Executive Secretary files, 1959-1972.

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Executive Secretary files, 1959-1972.

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The series consists of files of the Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1959-1972. The majority of the files pertain to James Forman's administration, there is very little material on the tenure of Stanley Wise, and no material on Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Includes mainly correspondence, but there is also staff and personnel reports, memoranda, financial records, newspaper clippings, and printed material. The records reflect (especially James Forman's) virtually every aspect of the organization and its development. The Stembridge and King files, although small in size, contain significant correspondence and other material pertaining to the early months of SNCC and its relationship with other organizations during its formative stages.

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Forman, James, 1928-2005

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Social activist and organizer James Forman was born on October 4, 1928, in Chicago. He spent much of his childhood with his grandmother on a farm in Marshall County, Mississippi. His grandmother stressed the importance of education and his experiences in the segregated South proved very important in his developing social consciousness.Forman completed high school in 1947. He attended Chicago's Wilson Junior College before joining the U.S. Air Force. After completing four years of military servic...

Wise, Stanley.

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King, Edward B.

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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. The Executive Secretary, appointed by the Executive Board, was the chief executive officer of the...

Stembridge, Jane

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