Chairman's files, 1960-1969.

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Chairman's files, 1960-1969.

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The series consists of records of chairmen Marion Barry (1960), Charles McDew (1960-1963), John Lewis (1963-1966), Stokely Carmichael (1966-1969), and H. Rap Brown (now Jamil Al-Amin) (1967-1968) of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1960-1969. The files document the origins of SNCC, the sit-ins and freedom rides, fund raising, SNCC's reaction to the political environment of the 1960s, television appearances of Stokely Carmichael, and the imprisonment of H. Rap Brown. Includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.

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Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

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Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad and moved to New York City with his family in 1952. In 1964 he graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Philosophy; the same year he became a field secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he was elected chairman of SNCC....

McDew, Charles

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Barry, Marion Shepilov, 1936-2014

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Marion Barry was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi on March 6, 1936. From an impoverished family, he went on to become a vigorous civil rights activist and served four terms as Mayor of the District of Columbia. Barry grew up in Memphis, where he attended Booker T. Washington High School. During the City's 1958 bus desegregation drive, Barry received his first taste of public confrontation and media notoriety. Subsequently, he abandoned his doctoral studies in Chemistry at the University of Tenness...

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. The chairman of SNCC was elected annually by the Committee and served as chairman of the organiza...

Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-

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Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-2020

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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician, statesman, and civil rights activist and leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil right...