Speaks"
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 46 Chicken Soup with Barley (play, script) by Arnold Wesker with SC
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 47 Children of Sanchez: Book Report-type Presentation
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 48 Children's Program Outline
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 49 Christy (play) with SC
1964
Box: 4 Folder : 50 Cid (radio, script)
1938
Box: 4 Folder : 51 Comeback Little Sheba (play) with JR as the Milkman
1950-1951
Box: 4 Folder : 52 Command Decision (play)
1947-1948
Box: 4 Folder : 53 Concert Readings with JR and SC
1950-1962
Box: 4 Folder : 54 Concert Readings with JR and SC
1963-1964
Box: 4 Folder : 55 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (film)
1972
Box: 4 Folder : 56 Contracts: JR
1941-1973
Box: 4 Folder : 57 Contracts: SC
1963-1973
Box: 4 Folder : 58 Conversation at Midnight (play)
1964
Box: 4 Folder : 59 Cowboys (movie): SC costars with John Wayne
1973
Box: 4 Folder : 60 Created Equal (Federal Theatre Project play)
1938
Box: 4 Folder : 61 Current Rage (play) with SC at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 62 Day They Shot John Lennon (play)
1997
Box: 4 Folder : 63 Death of a Salesman (play) at Arlington Park Theatre, Arlington Heights, Illinois
1972
Box: 4 Folder : 64 Death of Innocence (television movie)
1971
Box: 4 Folder : 65 Dictionary's Party (short story) by Martin Weldon
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 66 Dramatic Workshop at New School/Erwin Piscator, Director: Notes
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 67 Electra (excerpts) by Euripides
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 68 Emma Lazurus (sic) (excerpts)
undated
Box: 4 Folder : 69 Ensemble Studio Theatre
1973-1999
Box: 5 Folder : 1 Fair Game (play) with SC
1957
Box: 5 Folder : 2 Fairleigh Dickenson University Class
1961-1962
Box: 5 Folder : 3 Family Kovack (television movie) with SC
1974
Box: 5 Folder : 4 Family Rico (television movie)
1972
Box: 5 Folder : 5 [Jules] Feiffer cartoons
1966
Box: 5 Folder : 6 Fever for Life (play)
1957
Box: 5 Folder : 7 First Day in America (play) by Yuri Suhl (includes poem And the Earth Rebelled from 1954)
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 8 Fishke the Lame (excerpts) by Mendele Mocher Seforim
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 9 Foreign Field (movie)
1993
Box: 5 Folder : 10 Freedomways Magazine presents  An Evening of Dramatic Arts
Feb 22, 1969
Box: 5 Folder : 11 Front Page (play)
1947
Box: 5 Folder : 12 Going Home (movie)
1997
Box: 5 Folder : 13 Golden State (play)
1950
Box: 5 Folder : 14 Good Night! Monologue on Child Discipline for the PTA
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 15 Guys and Dolls (musical)
1955
Box: 5 Folder : 16 Hannukah Money (excerpts) with JR and SC
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 17 Henry IV, Part I (scene for two men)
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 18 Here Dies Another Day (AFI movie)
1996
Box: 5 Folder : 19 Hotel Manor Inn (movie)
1996
Box: 5 Folder : 20 House of Bernarda Alba (play) with SC
1950-1951
Box: 5 Folder : 21 In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (play)
1968
Box: 5 Folder : 22 Indian Centennial Song by Chief Dan George
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 23 Inherit the Wind (play): National Tour with Melvyn Douglas
1956-1957, 1960
Box: 5 Folder : 24 Introductions
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 25 Introductions to Jewish Materials
1960s
Box: 5 Folder : 26 Investigator: A Political Satire in Documentary Form
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 27 Ivory Tower (play)
1967
Box: 5 Folder : 28 Jerome, V. J.: Vignettes from Unstill Waters
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 29 Jewish Currents (Morris Schappes, Editor) Annual Concerts with JR and SC
1962-1964
Box: 5 Folder : 30 "Jewish Wife" from Private Life of the Master Race (play) by Bertolt Brecht
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 31 Juno and the Paycock (excerpts) by Sean O'Casey
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 32 "Kasrilevka" from The Schtetl by Sholem Aleichem
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 33 Ladies in Waiting (play) at the Negro Ensemble Company with SC
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 34 Lamp Unto My Feet episode "O the Chimneys" (television)
Oct 15, 1967
Box: 5 Folder : 35 Lecture: Method Acting vs. Classical
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 36 Life with Father (play) in Greenville, South Carolina (includes copy of program from original New York production)
1955
Box: 5 Folder : 37 Light Up the Sky (Play)
1959
Box: 5 Folder : 38 Line (play) by Israel Horovitz from Acrobats and Line
1971
Box: 5 Folder : 39 Little Foxes (excerpts) by Lillian Hellman
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 40 Little Murders (movie)
1971
Box: 5 Folder : 41 Little Rooster and the Turkish Sultan (play/script)
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 42 Living Flame (play)
1939
Box: 5 Folder : 43 Local 1199: Theatre Presentations and Film Works
1960s
Box: 5 Folder : 44 Lone Rider (radio script)
1940
