SCOPE volunteer Sarah Oakes with two local children

SCOPE volunteer Sarah Oakes with two local children

SCOPE volunteer Sarah L. Oakes with two local children in the house where most of the Columbia University SCOPE volunteers stayed during the summer of 1965 (746 Amelia Street, Orangeburg, SC).

The SCOPE Project was an initiative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the summer of 1965, with around 500 predominantly white students from universities in the north and west travelling to southern communities to work on voter registration efforts.

Civil Rights Movement -- United States.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Summer Community Organization and Political Education (Organization).

Savage, Dean

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Queens College Department of Special Collections and Archives (New York, N.Y.)

c. 1965

2012-04-05

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