Correspondence, May-September 1964

Series I spans the time period from Claude E. Ramsay's first Mississippi AFL-CIO presidential election in 1959 to his retirement and death in 1986. The series is arranged in chronological order and contains correspondence, newsclippings, memoranda, telegrams, and printed matter. The bulk of the material relates to Ramsay's involvement with the local, state, regional, and national AFL-CIO organizations, other labor unions, and local and national politicians.

Among Ramsay's correspondents were such labor officials as George Meany, Andrew J. Biemiller, Stanton Smith, Daniel Powell, and Carl McPeak of the AFL-CIO, and E.T. Kehrer and Nick Bonanno of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). Among the many prominent public figures who corresponded with Ramsay were Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, William F. Winter, Charles Evers, Roy Wilkins, and Coretta Scott King.

Series I also includes Ramsay's acceptance letters to speak to many groups or institutions in Mississippi including the Mississippi Heart Association, Mississippi Library Association, the University of Mississippi, Tougaloo College, and Meridian Junior College.

The series concludes with a miscellaneous section of miscellany containing some of Ramsay's speeches, public statements, interviews, legal and medical papers, and biographical news articles.