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1. James Forman papers, 1848-2005

   79,000 items. 255 containers plus 2 oversize. 100.2 linear feet. 1 digital file (1.09 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, journalist, and civil rights activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, subject files, speeches and writings, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee.

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2. Susan Due Pearcy collection, circa 1960-2014

   approximately 5155 items. 10 containers. 8.5 linear feet. 7 boxes. 92 photographic prints : black-and-white and color ; various sizes. 1 negative : black-and-white ; 35 mm. approximately 43 negatives (in 22 strips) : color ; 35 mm. approximately 22 negatives (in 22 strips) : color ; 120 format. 7 transparencies : film, color ; 35 mm. approximately 155 posters and drawings : linocuts, woodcuts, oil drawings, water drawings, sketches ; various sizes. 1 optical disc (DVD-R, 11 video files) : optical, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. 19 pins, buttons, ribbon. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of original visual art, manuscripts, ephemera such as posters and newsletters, photographs and artifacts such as political buttons, which documents the United Farm Workers labor movement in California during the 1970s and the Civil Rights movement in southwest Georgia during the 1960s.

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