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King--SNCC Communications Section (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 14)

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This folder contains a number of documents from SNCC's Communication Department in Atlanta. There's contact info for major media and of civil rights supporters around the US, a list of law students supplied to COFO by various legal groups, and lists of US congressmen and senators sympathetic to civil rights. There are phone numbers for communications people in the civil rights movement, especially SNCC, throughout the South. There's a list of summer volunteers in Mississippi as of July 3, 1964. Mary King expresses her concerns about the professionalism of the SNCC communcations department before Freedom Summer begins. There's a history of SNCC's involvement with Freedom Summer, and an unattributed speech (?) apparently written by a California volunteer at the end of Freedom Summer which discusses the summer's atmosphere and events. A November 1963 analysis of "equal time" on radio and television and instructions for filing a complaint with the FCC are here, as well as an urgent memo f
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Keywords

  1. Alcorn Agricultural And Mechanical College
  2. Allen, Louis
  3. Alsop, Joseph, 1910 1989
  4. Arrest
  5. Arson
  6. Assault And Battery
  7. Beckwith, Byron De La
  8. Bender, Rita L
  9. Beyers, Bob
  10. Bombings
  11. Bond, Julian, 1940
  12. Carter, Charlotte
  13. Carter, Hodding
  14. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  15. Church Buildings
  16. Civil Rights
  17. Clergy
  18. Communism
  19. Congress Of Racial Equality
  20. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  21. Education
  22. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  23. Farmer, James, 1920 1999
  24. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  25. Free Southern Theater
  26. Freedom Day
  27. Freedom Rides
  28. Freedom Vote
  29. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  30. Gregory, Dick
  31. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  32. Hardy, John
  33. Hendrix, Raphael, Mrs
  34. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  35. Hurst, E. H
  36. Indians Of North America
  37. Intimidation
  38. Jails
  39. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  40. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  41. King, Mary
  42. Lawyers
  43. Lee, Herbert
  44. Light, Bill
  45. Lingo, Al
  46. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  47. Lynching
  48. Lyon, Danny
  49. Mass Media
  50. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  51. Mitchell, Francis
  52. Moses, Robert Parris
  53. Murder
  54. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  55. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  56. Parents
  57. Pearson, Drew, 1897 1969
  58. Rose, Margaret
  59. Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897 1971
  60. Schrader, Emmie
  61. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  62. Segregation
  63. Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
  64. Sitton, Claude
  65. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  66. Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
  67. Strelitz, Ilene
  68. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  69. Sullivan
  70. Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906 1980
  71. Threats
  72. Travis, James
  73. United Nations
  74. United States
  75. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  76. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  77. Van Sickle, Jim
  78. Volunteers
  79. Voter Registration
  80. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  81. Weil, Robert
  82. White Citizens Councils

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