Poor People's Corporation--News clippings, 1964-1966 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 6)
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Poor People's Corporation
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Thorough description of the Poor People's Corporation; "Up from Mississippi" (a report of Thelma Glover's radicalization); "Partial List of Racial Murders in the South in the Last Two Years"; brochure promoting "Freedom Bonds"; press releases on the first black person to have participated in the Sunflower County Democratic Convention since Reconstruction, on attempts to register to vote, on the fire bombing of churches, on the murder of black people by police, on black people losing their jobs for housing civil rights volunteers, on meetings between SNCC and ATAC, on New York and California congressmen's visits to Ruleville, on the Ruleville Freedom School, on a SNCC rally in Indianola (the birthplace of the White Citizens' Council), and on the arrest of SNCC workers; copies of the Poor People's Corporation newsletters; and articles regarding the Poor People's Corporation
Clippings Reports And Surveys Flyers And Handbills Press Releases Newsletters Correspondence
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- Alexander, Bryce
- Allen, Louis
- Andrews, Nelson
- Arrest
- Arson
- Association Of Tenth Amendment Conservatives
- Bacon, Will
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934
- Beckwith, Byron De La
- Bishop, Jack
- Black History
- Bolden, Robert L
- Bombings
- Boycotts
- Brown, Ed
- Brown, Fred
- Brown, James
- Burton, Phillip
- Campbell, Maybelle
- Chandler, Len
- Chandler, Nancy
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Child Development Group Of Mississippi
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Clergy
- Clothing And Dress
- Coley, John
- Collins, Addie
- Community Action Programs (U.S.)
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Conley, Martha
- Connally, Cleo
- Cooperative Societies
- Corson, James
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Courthouses
- Cowan, Geoffrey
- Crowe, Lester
- Dann, James
- Davis, Golden
- Davis, Horace
- Davis, Linda
- Davis, Ossie
- Davis, Rennie
- Davis, Ruby
- Dee, Ruby
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Dillard, Alma
- Dole, Heidi
- Dorrough, Charles M
- Doss, Ora
- Douglas, Maggie Lee
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Education
- Edwards, Don
- Edwards, John Clark
- Edwards, Len
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Eviction
- Flemming, T. D
- Floyd, Curtis E
- Foster, Aileen
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Vote
- Fusco, Liz
- Galt, Lester
- Gerber, David
- Glover, Thelma
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Gresham, James
- Gronemeier, Dale
- Guest, Lucia M
- Hackett, Roberta
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamer, Perry
- Hardy, Henry Lee
- Harrington, Michael
- Harris, Jesse
- Harris, John
- Harvey, Mary
- Hawkins, Gus
- Head Start Programs
- Herring, Bessie Mae
- Hexter, Christopher
- Hicks, Matilda
- Hoffman, Abbott
- Hoffman, Arnold
- Hollander, Lynne
- Holloway, W. I
- Host Families
- Howell, Donna
- Hulse, Lynn
- Hutchinson, Bill
- Intimidation
- Jackson, Ella Mae
- Jackson, Jimmy Lee
- Jackson, Paul
- Jails
- Jerome, Fred
- Johnson, Florine
- Johnson, Irene
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Jones, Emma
- Kelly, Parrish
- Kent, Robert
- Kirksey, H. J
- Koenig, Tom
- Komisar, Lucy, 1942
- Konzen, Jean
- Labor Unions
- Lee, Fannie
- Lee, Herbert
- Lee, John
- Lewis, John
- Libraries
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Liuzzo, Viola, 1925 1965
- Long, Sam D
- Lynching
- Machell, Jack
- Maslow, Ellen
- Mc Larty, C. L
- Mc Laurin, Charles
- Mc Nair, Denice
- Mc Nair, Landy
- Miller, Fred
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mississippi Student Union
- Moore, Pauline
- Moore, William
- Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
- Morris, Frank
- Morris, Jesse
- Murder
- Music
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nevas, Al
- Orsby, Herbert
- Penn, Lemuel
- Perkins, Dudley
- Police Brutality
- Poor People's Corporation
- Poverty
- Powell, Christine
- Purnell, Willie
- Quilting
- Rasberry, Donald
- Reeb, James, 1927 1965
- Robertson, Carol
- Robinson, James
- Rogers, Gertrude
- Rosenberg, John
- Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
- Sachar, Jeffrey
- Scattergood, Charles
- Schwarz, Gretchen
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Scott, Lenora
- Scott, Marshall, Jr
- Seese, Linda
- Segregation
- Sewing
- Sharp, Ernest
- Shaum, Barbara
- Shelby, Ollie B
- Siegel, Ellen
- Smith, David
- Smith, Joe
- Smith, Willie Mae
- Steiner, Ruth
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Surney, Bettye Louise
- Sweezy, Paul
- Taylor, Isaiah
- Taylor, Maggie
- Teachers
- Tecklin, Jerry
- Threats
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Van, Walter, Jr
- Veterans
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Wallace, Bob
- War On Poverty
- Ware, Virgil
- Wesley, Cynthia
- White Citizens Councils
- White, Don
- White, Lee C., 1923
- Williams, Bertha
- Williams, Mattie
- Williams, Rennie, Mrs
- Williford, W. O
- Winter, George
- Wren, Chris
- Wylie, Don
- Yarrow, C. H. Mike