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Yet, one wonders. Housing and automation are two of the most crucial and controversial problems of American society generally. As they become more and mere obvious in the late fifties, resistance to tho effort required to deal with them increased. The forces of conservatism prepared for a bitter fight. Politically, the Negro is a minority and consequently incapable of putting across these program", on his own* His fate, as so often happens in this nation of profound "unoffifial" racism, depends largely on what the white folks do. If, as is quite possible, America refuses to deal with the social evils of structural unemployment and miserable housing, it will at the same time have refused to deal with the problem of race. There will be speeches on equality, there v/ill be good Court decisions, and the United States will move toward a constitutional definition of Itself as completely egalitarian. The Negro, from within his world cf double poverty (almost as if there wer*e a race class condemned to be poor) v;TI watch all this bitterly. There will be occasional celebrations - perhaps- the next one will be called in twenty years when the Negro nears seventy per cent of the white wage level. But nothing basic will have changed. QCSE - Congress of Facial Equality 33 Park How, New York 38, New York COrtlandt 7 6k>70 - 7 -
Object Description
Title | CORE--Educational materials - Workbooks, outlines, handbooks, 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 22) |
Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District |
Folder Description | The SCLC Citizenship workbook which opens this folder is a fascinating document in itself, full of literacy and arithmetic basics, a synopsis of black history and of freedom song lyrics, and advice about planning a voter registration campaign and a block party. "The 1964 Civil Rights Law and What It Means to You" follows. Also included are the following: the March 1964 report of a committee working on the freedom school curriculum for the Mississippi Summer Project. A 1963-1964 CORE report on books, equipment, and funds the organization had received. A document called a "Civil Rights Mosaic"--a summary of the civil rights movement in U.S. history--along with "Sources for Further Information on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi." An analysis of police and minority groups in Boston and Philadelphia by Alan Gartner. Jane Stembridge's notes on Stokely Carmichael's Waveland workshop on Black English. A list of the books in the Canton Freedom Library. A first draft (May 1965) of a "school workshop booklet." "Freedom Primers" No. 1 and No. 3. Correspondence regarding obtaining good quality adult literacy materials. An unattributed demographic report called "Mississippi Economics: Mississippi's 'New Image.'" An MFDP document called "Political Mississippi" outlines Mississippi governmental structure, electoral procedures, and party organization. A curriculum guide to black history for elementary school teachers. Gordon Carey discusses the history and problems of Black nationalist movements in the U.S. A UNESCO report on race. Michael Harrington's "The Economics of Racism" as accurate a description of African-Americans' position in American society today as when he first wrote it. " The folder concludes with a lengthy "Guide for the Study of Negro History in the Churches" put out by a Presbyterian Church in Chicago. |
State | Mississippi; Illinois; Kentucky; Louisiana; Georgia; Florida; Pennsylvania; Massachusetts; New York; |
Place | Hattiesburg; Canton; Meridian; Harmony; Leflore County; Waveland; Chicago; Hazard; Monroe; Baton Rouge; St. Francisville; Americus; Chattahoochie; Philadelphia; Boston; Rochester; |
Subject | Southern Christian Leadership Conference; voter registration; nonviolence; clergy; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; segregation; United States Commission on Civil Rights; federal aid; discrimination in employment; freedom schools; agriculture; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; elections; boycotts; education; mass media; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; freedom rides; nonviolence; South Africa; whites; poverty; labor unions; music; murder; United Nations; Black Power; day care centers; police; libraries; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Tougaloo College; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Freedom Vote; Democratic Party (U.S.); Democratic Party (Miss.); lawyers; Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; sharecroppers; wages; Black history; Black Muslims; religion; migration, internal; racism; housing; slavery; Ku Klux Klan; |
Personal Name | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Simpkins, C. O.; Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948; Raymond, George; Whitten, Jamie; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Moses, Robert Parris; Moses, Dona Richards; Samstein, Mendy; Morris, Jesse; Horowitz, Rochelle; Day, Noel; Day, Peg; Leigh, Sandy; Minnis, Jack; Hardy, John; Jenkins, Tim; Higgs, William; Chase, Oscar; Stembridge, Jane; Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987; Lowenstein, Allard K.; Harrington, Michael; Horton, Myles, 1905-1990; Sinclair, Hamish; Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965; Yancy, Roberta; Ali, Muhammad, 1942-; X, Malcolm, 1925-1965; Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Brown, Benjamin A.; Buckley, Mary; Hanson, Bruce; Hayden, Tom; Romilly, Constancia; Chaffee, Lois; Woodruff, Myra; Gartner, Alan; Cieciorka, Frank; Bushnell, Margaret; Carmichael, Stokely; Richardson, Judy; Hollander, Lynne; Barber, Rims; Varela, Mary; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; King, Edwin H.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Turnbow, Hartman; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Williams, John Bell; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998; DeVine, Annie; Roby, Harold; Miller, William; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Johnson, Edwina Chavers; Carey, Gordon R.; Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975; Ali, Noble Drew; Fard, W. D.; Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975; Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993; Myrdal, Jan; |
Event Date | 1964-1965; |
Year | 1964-1965; |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 22; WIHVC239G-A |
Format | reports and surveys; correspondence; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
Digital Format | XML |
Digital Identifier | fsCOREMS4thR2S22000 |
Type | Text; Image |
Description
Title | p.7 |
Page Text | Yet, one wonders. Housing and automation are two of the most crucial and controversial problems of American society generally. As they become more and mere obvious in the late fifties, resistance to tho effort required to deal with them increased. The forces of conservatism prepared for a bitter fight. Politically, the Negro is a minority and consequently incapable of putting across these program", on his own* His fate, as so often happens in this nation of profound "unoffifial" racism, depends largely on what the white folks do. If, as is quite possible, America refuses to deal with the social evils of structural unemployment and miserable housing, it will at the same time have refused to deal with the problem of race. There will be speeches on equality, there v/ill be good Court decisions, and the United States will move toward a constitutional definition of Itself as completely egalitarian. The Negro, from within his world cf double poverty (almost as if there wer*e a race class condemned to be poor) v;TI watch all this bitterly. There will be occasional celebrations - perhaps- the next one will be called in twenty years when the Negro nears seventy per cent of the white wage level. But nothing basic will have changed. QCSE - Congress of Facial Equality 33 Park How, New York 38, New York COrtlandt 7 6k>70 - 7 - |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 22 |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
Digital Format | JPEG2000 |
Digital Identifier | Micro 793 - Reel 2 00511 |