Seminar and conference files, 1958-1968.

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Seminar and conference files, 1958-1968.

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The series consists of seminar and conference files of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the United States National Student Association from 1958-1968. The majority of the records relate to the Southern Student Human Relations Seminar (1958-1969) which was designed to discuss the problems and complexities of race relations in the South. Records documenting the seminar include administrative files and seminar applications. The series also contains records relating to the South-wide Student Conference (1958), the Raleigh Voter Registration Project (1962), the Deep South Human Relations Seminar (1962-1965), the Civil Rights Leadership Institute (1963), held in Atlanta (Ga.), and other human relations workshops and seminars.

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United States National Student Association. Southern Student Human Relations Project.

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The United States National Student Association (USNSA) was founded in 1947 to assist students in their quest for education regardless of race, sex, and religious or political beliefs. In 1958, USNSA held the first of its Southern Student Human Relations Seminars (SSHRS) directed by Ray Farabee. By 1959, the USNSA created the Southern Student Human Relations Project funded by the Marshall Field Foundation and responsible for the annual SSHRS as well as other human relations workshops. When fundin...

South-wide Student Conference (1958)

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Deep South Human Relations Seminar.

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Civil Rights Leadership Conference (1963)

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Field Foundation (New York, N.Y.)

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The Field Foundation was established in 1940 by Marshall Field III, a Chicago banker, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, and grandson of the founder of the Marshall Field and Company department store in Chicago. The foundation provided support to organizations promoting civil rights, civil liberties, and child welfare and to other groups and individuals working for social change. By 1988 the foundation had distributed all its funds and ceased to exist. From the guide to the Field Fo...

Southern Student Human Relations Seminar.

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