Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Description
Records collected by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission on the Black Panther Party. The folder consists mostly of articles published in newspapers and magazines around the country about the Black Panther Party in California, members' trials, and other controversies. There is also a report of an investigation by the Sovereignty Commission into alleged Black Panther Party work in Port Gibson, Mississippi, a memo naming John Hewlett as a member of the party, a memorandum about the situation with various African Americans throughout the state and selections of the biography of Huey Newton written by Bobby Seale.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Record Contributed By
Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Associations, Institutions, Etc
- Black Militant Organizations
- Black Nationalism
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power
- California
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Government
- History
- Mississippi
- Politics And Government
- Race Relations
- Social Reformers
- Societies, Etc
- United States
- Universities
- University Of California, Berkeley
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