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''Chronology Freedom Rides from 'The Freedom Ride' May 1961''

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Author
[Zinn, Howard]
Document Date
3/13/1961--11/1/1961
Genre
Ephemera
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
Author
[Zinn, Howard]
Author Dates
1922-
Document ID
611101-016
Document Date
3/13/1961--11/1/1961
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
Document Type
Document
Status
undecided
Genre
Ephemera
Document Length
3 pp.
Names
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)[United States. Office of the President]
Patterson, John Malcolm [State of Alabama]
Kennedy, Robert F. [United States. Department of Justice]
Farmer, James
Peck, Jim
Connor, Eugene
Seigenthaler, John [United States. Department of Justice]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
White, Byron R. [United States. Department of Justice]
Mann, Floyd [State of Alabama. Department of Public Safety]
Abernathy, Ralph
Nash, Diane
Lewis, John
Barnett, Ross R. [State of Mississippi]
Seay, S. S. (Solomon Snowden)
Walker, Wyatt Tee [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Shuttlesworth, Fred L.
Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Freedom Riders Coordinating Committee
Nashville Student Movement
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
United States. Office of the President
United States. Department of Justice
State of Alabama. Department of Public Safety
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ku Klux Klan
Places
Washington, D.C.
Richmond, Va.
Danville, Va.
Charlotte, N.C.
Rock Hill, S.C.
Winnsboro, S.C.
Augusta, Ga.
Athens, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga.
Birmingham, Ala.
Anniston, Ala.
Montgomery, Ala.
New Orleans, La.
Nashville, Tenn.
Chicago, Ill.
New York
LaGrange, Ga.
Rome, Ga.
Memphis, Tenn.
Jackson, Miss.
Topics
Freedom rides
Code for Location of Original
HZP-WHi
Location of Original
Howard Zinn Papers, 1956-1970, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Location of Original - Detail
Box 1, folder 19
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
7/22/2003 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
8/12/2003 13:17:6
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Date Updated
6/2/2015 9:19:10 AM
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Memo to Gloster B. (Gloster Bryant) Current, James Farmer, Henry Lee Moon, John A. Morsell, Herbert L. Wright and Herbert Hill.

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document600418-022
Author
Wilkins, Roy
Document Date
4/18/1960
Genre
Letter
Document Type
Letter
Type of Writing
Typed
Author
Wilkins, Roy
Author Dates
1901-1981
Document ID
600418-022
Document Date
4/18/1960
Type of Writing
Typed
Document Type
Letter
Status
Cal 5
Genre
Letter
Document Length
1 p.
Names
Moon, Henry Lee
Current, Gloster B. (Gloster Bryant)
Farmer, James
Morsell, John A.
Wright, Herbert L.
Hill, Herbert
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Organizations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Topics
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations
Student movements
Afro-Americans and mass media
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings
Code for Location of Original
NAACPP-DLC
Location of Original
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Location of Original - Detail
Group III-A213
Copy Location (1)
MLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Copy Location (2)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
9/23/1994 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
09/26/1994
Date Updated
6/2/2015 11:22:51 AM
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''The Meaning of the Sit-ins''

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document600801-007
Author
Congress of Racial Equality
Document Date
8/1/1960
Genre
Report
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Author
Congress of Racial Equality
Document ID
600801-007
Document Date
8/1/1960
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Document Type
Document
Status
Cal. 6
Genre
Report
Document Length
6 pp.
Dates
2/1/1960
6/8/1960
7/11/1960
Names
Gandhi, Mahatma
Lee, J. Oscar [National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America]
Baker, Ella [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Carey, Gordon [Congress of Racial Equality]
Walker, Wyatt Tee [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Fairfax, Jean [American Friends Service Committee]
Farmer, James [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
Forbes, David [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Oniki, S. Garry [National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America]
Smiley, Glenn E. [Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)]
Organizations
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
United States. Supreme Court
American Friends Service Committee
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
Places
Greensboro, N.C.
Topics
Gandhism
Nonviolence
Student movements
School integration
Jail no bail
Lunch counter sit-in, 1960
Civil rights
Civil Disobedience
Voter registration
Direct action
Afro-Americans and mass media
Race relations
Code for Location of Original
CSKC-INP
Location of Original
Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands
Location of Original - Detail
Sermon Files, folder 212
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
2/26/1998 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
06/02/1998
Date Updated
10/9/2009 10:53:59 AM
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Agenda, ''Conference: nonviolence and the achievement of desegregation''

