Research Dept. records, 1959-1969.

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Research Dept. records, 1959-1969.

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The series consists of records of the Research Dept. of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1959-1969. The Africa files (1961-1968) contain primarily printed research matter on individual countries, liberation organizations, and Afro-American groups. There is little correspondence or SNCC-generated material in these files. The files relating to the Southern States (1960-1967) consist mostly of information on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississippi. These files contain materials gathered by the Research Dept., as well as reports prepared by the Dept. either on states or on individual counties and localities within states. Materials also include correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and legal documents. The general files (1959-1969) are the largest group of material in the series and include information on individuals, topics, and organizations of interest to SNCC. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches and essays, newspaper clippings, and printed materials. The files document subjects such as Civil Rights Act of 1964, farm workers, freedom schools, labor unions, race relations, segregation, and Vietnam; and organizations such as the Black Panthers, Ku Klux Klan, American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, Congress of Racial Equality, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations. The court case files (1962-1968) consist of legal briefs, petitions, affidavits, and decisions for both state and federal courts, most of which directly or indirectly relate to SNCC activities.

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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: ...

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Coordinating Council of Community Organizations.

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...