- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [Letter from Nelson Johnson of the Youth Organization for Black Unity]
- Creator:
- Johnson, Nelson N.
- Date of Original:
- 1972-12-10
- Subject:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Neo-Black Society (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This six-page letter from Nelson Johnson of the Youth Organization for Black Unity (YOBU), dated December 10, 1972, invites black student leaders to affiliate their organizations with YOBU. The letter describes YOBU's major national programs, with respect to political prisoners, communications, schools, and international affairs, and defines the organization as "part of a nationally coordinated movement to build an effective revolutionary Pan African youth movement in the United States." The letter is accompanied by a typewritten note from "MS" forwarding it to University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson on February 12, 1973. The possibility that the UNCG Neo-Black Society may have been affiliated with YOBU was central to a 1973 challenge of the group's recognition and funding as a student organization.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2886
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Extent:
- 5.5" x 11"
- Original Collection:
- https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=442
UA2.8 Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson Records
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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