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{"value"=>"1060617", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1956-1968", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1956/1968"}
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{"value"=>"Southern Christian Leadership Conference"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of this series consists of correspondence (1956-1963) and memoranda (1958-1960). Among the items housed here are letters between Ella Baker and A. Phillip Randolph, International President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, relating to a report prepared by the SCLC on the violence, intimidation and reprisals experienced by civil rights leaders in the South and the press release announcing the Youth Leadership Retreat, March 2, 1960 from which the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee emerged, along with an article from Harper's Weekly \"The Dangerous Road before MLK\" by James Baldwin. A few 1958 affidavits of voters from Jefferson County, Alabama that include a 14 page statement written by Baker that she obtained from Mary Lou Thomas documenting the challenges Thomas encountered when she attempted to register to vote in the 1958 Keithville, Louisiana elections. Also included area two page letter to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner from Nathan H. Schwerner, the father of slain civil rights worker Michael Schwerner and letters exchanged between Baker and Stanley D. Levison. There are also two copies of the SCLC constitution and by-laws.</p>"}
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1956
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1956
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1968
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1956
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1968