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MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, March-April 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Freedom Information Service--Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1964-1966 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Archives Main Stack…
Freedom Information ServiceView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Negro slavery in Wisconsin
Davidson, J. N. (John Nelson)View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn 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…
Montgomery--Indianola, Mississippi (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 20)
Montgomery, LucileView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16)
Smith, Benjamin EugeneView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAmong 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…
Allen--Freedom School mimeo materials 1963-64 (Pamela P. Allen papers, 1967-1974; Archives Main Stacks, M85-013, Folder 1)
Allen, Pamela, P., 1943View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAssorted 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…
Morey --COFO Legal Coordinator - Other Material (R. Hunter Morey papers, 1962-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 522, Box 4, Folder 7)
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, COFO, 1964, Jan. 30-1964, Oct. 14 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967, Archives Main Stacks, Mss…
Poor People's CorporationView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Histo…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
SAVF-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 6)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
Montgomery--Lucile Montgomery papers, additions, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks, SC 662
Montgomery, LucileView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, August 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; His…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Phillips--John Phillips Correspondence, 1966; Z: Accessions, M79-429
Phillips, JohnView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarsh…
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial EqualityView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
Kinoy--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964-1965 (Arthur Kinoy papers, circa 1930-2003; Z: Accessions, M2007-010, Box 5 Folder 44)
Kinoy, ArthurView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Underground Railroad manuscripts from the Wilbur H. Siebert Collection
Dutton, A.PView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyFrom 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…
MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, February 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; H…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
Young--Medical Committee for Human Rights clippings, press releases, 1964-1965, 1967 (Quentin Young papers, 1964-1975; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 880,…
Young, QuentinView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyPress 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…
CORE Southern Regional Office--Staff training, 1964, February-1965, August (Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966;…
Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional OfficeView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis 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…
CORE--Fund Raising (COFO, CORE) - Correspondence and memoranda, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records…
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional DistrictView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyMost 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…