Mississippi
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Series 3: Writings By Others
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131j
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The series is comprised of manuscripts and published works (circa 1946-1969) written by persons, or produced by groups, other than Martin Luther King, Jr., including members of the King family, SCLC staff, and other groups and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as literary figures. Content of the documents encompasses issues central to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States; Gandhian philosophy and nonviolence; organized labor in the United States; Christian ethics and...
Dates:
1946-1969
Racially Motivated Random Violence Papers
Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0173
Scope and contents
The Racially Motivated Random Violence Papers spans the dates 1946-1987, with the bulk of the material dated from 1980-1983. The collection contains correspondence from people who wanted to receive copies of the publications such as American singer/songwriter Pete Seeger, committee records such as the affilated writing or communcation organization like the Southern Collective of African Americans Writers. It also contains newspaper clipping of police, civilian, and Klan or white supremacist...
Dates:
1946-1987
Clara Hewitt Southeastern Association for Educational Opportunity Personnel Program (SAEOPP) papers
Collection — Box 1-9
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0055
Scope note
The Southeastern Association for Educational Opportunity Personnel Program (SAEOPP) is a nonprofit organization, established in 1978, designed to promote and support equal education opportunity and access to postsecondary education. SAEOPP membership embraces eight states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The purpose of SAEOPP is to bring together into a work and study community those persons who have an active interest in...
Dates:
1997-2008
Voter Education Project organizational records
Collection — Box 1-190
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0076
Scope and contents
The Voter Education Project (VEP) organizational records span the years 1962-1992, with the bulk of the material dated 1969-1985. Materials include correspondence; records of the Board of Directors and Executive Directors; departmental and state branch files; personnel files; financial records; printed materials such as flyers, posters, reports and brochures; photographs and audio and film recordings; and files related to elections in the South, projects funded by VEP and the extensive...
Dates:
1962-1992