Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections

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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.

Scope and Contents 1.Resolution to end restricted membership policy on 01/15/65 2.Report of Special Membership Policy Committee 1963. Concludes that as no cities in Georgia allowed integrated meetings, no Negro librarians would be invited to join the GLA. (3 copies) 3.Letter from Essae Martha Culver to Miss Sarah Jones on 03/29/51, asking if Negros were permitted to join the GLA 4.Letter from Mrs. J. Henley Crosland to Miss Essae M. Culver on 04/07/51, replying that Negros are not prohibited from joining,...

Other Information Untitled, unsigned essay critisizing white involvement in the Civil Rights movement, especially the NAACP and SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). The essay is written from the perspective of a Black person, (most likely written by Stokely Carmichael).Letter to the Editor (the Gazette): Complaining about Carl T. Rowen's critique of SNCC.A press release from SNCC News Service, concerning Alabama's primary election, May 3rd, (probably 1966). The press...

Scope and Contents Three letters to President Reade from the Board of Regents:January 14, 1935 - A letter from Philip Weltner, informing the recipients that a doctoral student was planning to distribute a questionnaire to the students to elicit their opinions on interracial cooperation. Weltner refused to endorse the plan.February 14, 1935 - A letter from Philip Weltner urging the recipients to investigate an upcoming student conference in Atlanta on inter-racial relations. Weltman felt...

Scope and Contents Transcripts and articles:Transcript of the Face the Nation Interview with Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, June 19, 1966.SNCC - 1966 Press Release.Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia July 25, 1966 transcript of an interview with Stokely Carmichal and Randolph Blackwell.Photo copy of Los Angeles Times Article in which John Lewis discusses changes in SNCC leadership. July 29, 1966....

Scope and Contents Copies of photographs, copies of LOOK article (Look Magazine), correspondents from Library of Congress, narrative from accounts of sit-in from Sissy Leonard.An "Atlantic Journal" article about Stokely Carmichael by Colin McGlashan, July 29, 1967.An article from the "National Guardian" about Stokely Carmichael. Written by Michael Munk, June 4, 1966.An article from "The Militant", featuring an interview with Stokely Carmichael. Written by John Benson, May...

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Article draft: 36  page article covering the issues surrounding the integration of Atlanta schools.

A paper about Sara Mitchell, a member of the Georgia Board of Education.

A letter from Raymond W. Mack, Random House, to Long. February 1, 1967, regarding her contribution to a book, tentatively titled, "Our Children's Burden,"

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Letters including Freedom Rider arrest:

Personal letters written back and forth between Maggie & Sissy, Bunny, Agnes. Concern arrest, politics and family letters. Most are clearly dated. Some in context, are dated and marked on paper.

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Letters including Freedom Rider arrest, lunch counter demonstration;

Personal letters written back and forth between Maggie & Sissy, Bunny, Agnes. Concern arrest, politics and family letters. Most are clearly dated. Some in context, are dated and marked on paper.

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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.

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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.

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Article & a notes:

An article by Margaret Bridges "What Can We Do?" about integration. Notebook and notes on segregation, race relations, and southern living.

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Magazine Article (The Progressive)written by Long; "Lillian Smith: A Match for Old Screamer." With a note from Marge Manderson, stating that the article was the only one she could find.

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Articles and notes on the on Charleston SC Hospital strikethat took place in May 1969.

Includes: observation, event description, and a program from first night's rally.

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Newspaper drafts  & articles covering subhects such as:

Segregation, freedom fighters, love, suffering, schools, religion, education, Animal Crusaders, integration, November Freedom,  University of Georgia, J.E. Hoover, death penalty, Gov. Hartsfield, slave-owning, agitators, death penalty, Klansmen

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Drafts of Op-ed pieces that cover topics such as:

Women's Lib, The civil rights movement, her time at an advertising firm, and the neatness of her desk.

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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.

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Photocopied articles from the June, 1963 issue of New South

"Strictly Subjective" by Margaret Long and

"Albany, Failure or First Step?" by Wyatt Tee Walker.

"Strictly Subjective" is about African American suffering and misplaced anger.

Mr. Walker's article is on the Albany uprising in GA and its suppression by White politicians and police.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Margaret (Sissy) Leonard and her family have a strong legacy in journalism and activism throughout the 20th century. The tradition started with her grandfather, George Long, who courageously criticized the Ku Klux Klan in his editorials for the Macon Telegraph in the early 1900s. Margaret's mother, Margaret Long, was a progressive journalist who worked at several newspapers in the southern United States. She managed to raise two children mostly on her own while also writing two published...

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A funeral program distributed at the memorial service held for Dr. King at Morehouse College on April 9, 1968.