Communications Dept. records, 1960-1968.

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Communications Dept. records, 1960-1968.

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The series consists of files of the Communications Dept. of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1960-1968. Records relating to public relations include correspondence of director Julian Bond, press releases (1960-1968), and lists of all press contacts. The internal communications subseries includes two newsletters STAFF NEWSLETTER (1962-1965) and NEWS OF THE FIELD (1966); field reports (1962-1966) from twelve states possibly used for publication in the newsletter; and WATS line (telephone) reports for the Mississippi and Atlanta (Ga.) offices.

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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 Communications Dept. was responsible for public relations and internal communications for the...

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...