Summary Information

Title: Benjamin E. Smith Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1955-1967

Creator:

• Smith, Benjamin E., 1927?-1976

Call Number: Mss 513; PH Mss 513

Quantity: 3.4 c.f. (1 archives box, 3 record center cartons) and 11 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Correspondence and legal papers of Benjamin E. Smith, a prominent Southern civil rights lawyer, chiefly pertaining to his involvement with the Mississippi Freedom Summer activities of the Council of Federated Organizations. Photographs include images of civil rights protesters at a Woolworth's store in Meridian and in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1962.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00513