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  • Collection: The Harold K. Brown Civil Rights Collection

MS-0436-001-008-002.pdf
Ten signatures endorsing the community's petition to serve one day each of Harold Brown's jail time.

8-Peace Corps.mp3
Harold Brown delivering a eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a memorial service for Dr. King shortly after the news of his assassination in 1968, with concurrent translation in Afrikaans. Recorded in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in…

MS-0436-001-032-003.pdf
News release regarding the Fair Employment Practices Commission's (FEPC) second report on Bank of America's hiring practices. The report indicates progress in hiring increased quantities of minority employees from August to November of 1964.

MS-0436-002-018-011.pdf
Report providing details about a project to increase voter registration in North Florida. According to the report's evaluation, the project was successful.

MS-0436-001-031-016.pdf
Field report addressing the Ohio Congress of Racial Equality's (CORE) activities of the end of 1964, a financial summary, and a projected plan for the beginning of 1965.

MS-0436-002-018-004.pdf
Report regarding the Congress of Racial Equality's (CORE) activities in Louisiana. Goals, staff, facilities, and equipment are listed.

MS-0436-002-003-013.jpg
Four men conferring in front of a Bank of America in Downtown San Diego.

MS-0436-002-008-005.pdf
The last page of a letter sent by Shirley Mesher, responsible for public relations and fundraising for the Western Regional Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Her post postscript notes that she has enclosed a "suggested chapter committee…

MS-0436-001-023-001.pdf
A copy of the landmark bill H.R. 7152, stamped by Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin. This bill became the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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