Robert Fletcher Civil rights collection 1962-1967

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Robert Fletcher Civil rights collection 1962-1967

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Collection of assorted printed material gathered by photographer Robert E. "Bob" Fletcher concerning the civil rights movement between 1962 and 1967. Included is printed material for the March on Washington, 1963; Free Southern Theatre, 1967; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1963-64; Freedom Summer WATS Line Messages, 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964; 3 issues of Broadside Topical Song Magazine, 1962, 1964 and other miscellaneous newspaper clippings.

.2 lin. ft. (1 box)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316968

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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....

Mississippi Freedom Project

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Fletcher, Robert E., 1938-

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Robert E. "Bob" Fletcher, photographer, film maker, writer and educator. Born in 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, Fletcher majored in History and English at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. In 1963 Fletcher became active in the civil rights movement, taking photographs for and administering the National Student Association's Detroit Tutorial Program. After moving to New York City he worked at the Harlem Education Project and set up a pho...

Free Southern Theater

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