Smith--COFO correspondence, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 15)
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Smith, Benjamin Eugene
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Fundraising letters; reports on depositions; a lengthy personal profile of William Kunstler by law student Loren Ghiglione; a memo by Carmin Petrino on the possible use of a federal peace bond to protect civil rights workers; a lawyer's inside view of the Free Speech Movement's Sproul Hall sit-in at The University of California-Berkeley and his consequent arrest; a blank form for arrested COFO workers to fill out; a document about "Problems Facing COFO"; a COFO pamphlet called "Freedom Registration" which included a blank Freedom Registration form; a list of Smith's monthly expenses; Henry Aronson's resignation letter and concerns about COFO's legal program; Eugene Cotton's request to be removed from COFO's Legal Advisory Committee; and part of a letter from William Kunstler related to the car accident that killed volunteer Wayne Yancey and injured Charles Scales--these are the contents of this folder.
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Correspondence Forms Reports And Surveys Pamphlets
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- Abram, Cliff
- Abram, Frank
- Abram, Sullivan
- Ardzrooni, Edward
- Aronson, Henry
- Arrest
- Baez, Joan
- Baker, Ella, 1903 1986
- Baker, Johnny Lee
- Bender, Rita L
- Bernstein, Debbie
- Bridges, Harry
- Bronstein, Alvin J
- Brown, Jess
- Burnstein, Mal
- Catrina, Jim
- Church Buildings
- Clark, James G
- Communism
- Cotton, Eugene
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Darrow, Clarence, 1857 1938
- Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855 1926
- Demonstrations
- Dempsey, Jim
- Dreyfus, Barney
- Dreyfus, Benjamin
- Dutton, Dave
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Edelman, Marian Wright
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Flynn, Deborah
- Forster, Troy
- Foster, Charles
- Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
- Freedom Rides
- Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923 1988
- Ghiglione, Loren
- Gladstein, Ralph
- Glickenhaus, Seth
- Greenhill, Manuel, 1916 1996
- Hall, Carsie A
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamm, Daniel
- Hawking, Willie
- Helstein, Ralph
- Hoffman, Alex
- Holmes, Eleanor K
- Jacob, Arthur Lee
- Jensen, Lowell
- Jeter, Howard
- Jewett, Richard A
- Jones, Johnny A
- Katz, Charlie
- Kenney, Bob
- Kerr, Clark, 1911 2003
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Kinoy, Arthur
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kunstler, Jane
- Kunstler, Karin
- Kunstler, Mike
- Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
- Labat, Edgar
- Labor Unions
- Lawyers
- Lewis, Joe L
- Lusky, Louis
- Madigan, Frank
- Marshall, C. Herbert
- Matthews, Donald
- Meese, Edwin
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mitford, Jessica, 1917 1996
- Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888 1965
- Moore, Howard
- Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
- Morris, Jesse
- Morris, Tommy
- Moses, Robert Parris
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Lawyers Guild
- Perez, Leander, 1891 1969
- Peterson, Nels
- Petrino, Carmin
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Richmond, Isiah
- Rosenberger, Lotte
- Rosenthal, Leonard
- Rosenthal, Stan
- Ruby, Jack
- Salter, John R
- Savio, Mario
- Scales, Charlie T
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Sewell, Sonny
- Shictland, Willie
- Shropshire, Claudia
- Southern Conference Educational Fund
- Stavis, Morton
- Stein, David
- Stone, Herman H
- Stone, William V
- Straus, Philip
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Treuhaft, Robert E
- Veterans
- Voter Registration
- Wadsworth, Ed
- Walker, Doris B
- Wansley, Thomas C
- Weiss, Cora, 1934
- White Citizens Councils
- Williams, Robley
- Wilson, Luke
- Yancey, Wayne