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''The Meaning of the Sit-ins''

https://okra.stanford.edu/link/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
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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
6/4/2025 7:34:51 AM
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