King--SNCC Communications Section (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 14)
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This folder contains a number of documents from SNCC's Communication Department in Atlanta. There's contact info for major media and of civil rights supporters around the US, a list of law students supplied to COFO by various legal groups, and lists of US congressmen and senators sympathetic to civil rights. There are phone numbers for communications people in the civil rights movement, especially SNCC, throughout the South. There's a list of summer volunteers in Mississippi as of July 3, 1964. Mary King expresses her concerns about the professionalism of the SNCC communcations department before Freedom Summer begins. There's a history of SNCC's involvement with Freedom Summer, and an unattributed speech (?) apparently written by a California volunteer at the end of Freedom Summer which discusses the summer's atmosphere and events. A November 1963 analysis of "equal time" on radio and television and instructions for filing a complaint with the FCC are here, as well as an urgent memo f
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King, Mary E., 1940
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Mass media
Volunteers
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Lawyers
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Freedom rides
Voter registration
Literacy tests (election law)
Threats
Intimidation
Lynching
Murder
Bombings
Arson
Freedom Vote
Freedom Day
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Indians of North America
Arrest
Segregation
Education
Parents
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Clergy
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Communism
United Nations
Assault and battery
Jails
Church buildings
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Mississippi Freedom Schools
White Citizens councils
Free Southern Theater
Lyon, Danny
King, Mary
Hardy, John
Moses, Robert Parris
Lee, Herbert
Hurst, E. H
Allen, Louis
Travis, James
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989
Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971
Sullivan
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Sitton, Claude
Weil, Robert
Light, Bill
Rose, Margaret
Schrader, Emmie
Mitchell, Francis
Lingo, Al
Bender, Rita L
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Van Sickle, Jim
Hendrix, Raphael, Mrs
Gregory, Dick
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Beckwith, Byron de la
Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988
Carter, Hodding
Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969
Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Strelitz, Ilene
Beyers, Bob
Bond, Julian, 1940
Carter, Charlotte
Hamer, Fannie Lou - Location
- Alabama; Virginia; Georgia; Mississippi;
Marion; Selma; Gadsden; Danville; Atlanta; McComb; Pike County; Walthall County; Amite County; Liberty; Hattiesburg; Greenwood; Jackson; Meridian; Moss Point; Greenville; - Format
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- English
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- King, Mary E., 1940. King--SNCC Communications Section (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 14). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24422. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- King, Mary E., 1940, King--SNCC Communications Section (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 14). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24422
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- King, Mary E., 1940. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24422>.