Larry Rubin papers, 1961-2010
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Summary
- Creator:
- Rubin, Larry, 1942-
- Abstract:
- Audio and video of meetings and activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Georgia recorded by Larry Rubin in the early 1960s; audio letters from Larry Rubin to his parents from Georgia in the early 1960s; Rubin's radio program, "Revolution in Georgia," created at Antioch College in the early 1960s; two video documentaries of the movement in Georgia featuring Rubin; two programs commemorating SNCC, dating from 2003 and 2010; papers relating to the arrest of Rubin and other SNCC/COFO members in Mississippi in 1964 for hauling books to Freedom Schools.
- Extent:
- 29 items
1 Linear Foot - Language:
- English
Materials in English - Collection ID:
- RL.11179
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains six audio reels, with CD user copies, for Larry Rubin's Antioch College radio program, "Revolution in Georgia"; 18 audiocassette tapes containing recordings Rubin made in Georgia in the early 1960s (originally recorded on audio reels), of SNCC meetings and audio letters home; and three VHS videocassettes, including transferred 8mm film Rubin shot in Albany, Georgia in 1962-1963. Also includes papers that document SNCC involvement in 1964 in Mississippi and commemorative SNCC and COFO programs in the 2000s.
- Biographical / historical:
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Larry Rubin is a journalist, advocate, organizer, and public relations specialist working in the labor movement. Rubin worked in Georgia and Mississippi with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1965, registering voters, taking depositions from those who were denied their right to vote, and organizing and participating in sit-ins and boycotts, as well as supporting unionization efforts. In 1963-1964 he worked on the Mississippi Summer Project. As a student at Antioch College, Rubin shared his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South via a radio show employing the recordings in this collection, which he had made in Georgia and Mississippi of SNCC meetings and other events.
- Acquisition information:
- The Larry Rubin Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2016 and 2018.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Craig Breaden, April 2016. Updated by Laurin Penland, April 2018.
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2016-0019, 2018-0029.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged chronologically.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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[Identification of item], Larry Rubin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.