Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Barry, Marion, 1936-2014
2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
3. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Description

1. 2.6 lin. ft. (6 1/2 archival boxes)

Summary

1. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-related materials created or collected by Betty Garman, beginning in 1961 when she was a Southern Student Freedom Fund activist in New York State and Berkeley, California, and between 1964 and 1966 as a member of the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Included are minutes of SNCC staff and executive committee meetings; daily compilations of incidents and civil rights violations reported by SNCC staff and volunteers; documents of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; and a 1966 special report on Southern school desegregation co-authored by Betty Garman and Marion Barry. Also included are subject files on SNCC and the civil rights movement, and compilations of SNCC publications and local Mississippi community newsletters.

Subject

1. Robinson, Betty Garman
2. Bond, Julian, 1940-
3. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
4. Mississippi Freedom Project
5. Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
6. Southern Student Freedom Fund
7. African Americans -- Civil rights
8. Civil rights movements -- Mississippi
9. School integration -- Mississippi
10. Voter registration -- Mississippi
11. African Americans -- Mississippi -- Political activity
12. African American college students -- Mississippi -- Political activity
13. African Americans -- Suffrage
14. African Americans -- Education
15. Political parties -- Mississippi
16. Mississippi -- Social conditions
17. Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Call number

1. Sc MG 807

Language

1. English

Note

1. Audiotapes, videotapes and films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

1. Betty Garman Robinson

Biography (note)

1. A founding member of Students for a Democratic Society, Betty Garman joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in March 1964, and as a member of its executive committee helped plan the Oxford, Ohio orientation for the historic Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Assigned to the SNCC headquarters in Greenwood, Mississippi, Garman helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge to be seated at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. As SNCC Northern Coordinator, she initiated Friends of SNCC groups on college campuses, and co-authored with Marion Barry "SNCC: A Special Report on Southern School Desegregation" in 1966

Author

1. Robinson, Betty Garman.

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