| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newspaper cuttings and funding requests related to the Martin Luther King Foundation (MLKF) and International Personnel, an employment arm created out of the MKKF. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: MLKF was created to carry out research into the teaching and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, relieve sickness and poverty in any country of the world (particularly as a result of intolerance or discrimination) and the support of any religion that aims to promote good citizenship in multi-racial communities. International Personnel was formed out of the MLKF in 1970 to find employment for professionally qualified black people. Nature of support: The Fund made a series of gradually decreasing grants from £7,760 in 1972 to £2,100 in 1964. Minutes: BCF 1201. Notes: Communications with IP broke down in 1973 due to the devolution of autonomy to local IP organisations. Payments were continued once communications had been re-established. File organised by date from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |