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African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Southern States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Nelson Blackstock papers

 Collection
Identifier: HLL-2019-016
Abstract This collection comprises the papers of Nelson Blackstock, a former Civil Rights activist who as involved with the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and various other student-led political organizations in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was also a journalist and editor who was at one time a managing editor of The Militant. The collection includes newspaper...
Dates: 1963-2006, undated

Berta Green Langston papers

 Collection
Identifier: HLL-2019-002
Abstract

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Berta Green Langston, an active member of the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action who was involved in various protest movements during the 20th century. It includes newsletters, newspaper articles, miscellaneous writings, and correspondence with James Baldwin, Robert F. Williams, Albert Perry, Dave Dellinger, William Worthy, Pete Seeger, and Noam Chomsky, among others.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-2005