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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party created in 1964 as a branch of the populist Freedom Democratic organization in the state of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. It was organized by African Americans and whites from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time allowed participation only by whites, when African-Americans made up 40% of...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....
Shaw, Sarah-Ann
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Boston's first African American television reporter, Sarah-Ann Shaw was born, Sarah-Ann King, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Annie Bell Bomar King and Norris King, Jr. Growing up in Roxbury, Shaw's father, who was active in the Roxbury Democratic Club, took her to lectures at Jordan Hall, the Ford Hall Forum, and Tremont Temple; there, young Shaw met Paul Robeson. Shaw's mother worked along side the selfless Melnea Cass. Shaw attended William P. Boardman Elementary School and Henry Lee Higginson E...
Northern Student Movement
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The Northern Student Movement (NSM) was a twentieth-century American civil rights group. Their mission was to support the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and to challenge racial discrimination in the North. Peter Countryman, a white Yale undergraduate, founded the NSM in the fall of 1961. Community projects and tutoring in segregated and impoverished areas in northern cities were a strong focus of the group. These efforts provided Black students with bet...
Student Christian Movement in New England
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The Student Christian Movement was formed in 1934 by the YMCA, YWCA and various Protestant denominations to promote cooperative religious work among college and university students in New England. In 1967, a reevaluation of the aims and future of the SCMNE resulted in a decision to change its name to University Christian Movement in New England and all member groups were to change their affiliation to the UCMNE. From the description of Papers of the Student Christian Movement in New ...
Turner, Charles Tennyson, 1808-1879
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Epithet: ARA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000105 Epithet: of Lynn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000111 Epithet: MP; of Add MS 35798 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x00010c Epithet: churchwarden, of Stroud Green ...