Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, 1964, Mar. 10-1965, Dec. (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 3)

This folder contains primarily letters and memos from 1964-1965 regarding research on local industries and the possibility of a variety of cooperatives; on labor unions and employment discrimination; on food and clothing drives and on housing. Clearly, there was a great deal of excitement in the South from African Americans and civil rights workers about ways in which blacks could provide a living for themselves, independent of the local white power structure. And there were groups around the country eager to buy wares that they might produce. An excited letter from newly arrived volunteer Ellen Maslow is here as is Richard Jewett's June 1965 letter resigning as treasurer of the Poor People's Corporation. There are letters about the incorporation papers for the Poor People's Corporation and about the possibility of extending the organization into Alabama and other southern states. There's an interesting letter of July 11, 1965, in which a New York backer of the Poor People's Corporatio