Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - correspondence, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 3)
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Alicia Kaplow was the director of Friends of SNCC at the University of Wisconsin for several years. In that role, she raised funds for SNCC, spoke before the UW Board of Regents, tried to arrange visits to Madison from national figures like Pete Seeger and James Foreman, linked sponsors with specific civil rights workers (Adopt a Freedom Worker for $10 a week) and encouraged them to correspond regularly with each other, sponsored at least 17 individual civil rights workers herself, corresponded with black and white volunteers in Mississippi and the disorganized SNCC office staff in Atlanta, and worked on getting black high school students from the South admitted to UW. This collection of letters includes many fascinating first-person accounts of assorted people's experiences: one by a black Hattiesburg resident's experiences on a very cold Freedom Day and the inspiration that Fannie Lou Hamer brought to the occasion. Another letter from volunteer Jo Ann Oimann describes her freedom sc
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- Abbot, Klondike
- Abbot, Lemon
- Abramson, Roger
- Adams, Jane
- Adams, Jim
- Allen, John
- Allen, Louis
- Allen, Ralph
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Baer, Doug
- Ballis, George
- Barkley, Rogre
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- Bass, Robert
- Bass, Ross
- Bateman, Joe
- Batts, James
- Becker, Harold
- Beech, Robert
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- Bell, John
- Bernsohn, Carita
- Bernstein, Naomi
- Berry, Woody
- Bevel, James
- Bishop, Ernestine
- Black History
- Blanchette, Donald
- Block, Samuel
- Blow, Robert
- Boggs, Hale
- Bolton, Jimmy
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian, 1940
- Boutin, Bernard I
- Bowie, Henry (Harry)
- Boycotts
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- Bray, Sandra
- Breazell, C. E
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- Brooks, Eddie
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- Bryant, Mr. And Mrs. C. C
- Bush, George H. W
- Camera, Jeremy
- Campbell, Louis
- Campbell, Malcolm
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Carpenter, David
- Carver, George Washington
- Carver, Ron
- Casey, Robert
- Champney, Ken
- Chaney, Fannie Lee
- Chaney, James
- Chastain, Norman
- Cieciorka, Frank
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clark, Jim
- Clothing And Dress
- Coatsworth, Patricia Sopiak
- Cocroft, Freeman
- Coleman, Buddy
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
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- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
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- Dann, James
- De Lott, Elayne
- Dennis, David
- Devine, Annie
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- Dies, Martin
- Dillon, Mr. And Mrs. Willie J
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- Doar, John, 1921
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- Du Vaul, Diane
- Dubinsky, Ed
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- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
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- Else, Jon
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- Eviction
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- Featherstone, Ralph
- Federal Aid
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- Forman, James, 1928 2005
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- Frazier, John
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- Freedom Democratic Club (Chicago, Ill.)
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- Freedom Vote
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- Glick, Fred
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- Grant, Louis
- Gray, Victoria
- Gulick, Susan
- Guyot, Lawrence
- Hall, Carsie
- Hall, Prathia
- Halpern, Lucy
- Hamer, Don
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamlett, Ed
- Harnett, Vincent
- Harper, Debbie
- Harris, Clarence
- Harris, Don
- Harris, Ernest
- Harris, Jesse
- Harris, John
- Harrison, Joe
- Hart, Philip
- Hartfield, Ben
- Hartfield, Charles Nelson
- Hatch, Lucia
- Hayes, Louis
- Henderson, Margie
- Henry, Aaron
- Hewitt, Theodis
- Hoffman, Abbie
- Holmquist, Marty
- Huddleston, George, Jr
- Humphrey, Hubert
- Iltis, Fred
- Intimidation
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- Jackson, Ellis
- Jackson, Lloyd
- Jails
- James, Robert B
- Janowitz, Marianne
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- Jenkins, Douglas
- Johnson, Laurence
- Johnson, Linda
- Jones, Frank
- Jones, James
- Jones, Jimmie Lee
- Junk, Ursula
- Kabat, Luke
- Kaplow, Alicia
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- Kennedy, Robert F
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- King, Ann
- King, Annie Mae
- King, Martin Luther
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- Knowland, William
- Kocel, Martha
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
- Kuykendall, Dan
- Labor Unions
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- Ladner, Joyce
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- Lauren, Margaret
- Laurent, George
- Lauter, Naomi
- Lee, Curtis
- Lee, Herbert
- Lee, Joe
- Lee, Joseph
- Lewis, David
- Lewis, John
- Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
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- Light, Bill
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Litwack, Leon
- Long, Paul
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- Madison, Don
- Marshall, Burke
- Martin, Joe
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- Maxwell, Floyd
- Mc Cain, William D. (William David), 1907 1993
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- Mc Donnell, Howard
- Mc Ghee, Silas
- Mc Keller, Charles
- Miles, Robert
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mitchell, Francis
- Monsonis, Jim
- Montgomery, Lucille (Lucy)
- Moore, Mrs. Joseph
- Moore, Ralph
- Morris, Adrienne V
- Morris, John
- Morse, Frank
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Muller, Paul
- Murder
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- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Neblett, Chico
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- Police
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- Reese, Leo
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- Schulman, Howard
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- Seeger, Pete
- Seeger, Pete, 1919
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- Smith, J. V
- Smith, Lorie
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- Smith, R. L. T
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- Threats
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- Treen, David C
- Trice, Clifford
- Tubman, Harriet
- Turnbow, Hartman
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- United States
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- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
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- Velde, Harold
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Voter Registration
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- Wallace, Mike
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- Williams, Floyd
- Williams, Russ
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- Wills, Bill R
- Wilson, Ed
- Wilson, Hilda
- Winn, Fred
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- Winter, George
- Wood, John
- Yancey, Wayne
- Yarbrough, Ralph
- Young, Frank
- Zellner, Dottie
- Ziss, Edward