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• Title:Papers relating to the American civil rights movement, circa 1965-1967.
  
• Physical Description:7 items.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 78
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  From the collection of Peter Spann. Purchased from William Reese Co. on the The Bradford F. and Lila L. Swan Fund, 2009.
  
• Summary:Various printed ephemera and documents pertaining to the American civil rights movement. Includes: broadside calling for "Negro voters" to register depicting cartoon of Martin Luther King, Jr., knocking out Governor Wallace in a boxing ring (made by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) (circa 1965); banquet menu and program from the Citizenship Education Program (1966); flyer advertising weekly meetings at Muhummad's Mosque, Birmingham, Alabama (undated); statement by the Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth, President of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, and Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; memorandum protesting statement by A.G. Gaston regarding voter registration (1966); broadside announcing a "Freedom Rally" at the St. John A.M.E. Church, Birmingham, Alabama (undated); typescript copy of a lecture given by Martin Luther King, Jr., on the topic of "The Future of Integration" (1967).
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Papers Relating to the American Civil Rights Movement. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
  Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-
  Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998.
  Williams, Hosea, 1926-
  Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
  African American political activists.
  African Americans--Civil rights.
  African Americans--Civil rights.
  Civil rights--United States.
  Civil rights demonstrations.
  Civil rights movements--Southern States.
  Civil rights movements--United States.
  United States--History--1961-1969.
  
• Genre/Form:Printed ephemera.