Research Catalog
Civil rights collection
- Title
- Civil rights collection, 1962-1969.
- Author
- Clarke, Catherine, 1929-1981.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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4 Items
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 95 Box 4 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 95 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 95 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 95 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 1.4 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Catherine Clarke Civil Rights Collection consists primarily of mimeographed and printed material documenting projects administered by various organizations whose objective was to establish racial equality in the South, primarily through school desegregation and voter registration.
- Subjects
- African American civil rights workers
- Civil rights > Southern States
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Poor People's Campaign
- Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
- Southern States > Social conditions
- Selma (Ala.) > Social conditions
- Alabama > Social conditions
- Civil rights movements > United States
- African American college students > Political activity
- Mississippi > Social conditions
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Civil rights workers
- Race relations > Religious aspects
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Political parties > Mississippi
- United States > History > 1961-1969
- African Americans > Suffrage
- Note
- Contact sheet strips transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Clarke, John
- Biography (note)
- Catherine "Kit" Clarke was a documentary filmmaker whose work emphasized civil rights and poverty in the South, and the anti-war protests of the 1960's and 1970's.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 95
- OCLC
- NYPW95-A124
- Author
- Clarke, Catherine, 1929-1981. Collector
- Title
- Civil rights collection, 1962-1969.
- Biography
- Catherine "Kit" Clarke was a documentary filmmaker whose work emphasized civil rights and poverty in the South, and the anti-war protests of the 1960's and 1970's.Clarke began her association with the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project as a volunteer for the National Council of Churches' Hattiesburg Project in 1964. During the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, she worked as the assistant public relations and press officer for the mobile marching unit. She also served as a travelling reporter for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE) in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. Clarke was also an associate producer for "Lay My Burden Down," a sixty minute documentary for NET Journal about conditions in the South one year after the Selma to Montgomery March, and film coordinator and radio reporter for the 1968 Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Civil rights workers
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 95