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Title Faces of the South
Author Mitchell, George S.
Date c.1955
Document Type Speech
Theme/s Health, Welfare and Poverty  Civil Rights  
Keywords slavery, labor, plantation, abolitionism, land, cotton, corruption, poverty, education, American Civil War, agriculture, children, factory, industry, trade union, wages, sharecropping, discrimination, university, voting rights, school, civil rights, segregation, railyway, public transport, grant, politics, democracy
Names Mitchell, George
Organizations Division Against Discrimination (DAD); Southern Regional Council; Student Woodlawn Area Project (SWAP)
Places Atlanta, GA; Detroit, MI
Additional Information This is a more complete version of the speech entitled 'The State of the Sub-Nation, The South', delivered at the 1949 Race Relations Institute. This speech was made into a film called 'Face of the South', produced by the Department of Social Education and Action of the Presbyterian Church USA in cooperation with the Southern Regional Council, of which George Mitchell was Executive Director at the time.
Library Text provided by Ellen Mitchell and Charlotte Frey
Copyright Reproduced by kind permission of Ellen Mitchell and Charlotte Frey
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