Series 3, Writings and Speeches (1912-1978): Baldwin was a prolific writer and speaker, although his only books were Juvenile Courts and Probation, written while he was in St. Louis, Liberty Under the Soviets, written in 1928, and Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict, a book of speeches Baldwin gave at Harvard University with industrialist Clarence B. Randall, which was published in 1938. Baldwin was working on an autobiography sporadically during the 1950s and 1960s, but it was never

published. This autobiography was an offshoot of his contribution to Columbia University's Oral History Project and represented an expansion of his first series of reminiscences recorded at Columbia in 1953. In 1963 Baldwin recorded his memories of the intervening ten years for the Oral History Project, but he never attempted to turn this second part into a book.

Series 3 is divided into two subseries, "Writings" and "Speeches." Within each subseries the writings and speeches are organized according to subject matter. The bulk of Baldwin's articles were written while he was director of the ACLU and chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man. While many of them obviously touch on civil liberties and human rights issues, he also wrote about foreign affairs, race relations, radicalism, St. Louis, and social work. His articles include various short biographical sketches, and he wrote many book reviews. While he was in prison he also tried his hand at some poetry, although this was his only experimentation with this genre. His speeches deal with many of the same topics as his articles. Some of his speeches are in the form of full-text transcriptions, while some are merely notes.