SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 46, Folder 47)
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Council of Federated Organizations
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This folder contains a wide variety of documents depicting SNCC's activities in the South in the early 1960s. Present in significant quantities, however, are items relating to Danville, Virginia; Americus, Georgia; and Little Rock, Arkansas. The folder's highlights include the "Outline for Projected Black Belt Program," a "Memorandum Regarding the Proposal for a 'Poor Peoples Land Corporation,'" and an opinion piece on the "Problems With SNCC's Internal Organization."
Newspaper Clippings Pamphlets Correspondence Memoranda Reports And Surveys Press Releases Transcripts Newsletters Programs
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- Abbitt, Watkins
- Aelony
- Allen, Ralph
- Arson
- Bail
- Baldwin, James
- Barnett, Ross
- Bikel, Theodore
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian
- Britt, Travis
- Byrd, Garland T
- Cameron, John Earle
- Campbell, Lawrence
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Chaney, James
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clark, Jim
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Demonstrations
- Donaldson, Ivanhoe
- Dylan, Bob
- Education
- Elizabeth
- Employment
- Federal Aid
- Flynt, John James, Jr
- Forman, James
- Fountain, L.A
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Registration
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Singers
- Freedom Vote
- Goodman, Andrew
- Government
- Gray, Victoria Jackson
- Guyot, Lawrence
- Hagan, G. Elliot
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hansen, Bill
- Harris, Don
- Harris, Oren
- Harris, Tina
- Henry, Aaron
- History
- Horton, Miles
- Housing
- Houston, James M
- Intervention (Federal Government)
- Intimidation
- Jail Experiences
- Jails
- Johnson, Bernice
- Jones, Barbara
- Jury
- Kennedy, John F
- Kennedy, Robert F
- King, Martin Luther, Jr
- Ku Klux Klan
- Law
- Lawyers
- Lewis, John
- Mants, Bob
- Matthews, Zeke T
- Mc Dew, Charles
- Mc Million, John L
- Mc Namara, Robert
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Moore, William Lewis
- Morrison, James Hobson
- Moses, Robert
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- O'neal, Matson
- Passman, Otto Ernest
- Patterson, John Macolm
- Perdue, John
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Poor People's Corporation
- Poverty
- Reagon, Cordell
- Rivers, Mendell
- Roberts, Kenneth A
- Robinson, Ruby Doris
- Rustin, Bayard
- Schwerner, Michael
- Seeger, Pete
- Segregation
- Sherrod, Charles
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern Conference Educational Fund
- Stembridge, Jane
- Stephens, Robert Grier, Jr
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Sutherland
- Taylor, Benjamin
- Travis, Jimmy
- Truman, Harry S
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights
- United States. Congress. House. Committee On Un American Activities
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Violence
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Voting
- Waggonner, Joe D
- Wallace, George C
- White Citizens Councils
- White Community Project Workshop
- White Supremacy Movements
- Whites
- Williams, Harrison A
- Zellner, Robert
- Zev
- Zinn, Howard