Papers, 1983.

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Papers, 1983.

Interview with Robert Parris Moses concerning the origin, participants, organization, and activities of the voter registration movement from 1962-1964 in Mississippi. Moses was an early member and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and program director for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Interview includes discussions about recruiting student workers from Stanford, Yale, and Harvard; opposition within SNCC to the Summer Project for voter registration; financial sources; conflicts between blacks and whites within SNCC; and possession of firearms. Among participants mentioned are Allard Lowenstein, David Harris, Howard Zinn, Bruce Payne, Medgar Evers, and Tim Jenkins.

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Moses, Robert Parris, 1935-2021

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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...

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....

Lowenstein, Allard K. (Allard Kenneth), 1929-1980

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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (January 16, 1929 – March 14, 1980) was an American academic, author, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the U.S. Representative for New York's 5th congressional district from 1969 to 1971. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City before earning a B.A. from the University of North Carolina and an LL.B. from Yale Law School. In 1949 Lowenstein worked as a special assistant on the staff of...

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was an award-winning historian, activist, playwright, teacher, public speaker and author of articles, essays and books including the best-selling A People's History of the United States. Praised for his moral courage and passion for social justice, Zinn influenced thousands of students during a teaching career of more than thirty years. Reaching the wider public through his books, plays, articles, lectures and in theatrical and television presentations of his Voices of A ...

Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963

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Medgar Wiley Evers (b. July 2, 1925, Decatur, MS–d. June 12, 1963, Jackson, MS) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, to end segregation of public facilities, and to expand opportunities for African Americans, including enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated by a white supremacist and Klansman....

Payne, Bruce L.

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Sinsheimer, Joseph Andrew, 1962-

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Student, Duke University. From the description of Papers, 1983. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 30803623 ...

Harris, David, 1946-

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Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

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Jenkins, Timothy, 1799-1859

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