Charles M. Sherrod papers, 1961-1967.

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Charles M. Sherrod papers, 1961-1967.

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The collection consists of papers of Charles M. Sherrod from 1961-1967. The papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material, press releases, clippings, and minutes (1964-1965) of the Student Interracial Ministry. The materials document Sherrod's civil rights activities including his involvement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and its activities in Georgia and Mississippi. Other topics include voter registration, the Highlander Research and Education Center, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Southern Student Organizing Committee. The collection also contains research reports, syllabi, and newsletters pertaining to Sherrod's education at the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

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Sherrod, Charles, 1937-

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Charles M. Sherrod, minister, civil rights activist, and field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. From the description of Charles M. Sherrod papers, 1961-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476538 Student. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Sherrod : oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684134 ...

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party created in 1964 as a branch of the populist Freedom Democratic organization in the state of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. It was organized by African Americans and whites from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time allowed participation only by whites, when African-Americans made up 40% of...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)

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Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s and Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement beginning in the late 1950s. They worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Guy and Candie Carawan, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks, among others. In 1959, t...

Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)

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Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

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Student Interracial Ministry.

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