Annual Report to the Board of Directors, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Meeting March 29-30, 1967...[cover title]

Louisville, Ky: March 26, 1967. Very good.. [1],26pp., contemporary copy, printed on rectos only, stapled. Minor toning and small paperclip stain to top edge of title leaf, last leaf loose. Otherwise clean. A nice contemporary copy of the annual report for the Southern Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), prepared by Hosea L. Williams, the director of the Southern Program, and presented to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC's Board of Directors at the organization's annual meeting held in Louisville, Kentucky March 29-30, 1967. The work begins with a summary of the activities of the SCLC over the past year, including the work of 104 people in 180 counties in ten southern states. Williams reports that "For the past twelve months the Southern Program has been involved in voter registration, political education, withholding patronage campaigns, school integration, organizing community organizations in counties where needed, Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns, developing the Negro economic potential, organizing farmer's cooperatives, labor strikes, community newspapers, investment corporations, tutoring classes especially for Negroes with deficiencies attending previously all-white schools, organizing Negro candidates, organizing and registering the farmers to fully participate in the ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service), non-violent workshops, business and professional clubs, direct action campaigns, non-violent street protests, credit unions, county-wide mass meetings on a regular basis, youth programs, mobilizing existing organizations, adult education, school boycotts and open housing." The next dozen pages are taken up with charts that detail which of the above activities were carried on in each of the 180 counties in the ten states, from Alabama to Kentucky, Virginia to Texas, and more. This is followed by a "Recapitulation of SCLC's Southern Program by State, and finally an "overall recap of the Southern Program" presented as a total of each activity quoted above. The present work came from a collection of SCLC material out of Atlanta once belonging to Hosea L. Williams. A valuable snapshot of the types of activities and the breadth of work being performed by the SCLC's Southern Program in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. (Inventory #: 4069)