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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Rose Carver Fishman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 686
Scope and Contents Fannie Lou Hamer was Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and helped seat an integrated delegation to the Democratic National Convention. This collection consists of seventeen letters written by Hamer to her friend Rose Carver Fishman in Waban, MA, who Hamer had earlier met while raising money for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapter of SNCC. Hamer reports on SNCC activities in various states and...
Dates: Created: 1965-1968; Other: Date acquired: 10/27/1995

Fannie Lou Hamer papers

 Collection
Identifier: 165
Scope and Contents The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer measure approximately 16 linear feet and consist of 3,293 pieces of correspondence dated between 1966 and 1978. The correspondence represented includes not only that of Fannie Lou Hamer, but also that of a number of organizations to which she was in some way connected and of her business manager, Joseph Harris. Much of Hamer's business correspondence is included in the Harris correspondence. He was almost entirely responsible for the business aspects of Hamer's...
Dates: Created: 1966-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981

Vanessa Murphree oral history collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2507
Scope and Contents This small oral history collection contains interviews done by Vanessa D. Murphree in 2001 and 2002 with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Interviews focus on SNCC's use of public relations and communications for the promotion of civil rights. To this end, Murphree interviews members of SNCC's Communications Department, Research Department, and Executive Committee to discuss specific tools and strategies used in their messaging and direct actions. The...
Dates: Created: 2001-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 2001; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/2005

John O'Neal papers

 Collection
Identifier: 279
Scope and Contents The papers highlight the personal and professional life of John M. O'Neal, Jr. The John O'Neal papers consist of 25.94 linear feet and document O'Neal's artistic style and vision as an African American actor, director, playwright, and community and civil rights activist. The papers are of interest for studying the southern Black Arts Movement and more specifically the Black Theater Movement; the Free Southern Theater; the Civil Rights Movement; voter rights registration; race relations;...
Dates: Created: 1927-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1989; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983

Bob Zellner oral history collection

 Collection — Container: 5 audiocassettes
Identifier: 2333
Scope and Contents

This collections is made up of five audiocassette recordings of oral history interviews with civil rights activist Bob Zellner conducted by Eric Diner, then a Tulane University undergraduate, as part of Diner's honors thesis. Zellner, the first White field secretary from the south for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), has a long career in civil rights activism.

Dates: Created: 1994; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1995

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