Michaels (Sheila) papers, 1960-2001 (bulk 1962-1964).

Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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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....

University of Southern Mississippi

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Michaels, Sheila Shiki y Kessler, 1939-

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Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Sheila Michaels worked for both the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Jackson, Mississippi, around 1962. During Freedom Summer in 1964, she was project manager of the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations' Hattiesburg Project. From the description of Michaels (Sheila) papers, 1960-2001 (bulk 1962-1964). (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 55128318 She...

Mississippi Freedom Project

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