Gardner Jackson Papers, 1912-1965 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Collection Overview
Title: Gardner Jackson Papers, 1912-1965
Primary Creator: Jackson, Gardner (1896-1965)
Extent: 40.55 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: The papers are arranged in seven series: General Correspondence and Subject Files; Robert Marshall Foundation and Civil Liberties Trust; Sacco-Vanzetti Files; Financial Correspondence; Speech and Article File; Biographical Materials; and Newsclipping and Pamphlet Files.
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
Gardner Jackson was involved in various causes and organizations. He took leave from the Boston Globe in 1922 to work against the dismissal of President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst College. In 1930, he intervened on behalf of 20 scrubwomen, who had been dismissed by Harvard University in 1929. In the early 1930's, he was also involved in the cases of Tom Moony and Ray Ovid Hall. See the Sacco-Vanzetti files for material on these cases.
Jackson was fired from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1935 along with Jerome Frank, Lee Pressman, and Francis Shea because of disagreements within the AAA over milk marketing policy and the treatment of sharecroppers in the cotton states. He tried to improve the living conditions of sharecroppers and other farm workers through the National Committee on Rural Social Planning and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. He organized the Washington Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers in 1936, worked for a Congressional investigation of civil liberties infractions which led to the establishment of the Lafollette Committee in 1936, and was chairman of the Council for Pan American Democracy from 1938 to 1940. In the summer of 1935, Jackson traveled around Europe talking to landworker organization leaders.
After leaving the government, Jackson joined "The Research Associates," a scientific research and consultation organization headed by Frederick Cottrell. He was also associated with the Washington Committee to Aid Republican Spain. From 1938 to 1940, he tried to persuade the House of Representatives to abolish the Dies Committee. For material on the Dies Committee, see American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, Christian Front, Walton Cole, Consumers, Gordon Dean, Julius Emspak, Morris Ernst, Dashiel Hammett, Frank Hook, Edward Lamb, John L. Lewis, Dorothy McAllister, Michael Musmanno, Michael Straus, Edgar Turlingto, James Wechsler, Harold Weisberg, and Muriel Williams in the General Correspondence file.
Jackson served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and Under Secretary Paul Appleby in 1941 and 1942. His principal assignment was with the Farm Security Administration.
In the fall of 1944, Jackson was attacked in New York by Jack Lawrenson, National Maritime Union vice-president, because of articles he had written for PM about Harry Bridges' future with the CIO. As a result of the attack, Jackson lost the sight of his left eye.
In September 1946, Jackson attended the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization meeting in Copenhagen and then went to France to study agricultural conditions there. In 1948 and 1949, he served as special assistant to Welch Grape Juice Company President, J. M. Kaplan.
During the 1950's, Jackson was interested in Bolivian affairs. He and James B. Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO and President of the International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, examined the problem of communist-dominated unions in defense plants. He was associated with the American Federation of Physically Handicapped; worked for the interests of the National Congress of American Indians; and supported the Friends of Good Music in their efforts to get full-time good music broadcasting on radio station WGMS in Washington, D.C. He tried to raise funds for his projects through his involvement with the U.S. Pallett Corporation. In addition, he labored for passage of area redevelopment legislation and worked on Indian problems as an official representative of the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination.
Jackson was dismissed from the AFL-CIO in 1958 largely because of his vigorous campaigning to improve working conditions, particularly for agricultural workers. He continued to work for migrant labor through his associations with such groups as the National Farm Labor Union, National Farm Labor Advisory Committee, and the National Sharecroppers Fund. Correspondents on agricultural problems include H. L. Mitchell, President of the National Agricultural Workers Union; Ernesto Galarza, vice-president and research director of NAWU; and Fay Bennett of the National Sharecroppers Fund.
GARDNER JACKSON HISTORY
1896 Born, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1914-17 Attended Amherst College.
1918 Discharged from United States Army.
1919 Attended Columbia University.
1919-20 With investment firm of Boetcher, Porter and Co., Denver.
1920 Reporter with Denver Times.
1920-26 Editorial writer and reporter, Boston Globe.
1926-30 Publicizer of and strategy adviser for the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense and Memorial Committees.
1926-30 Also attended some classes at Harvard University as a "Special Student."
1931-33 Washington, D. C. correspondent for Montreal Star, Toronto Star, and Toronto Telegram.
1933-35 Assistant Consumer's Counsel in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
1935-37 Associated with Research Associates.
1935-36 Volunteer executive secretary of National Committee on Rural Social Planning.
