Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Authoritative Name:
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Biography:
- African American Methodist minister and leader of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party. In 1966, he and Aaron Henry filed a request with the FCC to deny the license renewal of the Birmingham television station, WLBT, because it had a history of excluding access from African Americans and of only presenting segregationist views.
- Associated Subjects:
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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2 items in 2 collections (expand all)
Letter: Atlanta, Georgia, to James A. Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962 June 5
- Creator:
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Date of Original:
- 1962-06-05
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Rev. R.L.T. Smith, near top at right, addresses crowd in New York at a memorial service for Medgar Evers
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Collection:
- Voices of Civil Rights
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress