Civil Rights, 1945-1993.

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Series I contains photocopied FBI reports, trial transcripts, inquests, and secondary source materials. This series is separated into three topics, the first two being the separate civil rights events that Mr. Clark was researching and the last being outside source materials such as theses and articles. The FBI reports comprise most of this series and are grouped in two ways: the first grouping is by individual FBI agent initials found in the upper left-hand corner of the FBI reports. These papers are arranged alphabetically by the first letter appearing in the agent's initials. These reports are not whole reports but are collected as per the individual agent working the case at the time. The second grouping is by whole transcripts of interviews conducted by multiple agents Other items include the transcripts to the Walter Lee Irvin Trial, a black man who was accused of raping a white woman, and the Samuel Shepard Inquest. The Shepard Inquest is testimony transcripts that questioned Irvin as to what happened when a sheriff shot both him and Samuel Shepard, killing Shepard, as they were being transferred between facilities .

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