Mary E. King Papers, 1960-1999 (bulk 1962-1981)

Container Title
M82-445
Part 1 (M82-445, Audio 1224A/1): Original Collection, 1960-1982
Physical Description: 1.8 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 2 archives boxes), 8 photographs (1 folder), and 1 audio recording 
Scope and Content Note

Selected papers of Mary E. King, deputy director of ACTION during the Jimmy Carter presidency, 1977-1981, and civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1962-1965. Contains correspondence, press releases, reports, clippings, speeches, memoranda, photographs, and audio recordings.

The civil rights papers contain personal correspondence, including letters from Jane Stembridge, Tom Hayden, and Casey Cason Hayden; original WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) reports taken by King as SNCC communications staff in Atlanta, Georgia, and Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964; SNCC press releases written by King and Julian Bond (1963-1964); photographs taken by King while in the South; personal notebooks (1965); and miscellaneous SNCC reports and newsletters.

The Carter administration files comprise memoranda from King to Carter regarding women's issues and health policy (King was the president's major campaign advisor on women's issues); speeches on these topics which she drafted for Carter; memoranda from King and her husband Peter Bourne to Carter, advising him on possible appointments following his 1976 campaign victory; correspondence and clippings regarding Carter's appointment of King as deputy director of ACTION; a complete set of King's speeches for ACTION (written primarily by her speechwriter, Judith Axler Turner); and a tape recording of Carter's major campaign speech on women, delivered to the National Women's Agenda Conference, and drafted by King.

Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) line calls
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SNCC press releases, 1964
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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SNCC press releases, 1963 and undated
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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SNCC staff biographies, undated
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.

Note: Biographies include pictures of staff.
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SNCC's Communication Department in Atlanta
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.

Note: Includes press contact lists, summer project staff lists, and internal memos and miscellaneous documents.
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Electoral politics in Mississippi
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.

Note: MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party), voter registration, DNC (Democratic National Committee) challenge, Freedom vote.
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Freedom schools, 1964
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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Meeting minutes, 1964-1965
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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SNCC position papers and retreat at Waveland, Mississippi, 1964 November
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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SNCC position papers, undated
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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SNCC position papers and reports, 1963-1965
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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Mississippi Freedom Summer miscellaneous files, 1964
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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Miscellaneous files, 1963-1965
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Notebooks, circa 1964-circa 1965
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Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969-1977
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Speeches about Jimmy Carter, 1976
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Speeches made by and about Jimmy Carter, 1976-1979
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Jimmy Carter campaign speech / written by Mary King, 1976 October 2
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ACTION speeches
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1977
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1978
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1979
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1980
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Speeches, 1982, undated
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ACTION press releases, editorials, and clippings, circa 1979-1980
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ACTION miscellaneous, circa 1977-1980
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SNCC Communications Section, 1963-1964
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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Meeting minutes, 1964 June 10-1965
Alternate Format: All or part has been digitized and is available online.
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Personal, 1962-1967
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Clippings and magazine articles, 1963-1966
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Jane Stembridge writings, 1963-1965
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Miscellaneous
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Tom Hayden correspondence, 1964
Note: Includes biography on Hayden from 1982 campaign for California State Assembly.
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Summer workshops, 1965
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Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke, Dr. Luther W. King and Mary King correspondence, 1963, 1967-1968
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YWCA Human Relations project, 1962-1963
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Ohio Wesleyan, 1960-1962
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Photographs
Note:
  • SNCC Staff barbeque
  • Full Gospel Revival Center, Indianola, Mississippi, 1965 April
  • Winstonville City Hall, 1965 April
  • Natchez, Mississippi, 1965
  • “Under the Shadow,” 1965