McDonald, Jimmy
Biography:
A white former Argenta policeman who killed a black musician, Wiley Shelby, on September 11, 1906, in Argenta, AR. This event began a series of events that sparked a race riot in Argenta.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- Freedom Information Service--WATS reports, January 1965-March 1965 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 1, Segment 11-13) (Reports)
- SEDFRE--Community Center Proposals, Organization and Plans for Center, 1964-1965 (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 1, Folder 16) (Memorandums)
- Zinn--Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee papers, advisory, 1963-1967 (Howard Zinn papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 2, Folder 12) (Correspondence)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a burned out Greyhound bus and injured Freedom Riders in the hospital in Anniston, Alabama, 1961 May 14 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a bus boycott in Albany, Georgia, and a civil rights demonstration against proposed legislation at the Georgia Capitol Building in Atlanta, Georgia, 1962 (News)