- Collection:
- Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
- Title:
- News release, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; May 26, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-05-26
- Subject:
- Association for the Preservation of the White Race
Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives
Hate groups
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Mississippi Freedom Project
Racism
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
White Citizens councils - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. News release (press release) from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee headquarters in Atlanta. The news release identifies the Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives (ATAC), based in Cleveland, Mississippi as a new organization. ATAC members, mostly white Mississippi college students, were to respond to and "peacably discuss" segregation with the civil rights workers who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964. Also mentioned in the news release are the White Citizens councils, the Association for the Preservation of the White Race (APWR), and the Ku Klux Klan. ATAC is reported in this news release as one of several organizations involved in statewide opposition to civil rights workers and the summer project.
Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. - Metadata URL:
- https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_cf2e77c5-6511-4b45-89b8-b67ec444f54d
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- University Libraries provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. When possible, we have provided information regarding the copyright right status of an item; however, the information we have may not be accurate or complete. Obtaining permissions to publish or otherwise use is the sole responsibility of the user.
- Original Collection:
- M357 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection
Box 3, Folder 14 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries
- Rights:
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