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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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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