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FREEDOM NEWS SEARS ROEBUCK; CAN YOU WORK WHERE YOU SHOP? n. W/i If , 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.
Object Description
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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Title | p. 1 |
Page Text | FREEDOM NEWS SEARS ROEBUCK; CAN YOU WORK WHERE YOU SHOP? n. W/i If , 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 |
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. |
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Digital Identifier | FSKaplowB2F2001 |