Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 7)

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More documents mostly from July-November 1965 which document the increasing student-focus of the civil rights movement and the expansion of its interests from voter rights to expanding economic opportunities for black people in the South, to concerns about migrant workers and the war in Vietnam. There's an ad for a freedom school; a SNCC-Atlanta appeal for car repair machinery to equip a shop in which to maintain their fleet of cars; SNCC statements opposing the appointment of James P. Coleman to the federal bench; reports on the "Mississippi Legislature: Old Wine in New Bottles" by John Perdew and on "Segregated Justice"; SNCC fundraising plans and reports; a description of how the Poor People's Corporation might work by having local women make quilts and clothing for sale; incident summaries from Georgia and Mississippi; plans for a November 1965 "Southwide People's Conference" organized by Stokely Carmichael; documents about the congressional challenge to the Mississippi Democratic

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Reports And Surveys Advertisements Correspondence Flyers And Handbills Meeting Minutes Pamphlets Memoranda

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Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 7)

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