1936-40 With Labor's Non-Partisan League as legislative-liaison-political aide to CIO President John L. Lewis.
1941-42 Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary of Agriculture, USDA.
1942-44 Washington bureau of the newspaper PM.
1942-44 Helped organize the Food for Freedom Committee.
1945-48 Washington, D. C. Office of National Farmers Union (re: matter affecting Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.)
1948-49 Special Assistant to J. M. Kaplan, President of Welch Grape Juice Company.
1951-58 Congress of Industrial Organizations (hired by Phil Murray in free-lance, legislative, liaison role) and kept on by AFL-CIO in organizing department after merger.
1958-60 Worked on non-pay basis with National Farm Labor Union to revive public concern in migrant farm labor problem.
1960-61 Consultant on farm policy to Chicago Board of Trade.
1962 Consultant for International Development Services, Inc.
1965 Died April 17.
Administrative Information
Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Access Restrictions: None
Use Restrictions:
Mrs. Jackson retains copyright interests in the papers for her lifetime. After her death, interests in the papers will be donated to the United States Government. Mrs. Jackson is deceased.
Material that might constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or libel of living persons has been closed.
Acquisition Method: The papers of Gardner Jackson, consultant, government official, labor aide, newspaper reporter, researcher, and writer, were donated to the Library by his wife, Dorothy S. Jackson in three separate groups which have been integrated.
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Rexford Tugwell Papers
Claude Wickard Papers
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: General Correspondence],
[Series 2: Robert Marshall Foundation & Civil Liberties Trust],
[Series 3: Sacco-Vanzetti Files, 1927-1962],
[Series 4: Financial Correspondence],
[Series 5: Speech and Article File],
[Series 6: Bibliographical Materials],
[Series 7: Newsclipping and Pamphlet Files],
[All]
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Series 1: General Correspondence - Incoming and outgoing correspondence and subject files from several time periods were integrated into a single file which is arranged alphabetically by subject or surname of correspondent. The correspondence, which reflects Jackson's many interests, also includes letters between Jackson and his brother, William S. Jackson; his sisters, Helen and Edith; his wife, Dorothy; daughter, Deborah; sons, Gardner, Jr., Geoffrey, and Everett; and other family members.
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Box 1 -
A-Al -
Abram, Morris -
Acheson, Dean -
Agency for International Development -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -
Agriculture, Cannery and Packinghouse Workers
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Agriculture, Department of -
Agriculture, Department of -
Agriculture, Department of - Bureau of Agricultural Economics -
Agricultural Workers and Sharecroppers Conference -
Aiken, George -
Aikman, Duncan -
Air Transports -
Air Transports -
Albonetti, Achille -
Alexander, Will -
Alfriend, Kate -
Allen, Ben -
Allen, Bernard -
Alsop, Stewart
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Am-Az -
American Association for Economic Freedom -
American Birth Control League -
American Civil Liberties Union -
American Civil Liberties Union: Academic Freedom -
American Civil Liberties Union: Labor -
American Civil Liberties Union: Sedition Laws -
American Committee Against Facism -
American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom -
American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
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American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born -
American Council Against Nazi Propaganda -
American Farm Bureau -
American Farm Bureau Federation -
American Farm Bureau Federation -
American Federation of Government Employees -
AFL-CIO -
American Federation of Teachers -
American Foundation for the Physically Handicapped -
American GI Forum of Texas -
American Jewish Committee -
American League Against War and Facism -
American League for Peace and Democracy
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Baldwin, C. B. -
Baldwin, Roger -
Ball, George -
Banfield, R. S. -
Bankhead, William -
Bankhead Tenant Farmers' Bill -
Barbash, Jack -
Barkin, Solomon -
Barkley, Albin -
Barton, H. C. -
Bata Shoe Company -
Batt, William -
Bauer, Richard H. -
Baukage, H. R. -
Baumgarten, Edward -
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Bean, Louis -
Beeson, Albert -
Beffel, John -
Bell, Ulrich -
Bendiner, Robert -
Benezet, Louis -
Bennet, Augustus
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Bennet, Fay [National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc.] -
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Bennett, Thomas Brown Case -
Bent, Silas -
Benton, William -
Berking, Max -
Bernstein, Charles -
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Biberman, Herbert -
Biddle, Francis -
Biddle, George -
Biderman, Beth -
Biffle, Leslie -
Billikopf, Jacob -
Bitner, Van -
Black, Hugo -
Blaisdell, Thomas -
Blankenhorn, H. -
Blanton, M. G. -
Bledsoe, S. B.
