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THE MOVEMENT - DOCUMENTARY OF A STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY. Text by LORRAINE HANSBERRY. Filled with PHOTOS of SIXTIES CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLES with POLICE and Others. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1964. FIRST PRINTING, so stated on the copyright page. COPY of the Friends of SNCC, with its ink stamp on the half-title page: "Long Beach Area / Friends of S.N.C.C." The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee worked to assist Black activists in their struggle for equality in the sixties AND COPY of LELAND COLE, with his signature and date "1965" on the inside front cover. Leland Cole was a LEAD INVESTIGATOR for the ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION. He was reportedly responsible for stirring up lots of white anger. Softcovers, 8.5? x 11?, 127 pages. ILLUSTRATED throughout with historic b&w photographs. GOOD CONDITION, the covers have shelf-rubs, superficial scrapes, edge, spine-end and corner-tip wear, and general signs of handling, but remain sturdy and bright; internally the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy of this important work. SCARCE with the ASSOCIATION to the SNCC and to MISSISSIPPI'S SEGREGATIONIST SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION. About the SNCC (from Wikipedia): ******The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee "SNCC" was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, the Committee sought to coordinate and assist direct-action challenges to the civic segregation and political exclusion of African Americans. From 1962, with the support of the Voter Education Project, SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the Deep South.****** About the MISSISSIPPI SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION (from Wikipedia): ******The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was a state agency in Mississippi tasked with fighting integration and controlling civil rights activism.The Sovereignty Commission spied on and conspired against civil rights activists and organized pressure and economic retaliation against those who supported the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Principal investigators for the Sovereignty Commission were Virgil Downing, LELAND COLE, Fulton Tutor, Edgar C. Fortenberry, and James Mohead. They frequently relied upon informants, who were often compensated as much as $500 a month.****** About LELAND COLE (from "The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi", by Emilye Crosby, University of North Carolina Press, 2006 - pages 204 and 227.): ******Despite Charles Evers's early January offer to discuss a settlement [to an African-American led boycott], whites opened the New Year with repression, not negotiation. SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION INVESTIGATOR LELAD COLE, who George Walker observed "was constantly stirring up the people in the community," initiated a high-pressure campaign to undermine the Evers' led boycott. The presence of civil rights lawyers let white officials know that others were monitoring their actions. For example, in January 1967, when Sovereignty Commission investigator LELAND COLE was using widespread arrests to try to break the Port Gibson boycott, he was concerned enough about the Lawyers' Committee to report that the "arrests are valid and we see that each case is built by enough witnesses to withstand the defense put up by civil rights lawyers from Jackson."******. Seller Inventory # 003958
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