Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Civil Rights Movement collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS748f
Scope and Content
This collection contains fliers, pamphlets, mailouts, and statements from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia. Subjects addressed in the documents include racial relations in the south, school segregation, African-American voting, civil rights demonstrations, and memorials to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some materials in this collection pre-date the recognized beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, in 1954. Of particular note is a handbill from Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to boycot...
Dates:
1934-1991, undated
Scripto Pen Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1013
Scope and Content
This collection contains personnel and marketing records, and documentation of the labor strike at the Scripto Pen Company. The early personnel records include employee names, start dates, previous employment, and wage rates. Volumes of marketing publications and advertisements illustrate trade and commercial print advertisements Scripto Pen Company used for their writing instruments and disposable lighters. National and local newspaper clippings included in the collection relate to the...
Dates:
1923-1981, undated
Stars for Freedom program
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS651f
Scope and Content
The Stars for Freedom program is a single item produced for the benefit concert. The program includes an introduction written by Martin Luther King, Jr., a welcoming letter from then-mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., and advertisements from local businesses (primarily located on Auburn Avenue). The program has been autographed by Lena Horne, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dick Gregory, and Mercer Ellington.
Dates:
1963
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- Subject: Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century X
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- African American civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Factory and trade waste -- Environmental aspects -- Georgia 1
- Factory and trade waste -- Management 1
- Labor unions -- Georgia 1
- Lynchings -- 1940-1950 1
- Pencils 1
- Pens -- United States -- History 1
- Segregation in education -- Georgia 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Office equipment and supplies industry 1
- Writing -- Materials and instruments 1 + ∧ less
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