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This small group consists of ephemeral and published print materials related to the 1950s-1960s voting rights campaigns in the South. Two posters in this collection have images by photographer Danny Lyons.

Chiefly correspondence, mostly to and from McNeill Smith. Many letters are addressed to chairmen of North Carolina County Boards of Election. A smaller amount of correspondence is from Cornelius Cotter, Henry Shine and Donald Matthews. Also includes reports, drafts of reports, questionnaires and other data in the form of maps, charts and tables. To a lesser extent, transcripts of telephone conversations, minutes of meetings, reports of other organizations including the U.S. Census Bureau, research notes, summaries of law cases, legal briefs, and clippings.