Albert Einstein Collection

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Title

Albert Einstein Collection

Subject

This collection contains documents written by either Albert Einstein or Earl Conrad. The focus of the collection is on Mr. Einstein's views on civil rights, and Mr. Conrad's thoughts and responses to Mr. Einstein's ideas.

Description

Correspondence between Earl Conrad and Albert Einstein
Transcript of Earl Conrad's interview of Albert Einstein.
Earl Conrad's written reflection on Einstein's views on civil rights, and on the national media's response to the interview.
Earl Conrad's interview of Edward Nelson, an African American worker in Conrad's office building.

Creator

Earl Conrad

Source

Earl Conrad Collection, Cayuga Community College, Auburn, NY

Date

1940s

Format

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

Collection Items

Earl Conrad Interview with Professor Albert Einstein
Earl Conrad interviews Albert Einstein about the issue of Civil Rights for African Americans, and what known at that time as "the Negro question."

Earl Conrad statement about his interview with Albert Einstein
A few days after Earl Conrad's Interview with Albert Einstein, Earl Conrad wrote a statement about the suppression of the interview by the National Press.

Earl Conrad's Commentary on the National Press Ignoring Einstein's Statement on Civil Rights  #2
A statement written after Mr. Conrad's interview of Prof. Einstein which criticizes the metropolitan press and wire services "for deliberately suppressing Prof. Einstein's historic statement on the Negro Question."

Earl Conrad's interview with Edward Nelson, an African American Superintendent in Conrad's office building.
Mr. Conrad follows up his interview with Albert Einstein by conducting an interview of Edward Nelson, a 56 year-old African American superintendent of the building where Mr. Conrad's office was located.

Albert Einstein's letter to Earl Conrad April 27, 1945
Albert Einstein's letter to Earl Conrad indicating Mr. Einstein's willingness to be interviewed by Mr. Conrad regarding the Negro question. This original letter is on Professor Einstein's stationery and contains his original signature.

Photograph of Albert Einstein
Photograph of Albert Einstein
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