SNCC engagement calendar used by Jan Bailey: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The 1968 SNCC engagement calendar is held together by a plastic binding comb at its spine, which is aligned with the left edges of the gathered pages. The binding comb spine is broken between the fifth and sixth rings and between the tenth and eleventh rings. Counting from the top, the first two rings as well as the sixth and ninth have significant loss and do not fully thread through all of the pages. The front cover, which is the title page in place of the missing front cover, is white in color but browned slightly with age and with some water staining and rust marks diagonally placed across the top right quadrant. Large black text aligned with the left side of the cover and slightly above the center point reads: [1968/SNCC/Engagement/Calendar]. Aligned with the right side of the cover but below the center point is the smaller black text: [With photographs/from the files/of/SNCC Photo]. In the bottom left corner is a line of small black text which reads: [(c) 1968 by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Published by: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: appointment books
• Medium: paper, plastic (organic material)
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/16 × 8 5/16 × 5/16 in. (20.5 × 21.1 × 0.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Opened): 8 1/16 × 16 1/8 in. (20.5 × 41 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Communication
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2013.200.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Catherine M. Bailey
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1968 by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.