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Childs, Marquis -
Christian, Dave -
Christofferson, Robert -
Christopher, Paul -
Christian Front -
Civil Liberties Clearing House -
Civil Liberties Education Foundation -
Civil Liberties and Security Investigation -
Civil Rights Federation -
Civilian Conservation Corps -
Cladakis, NJ -
Clapper, Olive -
Clark, L.M. -
Clark, Margaret -
Clifford, William -
Co
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Crawford, Kenneth -
Crim, Jack -
Cross, James -
Cruikshank, Nelson -
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Culbreth, Harry -
Cullen, Thomas -
Cuneo, Ernest -
Curtis, Bill -
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Dahl, Lief -
Daily Radio News -
Dairy Farmers -
Dallet, Margery -
Dalty, Leon -
Davidson, Frank -
Davis, George -
Davis, Horace -
Davis, Jerome -
Davis, John -
Davis, William Rhodes -
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Dean, Gordon -
Delmo Homes
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Emergency Committee for Food Production -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey
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Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emergency Consumers Tax Councils of New Jersey -
Emery, John -
Epstein, Harold -
Ernst, Morris -
Ethridge, Mark -
Export Trade and Shipper -
Ezekial, Mordecai -
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Fair Labor Standards -
Fair Labor Standards Act -
Family Farm Income Act, 1940 -
Farley, James -
Farms -
Farm Matters
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Federal Communications Commission -
Federated Press -
Federn, Paul -
Felicani, Aldino -
Felix, David -
Ferrero Defense Commission -
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Field Representation Federation -
Film Audiences for Democracy -
Finerty, John -
Finnegan, Les -
Fischer, Jack -
Fischer Defense Committee -
Flaherty, Mike -
Flanders, Ralph -
Flato, Charles -
Fleming, John -
Flood, Daniel -
Florida Citrus Industry -
Flynn, John -
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Greene, Macdonald -
Greene, William -
Grey, Jack -
Grubbs, Don -
Gruening, Ernest -
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Haden, Allen -
Halsey, Marion -
Hamburger, Ludwig -
Hamilton, Fowler -
Hammett, Dashiel -
Handicapped -
Hanellin, Harriet -
Hannigan, Joseph and Gertrude -
Hapgood, Charles -
Hard, William -
Harley, Hugh -
Harper, Kathleen -
Harris, Lem -
Harris, Seymour -
Hastings High School -
Hathaway, Dale -
Hays, St. John, Abramson & Schulman
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Henderson, Don -
Henderson Mill Strike -
Henson, Francis A. -
Herling, John -
Herman, Mrs. William -
Herrick, Myron -
Hewlett, Horace -
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Hickerson, Harold -
Hi Fi Components Industry -
Highlander Folk School -
Hill, Lister -
Hillman, Sidney -
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Hobensack, W. Carlile -
Holtzman, Fanny -
Hook, Frank -
Homeparks Associates -
Hoover, J. Edgar
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International Cooperation Administration -
International Cooperation Alliance -
International Development Services -
International Social Service -
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers -
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers -
Interparliamentary Group -
Isserman, Abraham -
Invitations -
Izac, Ed. V. -
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Box 39 -
Jackson, Gardner: Statements -
Jackson, Gardner: Writings -
Jackson, Gardner: Printed Items -
Jackson, Gardner, Jr. -
Jackson, Geoffrey -
Jackson, Helen -
Jackson, William S. [Father] -
Jackson, William S. -
Jackson, William S. -
Jackson, William S. -
Jackson, William S., Jr. [Nephew] -
Sachs, Honore [Mrs. Jackson's Mother]
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Livingston, John -
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Loeb, James, Jr. -
Lord, Russell -
Lorwin, Val -
Louisiana Sugar Cane Plantations -
Lowenthal, Max -
Lubell, Sam -
Lubin, Isador -
Lubin, Simon -
Lucey, Robert -
Luscomb, Florence -
Lusky, Louis -
Lyons, Barrow -
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McAllister, Dorothy -
McAllister, Frank -
McCormack, John -
McCulloch, Frank -
McCune, Wesley -
McDonald, David -
McGovern, George -
McGrady, Edward -
McIntyre, Marvin -
MacJannet, Donald -
MacKenzie, Vincent
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McLaren, Louise -
MacLeish, Archibald -
MacLellan, Helen -
