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Box R.16

 Container

Contains 264 Results:

Riots, 1923-1979

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Riot files mostly contain reporting and documentation on riots related to race in the United States between the 1930’s-1970’s. Reporting is on specific events like the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, as well as general incidents that are state and city specific. Files mainly contain reporting in the form of clippings,writings and photographs depicting the aftermath of riots. Some reporting on incidents like prison and military base riots contains documentation in the form of legal...
Dates: 1923-1979

Riots - North Carolina, 1943-1944, 1963, 1967

 File — Box: R.16
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence between North Carolina College and Carl Murphy regarding race-related riots on the campus.

Dates: 1943-1944; 1963; 1967

Riots - Notes, undated

 File — Box: R.16
Scope and Contents

Typewritten notes covering civil unrest that took place between 1712 and 1986

Dates: undated

Riots - Prison - Kansas, 1927, 1947

 File — Box: R.16
Scope and Contents

Coverage of prison riot between black and white prisoners at Fort Leavenworth Prison.

Dates: 1927; 1947

Riots - Tennessee, 1946

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Coverage of civil unrest in Lawrenceburg and Columbia, TN in 1946 and the trial that followed. Includes letters from NAACP signed by Walter White with a reports of the incident and aftermath.

Dates: 1946