Robert Fletcher Civil rights collection, 1962-1967.

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....

Fletcher, Robert, 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 ...

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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