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African Americans -- Civil rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Bill Goring white supremacist organizations collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8717
Abstract Collection includes: 46 Newsletters and Bulletins from the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, including 30 issues of "Here It Is"(1960-63), all stamped with the return address of Horace Sherman Miller of Waco Texas, founder of the Aryan Knights, and 16 issues of another of Miller’s newsletters entitled The "Aryan Views + White Folks News" (1963); Goring’s correspondence with radio announcer and Klan member Wally Butterworth (6 ALS, 1 TLS, 1964) along with associated pamphlets and bulletins;...
Dates: 1962 - 1970

Come!Unity Press publications

 Collection
Identifier: 8699
Abstract

A collection of 30 flyers, broadsides, periodicals, and other publications printed at the Come!Unity Press printshop. Topics include advocacy for black women, gay and lesbian rights, labor and worker's rights, and newsletters about indigenous, Spanish, and Filipino resistance.

Dates: 1973 - 1980

Cornell Committee Against Segregation records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070738475]
Identifier: 37-6-3991
Scope and content

Includes press releases, newsletters, memos, publications and correspondence, including letters from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr.



Dates: 1958-1961.

Fair Employment Practices Commission Records on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5662 mf
Abstract

Office files, hearing records, employment practices files, public relations files, correspondence, closed case files and administrative files

Dates: 1842-1946

March on Washington news articles

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8759
Content Description A collection of 261 contemporary newspaper issues and articles from around the United States regarding the 1963 March on Washington for Civil Rights and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. The collection includes both complete newspapers featuring front-page news coverage of the events but also scores of "minor" articles, columns, and editorials located in the back pages which record events that transpired before, during, and after the marches. The news archive was assembled to document the...
Dates: 1963 - 1968

May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4601
Abstract

Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.

Dates: 1749 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1880

Walter Slatoff papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-2832
Scope and content

Includes typescript of a lecture on blacks at Cornell and in American society, given shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King; handwritten notes for a talk on the same subject a year later; typed notes for a talk on racism, April 24, 1969; and a column entitled "Cornell Racism" written by Slatoff for the CORNELL DAILY SUN, April 17, 1969.



Dates: 1968-1975.