Box: 5 Folder : 45 Look Back, Mrs. Lot by Ephrain Kishon (excerpts include "Jewish Poker")
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 46 Lost in the Stars: Scene between Jarvis and Stephen
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 47 Lysistrata (play excerpt): Scene for Two Women
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 48 Macbeth (play excerpt): Scene for a Man and a Women
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 49 Mademoiselle Colombe (play) with SC
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 50 Madrid 1937: VALB 60th Anniversary Dinner
Apr 21, 1996
Box: 5 Folder : 51 Magic Mountain (play script) by Thomas Mann adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand, and John Randolph
1965
Box: 5 Folder : 52 Magic Mountain (play): Correspondence, Programs, Notes
1964-1967
Box: 5 Folder : 53 Mating Dance (play) with SC
1964
Box: 5 Folder : 54 Medicine Show (play)
1940
Box: 5 Folder : 55 Midsummer Night's Dream (play excerpt) for American Academy Class
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 56 Mission Impossible (television episode): Call Sheet
1967
Box: 5 Folder : 57 "Mitzvah" from The Old Country by Sholem Aleichem
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 58 Modern Children (play) from the Sholem Aleichem Stories
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 59 Mother Courage and Her Children (play)
1963
Box: 5 Folder : 60 Motive (play)
1970
Box: 5 Folder : 61 My Brother Mike ([student?] film)
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 62 My Sweet Charlie (play) with JR and SC
1966
Box: 5 Folder : 63 Native Son (play): National Tour Starring Canada Lee
1941-1942
Box: 5 Folder : 64 "Negro History" Scripts and Related Materials
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 65 New Theatre for Now, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
1969
Box: 5 Folder : 66 Nihilists (play script): Master Copy
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 67 Nihilists (play script): Third Draft "for Reference," Incomplete
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 68 Nourish the Beast (play and television movie)
1973-1974
Box: 5 Folder : 69 Number One (movie): Working Title Pro
1969
Box: 5 Folder : 70 Oh, Pioneers (play) with SC
1969
Box: 5 Folder : 71 One Foot in America (various stories) by Yuri Suhl
1965
Box: 5 Folder : 72 Our Faces, Our Words (excerpts) by Lillian Smith for a Program on Civil Rights
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 73 Our Greek Experience: A Synthesis of Group Discussions Led by Professors Karl H. Niebyl, Alban Winspear and Others with National Guardian Travelers in Greece
Jun 1966
Box: 5 Folder : 74 Page from the Song of Songs by Sholem Aleichem
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 75 Paint Your Wagon (musical)
1951
Box: 5 Folder : 76 Passover Swindle by Sholem Aleichem
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 77 Peddler and the Dodo Bird (play): Clippings, Correspondence and Related Materials (includes correspondence with playwright Emanuel Fried)
1963-1970
Box: 5 Folder : 78 Peer Gynt (play)
1951
Box: 5 Folder : 79 Philadelphia Drama Guild (John Randolph, Artistic Consultant)
1971-1973
Box: 5 Folder : 80 Philadelphia Drama Guild: Death of a Salesman
1974
Box: 5 Folder : 81 Philadelphia Drama Guild: The Little Foxes
1974
Box: 5 Folder : 82 Philadelphia Drama Guild: The Rose Tattoo
1973
Box: 5 Folder : 83 Philadelphia Drama Guild: The Taming of the Shrew
1974
Box: 5 Folder : 84 Poems: Bertolt Brecht
undated
Box: 5 Folder : 85 Poems: Heinrich Heine's "Donna Clara"
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 1 Poems: "Lullaby for a South African Child of Apartheid"
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 2 Poems: Pablo Neruda
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 3 Poems: Beulah Richardson
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 4 Poems: Selections from Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 5 Poems: "Years of the Modern" from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 6 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and  The Barroom Monks): Plays with SC; JR is one of the adaptors of Portrait; Shamrock Company/Paul Libin, Producer with Round Table Review and Madeline Lee at the Martinique Theatre
1961-1964
Box: 6 Folder : 7 Possessed (play script)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 8 Prelude to a Kiss (play)
1991
Box: 6 Folder : 9 Present Tense (play) with SC
1972
Box: 6 Folder : 10 Pretty Poison (movie)
1968
Box: 6 Folder : 11 Private Hicks (play script) by Albert Maltz
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 12 Pygmalion (play)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 13 Quartette Productions with JR and SC
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 14 Radio Show Reviews
1947-1948
Box: 6 Folder : 15 Rap on Race (play) with SC
1971
Box: 6 Folder : 16 Readings
1961-1966
Box: 6 Folder : 17 Rescue (television script): Philco Television Playhouse
1951
Box: 6 Folder : 18 Respectful Prostitute (play)
1949
Box: 6 Folder : 19 Riders to the Sea (play)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 20 Rimers of Eldritch (monologues)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 21 Room Service (play)
