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Marva Collins, papers
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0206
Scope and contents
The Marva Collins Papers consist of personal and professional papers generated throughout Collins’ career. The papers span from 1975 to 2008, the majority of which date from the 1970s-1980s. Contents center on Westside Preparatory School’s works, including Collins’ teaching materials, readings, publicity materials, and printed and published items, such as magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and newsletters, that cover the school’s impact and Collins’ methodology. There are audiovisual...
Dates:
1975-2017
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Series 6: Southern Christian Leadership Conference Organizational Records
Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131l
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The series is comprised of papers about the administrative, social and programmatic functions of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), including planning documents related to SCLC annual meetings, conferences and staff retreats; SCLC divisions Operation Breadbasket, the Citizen Education Project (CEP), the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and the Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE); projects in Birmingham, Montgomery,...
Dates:
1957-1971
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Series 12: Printed Materials
Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131r
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The series consists of magazines, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, brochures, event programs, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings and various ephemera, primarily related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his work as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement (1855-1985, bulk 1966-1968).
Dates:
1966-1968
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Subseries 1.1: Correspondence: General E-K
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131b
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional, often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty,...
Dates:
1951-1968
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Subseries 1.4: Correspondence: Unidentified
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131g
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
This series contains correspondence from unidentified senders received by Martin Luther King, Jr. A significant portion of the letters are hate mail and often contain criticism of the civil rights movement and personal insults. There are also justifications for discrimination and opposition to integration. Some of the letters contain discussions of religion, racism, riots, communism, work ethics, poverty, politics and the Black Power movement. In addition, there are a few items complimenting...
Dates:
1958-1968, undated