Shirah--Proposals, prospectuses, and reports, re: SSOC, SCEF, Louisville (Kentucky) Projects, White Southern Student Project, and Other Organizations, 1962-1964, undated (Samuel C. Shirah, Jr., papers, 1961-1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 540, Box 1, Folder 5)

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The majority of the documents in this folder are SCEF-related reports about organizing white adults and students into the freedom movement. There's Patricia Stephens Due's report on civil rights activities in Florida in 1963. There's a report to SCEF by John Robert Zellner on his indefatigable efforts to organize white southern college students in 1961-1962 and on his attempts to find legal representation for himself, stemming from his arrest in McComb, Mississippi, during a demonstration. There's also a draft of an article on the same subject by Zellner, written for the Southern Patriot. SCEF's plans for work in 1963, including Anne Braden's account of her own SCEF-related activities, are other reports in this folder. There's a report from Rick Stevens to James Forman on trying to persuade students at three integrated Georgia college campuses to join or support SNCC, and a "Prospectus for Atlanta for the White Southern Student Movement." A document by southern college students called

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