Soul Force: Official Journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference vol. 4 no. 6: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Soul Force newsletter, volume 4, number 6. The newsletter is printed on newsprint paper with black type. The newsletter is folded together but not stapled. The front cover features an image of a graduation procession with the male participants lined up, side-by-side, in pairs. One man at the front of the procession wears a doctoral gown with three bars on the sleeves, a tam with tassel, and a medallion pendant. The rest of men are depicted wearing graduate gowns and mortarboard caps. A few are also wearing hoods and other types of academic regalia. Printed in the top third of the front cover is the masthead on the left that reads, [SOUL / force], and the date on the right that reads, [JUNE / 1971]. The back cover is formatted like a post card, with a a pre-registration form for the 14th Annual Southeastern Christian Leadership (SCLC) event. The newsletter is fifteen (15) pages and includes articles and black-and-white images throughout. Articles include: [Did You / Know?], [Politics ‘72], [Let Them Eat Lead], [The Nixon Court], [BUDAPEST], [Angela Davis], [1972: Power to the Young People], [South Africa], [Drew, / Mississippi], [South, / Summer ‘71], [Plenty Left of SCLC], and [The Government / vs. / The New York Time / (and freedom)]. The article titled "Drew, Mississippi," recounts the murder of Jo Etha Collier, a high school student and track and field athlete, by three white men. Printed on page fifteen is a tentative agenda for the SCLC’s 14th Annual Convention. The first page, located on the interior of front cover, lists the Editorial Board members, editorial staff names, and press names, along with the volume and issue number.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: June 1971
• Published by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
• Edited by: Ernest Green
• Edited by: Janet Bunje
• Photograph by: Elaine Tomlin, American, died 1995
• Subject of: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, American, 1926 - 1990
• Subject of: President Richard M. Nixon, American, 1913 - 1994
• Subject of: Fannie Lou Hamer, American, 1917 - 1977
• Subject of: Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, American, 1929 - 2018
• Type: newsletters
• Medium: ink on newsprint
• Dimensions: H x W (Closed): 10 13/16 × 8 3/16 in. (27.5 × 20.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Open): 10 13/16 × 16 1/4 in. (27.5 × 41.3 cm)
• Place printed: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Communication
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Religion
• Object number: 2015.130.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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