Taylor Branch Papers, (bulk ) 1865-2013 1958-2009

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp2049 (person)

Bayard Rustin (b. March 17, 1912, West Chester, Pennsylvania–d. August 24, 1987, Manhattan, New York) was an African-American Quaker who was concerned with nonviolence, socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World War II fo...

Moses, Robert Parris, 1935-2021

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bd4rgz (person)

Civic leader and educator Robert Parris Moses was born on January 23, 1935 in New York City to Louise Parris and Gregory Moses. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1952, and enrolled at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he received a Rhodes scholarship. Moses received his B.A. degree from Hamilton College in 1956, and his M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1957. Moses began teaching mathematics at the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York in 1958. In 1960, he became...

Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7jhc (person)

Ralph David Abernathy (1926-1990) was a minister, civil rights leader, and confidant of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr....

Farmer, James Leonard, Jr., 1920-1999

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6039jfq (person)

Civil rights leader, author, labor organizer, and teacher, James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was born on January 12, 1920, in Marshall, Texas. He earned degrees from Wiley College (1938) and the Howard University School of Divinity (1940). Farmer went on to found the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, particularly in launching the Freedom Rides in the summer of 1961. These bus rides tested the federal interstate transportation accommodations at bus t...

Sherrod, Charles, 1937-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63w095p (person)

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 ...

Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd1sns (person)

Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad and moved to New York City with his family in 1952. In 1964 he graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Philosophy; the same year he became a field secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he was elected chairman of SNCC....

Bevel, James Luther, 1936-2008

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt4kp6 (person)

Civil rights activist Reverend James Luther Bevel was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on October 19, 1936. After a stint in the services, Bevel was called to the ministry and enrolled in the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. While in the Seminary, Bevel joined the Nashville chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), then led by the Reverend James Lawson.In 1960, Bevel and other black students trained by Lawson, including John Lewis, Dianne Nash, ...

Nash, Diane Judith, 1938-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wb634n (person)

Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); the Freedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel; co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project; and wo...

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q63gmd (person)

Born to immigrant parents in Harlem on March 1, 1927, Harry Belafonte spent much of his youth in his mother's home country of Jamaica. Though difficult, life in Jamaica was full of rich cultural experiences that influenced Belafonte's art. At the beginning of World War II, Belafonte returned to Harlem with his mother and brother. He had trouble integrating into the new environment and later dropped out of high school to join the U.S. Navy. After Belafonte was honorably discharged, he went bac...

Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d0411x (person)

Septima Poinsette Clark was born in Charleston, S.C. on 3 May 1898, the daughter of Peter Poinsette, who grew up a slave on the plantation of Joel Roberts Poinsett (with conflicting data saying he came on the ship the Wanderer), and Victoria Anderson who grew up mostly in Haiti. The family lived on Henrietta Street; Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. Laws did not allow blacks to teach in black city schools, so Clark ta...

Nixon, Edgar Daniel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb728g (person)

John Lewis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pq4k0t (person)

Baez, Joan, 1941-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x72b8 (person)

Joan Baez (b. Jan. 9, 1941) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. She got her start during the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and is well known for her performance of "We Shall Overcome" at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....

Bernard, Lee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rh10bp (person)

Charles Jones

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64w1wnp (person)

Marion Cheek

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64329h9 (person)

Walker, Wyatt Tee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs3pzd (person)

Minister, author, and civil rights activist. From the description of Wyatt Tee Walker papers : additions, 1969-2005 (bulk ca. 1970-2005) (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 229128156 Minister, author, and civil rights activist, Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker is best known for his work as Chief of Staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a position he held from 1960-1964, and as pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in New York City since 1967. ...

Louis, Martin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd5h85 (person)

John Doar

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw8ztp (person)

Branch, Taylor.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hh951k (person)

Taylor Branch, journalist and historian, is best known for his books chronicling the career of Martin Luther King Jr., and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Raised in Atlanta, Branch attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became involved in political activism and completed a degree in American history in 1968. While a graduate student at Princeton University, Branch conducted a voter registration campaign among African Americans in rural Georgia. He was editor o...

Joseph Rauh

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62m1qpp (person)

S. B. Wells

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62387cb (person)

Clarence Jones

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s90vqt (person)

Vernon Dobson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s04r5t (person)

C. B. King

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c11jgv (person)

Michael Harrington

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj53tm (person)

Tom Johnson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk9z0h (person)

S. K. De

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r78vf (person)

Burke, Marshall

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj554g (person)

Rutha Mae Harris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jc1k74 (person)

Meree Harris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6586q4w (person)

Timothy Jenkins

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bq5g36 (person)

Kwame Toure

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63s65fv (person)

Harry Wachtel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6392pg5 (person)