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Baker--Ella Baker papers, 1959-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 628

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Ella Baker was an executive with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with close ties to the MDFP and several other civil rights groups. This folder consists of an assortment of SNCC and COFO documents, including the rationale for the MFDP, a 1962 Bob Moses/Tom Gaither-authored document recommending COFO coordination of a voter registration drive in Mississippi, a list of delegates to a 1960 Youth Leadership Conference, SNCC's views on the prospect of a 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights, a month-long list of incidents against Freedom Summer workers, a White Citizens Council flyer supporting segregation, and a flyer advertising Hattiesburg Freedom Day and urging blacks to register to vote. There are legal documents having to do with the ACLU and HUAC, copies of a SNCC newsletter, a 1960 SNCC statement to the Democratic National Convention's platform committee, a 1967 article by James Forman on political organizing, a 1959 memo about SCLC's goals and purposes, and a sta
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Reports And Surveys Legal Documents Flyers And Handbills Press Releases Clippings Memoranda Newsletters
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