{"value"=>"<p>Series provides an overview of the organization as a whole, its leadership structure, its activities and inner working, the thinking of its cadres, and its funding mechanisms. It is divided into 14 subseries or clusters, some more sizable or substantive than others. The Organization files documents the group's ongoing efforts to revise its goals and programs, including attempts to reassess the role of whites in the civil rights movement. The Board of Advisors and Sponsors consisted for the most part of clergymen, foundation executives and representative African-Americans like Bayard Rustin, Anna Hedgeman and John Conyers. The Correspondence deals with attendance at meetings, new memberships, funding needs and NSM's shift in orientation. The Congress files are mostly minutes and agendas for meetings, with some staff assessments for 1964. The Executive Committee subseries includes correspondence files for key members like Countryman, Tom Gilhool, Peter Morrill, Daniel Schechter and Charyn Sutton, in addition to circular letters to city projects, minutes, reports and tax exemption materials.</p> <p><em render=\"italic\">Freedom North</em>, NSM's monthly magazine, ran irregularly from October 1964 to June 1966. It replaced an earlier newsletter, <em render=\"italic\">NSM News</em>. Included are draft articles, the layout for several issues and some correspondence. Also included under Other Publications are copies of the group's internal newsletter, <em render=\"italic\">The Organizer</em>, materials for a revised brochure, press releases and a file entitled \"Complaint against Police\" (1965). The Conference files are mostly correspondence and background papers. Two fairly well documented conferences are the October 1964 \"Crisis in Black and White\" conference, also referred to as NSM's Fourth Annual Intercollegiate Conference, and the May 1966 Afro Student Conference held at Rev. Paul Washington's Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia. Activities in this series refer primarily to a summer of 1964 Adult Literacy Project organized jointly with SNCC and the National Student Association, and to a 1964 Research and Training Institute for staff led by Chuck Turner. Correspondence in the latter file includes Jack Minnis, Tom Hayden and Stanley Aronowitz.</p> <p>Included under Reports are materials of the National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower County in rural Mississippi, reports of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project, and NSM reports for 1964 and 1965. The Staff files consist of minutes of selected NSM meetings, and research and training materials. Two Tutorial folders in this series are compilations of training materials for tutors and information on how to set up a tutorial project. The Foundations subseries consists for the most part of funding appeals, correspondence and proposals to philanthropic organizations; it highlights the drying up of funds with NSM's turn to black nationalism in 1965.</p>"}