McManus, Robert -
Ma -
Mailing Material -
"The Manpower Crisis in Baltimore" -
Marcantonio, Vito -
March of Time -
Marsh, Benjamin -
Marshall, George -
Marshall, James -
Marshall, Robert -
Marshall, Robert: Death of -
Martz, Glen -
Mason, Lucy Randolph -
Maverick, Maury -
Mayne, David -
Me-Mi
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Misc. Reports, Speeches & Articles: B-W -
Misc. Reports & Speeches: Garner, John N. -
Misc. Reports & Speeches: Hunt, Henry -
Misc. Reports & Speeches: Jackson, Gardner -
Misc. Reports & Speeches: Labor Unions & Labor's Non-Partisan League -
Misc. Reports & Speeches: Perkins, Frances -
Missouri Valley Authority -
Mitchell, H. L. [See also Strikes] -
Mitchell, H. L. [See also Strikes]
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National Beet Workers Conference Proceedings, 1936 -
National Catholic Welfare Conference -
National Civil Liberties Clearing House -
National Civil Liberties Clearing House -
National Committee for an Effective Congress -
National Committee for People's Rights -
National Committee on Rural and Social Planning -
National Conference on Constitutional Amendments -
National Conference on Rural and Social Planning
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National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor -
National Farm Labor Users Conference -
National Farmers Union -
National Farmers Union -
National Farmers Union -
National Farmers Union -
National Maritime Union -
National Planning Association -
National Press Club -
National Sharecroppers Fund -
National Sharecroppers Week -
Nation Wide Labor Roll Call
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Public Affairs Institute -
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Quick, Roger -
Ra-Re -
Rabkin, Sol -
Radio Responses to Sharecroppers, Agricultural Workers Meeting -
Ramspeck, Robert -
Randolph, A. Philip -
Rankin, Thomas V. -
Rasmussen, Paul -
Rauh, Joseph -
Rauschenbush, Stephen -
Read, Nick -
Readers File, August 1942 - January 1943 -
Refugees Defense Committee -
Reports, Miscellaneous -
Research Associates
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Sacks, Alexander -
Safford, William C. -
Salem, Stan -
Saltonstall, Leverett -
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Scandrett, Richard B. -
Schachter, Leon -
Schenley Labs -
Schlesinger, Arthur -
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. -
Schnitzler, William -
Schotte, Oscar -
Schulkind, Adelaide -
Schultz, Theodore -
Schwartz, Abba -
Schwedersky, Herve -
Schwellenbach, Lewis -
Scott, Byron
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Seeley, Burton -
Segal, Benjamin D. -
Seraidaris, Nelly -
Sessions, Robert -
Shafroth, Morrison -
Sharecroppers -
Sharp, Makom -
Sharrer, Honore -
Sherman, Pascal -
Sherwood, Robert -
Shidler, Atlee -
Shishkin, Boris -
Shuman, Charles -
Sifton, Paul -
Sigal, Benjamin C. -
Silcox, F. A. -
Simon, Abbott -
Singleton, George -
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Skouras, George -
Slaff, George -
Smith, Anthony Wayne -
Smith, Delwin -
Smith, Edwin -
Smith, Hazel -
Smith, Hilda -
Smith, Howard
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Sweeden, Otis L. -
Sweetland, Monroe -
Swinea, Melvin -
Swire, Joe -
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Taussig, William -
Taylor, Robert -
Te-Th -
Teachers Award Foundation -
Thatcher, M. W. -
Thomas, Norman -
Thorndike, Joseph -
Thorsen, Wallace -
Ti-To -
Tolan Committee -
Toll, Henry -
Townsend Plan -
Tozier, Ray -
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Trager, Frank -
Tresca, Carlo -
Truman, Harry S. -
Tugwell, Rexford G. -
Turlington, Edgar -
Turner, Katherine -
Twentieth Century Fund -
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Unidentified
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Union Affairs -
Union for Democratic Action -
Union for Democratic Action -
Union for Democratic Action -
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America -
United Nations -
United States Department of Commerce -
United States Department of Justice Union -
United States Department of Labor -
United States Pallet Corporation
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Browse by Series:
[Series 1: General Correspondence],
[Series 2: Robert Marshall Foundation & Civil Liberties Trust],
[Series 3: Sacco-Vanzetti Files, 1927-1962],
[Series 4: Financial Correspondence],
[Series 5: Speech and Article File],
[Series 6: Bibliographical Materials],
[Series 7: Newsclipping and Pamphlet Files],
[All]