Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Folder 3: SNCC Meeting and Member Notes, 1960s
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.
Video 8: AAS 2001 Lecture Series # 3: The Georgia Flag: Is It an Issue?. 2001/02/15.
Guest lecturer Tim Livingston discusses issues surrounding changing the Georgia flag. People: Hardin, Shirley; Williams, David; Saeger, Richard, Bell, Ashley - student body president.