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Northern Student Movement records

Title: Northern Student Movement records

Correspondence, reports, publications, administrative files, papers of related organizations and subject files documenting activities of the Northern Student Movement, its affiliates, and core members, including Peter Countryman, William Strickland, Samuel Leiken, Charyn Sutton, Sharon Jeffrey and Frank Joyce. The Central Office files provide an overview of the organization as a whole, its leadership structure, its activities and inner working, the thinking of its cadres, and its funding mechanisms. Included are minutes and correspondence of the Board of Advisers and Sponsors, the NSM Congress and the Executive Committee, in addition to conference files, a complete run of the group's magazine, "Freedom North," its internal bulletin, "The Organizer," and compilations of training material for prospective tutors. The City Projects series is divided into five subseries: Philadelphia, Boston, Harlem, Detroit and Hartford, with each subseries further dividing into tutorial and community action projects. There are additional folders for summer projects in Baltimore, Chicago, Newark and Morristown in New Jersey. The community action groups are documented with correspondence, reports, clipping files and publicity materials from John Churchville at the Freedom Library in Philadelphia, Sarah-Ann Shaw of the Boston Action Group, Peter Morrill and Charles Turner in Hartford, and Frank Joyce in Detroit. Associated groups represented in the collection include the Student Christian Movement in New England, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society. There are also subject files on SNCC's organizing efforts in Alabama, rent strikes, tutorials, police brutality, community organizing, urban renewal and opposition to the war in Vietnam.

ArchivalResource: 10.8 linear feet (27 archival boxes)

https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20927 View

Civil Rights History Project collection

Title: Civil Rights History Project collection

Collection of 145 filmed oral history interviews of 175 participants in the United States civil rights movement and their family members. Also includes interview transcripts and photographs. Collection materials were created by the National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center. The oral histories were conducted by historians Julian Bond, Taylor Branch, David P. Cline, Emilye Crosby, John Dittmer, Will Griffin, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Joseph Mosnier, LaFleur Paysour, Dwandalyn Reece, Patricia Sullivan, and Kieran Walsh Taylor. Most of the interviews were filmed by John Bishop.

ArchivalResource: 1,202 items

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 View