Executive Director Wyatt T. Walker files, 1952, 1960-1964.

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Executive Director Wyatt T. Walker files, 1952, 1960-1964.

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The series consists of files of Wyatt T. Walker as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1952, 1960-1964. The correspondence (chronological) concerns donations to SCLC, notices of meetings, speaking engagements, desegregation of two restaurants in Atlanta (Ga.), abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, a meeting with Robert F. Kennedy to discuss voter irregularities in the South, and alleged racial prejudice in a U.S. Army court martial. The correspondence (alphabetical) includes files relating to alleged discrimination at Atlantic Steel Company and Hunt Foods, Inc.; Walker's efforts to help Carl Braden who was jailed on conspiracy charges; extensive correspondence with William M. Kunstler regarding Monroe (N.C.) defendants; civil rights demonstrations; Freedom Rides litigation; and correspondence relating to cooperation between the SCLC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund.

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Braden, Carl, 1914-1975

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Carl Braden was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Braden left school at sixteen to begin a career in journalism. In October 1954, Carl and Anne Braden were indicted in Louisville under a state sedition law by the Jefferson County Grand Jury after the house they purchased for a Black family (Andrew Wade) was bombed. The charges against Mrs. Braden and five other people were dropped, but Carl was held under bail of $40,000, tried and found guilty of sedition for having incited the bombing. ...

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a national organization organized in chapters and affiliates that works for human rights across the world. It played a prominent role in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Origins of the SCLC can be traced back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 5 December 1955 after which leaders of civil rights groups met in Atlanta on 10-11 January 1957 to form ...

Atlantic Steel Company

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The Atlantic Steel Company was chartered in 1901 as the Atlanta Steel Hoop Company to manufacture steel ties for bailing cotton and hoops for binding barrels of rosin. Lacking a local source for the steel ties and binds used to prepare these products for shipment, eight Atlanta entrepreneurs formed the company. The founders were Dr. Abner W. Calhoun, George W. Connors, Charles E. Currier, John N. Goddard, John K. Ottley, J. Carroll Payne, Samuel T. Weyman, and Frank Hawkins. In 1906...

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995

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Hoffa, James R.

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Walker, Wyatt Tee

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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. ...

Hunt Foods.

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