Beatrice Stegeman collection on civil rights in southern Illinois, 1962-1970.

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Beatrice Stegeman collection on civil rights in southern Illinois, 1962-1970.

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The Beatrice Stegeman collection consists of materials relating to civil rights and women's liberation that were collected by Beatrice Stegeman, a former student at Southern Illinois University in the early 1960s. Materials in the collection include circulars distributed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the SNCC newsletter, The Student Voice, 1962-1964, Student Nonviolent Freedom Committee circulars, Carbondale Human Relations Commission reports, various memoranda, and correspondence. There are also materials related to the Head Start program and copies of southern Illinois newspapers from the early 1960s.

2.00 boxes.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331388

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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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....

Carbondale Human Relations Commission.

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Stegeman, Beatrice Ann Carlson

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Beatrice Stegeman was born in 1936 and received her bachelor's degree in 1958 from the University of Illinois, her master's degree in philosophy in 1960 from Southern Illinois University, and her Ph.D in 1967 from SIU. While an undergraduate, Stegeman was primarily involved in desegregation and achieving equality for African-Americans in southern Illinois. Stegeman received her Ph.D in philosophy and then taught in Cairo, Egypt for three years. She returned to southern Illinois in 1970 and took ...

Head Start Program (U.S.)

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