Zinn--Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee papers, administration, 1963-1965 (Howard Zinn papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 2, Folder 11)

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This folder contains the following: letters regarding northern fundraising ideas for the Mississippi Summer Project and Zinn's firing from Spelman College; an agenda and partial meeting minutes from a SNCC executive committee meeting held in Washington, D.C., over Thanksgiving 1963; a report of Zinn's 1963 fundraising trip to Boston and New York; a very interesting March 1964 letter from Dottie Zellner to James Farmer (?), describing the lack of communication between SNCC's executive committee and the amateurs (including herself) charged with the organization's fundraising activities; a February 1965 list of SNCC executive committee members; Dona Richards' proposal to form a SNCC African Affairs Committee to bolster American blacks' sense of cultural identity and including her poem, "Apology to Africa." The folder also contains SNCC materials related to communicating with the media: a blank form for SNCC news reports; a sample press release; instructions on press coverage. There's a co

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Correspondence Meeting Minutes Reports And Surveys Memoranda Forms Press Releases

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