Atlanta Office records, 1959-1972.

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Atlanta Office records, 1959-1972.

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The subgroup consists of records of the Atlanta Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1959-1972. Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, staff memoranda, press releases, reports, newspaper clippings, and a variety of printed material pertaining to all the departments. coordinated from the national office. The records document SNCC activities including the protests in Albany, Georgia in 1961-1962; the 1963 March on Washington; the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964; and the 1965 voter education project in Selma, Alabama. More generally, the Atlanta Office files document SNCC's voter registration and citizen education activities throughout the southern states, activities of the chairmen and executive secretaries, internal communications among SNCC members, and SNCC's relationship with other organizations.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office.

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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. From the description of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party files, 1960-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...