Papers of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1963-1979.

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Papers of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1963-1979.

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Additional papers of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, collected by Steve Wise, consist of miscellaneous publications, some published by other organizations. There are printed items, memoranda, mimeographed publications, newspapers, articles, typed manuscripts, newsclippings, order blanks, agendas, conference materials and form letters. Subjects or organizations represented include the Conference on Radical Vocations in the White Community; a seminar series for Congressional Assistants on "Problems and Prospects of the New South," 1966; Anna Louise Strong's "Letter from China, " No. 42-47, 1966-1967; and "The minority of one, " 1966." Other topics include Mississippi in the mid 1960s, particularly voter registration drives; "A new left manifesto," by Paul Booth and Edward Greer; News Notes of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1966; The Students for a Democratic Society; The Radical Education Project; Special Reports of the Southern Regional Council; the [Canadian] Student Union for Peace Action and the Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee.

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