Shirah--Civil rights material, 1961-1964, undated (Samuel C. Shirah, Jr., papers, 1961-1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 540, Box 1, Folder 2)
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This folder contains an assortment of SNCC, Highlander Center, and southern campus organizing efforts from 1959-1964. It includes the following: "One Southerner to Another" addresses the question of what three contributions the Highlander Folk School could make toward civic democracy in 1959. A list of participants in the Atlanta Seminar on Race Relations sponsored by the Methodist Student Union, November 3-5, 1961. A summary of Highlander Center activities September 1962-August 1963, most related to voter education efforts throughout the South and including the names of people later prominent in the civil rights movement. A list of attendees at an SCSCHR conference held April 12-14, 1963. SNCC press releases about the church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. A letter (?) to the New York Times by a white lawyer in Alabama, saying that segregation and its advocates are responsible for the deaths of the Birmingham girls. SNCC press releases about the raid by New Orleans
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Reports And Surveys Press Releases Clippings Flyers And Handbills Memoranda Meeting Minutes
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- Agriculture
- Aiken, A. M
- Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
- Anderson, Robert
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Baker, Ella, 1903 1986
- Barksdale, Ezell
- Barry, Marion, 1936
- Basil, Rodney
- Batarseh, Gabriel
- Beittel, Adam Daniel
- Belfrage, Sally, 1936
- Bell, Ezekial
- Bess, George
- Bevel, Diane Nash
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
- Block, Samuel
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian, 1940
- Braden, Anne
- Braden, Carl
- Brazeal, B. R
- Brown, George
- Browne, C. Conrad
- Browne, Ora
- Bryan, John
- Bryant, Farris, 1914 2002
- Burlage, Dorothy
- Burlage, Robb, 1937
- Butler, Washington
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Carawan, Guy
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Clark, James G
- Clergy
- Cobb, Charles E., Jr
- Collins, Addie
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Connor, Eugene, 1897 1973
- Cooke, J. Bernard
- Cunningham, Margaret
- Curry, Constance, 1933
- Dady, Bill
- Demonstrations
- Diamond, Dion T
- Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897 1983
- Duckles, Edwin
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Ennis, Marvin
- Enwright, J. T
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Fielding, Herbert
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Foss, Daniel
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Gainey, Jerry
- Gantt, Harvey
- Geller, Steve
- Geoghegan, William
- Gitlin, Todd
- Goldberg, Fran
- Gomillion, Charles
- Gordon, Frank
- Gore, Robert
- Gorson, Art
- Goss, George
- Guerrero, Gene
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hale, Max
- Hamlett, Ed, 1939
- Harding, Rosemarie
- Harding, Vincent
- Hayden, Casey
- Helms, Wayne
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Henry, J. V
- Herrera, Scarpita
- Holmes, Eleanor K
- Holt, Len
- Horton, Aimee
- Horton, Myles, 1905 1990
- Intimidation
- Jenkins, Esau
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Jolly, Ralph
- Jones, Ashton Bryant
- Jones, Bessie
- Jones, Doris
- Jones, James
- Jones, Lewis W
- Jones, Matthew
- Kazan, Elia
- Kennedy, John F. Jr., 1960 1999
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- King, Marion, 1932 2007
- King, Slater, 1927 1969
- Kinoy, Arthur
- Kotelchuck, David
- Ku Klux Klan
- Labor Unions
- Leigh, Sandy
- Lewis, John
- Libraries
- Lingo, Al
- Lipscomb, Andy
- Lockett, Winston Henry
- Long, Worth W
- Loudermilk, Jim
- Love, Jim
- Lucas, Virginia
- Lynch, Edward
- Lynching
- Lyon, Danny
- Mass Media
- Mathieson, John Ed
- Mayfield, Dexter
- Mc Carthy, Joseph
- Mc Kart, Jack
- Mc Laurin, Charles
- Mc Nair, Denice
- Mc Nair, Everitte
- Merritt, Carole
- Millan, Lopez
- Millspaugh, Frank
- Mixor, Patricia
- Molder, Kay
- Moller, Kay
- Moore, Fred
- Moore, William
- Morgan, Charles
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- Music
- Myers, Dennis
- Neblett, Carver
- Nonviolence
- Parker, Ron K
- Parrott, John S
- Pfister, James H
- Pitts, Samuel
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Poston, Richard
- Reeves, Louis, Mrs
- Renoso, Ruben
- Robertson, Carol
- Robinson, Bernice
- Robinson, Johnnie
- Robinson, Lillian
- Robinson, Maline
- Rodrigues, Ismael
- Rollins, Avon
- Ross, Jim
- Segregation
- Shirah, Samuel C., 1943
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922 2011
- Silver, Ernest, Mrs
- Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
- Sinclair, Lewis
- Smelley, Joe
- Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Smith, Charles
- Smith, John Coventry
- Sourwine, J. G
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern Conference Educational Fund
- Stafford, Billy
- Stembridge, Jane
- Stevens, Rick
- Stockdon, Robert
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Students For A Democratic Society (U.S.)
- Suarez, Matteo
- Swisshelm, Dorothy
- Temple, C. Edward
- Thomas, Joe
- Thrasher, Sue
- Threats
- Tinney, Bob
- Travis, James
- United Nations
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1957
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Congress. House. Committee On Un American Activities
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Vivian, C. T
- Voter Registration
- Waldron, George
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
- Walton, Wilbur
- Waltzer, Bruce C
- War On Poverty
- Ware, Virgil
- Weaver, Claude
- Webb, Lee
- Weinberger, Eric
- Wesley, Cynthia
- White Citizens Councils
- Williams, Avery
- Williams, Jim
- Wolfe, Michael
- Wood, William
- Zellner, Bob
- Zellner, Jim
- Zinn, Howard, 1922 2010