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Kaplow--Friends of SNCC U.W. chapter records, 1964-1967 (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 2, Folder 2)

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              FREEDOM NEWS SEARS ROEBUCK; CAN YOU WORK WHERE YOU SHOP?
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SBAH2 ROEBUCK:  CAN YOU WORK WHERE YOU SHOP?
When did you last shop at Sears? Was It one week ago? Or, was it
a month ago? How many familiar faces diet you see there? -Didr you
see ycur; friends f^omR'South Madison, shopping there? Probably* •.
Three hundred and seventy-one Negroos have- charge accounts- at Sears• '"'
Did you: see your friends; fronj, S<?uth Madison working at Sears? No,
No Negroes work at' Sear a» Three hundred an(^ seventy-one Negroes buy
regularly at Sears, but,-not one of them works there. . ..
Five months ago CORE asked Sears to' integrate their Christmas ....-.,
hiring.- ...They..had .two.hundred and eighty-two, white .employoes^. and
no Negro'employees.- CORE-'asked Sears to hire .five Negroes .In
sales, clerical, trainee and managerial positions by.'March ;l5th.
It is March 2nd. Sears is still an all white--store.      f ,r.
.   In Madison, Sears hires neither Negroes nor union help.. The ..
Retail Clerks Union has not been able to organize Sears stores here
•r in Milwaukee. CORE is investigating Sears in Kenosha and
Milwaukee as well as in Madison*.   -' ..RR-V-:
On March l5tha we hope we will ses-'"sbme familiar faces behind...'
the counters at Sears.  If wo don't, maybe the three hundred and R<
seventy-one Negroes who are regular customers will withdraw.their
charge accounts; maybe the rest of us will decide to do our Easter R
shopping someplace else.  It may not be for a week or it may not
Toe cfor six months, but wo will see familiar faces working as well
as shopping at Sears. And5 If we don*t see familiar faces behind the
counters, there will he no familiar faces infront of the counters.
If you or someone you know wants a job at Sears, or if you or
a friend of yours has applied for a job and been turned down, call
the Employment Chairmen* of GCRE, A.L 6-2952.

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Title	Kaplow--Friends of SNCC U.W. chapter records, 1964-1967 (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 2, Folder 2)
Author/Creator	Kaplow, Alicia, 1945-
Folder Description	The materials in this folder depict the Wisconsin Friends of SNCC's support for Freedom Summer in Mississippi as well as for civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, fair housing, and other issues in Madison and other northern locations. Items include an undated issue of the local SNCC newsletter, Freedom Now; "Materials Needed for Mississippi Project"; an invitation to a 1965 MFDP conference on free elections; a telegram from Congressman Henry Reuss; completed forms for off-campus speakers, such as Pete Seeger, to come to UW; documents for Congressman Robert Kastenmeier regarding contested delegations to the Democratic Party convention; Dane County [WI] Resolution on the MFDP"; document on the history and role of the MFDP; documents on the November 1964 "Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom"; Joe Stetson's completed Application for Work on the Freedom Vote"; a June 1964 flyer publicizing a protest vigil at the Wisconsin State Capitol and an undated document signed by UW faculty calling for federal protection for civil rights workers in the South; an April 1964 "Pledge for Action"; a 1963 or 1964 informational brochure about SNCC; an appeal to Madison, Wisconsin, churches to help Friends of SNCC; 1964 Constitution for the Friends of SNCC; 1967 plans for an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at the Milwaukee Induction Center; a 1965 "Progress Report on Voter Registration in Selma and Marion [Alabama]"; background information on Morris Milgram, a fair housing proponent; essays and questions from the Pilgrim's Rest, Mississippi freedom school; a flyer about "Freedom Flyers" a group from Madison going down to Selma, Alabama, to protest the violence there; a 1964 flyer about a Madison demonstration against Barry Goldwater; published materials on how to be an effective fundraiser; and documents about the "Committee to Abolish HUAC."
State	Mississippi; Wisconsin; New York; North Carolina; Maryland; Illinois; Alabama; Georgia; Indiana; Texas; Virginia; South Carolina; Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; Louisiana
Place	Jackson; McComb; Walthall County; Pike County; Amite County; Greenwood; Madison; Dane County; Milwaukee; New York; Raleigh; Annapolis; Chicago; Montgomery; Marion; Selma; Albany; Savannah; Atlanta; Monroe County
Subject	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic Party (U.S.); Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Freedom Vote; Freedom Singers; civil rights movements; segregation; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; voter registration; University of Wisconsin-Madison; housing; Mississippi Freedom Schools; fund raising; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; labor unions; freedom rides; boycotts; Black history; communism; United States. Department of Justice; elections; White Citizens councils; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Democratic Party (Miss.); Democratic Party (U.S.); food drives; nonviolence; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; Ku Klux Klan; police brutality; courthouses; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Cuba
Personal Name	Reuss, Henry S.; Seeger, Pete, 1919-; Kastenmeier, Robert; Palmer, Hazel T.; Carmichael, Stokely; Weiss, Peter; Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998; Farmer, James; Baldwin, James; Ward, Daniel; Zeldin, Lee; Norman, Silas; Jordan, Mrs. Olla; Diamond, Dion; McGrath, John; Johnson, Lyndon; Barnett, Ross; Patterson, Joe T.; Forman, James; Spike, Robert; Guyot, Lawrence; Devine, Annie; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Gray, Victoria; Clark, Jim; Bevel, James; Kaplow, Alicia; Collier, Jim; Wallace, George C.; Moody, Blair; Kefauver, Estes; Stevenson, Adlai; Mitchell, Steve; Eisenhower, Dwight; Nixon, Richard; Kennedy, John F.; Johnson, Paul B.; Silver, James W.; Stennis, John C.; Whitten, Jamie; Williams, John Bell; Cameron, John E.; Colmer, William M.; Houston, James; Previant, Susan; Weltman, Burt; Block, Al; Engle, Paula; Cole, Gary; Stetson, Joe; La Follette, Mr. and Mrs. Bronson; Kaufmann, Walter; Nelson, Gaylord; Henry, Aaron; Moses, Robert Parris; Smith, Dale; Lewis, John; Long, Worth; Bond, Julian; Sherrod, Charles; Lafayette, Bernard; Hansen, William; Robinson, Reginald; Godmilow, Jill; Williams, Carla; Donaldson, Ivanhoe; Cassidy, Joe; Milgram, Morris; Smelo, William; Vaughs, Barbara; Friou, Kenneth A.; Van, George W.; Teske, Myron; Winograd, Richard; Risser, Fred A.; Anderson, Norman; McCarthy, Joseph R.; Hoadley, Thomas A.; McRae, Larry; Killinger, Paul; Neugeboren, Jay; Gruels, John; Stehr, Dick; Dennis, Liz; Friedlander, Dan; Weidenfeld, Ed; Braden, Anne; Wilkinson, Frank; Hexter, Christopher; Hook, Susan; Douglas, William O.; McCormack, John; Willis, Edwin;
Event Date	1964-1968
Year	1964-1968
Language	English
Source	Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 2, Folder 2; WIHVK350-A
Format	newsletters; correspondence; flyers and handbills; reports and surveys; meeting minutes; pamphlets
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2012
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	FSKaplowB2F2000
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Language	English
Source	Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 2, Folder 2;
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2012
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	FSKaplowB2F2001