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document601016-000
Author
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Place Written
Atlanta, Ga.
Document Date
10/14/1960-10/16/1960
Genre
Ephemera
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Author
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Document ID
601016-000
Document Date
10/14/1960-10/16/1960
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Document Type
Document
Status
Cal. 5
Place Written
Atlanta, Ga.
Genre
Ephemera
Document Length
3 pp.
Names
King, Martin Luther, Jr. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Barry, Marion [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan) [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Baker, Ella [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Stembridge, Jane [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Jones, Lewis Wade [Tuskegee Institute]
Lawson, James M.
Brown, Benjamin D. [Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)]
McDew, Charles [South Carolina State College (Orangeburg, S.C.)]
Nash, Diane [Fisk University]
Gregg, Richard Bartlett
Walker, Wyatt Tee [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Farmer, James [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
Nelson, William Stuart [Howard University]
Diwakar, Ranganath Ramachandra
Carey, Gordon [Congress of Racial Equality]
Vivian, C. T. [Nashville Christian Leadership Conference]
Organizations
Tuskegee Institute
Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)
Fisk University
South Carolina State College (Orangeburg, S.C.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Howard University
Nashville Christian Leadership Conference
Topics
Nonviolence
Lunch counter sit-in, 1960
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Meetings
Satyagraha
Jail no bail
Student movements
Other Topics
The Philosophy of Nonviolence
The Power of Nonviolence
Satyagraha
Code for Location of Original
MLKP-MBU
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Location of Original - Detail
Box 68, folder 2,3,4
Copy Location (1)
CAABP-WHi, Carl and Anne Braden Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Filing Info
Box 62, folder 2
Copy Location (2)
CSKC-INP, Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands
Copy Location (3)
SAVFC-WHi, Social Action Vertical File, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Copy Location (4)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
5/26/1993 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
10/14/2009
10/14/2009 jmkunz
Date Updated
6/2/2015 3:00:26 PM
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Partial List of Freedom Riders

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610000-129
Document Date
[1961]
Genre
Ephemera
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Document ID
610000-129
Document Date
[1961]
Type of Writing
Typed
Document Type
Document
Status
Undecided
Genre
Ephemera
Document Length
2 pp.
Names
Vivian, C. T. [Community Baptist Church (Nashville, Tenn.)]
Bevel, James L. (James Luther) [American Baptist Seminary]
LaFayette, Bernard
Farmer, James [Congress of Racial Equality]
Lawson, James M. [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Lewis, John [American Baptist Seminary]
Smith, Ruby Doris
Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality
Community Baptist Church (Nashville, Tenn.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
American Baptist Seminary
Places
Montgomery, Ala.
Nashville, Tenn.
Jackson, Miss.
Atlanta, Ga.
New Orleans, La.
Topics
Freedom rides
Segregation in transportation
Student movements
Code for Location of Original
SCLCR-GAMK
Location of Original
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1954-1970, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Location of Original - Detail
Box 35, folder 2
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
6/4/2002 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
8/28/2002 8:51
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Date Updated
6/2/2015 9:18:54 AM
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Press release, My day

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610206-000
Author
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Place Written
Waltham, Mass.
Document Date
2/6/1961
Genre
Article
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Author
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Author Dates
1884-1962
Author Affiliation
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Document ID
610206-000
Document Date
2/6/1961
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Document Type
Document
Status
Cal. 7
Place Written
Waltham, Mass.
Genre
Article
Document Length
2 pp.
Names
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Farmer, James [Congress of Racial Equality]
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich)
Norman, Dorothy
Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality
Americans for Democratic Action
Places
New York, N.Y.
Rock Hill, S.C.
Soviet Union
Topics
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Afro-American student movements
Nonviolence
Sit-ins
Student movements
Code for Location of Original
ERP-NHyF
Location of Original
Ana Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
1/15/1993 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
7/16/2011
7/16/2011 szwald
Date Updated
6/2/2015 9:18:54 AM
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''Minutes of the 1961 CORE National Council''

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610212-001
Author
Holden, Anna
Hughes, Genevieve
Harrington, Gladys
Document Date
2/11/1961-2/12/1961
Genre
Report
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Author
Holden, Anna
Hughes, Genevieve
Harrington, Gladys
Author Affiliation
Congress of Racial Equality
Document ID
610212-001
Document Date
2/11/1961-2/12/1961
Type of Writing
Typed
Document Type
Document
Type of Version
Fragment
Status
Undecided
Genre
Report
Document Length
6 pp.
Dates
1960
3/20/1961
1962
6/1/1960-1/31/1961
6/28/1961-7/2/1961
Names
Oldham, Charles
Yesner, Judy
Gartner, Alan
Palmer, Robert
Fields, Fred
West, Melvin
Zeller, Gerry
Rosenfeld, Ralph
Epps, James
Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Balk, Myrna
Lewis, Julia
Hodge, Henry
West, David
Moore, A. D.
Darden, Mayola
Smith, Jerome
Atkins, Robert
Barrett, Lucille
Sweet, Wester
Murphy, Mary Lu
Mason, Charles
Farmer, Lula
Farmer, James
Rich, Marvin
Carey, Gordon
Haley, Richard
Perkins, Joseph
Moore, A.D.
McCain, James T
Gaither, Tom
Ross, Harry [International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)]
Peck, James
Robinson, James R.
Laue, James H.
Williams, Vera
Organizations
National Committee for Rural Schools
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Sharecropper's Fund
American Friends Service Commitee
F. W. Woolworth Company
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
Schine's Theatre
Paramount Motion Pictures Group
Stanley-Warner Theatres
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
Places
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Boston, Mass.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Chicago, Ill.
Columbia, Mo.
Columbus, Ohio
Detroit, Mich.
St. Louis, Mo.
Huntington, W. Va.
Iowa City, Iowa
Lexington, Ky.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Louisiville, Ky.
Miami, Fla.
Nashville, Tenn.
New Orleans, La.
New York, N.Y.
San Jose, Calif.
East St. Louis, Ill.
Washington, D.C.
Portland, Ore.
Norfolk, Va.
Charleston, S.C.
Fayette County, Tenn.
Haywood County, Tenn.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Covington, Ky.
Atlanta, Ga.
Birmingham, Ala.
Jackson, Miss.
Texas
Lake Geneva, Wis.
Topics
Meetings
Sit-ins
Boycotts
Freedom rides
Nonviolence
Voter registration
Discrimination in Employment
Labor Movement
Other Topics
CORElator
Code for Location of Original
CSKC-INP
Location of Original
Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands
Location of Original - Detail
MS 22, 687
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
8/23/2010
8/23/2010 jmkunz
Date Updated
6/2/2015 1:36:02 PM
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Letter to Dora E. McDonald

