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This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during March to April of 1965. March reports primarily detail t…

This folder contains two SNCC documents: the first, a listing of all the incidents in Mississippi during Freedom Summer (with great graphics) and the second, a 1966 press release about evictions in Cl…

In this paper, Rev. Davidson traces the earliest evidence of slavery in Wisconsin, going back to French importation of slaves in the Mississippi Valley in the early 18th century and coming forward to…

The first and final documents in this folder consist of correspondence between Lucile Montgomery and Otis Brown, Jr., an MFDP worker in Indianola, Mississippi, who is generally reporting on the progre…

Among other things, this folder contains an assortment of materials relating to the recently passed Mississippi state law--followed by similar municipal laws--which limited freedom of assembly.There's…

Assorted documents relating to Freedom Summer: “Freedom School Data” (COFO); “The General Condition of the Mississippi Negro” (SNCC); “Declaration of Independence” by Freedom School students; “If You…

This folder contains several reports and affidavits testifying to the intimidation, beating, and harassment of blacks registering to vote or campaigning for black candidates. It also includes a list o…

This folder contains correspondence among civil rights workers about ways of addressing poverty among blacks in Mississippi, pointing out the lack of school lunches in many schools, seeking federal pr…

This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during June of 1965. Reports mention plans for an NAACP summer…

The first third of this folder is primarily composed of pamphlets, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings depicting the type of work SNCC was carrying out in its voter registration programs and th…

The primary documents from 1964 in this folder consist of a March 1964 COFO report to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights "on behalf of the state's 950,000 Negroe…

This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during August of 1965. Reports discuss beatings, bombings and t…

This folder contains two letters written by John Phillips to Susie Kaeser dated July 7, 1966, and June 19, 1966. The letters describe the life of a young staff photographer at a Selma, Alabama, newspa…

The legal case brought by COFO, relatives of two murdered civil rights workers, and others against the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi--where the men were killed--and other M…

This folder opens with a resolution from the Michigan Democratic Party delegation in support of seating the MFDP at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. William Higgs's post-Voting Rights Act repo…

From 1891 until near his death in 1961, Ohio State University history professor Wilbur H. Siebert collected materials about the underground railroad. His archives eventually filled dozens of boxes at…

This folder contains WATS line reports, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during February of 1965. Reports detail failed and successful int…

Press releases from the Medical Committee for Human Rights and from Bob Moses about Freedom Summer; a number of reports from medical personnel who went to Mississippi during Freedom Summer or who part…

This folder consists primarily of Louisiana CORE training materials and notes from/for staff conferences. Also included are a blank canvasser's form (used in voter registration), a blank complaint for…

Most of the material in this folder has to do with CORE and COFO's fundraising efforts. One interesting detail is the estimated cost of the fall 1963 Freedom Vote ($20,000). Eric Morton has a proposal…