Papers, 1956-1973.

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Papers, 1956-1973.

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Collected papers of a civil rights activist, member of Students for a Democratic Society, and resident fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., primarily relating to his involvement with various projects in Appalachia for IPS, Students for a Democratic Society, and civil rights. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes); plusadditions of 0.6 c.f. and35 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

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...

Davis, Rennie

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Hollander, Nanci

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Gitlin, Todd.

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Burlage, Robb, 1937-

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Flacks, Richard.

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Flacks : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308456 ...

Institute for Policy Studies

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On September 1, 1963, the Peace Research Institute changed its name to the Institute for Policy Studies. The IPS was founded as a "transnational center for research, education, and social invention." It advocates critical study of U.S. policy and suggests alternative concepts and strategies. IPS produces the "independent socialist newpaper," In These Times. From the description of Collection, 1962-[ongoing]. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28296789 ...

Flacks, Mickey.

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