Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 8)

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In 1966, with the civil rights movement more in the hands of local people, white retaliation against local blacks cost them their jobs and housing. This folder, most of whose contents date from 1966, includes several documents trying to raise funds to provide for the needs of unemployed local civil rights workers in the South. It also includes a SNCC report on a Tuskegee demonstration following the killing of black student, Sam Younge; a SNCC press release on the Georgia House's refusal to seat elected representative Julian Bond; SNCC's position on the Vietnam War; "We Have No Government": statements by demonstrators evicted from their tent city at Greenville Air Force Base; documents about the Poor People's Corporation; a list of University of Wisconsin campus organizations and their contact information; NSA resolutions on ghetto housing in Chicago and on the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs; several 1961 documents on the proposed East Harlem Industrial Triangle; 1966 SNCC statement on tent citie

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Reports And Surveys Press Releases Transcripts Clippings

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Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 8)

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