Northern Coordination Dept. records, 1959-1968.

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Northern Coordination Dept. records, 1959-1968.

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The series consists of records of the Northern Coordination Dept. of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1959-1968. The administrative files (1959-1966) consist of correspondence, memoranda, mailing lists, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to the activities of the Department. Of particular interest are records reflecting SNCC's efforts to establish bail funds to aid civil rights workers jailed in the South. The general correspondence files (1960-1967) and the correspondence with other organizations contain letters to and from coordinators Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Sandra Cason Hayden regarding general matters and with church, civil rights, and labor organizations. Files relating to fund raising (1960-1968) contain correspondence, printed materials and mailing lists relating to SNCC's efforts to raise money for its programs.

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Hayden, Casey, 1937-2023

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Cason Hayden was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense of direct action in the struggle against racial segregation, in 1960 she was an early recruit to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi, Hayden was a strategist and organizer for the 1964 Freedom Summer. In the internal discussion that followed its uncertain outcome, she clashed with the SNCC national executi...

Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith, 1941-1967

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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 Northern Coordination Dept. was responsible for coordinating the activities of support groups...