The Merle M. McCurdy Papers, 1960-1968 and undated, consist of correspondence, including two letters from J. Edgar Hoover, dated April 9, 1963 and December 17, 1963, and a copy of a speech delivered by McCurdy at a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Atlanta, Georgia.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the civil rights movement in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s.
The collection is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3597 Merle M. McCurdy Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Brenda Garrison in 1971.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.