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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
3. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Description

1. 8 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 8 audio recordings of meetings of the SNCC and interviews with civil rights activists.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Garmen 2008-41

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.

Source (note)

1. Betty Garman Robinson

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Betty Garman Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee files, 1961-1966. (Sc MG 807).

Author

1. Robinson, Betty Garman, creator.

Title

1. Betty Garman Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee audio collection.

Publisher

1. [2008]

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Betty Garman Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee files, 1961-1966. (Sc MG 807).

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
3. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Garmen 2008-41