- unitid
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{"value"=>"186382", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22255182", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Freedom 1985-23", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1964"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 audio_recording", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The collection consists of one audio reel recorded by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field organizer Iris Greenberg, on February 16, 1964, which features Dick Gregory speaking at a meeting about challenging segregation."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Greenberg, Iris", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>From 1962 to 1967, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Arkansas Project organized local communities and out-of-state volunteers to coordinate voter registration drives and challenge segregation. The Arkansas Project was part of SNCC's larger Freedom Summer project, a voter registration campaign launched in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. SNCC built on previous grassroots efforts of local Black communities to register Black voters, and recruited college graduates like Iris Greenberg. Greenberg was a field organizer for SNCC in Mississippi, participating in the 1963 voter registration drive, the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, and the Arkansas Project. She passed away in 1978.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of one audio recording of a mass meeting in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on February 16, 1964. The meeting opens with protest songs and spirituals including \"Eyes on the Prize\" and \"This Little Light of Mine.\" Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory speaks to the crowd, using satire to address issues such as the violence of segregationists, the importance of commitment to the civil rights movement, and the role of the church in the struggle for civil rights. The recording has two parts.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Rebecca Greenberg, 1985.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, Sc MG 94.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Item scope and content notes and AMI identifiers revised for clarity by Lyric Evans-Hunter.", "date"=>"2024-04-12"}
- date_start
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1964
- keydate
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1964
- date_end
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1964
- date_inclusive_start
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1964
- date_inclusive_end
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1964
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}