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Civil rights.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Davis Houck Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2015-007
Scope and Contents

Newclippings, photographs, creative and scholarly works, and government records collected by Davis Houck during research on the role of the press in the American civil rights movement, with special emphasis on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till near Money, Mississippi.



Online Content Available

Digitized and born-digital content from this collection is available through the FSU Digital Library.

Dates: Created: 1955 - 2006; Other: Majority of material found in 1955 - 1956

Forehand, Franceslon vs. Florida State Hospital

 Collection — 18 boxes
Identifier: MSS 2012-0423
Scope and Contents

The collection ranges from some early documents of the late 1980s although the majority are from the mid-1990s. It is primarily made up of legal documents and transcriptions used in court during the appeals process. Included are court filings (notices, responses, pleadings, exhibits) and transcripts of depositions and interviews. A small portion of the collection consists of in house administrative paperwork consisting of correspondence, trial notebooks, witness notes, and case research.

Dates: Created: 1988-1997

Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1990-001
Abstract

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews for project "An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, Florida 1956-1966: Personal Interviews with Key Civil Rights Leaders, Spokesmen, and Participants," prepared by Dr. Jackson Lee Ice for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Religion, Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Dates: Created: 1957, 1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1978; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1978

Videotapes, College of Law, Tobias Simon Civil Liberties Lecture Series

 Collection — AVTP 004
Identifier: 04-ARCH/AVTP/003
Scope and Contents

Lecture series celebrating the establishment of the Tobias Simon endowed chair at the College of Law, presented January-April, 1989.

Dates: Created: 1989-2006