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David Ritz Finkelstein papers, 1964-1966
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Papers of a physics professor at Yeshiva University who participated in a visiting scientists program at Tougaloo College. Finkelstein also helped to found Public Radio Organization, Inc., which ai...
Papers of a physics professor at Yeshiva University who participated in a visiting scientists program at Tougaloo College. Finkelstein also helped to found Public Radio Organization, Inc., which aimed at operating a radio station to provide central Mississippi blacks with unbiased news reporting and a community forum. Included are by-laws, minutes, correspondence, financial and legal materials, "Freedom News Report" newsletters, and clippings of PRO; and correspondence and grant applications of the visiting scientists program sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and American Institute of Physics. Prominent correspondents include Clifford P. Case, Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy, William Kunstler, Newton N. Minow, and Carl T. Rowan.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)
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- ocn145770916
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- Presented by David Finkelstein, New York, New York, 1967.
Subjects
- Case, Clifford P. (Clifford Philip), 1904-1982.
- Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986.
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995.
- Minow, Newton N., 1926-2023.
- Rowan, Carl Thomas.
- Public Radio Organization, inc.
- African American radio stations -- Mississippi.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
- Physics -- Study and teaching -- Mississippi.