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Summary Information
Poor People's Corporation Records 1960-1967 (bulk 1964-1967)
- Poor People's Corporation
Mss 172; Audio 549A
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 3 tape recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, chiefly 1964-1967, of the Poor People's Corporation (PPC), a non-profit organization founded in 1965 as a result of activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to give financial and technical aid to low income groups in Mississippi to start cooperatives and other self-help programs. The papers relate to PPC, SNCC, and COFO activities and include correspondence, clippings, newsletters, press releases, organizational data, reports, and fragmentary files on individual cooperatives. The meetings of several of these co-ops are on tape. Of particular note is a letter and an article on PPC by Abbie Hoffman. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00172
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