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Block, Samuel T. (Samuel Theodore), 1939-2000

Biography:

SNCC field secretary in Greenwood, Mississippi beginning in 1962, Samuel Theodore Block was beaten for his voter registration efforts on August 13, 1962.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Look: Vol. 27, no. 10; 1963 (Image; Text)
  • News release, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; December 10, 1964 (Text)
  • Photograph of project director and others; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Southern portrait: city with a future, Greenwood, Mississippi; July 1964 (Text)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Memorandum: to Jim Dombrowski, 1962 July 23 (Memorandums)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a profile and head-on view of Samuel Theodore Block taken at the time of his arrest in Greenwood, Mississippi, 1962 December 6 (Black-and-white photographs)