Baker--Ella Baker papers, 1959-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 628
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- 1960-1966;
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Ella Baker was an executive with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with close ties to the MDFP and several other civil rights groups. This folder consists of an assortment of SNCC and COFO documents, including the rationale for the MFDP, a 1962 Bob Moses/Tom Gaither-authored document recommending COFO coordination of a voter registration drive in Mississippi, a list of delegates to a 1960 Youth Leadership Conference, SNCC's views on the prospect of a 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights, a month-long list of incidents against Freedom Summer workers, a White Citizens Council flyer supporting segregation, and a flyer advertising Hattiesburg Freedom Day and urging blacks to register to vote. There are legal documents having to do with the ACLU and HUAC, copies of a SNCC newsletter, a 1960 SNCC statement to the Democratic National Convention's platform committee, a 1967 article by James Forman on political organizing, a 1959 memo about SCLC's goals and purposes, and a sta
- Creator
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Violence
Threats
Intimidation
Voter registration
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
White Citizens councils
Labor unions
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
American Civil Liberties Union
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Segregation
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Barry, Marion, 1936
Moses, Robert Parris
Gaither, Thomas Walter, 1938
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
Kinoy, Arthur
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Lee, Bernard Scott, -1991
Mack, John
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Forman, James, 1928-2005 - Format
- Reports and surveysLegal documentsFlyers and handbillsPress releasesClippingsMemorandaNewsletters
- Language
- English
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- Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
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- Baker, Ella, 1903-1986. Baker--Ella Baker papers, 1959-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 628. 1960-1966. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/18105. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Baker, Ella, 1903-1986, (1960-1966) Baker--Ella Baker papers, 1959-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 628. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/18105
- MLA citation style
- Baker, Ella, 1903-1986. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/18105>.