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Additional authors

1. Mahoney, William M
2. Forman, James, 1928-2005
3. Bond, Julian, 1940-
4. Conn, Butch, 1940-2005
5. Wooten, Anne C
6. McDew, Charles

Description

1. 1 folder.

Summary

1. This collection (27 items) consists mainly of correspondence and minutes pertaining to the D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group's (NAG) civil rights related activities. Authors of letters include William Mahoney, NAG president, and members, Anne C. Wooten, Bernard Z. "Butch" Conn, and James Forman, Julian Bond and Charles F. McDew of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Subject

1. Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-
2. Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
3. Forman, James, 1928-2005
4. Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)
5. Civil rights movements -- Washington (D.C.)
6. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Washington (D.C.)
7. Race discrimination -- United States
8. Segregation -- United States
9. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
10. Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States -- History
11. African Americans -- Societies, etc
12. Direct action
13. Civil rights -- United States
14. Nonviolence
15. Racism
16. United States -- Race relations -- History

Genre/Form

1. Minutes.
2. Correspondence.

Call number

1. Sc MG 644

Source (note)

1. Unkown

Biography (note)

1. The D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group (NAG) was a student organization at Howard University active in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. NAG members participated in the Freedom Rides from Washington to Mississippi; contributed clothing, food and medicines to Tennessee sharecroppers who had been forced off their land for voting in 1961; initiated and/or participated in civil rights demonstrations in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland; and maintained working relationships with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.). NAG's membership included civil rights figures Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin).

Author

1. Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)

Title

1. D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group collection, 1962-1963.

Biography

1. The D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group (NAG) was a student organization at Howard University active in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. NAG members participated in the Freedom Rides from Washington to Mississippi; contributed clothing, food and medicines to Tennessee sharecroppers who had been forced off their land for voting in 1961; initiated and/or participated in civil rights demonstrations in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland; and maintained working relationships with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.). NAG's membership included civil rights figures Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin).

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1. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Mahoney, William M.
2. Forman, James, 1928-2005.
3. Bond, Julian, 1940-
4. Conn, Butch, 1940-2005.
5. Wooten, Anne C.
6. McDew, Charles.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 644