- Collection:
- Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
- Title:
- Look: Vol. 27, no. 10; 1963
- Creator:
- Various
- Date of Original:
- 1963-01-01
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movement
Race relations
Segregation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Voter Registration - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- StillImage
Text - Format:
- image/jpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document consists of three previously published news stories about Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary and Mississippi native Samuel Block. The articles discuss Block's voter registration activities and the threats and beatings he received from some white Mississippians for his involvement in the Civil Rights movement. The first article,"Volunteers have received death threats," was originally published in Look,27: (10) on May 21, 1963. The second article,"Burnings, jailing, shooting reported in Greenwood, Miss.);" was originally published on May 16, 1963, in Jet, 24: (4)" The third article, titled "Combat Story," is from the March 19, 1963 edition of the New York Post.
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_ec00ec82-7f8f-411e-871e-5fc6bd2525ff
- 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:
- M368 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection
Box 3, Folder 14 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries
- Rights:
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