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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Civil rights -- Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Allison L. Burnett papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X031780970]
Identifier: MSS 16656
Content Description This collection contains the Civil Rights papers of Dr. Allison L Burnett, a biology professor at the University of Virginia and an active member in social movements, who was an organizer of the efforts and petition drive to integrate the University Theater. The papers include twenty-one long-sheet petitions, fourteen newspaper clippings, and six pieces of correspondence. The long-sheet petitions, each one or two pages, are signed by students and faculty in support of the...
Dates: c. 1960s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas N. Gardner papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669247]
Identifier: MSS 16732
Content Description This collection contains the papers of Thomas Gardner, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, a leader in the Southern civil rights and national peace movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and Professor of Communication at Westfield State University. The collection documents Gardner's social and political activism and involvement with civil rights, labor, anti-war, and anti-prison movements through different organizations such as the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), the...
Dates: c. 1966-2008
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gregory H. Swanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2024-01
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one part of Gregory H. Swanson's professional papers. They primarily document his thoughts on civil rights and his work in this area during the 1950s. The collection also includes Swanson's class photograph from the Howard University School of Law and several posthumous awards given to his daughter, Karen.

Dates: 1948 - 2022
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Maria Saporta photographs of the Southern Christian Leadership Civil Rights March

 Collection — Box BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16500
Content Description This collection contains six black and white photographs of members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) marching in Richmond, Virginia in 1963. Maria Saporta is identified as the photographer in the photographs.The SCLC's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University in Richmond. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the organization's founding members and acted as president until his 1968 assassination. He...
Dates: September 24-27, 1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Papers of Arthur I. Schulman Concerning the Virginia ACLU

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-95-1
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings and directories of the ACLU in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1969-1972.

Dates: 1964-1972
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Thurman Wenzl papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16615
Content Description This collection contains papers, correspondence, newspapers and clippings, publications, leaflets, and records on events, activities, and professional connections related to Thurman Wenzl's study as a graduate student at the University of Virginia (1963-1969). These materials document his efforts in the Civil Rights Movement and for worker's rights. The items include 1994 reunion materials of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), information on the Radical Student Union of UVA,...
Dates: ca. 1960s-2000
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library