International Affairs Commission files, 1964-1969.

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International Affairs Commission files, 1964-1969.

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The series consists of records of the International Affairs Commission of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its director James Forman from 1964-1969. Includes correspondence, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, and printed material. The series documents SNCC's involvement as a human rights organization, its interest in African affairs, and Forman's participation in the U.N. International Seminar on Apartheid in 1967. Other activities of note include work in opposition to the war in Vietnam, cooperation with several Latin American nations, and the SNCC's position on Palestinian liberation adopted at the time of the 1967 Israel-Arab War.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). New York 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 International Affairs Commission was organized by James Forman following his 1966 resignation...

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...

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...