1946
Box: 6 Folder : 22 Round Table Review by/with Phoebe Brand and John Randolph with Commentary by Dr. Frederic Ewen
1958-1963
Box: 6 Folder : 23 Ruby McCollum for LA Theatre Works
1997
Box: 6 Folder : 24 Salt of the Earth (excerpts)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 25 Saville Playhouse Summer Season
1946
Box: 6 Folder : 26 Scenes from the Works of Sean O'Casey (play): Theatre 1199
[1964?]
Box: 6 Folder : 27 Scenes from Uncle Vanya, Peer Gynt, The Lost Weekend, Important of Being Earnest, Parian or the Outcast, Bourgomaster
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 28 Script Sides: All Summer Long, Goldberg
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 29 Scuff (movie): JR invested in
1964
Box: 6 Folder : 30 Seagull (play) with SC
1966
Box: 6 Folder : 31 Seconds (movie): Original Opening and Re-Release
1965-1966, 1995
Box: 6 Folder : 32 Serpico (movie)
1973
Box: 6 Folder : 33 Shakespeare Comedies: Scenes for One Man and One Woman
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 34 Shakespeare Monologues
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 35 Short plays about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Mother Bloor
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 36 Silver Cord (play) at Equity Library Theatre
[1947?]
Box: 6 Folder : 37 Siren and Chameleon (play scripts) by Anton Chekhov
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 38 Song of the Fire Ovens (play script) by Peter Weiss
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 39 Sound of Music (musical)
1959-1963
Box: 6 Folder : 40 Stage for Action: Satire Matinee
1946
Box: 6 Folder : 41 Stage for Action Scripts: Talk in Darkness by Malvin Wald;  You're Next by Arthur Miller
1939, 1947
Box: 6 Folder : 42 String of Pearls (play) with JR and SC at Sholem Aleichem Club, Philadelphia, PA
1964
Box: 6 Folder : 43 Subversives for Medicare: Script of a Skit by Art Buchwald
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 44 Talent (play)
1980
Box: 6 Folder : 45 Tartuffe (play excerpt): Scene for Two Men and a Woman
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 46 Technicians All: Army Script Done at Chanute Field
[1940s]
Box: 6 Folder : 47 Tevya and His Daughters (play) with JR and SC (includes copy of Dramatists Play Service script)
1959
Box: 6 Folder : 48 Theatrical Programs
1939-1966
Box: 6 Folder : 49 There Was a Crooked Man (movie)
1970
Box: 6 Folder : 50 They Call Me Alien (poem)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 51 This Town: A Play of Manners by Sidney Blumenthal in Backstage West
Apr 4, 1996
Box: 6 Folder : 52 Time of Your Life (play)
1949
Box: 6 Folder : 53 Too True to Be Good (play scene) by George Bernard Shaw
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 54 Toys in the Attic (play) with SC
1960
Box: 6 Folder : 55 Transit Theater
1938
Box: 6 Folder : 56 Tribute to Erwin Piscator
1967
Box: 6 Folder : 57 Triple Play (play) Produced by the Theatre Guild
1959
Box: 6 Folder : 58 Unknown Chekhov (play script) Adapted and Arranged by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 59 "Useful Quotes"
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 60 Vanka (play scene) by Chekhov
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 61 Veterans Peace Conference (script) Held at Madison Square Garden
1946
Box: 6 Folder : 62 Victors (NYU Graduate Student Film) by Doro Bachrach
1971
Box: 6 Folder : 63 Visit (play)
1958
Box: 6 Folder : 64 Waltz of the Toreadors (play)
1973
Box: 6 Folder : 65 Ward Number Six (play script) by Anton Chekhov, Adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 66 Warsaw Ghetto (monologue)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 67 Watch on the Rhine (play scene)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 68 Way of the World (play excerpts)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 69 We Hold These Truths (play script): Adaptation
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 70 Weizmann (Chaim) Dinner: Script and Correspondence
1962
Box: 6 Folder : 71 Why America Deserves Eisenhower (poem)
1950s
Box: 6 Folder : 72 Wooden Dish (play)
1955
Box: 6 Folder : 73 Workers Theatre (documentary)
1998
Box: 6 Folder : 74 Working Theatre
1996-1999
Box: 6 Folder : 75 World of Sholem Aleichem (play) with SC and occasionally JR
1953-1965
Box: 6 Folder : 76 Young Hack and His Girl (play scene)
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 77 Israel Zangwill (performance script): Dreamer of the Ghetto
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 78 Israel Zangwill (script): King of the Schnorrers
undated

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Series IV: Oversize Material, 1955

Container 1     Title Date
Box: MSOS001 Scrapbook on HUAC Hearings, Compiled for a Benefit at the Stella Adler Studio in Los Angeles, California
Jun 12, 1997
Box: MSOS001 Variety ad re: AFTRA member resolution
Jul 27, 1955

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Series V: Photographs and Recordings, 1944-2003

Container 1     Title Date
Box: 7 John Randolph Photographs
1944-1970
Box: 8 Audio and Videorecordings
1970-2003

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