Raynor HCA 2014-04
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Many unpaid volunteers worked with SNCC on projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Maryland. SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years. SNCC's major contribution was in its field work, organizing voter registration drives all over the South, especially in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Archive consists of greater than 4000 pieces, all of which have been placed in slip sheets and organized in [20] Three-Ring Binders. This financial archive covers various dates ranging in 1963-68 to include accounting and bookkeeping documents such as doner lists, expense reports, vouchers, travel receipts, ledger sheets, office expenses reports, vendor bills, utility bills, ect. There is some type of document for nearly every city in the Southern states. And, there are literally 1000’s of names involved within these SNCC documents. Although the archive is too volumnus to fully collate, we do note documents associated with several key Black Civil Rights leaders. John Lewis signed an expense request. (Lewis was an influential SNCC leader and is recognized by most as one of the important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole). Julian Bond is listed on an expense report. (On Easter weekend, 1960, Bond was one of the several hundred students who formed SNCC. Bond also took part in voter registration drives in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.) Stokley Carmichael, ALS regarding expenses. (Carmichael took part in the SNCC Freedom Rides of 1961. When he reached Mississippi he was arrested, the first of his nearly three dozen arrests. Carmichael later became a field organizer for SNCC and led voter registration drives in Mississippi.) Fannis Hamer, a doctor’s bill. (In 1962, when Hamer was 44 years old, SNCC volunteers came to town and held a voter registration meeting. She was surprised to learn that Blacks actually had a constitutional right to vote. She became a SNCC Field Secretary and traveled around the country speaking and registering people to vote.) James Forman docket approval on expense report (Forman was an American Civil Rights leader active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the International Black Workers Congress.) MacArthur Cotton, listed on expense report. (Arthur was an ealry ally of Medger Evers). Robert Weil on several financial documents. (white member of SNCC staff). Betty Miles on dozens of documents. (Miles was the SNCC accountant). There are several topics which are very well represented in this archive. Those topics include Voter Registration and Training for those Registras. The Miles College Work Study, 1963-64, a literacy effort; Freedom Singers, formed in 1962 in Albany, Georgia to educate communities about civil rights issues through song; The Arkansas Project, designed to combat segregation in public facilities and schools, to assist voter registration; Council of Federated Organization (COFO), organized Freedom Summer, a national campaign launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many Black voters as possible in Mississippi. In addition to these topics, there are some really fascinating items. For example, [6] $100 Cash Bond receipts dated early March 1964 from Jackson Mississippi. Also 100’s of Bus Ticket receipts to dozens of Southern cities in 1964. A complete binder filled with Contributors and organized by state. Another binder of utilities bills for each SNCC office in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. An unusual letter regarding a Bond Fund for Selma Alabama. This immense archive will provide years of research opportunites and a unique opportunity to understand the inner workings of one of America’s most prolific Civil Rights organizations. We have been asked to provide provenance for this lot. Please read the owner's statement provided below.
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