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Authority of the President to use Federal Troops in the State of the Union, February 15, 1816
Copy of Memorandum from Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook to Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin in 1957 on the subject of the rights of the Federal Government to send troops into a state. This document was prepared after the events at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. Cook argues that the U.S. Government does not have the right to use troops unless violence has occurred. The Memorandum suggests where Georgia could have gone had men like Griffin remained in power.
Desegregation within Georgia Library Association, 1951-1965
Folder 3: SNCC Meeting and Member Notes, 1960s
Folder 3a: Board of Regents Correspondence - Race Relations, 1935
Folder 4: Stokely Carmichael & SNCC, 1966
Folder 12: Margaret (Sissy) Leonard Arrest Record, 10/10/1973
Arrest Record from Freedom Rider experience:
The folder contains a copy of an arrest record from Florida Correctional Institution. The date received was 10/10/73. Not sure if date detained? There is also a list of items she had with her, visitors allowed, a signature from a witness & herself, and a request to mail items to the St. Petersburg Times.
Folder 12: Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, 1944-1977
Newspaper clippings by assorted writers. None appear to have been written by Long. Most cover topics related to school integration, Brown v. The Board of Education, Civil Rights, and communism.
A wedding announcement and an article about a bull riding in a pick up truck are also included.
A copy of the newspaper, Southern Struggle, Vol. 35, no. 3, May-June 1977 is also in the folder.
Folder 13: Margaret Bridges Article & Notes, 1958
Article & a notes:
An article by Margaret Bridges "What Can We Do?" about integration.
Notebook and notes on segregation, race relations, and southern living.
Folder 23: The Atlanta Constitution/ The Chattanooga Times/ Tallahassee Democrat, 1989
Newspaper clippings:
Section from the Tallahassee Democrat, Feb. 19, 1989 featuring a reprint of a 1965 article by Margaret Long about the Civil Rights movement and Negro Spirituals. The paper was published shortly after Long's death.
Article from the Atlanta Journal, January 30, 1989, written by Celestine Sibley eulogizing Long.
Obituary for Mary Macdonald Reynolds from the Chattanooga Times, December 28, 1989.
Item 10: MLK Funeral Program, 1968-04-09
A funeral program distributed at the memorial service held for Dr. King at Morehouse College on April 9, 1968.
Item 26: Three Garveyites Posters, 1961-08-13, 1963-08-30 - 1963-09-01, 1957-08-27 - 1957-09-01
Three posters: The first, titled "Calling all Garveyites", annopunced a parade and celebration to be held on August 13, 1961. The second announced the Annual Executive Conference of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) to be held August 30th - September 1st, 1963. The third announced a convention of the U.N.I.A. to be held from August 27th through September 1st, 1957.
MS134-001 Freedom is Everybody's Job!: The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People, 1949
This booklet is a portion of Crockett's summation to the jury in the 1948 trial of eleven communist leaders who were tried under the Smith Act for organizing as a Communist party. Crockett, originally from Florida, was a crusading Civil Rights lawyer. He was also a Representative from Michigan. (description by seller)
MS134-002 Home Mission Monthly: Negro Americans, April 1922
Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Prebyterian Church in the US. This Presbyterian missions magazine was aimed at better race relationships. Articles include: The Springtime of a Race, The Part of the Church, The Negro in Industry, Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Promoters of Good Will and more. (description by seller)
MS134-003 Elect Marvin Griffin Governor: State Democratic Primary, 1962
Marvin Griffin, a staunch segregationist, ran for Governor of Georgia in 1962 against Carl Sanders. Griffin used his segregationist credentionals openly and the Confederate flag on his letterhead reflects the famous and controversial change. Griffin's letter mentions Martin Luter King, the C(and)S Bank and the NAACP. Sanders won, prompting Griffin to say, "A lot of people that ate my barbecue didn't vote for me." (description by seller)
MS134-004 Letter, 1958 October 9: Ernest Vandiver to Campaign Supporters, Georgia, 1958-10-09
Letter from Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Ernest Vandiver, (he would be elected) to supporters. The letter no so subtly makes reference to segregagtion issues. After he was elected as a segregationist, Vandiver managed to keep the schools open and begin the process of integration. The address on the letter is the same building where the States Rights Council of Georgia was located. (description by seller)
MS134-005 Letter, 1944 July 27: From Josephine Wilkins of Citizen's Fact-Finding Move, 1944-07-27
MS134-006 Colored Voters Read: here is one instance of the treatment the Colored People of Georgia receive at the hands of the State Democratic Party. What evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their children in case the Third Party gets Power?, 1894
Broadside from Georgia Democratic Party to African-American voters, in which the Democrats attempt to say that they do more for black citizens than the Republicans. The figures are from 1893, so the broadside probably dates from 1894. Uncommon Georgia, race-related ephemera. (description by seller)
MS134-007 Committee for Georgia: Building Together, 1945
MS134-008 Program: Second Annual Conference Georgia Interracial Committee, March 3, 1939
MS134-010 The segregation decisions : papers read at a session of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Memphis Tennessee, November 10, 1955, 1956
William Faulkner, Benjamin Mays, Cecil Sims. Introduction by Bell Wiley. Significant because of essay by Faulkner, but Benjamin Mays is often called the spiritual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Important document showing how prominent Southerners viewed early Court decisions concerning desegregation and hoe they viewed the future. (description by seller)
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