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Kaplow--Friends of SNCC U.W. chapter records, 1964-1967...

Freedom news
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To the President and the Justice Department
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Materials needed for Mississippi Project
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Convention, Jackson, Miss.: Call to a conference on free elections in 1965
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Telegram from Congressman Henry S. Reuss
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Protest brutality in Selma
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Registration of off-campus speaker for University of Wisconsin student organizations: Rev. James Bevel
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Registration of off-campus speaker for University of Wisconsin student organizations: Jim Collier
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Registration of off-campus speaker for University of Wisconsin student organizations: Pete Seeger
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Credentials of contested delegations at Democratic National Conventions
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Dane County resolution on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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To all students: the National Student Association has gained support from the university administration to sponsor Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom
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Dear President
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Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom
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Registration of off-campus speaker for University of Wisconsin student organizations: Mrs. Hazel Palmer
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Application for work on the freedom vote: Joe Stetson
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Registration of off-campus speaker for University of Wisconsin student organizations: Stokley Carmichael
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You are cordially invited to a benefit lawn party sponsored by the Friends of SNCC
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Protest vigil, 12 Noon, Sunday, June 28th
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First meeting
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Second meeting
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3rd meeting
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Fourth meeting, 10/7/64
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Pledge for action, April 25, 1964
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SNCC
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To the Madison churches
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Constitution, Friends of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Plans for demonstration at Milwaukee Induction Center for May 18, 1967
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The students and faculty from the University of Wisconsin who participated in Mississippi Summer Project
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Progress report on voter registration in Selma & Marion
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To the Justice Department and the U.S. Congress
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[To do list]
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Morris Milgram, 50 years of age, 1967
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Barbara Vaughn, Civil rights question
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Pilgrim's Rest freedom news
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At least 40 local business, religious, and student leaders will leave Madison tonight to take part in a demonstration Tuesday in Selma, Alabama
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Join the demonstration against Goldwater, Thursday, September 24th, at 11:15 a.m.
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It has been reported in the press that the Attorney General has stated that the Federal Government lacks power to take 'preventive police action' in Mississippi
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Finance
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Committee to Aid the Bloomington Students: sponsor's list
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Hoadley's test case in Indiana, by Jay Neugeboren
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Committee to Abolish HUAC
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