King--SNCC Position Papers & Reports, undated (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 19)
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Though undated and mostly unattributed, at least a couple of the items in this folder seem to be from the Waveland retreat as they are expressions of insiders' unhappiness with SNCC's lack of organization and of the general style of left-wingers. Others deal with SNCC recruitment on southern Negro college campuses; with tensions between SNCC headquarters and field staff, between paid staff and volunteers; with suggestions for training new volunteers in community organizing; with SNCC's financial and fundraising difficulties; on the differences between Jane Stembridge's education and Fannie Lou Hamer's; on federal programs; on federal civil rights authority; and detailed accounts of SNCC activities in Arkansas and in Selma, Alabama, from 1960 or 1961. There's also an agenda for a December 1964 conference on "The Movement--the Student--The Upper South"; a proposal for "Washington [D.C.] Studies"; Jimmy Garrett's proposal for a "Mississippi European Exchange Student Program" in order t
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King, Mary E., 1940
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights demonstrations
Freedom rides
Voter registration
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Labor unions
Housing
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Civil rights movements
Education
Church buildings
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
War on Poverty
Agriculture
Cooperative societies
Public welfare
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Child care
Police brutality
Arrest
Assault and battery
United States. Department of Justice
Jails
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress of Racial Equality
Veterans
Republican Party (U.S.)
Democratic Party (Ark.)
Threats
Intimidation
Demonstrations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
White Citizens councils
Rural-urban migration
Poverty
Freedom Day
Literacy tests (election law)
Segregation
Teachers
Lynching
Murder
Mass media
Southern Conference Educational Fund
Texas Democratic Coalition
Appalachian Committee for Full Employment
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Africa
Europe
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Nigeria
Ghana
Guinea
Liberia
Zambia
Kenya
South Africa
United Nations
Ethiopia
Egypt
Black Muslims
Nonviolence
Williams, Hosea, 1926
Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972
Varela, Mary
Harris, Ann
Bell, Emma
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Gavin, Joanne
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Stembridge, Jane
Thomas, Henry
Thornton, Virginius
Moses, Robert Parris
Brown, Joyce
Hall, Bill
Wheeler, Jean
Richardson, Judy
Wallace, Bill
Wise, Stanley
Travis, James
Johnson, Enoch
Harris, Donald (Donald Stuart)
Churchville, John
Allen, Ralph W., 1941-2005
Perdew, John, 1941
Durham, Sallie Mae
McDaniel, Thomas
Wilkerson, Milton
McClendon, Emanuel
Douglas, Thomas
McGee, Collin
Boynton, Johnny
Brown, Rudolph
Simms, Bobby
Mann, Gene
Williams, James
Porter, Archie B
Porter, Maybelle
Haynes, Sammie Joe
Aelony, Zev, 1938
Walker, T. Griffin
Wheatley, Charles
Brown, James
Pace, Stephen
Herndon, Angelo
Gathings, E. C
Mills, Wilbur
Harris, Oren
Trimble, James
Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995
McClellan, Jon T
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Miller, Arthur H
Green, William
Bryant, Jack
Bryant, Amanda
Jones, James
Hansen, Bill
Wilgoren, Arlene
Grinage, Ben
Hope, Catherine
Casey, Jerry
Himmelbaum, Howard
Robinson, Reginald
McNamara, Robert C., III
Lewis, John
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Clark, James G
Flowers, Richmond
Bess, George
Brown, Lonnie
Lafayette, Bernard
Reese, Bosie
Brown, Alexander
Long, Worth W
Ault, Richard
Tucker, Benny
Neblett, Carver
Williams, Alvery
McLeod, Blanchard
Robinson, Amelia Boynton, 1911
Roberts, Kenneth A. (Kenneth Allison), 1912-1989
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Surney, Lafayette
Soracco, Frank
Love, John Clark
Shaw, Terry
Freeman, Gladys
Brown, Tom
Atkins, V. B
Daley, Roger
Cooper, Annie Lee
McRae, Willie
Scott, Willie Emma
Rouse, Eugene
Carmichael, Stokely
Fox, Larry
Liutkis, John
Lingo, Al
Reese, Henry
Mallory, Hugh
Reynolds, Bernard
Thomas, Daniel
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Higgs, William
Garrett, Jimmy
Wright, Ada
Engles, J. Lewis
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Hamlett, Ed, 1939
Zellner, Bob
Shirah, Samuel C., 1943
Braden, Carl
Braden, Anne
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Goodwin, Larry
Hamilton, Charles
Gillon, Gwendolyn
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Zimmerman, Mitchell
Rogers, Will
Hicks, William
Cole, Henry B
Kwabi, Gus
Lee, Robert E
Graham, Shirley
Lacy, Les
King, Preston
Mayfield, Julian
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Muleunge, Abed
Neyrere, Julius
Kaunda, Kenneth
Mboya, Tom
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975
DuBois, David
Hassan, Ebraham
Hakki, Mohammed - Location
- Mississippi; North Carolina; Georgia; Virginia; Texas; Louisiana; South Carolina; Alabama; Arkansas; Washington, D.C.; Ohio; Kentucky;
Waveland; Walthall County; Amite County; Pike County; McComb; Greenwood; Jackson; Madison County; Carthage; Leake County; Mileston; Aberdeen; Tupelo; Holly Springs; Canton; Itta Bena; Indianola; Raleigh; Monroe; Atlanta; Albany; Americus; Sumter County; Hampton; Crystal City; Selma; Dallas County; Wilcox County; Lowndes County; Greene County; Perry County; Marion; Scottsboro; Little Rock; Pine Bluff; Helena; Forrest City; Oxford; Hazard; - Format
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- Language
- English
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- King, Mary E., 1940. King--SNCC Position Papers & Reports, undated (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 19). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24707. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- King, Mary E., 1940, King--SNCC Position Papers & Reports, undated (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 19). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24707
- MLA citation style
- King, Mary E., 1940. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/24707>.