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Smith--COFO correspondence, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 15)

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Smith, Benjamin Eugene

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Fundraising letters; reports on depositions; a lengthy personal profile of William Kunstler by law student Loren Ghiglione; a memo by Carmin Petrino on the possible use of a federal peace bond to protect civil rights workers; a lawyer's inside view of the Free Speech Movement's Sproul Hall sit-in at The University of California-Berkeley and his consequent arrest; a blank form for arrested COFO workers to fill out; a document about "Problems Facing COFO"; a COFO pamphlet called "Freedom Registration" which included a blank Freedom Registration form; a list of Smith's monthly expenses; Henry Aronson's resignation letter and concerns about COFO's legal program; Eugene Cotton's request to be removed from COFO's Legal Advisory Committee; and part of a letter from William Kunstler related to the car accident that killed volunteer Wayne Yancey and injured Charles Scales--these are the contents of this folder.
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Keywords

  1. Abram, Cliff
  2. Abram, Frank
  3. Abram, Sullivan
  4. Ardzrooni, Edward
  5. Aronson, Henry
  6. Arrest
  7. Baez, Joan
  8. Baker, Ella, 1903 1986
  9. Baker, Johnny Lee
  10. Bender, Rita L
  11. Bernstein, Debbie
  12. Bridges, Harry
  13. Bronstein, Alvin J
  14. Brown, Jess
  15. Burnstein, Mal
  16. Catrina, Jim
  17. Church Buildings
  18. Clark, James G
  19. Communism
  20. Cotton, Eugene
  21. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  22. Darrow, Clarence, 1857 1938
  23. Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855 1926
  24. Demonstrations
  25. Dempsey, Jim
  26. Dreyfus, Barney
  27. Dreyfus, Benjamin
  28. Dutton, Dave
  29. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  30. Edelman, Marian Wright
  31. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  32. Flynn, Deborah
  33. Forster, Troy
  34. Foster, Charles
  35. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
  36. Freedom Rides
  37. Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923 1988
  38. Ghiglione, Loren
  39. Gladstein, Ralph
  40. Glickenhaus, Seth
  41. Greenhill, Manuel, 1916 1996
  42. Hall, Carsie A
  43. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  44. Hamm, Daniel
  45. Hawking, Willie
  46. Helstein, Ralph
  47. Hoffman, Alex
  48. Holmes, Eleanor K
  49. Jacob, Arthur Lee
  50. Jensen, Lowell
  51. Jeter, Howard
  52. Jewett, Richard A
  53. Jones, Johnny A
  54. Katz, Charlie
  55. Kenney, Bob
  56. Kerr, Clark, 1911 2003
  57. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  58. Kinoy, Arthur
  59. Ku Klux Klan
  60. Kunstler, Jane
  61. Kunstler, Karin
  62. Kunstler, Mike
  63. Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
  64. Labat, Edgar
  65. Labor Unions
  66. Lawyers
  67. Lewis, Joe L
  68. Lusky, Louis
  69. Madigan, Frank
  70. Marshall, C. Herbert
  71. Matthews, Donald
  72. Meese, Edwin
  73. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  74. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  75. Mitford, Jessica, 1917 1996
  76. Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888 1965
  77. Moore, Howard
  78. Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
  79. Morris, Jesse
  80. Morris, Tommy
  81. Moses, Robert Parris
  82. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  83. National Lawyers Guild
  84. Perez, Leander, 1891 1969
  85. Peterson, Nels
  86. Petrino, Carmin
  87. Rainey, Lawrence A
  88. Richmond, Isiah
  89. Rosenberger, Lotte
  90. Rosenthal, Leonard
  91. Rosenthal, Stan
  92. Ruby, Jack
  93. Salter, John R
  94. Savio, Mario
  95. Scales, Charlie T
  96. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  97. Segregation
  98. Sewell, Sonny
  99. Shictland, Willie
  100. Shropshire, Claudia
  101. Southern Conference Educational Fund
  102. Stavis, Morton
  103. Stein, David
  104. Stone, Herman H
  105. Stone, William V
  106. Straus, Philip
  107. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  108. Treuhaft, Robert E
  109. Veterans
  110. Voter Registration
  111. Wadsworth, Ed
  112. Walker, Doris B
  113. Wansley, Thomas C
  114. Weiss, Cora, 1934
  115. White Citizens Councils
  116. Williams, Robley
  117. Wilson, Luke
  118. Yancey, Wayne
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