The Black Civil Rights community really stepped up!
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December 3, 1964: Statement from John Lewis
December 4, 1964: Telegram from James Farmer
"The repressive acts of the University of California are clearly an attempt to halt the student activity in civil rights both locally and nationally, and CORE can view the actions of the University as no less onorous than the actions of certain southern sherrifs." |
December 8, 1964: FSM-produced handbill of Telegram from Bayard Rustin sent to UC Berkeley President Clark Kerr.
Scanned from from reproduction master as no originals have so far been discovered.
December 10, 1964: Los Angeles: Ash Grove's Ed Pearl throws a Benefit Folk Concert with Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, etc.
Ed Pearl wrote me 10/17/2017: |
December 10, 1964: San Francisco: Benefit for FSM Legal Defense Fund, Masonic Auditorium, James Baldwin, Speaker
December 12, 1964: FSM-produced handbill for Jazz Concert featuring Jon Hendricks, Les McCann, and Vince Guaraldi.
Scanned from from reproduction master.
December 13, 1964: FSM-produced press release for Jazz Concert benefit.
December 13, 1964: FSM-produced handbill Civil Rights
December 15, 1964: FSM Presents James Farmer
December 16,
1964: FSM-produce handbill: James Baldwin, in his first bay area appearance in over a year
1965 circa: Fundraising letter signed by John Lewis, Sponsor.
Other sponsors include James Baldwin, Willie Brown, Thomas N. Burbridge, James Farmer, LeRoi Jones, Robert Moses, A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin.
August 20, 1965: San Francisco: FSM Defense Rally Featuring Willie Brown, Jessica Mitford, et al.
The source for these documents is the Free Speech Movement Archives.
This collection may not be complete.