Southern Conference Educational Fund

  • Tribute to Ella Baker

    The Southern Conference Education Fund’s annual dinner held in April at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York to honor Miss Ella Baker, who has worked for many years behind the scenes in the Civil Rights Movement. Speakers Anne Braden, Bob Zellner, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Turé), H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), Karen Mulloy, Howard Zinn (who…

  • Late doings in Island Creek Holler

    Lou Hartman talks with Karen and Joe Mulloy about the work of the Southern Conference Educational Fund in Pike County, Tennessee, the hazards of strip mining, their work with poor people in Appalachia to fight coal corporations, and the opposition they have received. The Mulloys were arrested for sedition a year previously, and though the…