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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
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Clippings Reports And Surveys Flyers And Handbills Press Releases Newsletters Correspondence
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Keywords

  1. Alexander, Bryce
  2. Allen, Louis
  3. Andrews, Nelson
  4. Arrest
  5. Arson
  6. Association Of Tenth Amendment Conservatives
  7. Bacon, Will
  8. Baraka, Amiri, 1934
  9. Beckwith, Byron De La
  10. Bishop, Jack
  11. Black History
  12. Bolden, Robert L
  13. Bombings
  14. Boycotts
  15. Brown, Ed
  16. Brown, Fred
  17. Brown, James
  18. Burton, Phillip
  19. Campbell, Maybelle
  20. Chandler, Len
  21. Chandler, Nancy
  22. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  23. Child Development Group Of Mississippi
  24. Church Buildings
  25. Civil Rights
  26. Clergy
  27. Clothing And Dress
  28. Coley, John
  29. Collins, Addie
  30. Community Action Programs (U.S.)
  31. Community Centers
  32. Congress Of Racial Equality
  33. Conley, Martha
  34. Connally, Cleo
  35. Cooperative Societies
  36. Corson, James
  37. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  38. Courthouses
  39. Cowan, Geoffrey
  40. Crowe, Lester
  41. Dann, James
  42. Davis, Golden
  43. Davis, Horace
  44. Davis, Linda
  45. Davis, Ossie
  46. Davis, Rennie
  47. Davis, Ruby
  48. Dee, Ruby
  49. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  50. Dillard, Alma
  51. Dole, Heidi
  52. Dorrough, Charles M
  53. Doss, Ora
  54. Douglas, Maggie Lee
  55. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  56. Education
  57. Edwards, Don
  58. Edwards, John Clark
  59. Edwards, Len
  60. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  61. Eviction
  62. Flemming, T. D
  63. Floyd, Curtis E
  64. Foster, Aileen
  65. Freedom Rides
  66. Freedom Schools
  67. Freedom Vote
  68. Fusco, Liz
  69. Galt, Lester
  70. Gerber, David
  71. Glover, Thelma
  72. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  73. Gresham, James
  74. Gronemeier, Dale
  75. Guest, Lucia M
  76. Hackett, Roberta
  77. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  78. Hamer, Perry
  79. Hardy, Henry Lee
  80. Harrington, Michael
  81. Harris, Jesse
  82. Harris, John
  83. Harvey, Mary
  84. Hawkins, Gus
  85. Head Start Programs
  86. Herring, Bessie Mae
  87. Hexter, Christopher
  88. Hicks, Matilda
  89. Hoffman, Abbott
  90. Hoffman, Arnold
  91. Hollander, Lynne
  92. Holloway, W. I
  93. Host Families
  94. Howell, Donna
  95. Hulse, Lynn
  96. Hutchinson, Bill
  97. Intimidation
  98. Jackson, Ella Mae
  99. Jackson, Jimmy Lee
  100. Jackson, Paul
  101. Jails
  102. Jerome, Fred
  103. Johnson, Florine
  104. Johnson, Irene
  105. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  106. Jones, Emma
  107. Kelly, Parrish
  108. Kent, Robert
  109. Kirksey, H. J
  110. Koenig, Tom
  111. Komisar, Lucy, 1942
  112. Konzen, Jean
  113. Labor Unions
  114. Lee, Fannie
  115. Lee, Herbert
  116. Lee, John
  117. Lewis, John
  118. Libraries
  119. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  120. Liuzzo, Viola, 1925 1965
  121. Long, Sam D
  122. Lynching
  123. Machell, Jack
  124. Maslow, Ellen
  125. Mc Larty, C. L
  126. Mc Laurin, Charles
  127. Mc Nair, Denice
  128. Mc Nair, Landy
  129. Miller, Fred
  130. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  131. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  132. Mississippi Student Union
  133. Moore, Pauline
  134. Moore, William
  135. Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
  136. Morris, Frank
  137. Morris, Jesse
  138. Murder
  139. Music
  140. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  141. Nevas, Al
  142. Orsby, Herbert
  143. Penn, Lemuel
  144. Perkins, Dudley
  145. Police Brutality
  146. Poor People's Corporation
  147. Poverty
  148. Powell, Christine
  149. Purnell, Willie
  150. Quilting
  151. Rasberry, Donald
  152. Reeb, James, 1927 1965
  153. Robertson, Carol
  154. Robinson, James
  155. Rogers, Gertrude
  156. Rosenberg, John
  157. Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
  158. Sachar, Jeffrey
  159. Scattergood, Charles
  160. Schwarz, Gretchen
  161. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  162. Scott, Lenora
  163. Scott, Marshall, Jr
  164. Seese, Linda
  165. Segregation
  166. Sewing
  167. Sharp, Ernest
  168. Shaum, Barbara
  169. Shelby, Ollie B
  170. Siegel, Ellen
  171. Smith, David
  172. Smith, Joe
  173. Smith, Willie Mae
  174. Steiner, Ruth
  175. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  176. Surney, Bettye Louise
  177. Sweezy, Paul
  178. Taylor, Isaiah
  179. Taylor, Maggie
  180. Teachers
  181. Tecklin, Jerry
  182. Threats
  183. Unemployment
  184. United States
  185. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  186. United States. Department Of Justice
  187. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  188. Van, Walter, Jr
  189. Veterans
  190. Volunteers
  191. Voter Registration
  192. Wallace, Bob
  193. War On Poverty
  194. Ware, Virgil
  195. Wesley, Cynthia
  196. White Citizens Councils
  197. White, Don
  198. White, Lee C., 1923
  199. Williams, Bertha
  200. Williams, Mattie
  201. Williams, Rennie, Mrs
  202. Williford, W. O
  203. Winter, George
  204. Wren, Chris
  205. Wylie, Don
  206. Yarrow, C. H. Mike

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