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610418-001
Author
Carey, Gordon R.
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Document Date
4/18/1961
Genre
Letter
Document Type
Letter
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Author
Carey, Gordon R.
Author Affiliation
Congress of Racial Equality
Document ID
610418-001
Document Date
4/18/1961
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Document Type
Letter
Type of Signature
Signed (Handwritten signature of author)
Status
Cal. 7
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Genre
Letter
Document Length
1 p.
Dates
5/13/1961
6/28/1961 - 7/2/1961
Names
McDonald, Dora E. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.[Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
King, Lonnie C.
Farmer, James [Congress of Racial Equality]
Organizations
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Places
Atlanta, Ga.
Washington, D.C.
New Orleans, La.
Lake Geneva, Wis.
Topics
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Freedom rides
Code for Location of Original
MLKP-MBU
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Location of Original - Detail
Box 40, folder 139
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
5/14/1996 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
05/15/1996
5/29/2013 dbeals
Date Updated
6/2/2015 9:18:54 AM
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Letter to Tom Gaither

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610422-003
Author
Carey, Gordon
Document Date
4/22/1961
Genre
Letter
Document Type
Letter
Type of Writing
Typed
Author
Carey, Gordon
Author Affiliation
Congress of Racial Equality
Document ID
610422-003
Document Date
4/22/1961
Type of Writing
Typed
Document Type
Letter
Type of Version
Copy
Status
undecided
Genre
Letter
Document Length
2 pp.
Dates
5/13/1961
4/4/1961
4/12/1961
5/17/1961
5/18/1961
5/2/1961 - 5/3/1961
Names
Lee, James
Haley, Richard
Farmer, James
Tompkins, Paul [Payne College]
King, Lonnie C. [Committee on Appeal for Human Rights]
Person, Charles
Walker, Wyatt Tee [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
McDonald, Dora E. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Shuttlesworth, Fred L.
Abernathy, Ralph
Gilcrist, M.L.
Evers, Medgar Wiley
Williams, Walter [Jackson State College]
Gardner, Beverly [Jackson State College]
Smith, Jerome [Congress of Racial Equality]
Aaron, Julie [Congress of Racial Equality]
Organizations
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Payne College
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Jackson State College
Southern Regional Council
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Places
Great Falls, S.C.
Oakland, Calif.
New Orleans, La.
Greensboro, S.C.
Charlotte, N.C.
Lynchburg, Va.
Augusta, Ga.
Orangeburg, S.C.
Atlanta, Ga.
Birmingham, Ala.
Montgomery, Ala.
Jackson, Miss.
Topics
Freedom rides
Arrest
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Strategic Planning
Student movements
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations
Code for Location of Original
CORER-WHi
Location of Original
Congress of Racial Equality Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
10/25/2004 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
10/26/2004 15:36:1
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Date Updated
6/2/2015 9:19:19 AM
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Letter to John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document610426-022
Author
Farmer, James
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Document Date
4/26/1961
Genre
Letter
Document Type
Letter
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Author
Farmer, James
Author Dates
1920-1999
Author Affiliation
Congress of Racial Equality
Document ID
610426-022
Document Date
4/26/1961
Type of Writing
Typed
Handwritten -- other than author's hand
Document Type
Letter
Type of Signature
Signed (Handwritten signature of author)
Status
Cal. 7
Cal. 8
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Genre
Letter
Document Length
1 p.
Document Note
Contains enclosures 610424-015 and 610426-023.
Dates
5/17/1961
Names
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) [United States. White House]
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward)
Organizations
United States. White House
Greyhound Bus Lines
Trailways Bus Lines
Places
Washington, D.C.
New Orleans, La.
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Topics
Freedom rides
Segregation in transportation
Nonviolence
Jim Crow
United States - Constitutional law
Code for Location of Original
JFKWHCSF-MBJFK
Location of Original
John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Central Subject Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
Location of Original - Detail
Reel 7, frame 900
Copy Location (1)
DJG-GEU-S, David J. Garrow Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Filing Info
Box 1, folder 1
Copy Location (2)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
10/21/2002 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
11/26/2019 dalai
12/2/2019 mcweaver
Date Updated
12/10/2019 3:52:56 PM
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