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MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER Thousands of Americans from all over the country are interested in joining our Struggle for Freedom. Some are Teachers, some are college students, some are law students, some are doctors. They are both Negro and white. They want to come to Mississippi this summer to work with us to make our state a true democracy. They want to work with us in our Struggle for what Is right. There are Three kinds of things they can do5 1. Voter Registration - They can canvass to find people to register to vote. They can hold citizenship classes. They can take people to the courthouse. 2. Freedom Schools - A Freedom School would be for high school students, but not like a regular school. It would teach febout our government, and about Negro history, and about Freedom. It would teach arts and crafts, music., etc. It would show movies, put on student plays and hold talent shows. Students In a Freedom School would have their own government and newspaper. 3. Community Centers - A community center would be a place where every one would go to feel at home. It would be a place where someone could come to bring his problems. Community centers would have the following prograi games and story-telling for children classes in reading and writing, arts and crafts, typing and other skills, Negro history classes to help farmers, mothers who are expecting, and mothers with li&tle babies. Music, movies, plays. If you would like, we could have these programs in your community, but only with your support. There would be a job for everyone to do to make these things work. Things you pan do: 1. Find housing for workers who you like to come to your community this summer. 2. Find a building to hold the Freedom School or community center. ■ 3. Send us the names of high school students who would like to attend a Freedom School. Write to us it the following address, or call us up. . '. Council of Federated Organizations 1017 Lynch Street, Jackson, Miss, telephone: 352-9605
Object Description
Title | CORE Southern Regional Office--Mississippi Freedom Summer, August 1962, March 1964, October 1965 (Congress of Racial Equity. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 17, Folder 2) |
Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office |
Folder Description | This folder documents many of the preparations and plans for Freedom Summer. Among the items here are a spring 1964 COFO flyer and a printed pamphlet directed to black Mississippians, asking for their help in housing and supporting Freedom Summer volunteers; a highly illustrated CORE pamphlet entitled "The Right to Vote"; a COFO report submitted to the Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in March 1964 which lists many threats and violent incidents against civil rights workers as well as recently passed Mississippi state laws designed to obstruct their work; an April 1964 COFO report on the MFDP, laying out its plans for the summer and fall of 1964; an internal CORE document about tensions between groups of lawyers; information about federal programs, especially for farmers; an outline of Mississippi Summer research projects; a detailed outline for a CORE workshop on leadership training; a January 1965 document from the U.S. government explaining the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a March 1965 document on "Equal Opportunity in Farm Programs" which appears to include copies of letters from President Lyndon Johnson to members of his government, asking them to look into racial discrimination in agricultural programs. |
State | Mississippi; South Carolina; Louisiana; |
Place | McComb; Natchez; Jackson; Yazoo City; Hattiesburg; |
Subject | host families; Mississippi Freedom Schools; voter registration; community centers; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); threats; intimidation;; lynching; murder; police; Freedom Vote; police brutality; arrest; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; segregation; Freedom Registration; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Democratic Party (Miss.); White Citizens councils; National Lawyers Guild; lawyers; communism; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; agriculture; food drives; cooperative societies; public welfare; |
Personal Name | McCain, James T.; Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980; Curtis, Archie; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Payne, Bruce; Greene, George; Raymond, George; Thurmond, Lenora; Weaver, Claude; Gore, Robert; Morris, Jesse; Erskine, Doris; Arnold, Carl; Smith, Hugh; Bosanquet, Nicholas; Moses, Robert Parris; Dennis, David; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Donaldson, Ivanhoe; Mitchell, Langston; Harris, Jesse; Davis, Jesse; Sayer, Michael; Goff, Fred; Hewitt, Theodis; Watt, John Lee; Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21- ; Gordon, Bruce; DiBivort, Lawrence; Shaw, Willie; Stembridge, Jane; Higgins, Dorothy; Fry, Dick; James, Willie Earl; Hirsch, Frank; Cameron, John, Rev.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Houston, James Monroe; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Rachlin, Carl; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Meredith, James, 1933- ; Hollander, Edward S.; Lee, Beverly; Skurka, Maxine; Smith, Dodie; Nusbaum, Judi; Moore, Ronnie M.; Freeman, Orville L.; Hannah, John A.; |
Event Date | 1964-1965; |
Year | 1964-1965; |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 17, Folder 2; WIHVC239T-A; |
Format | flyers and handbills; pamphlets; reports and surveys; memoranda; government documents; correspondence; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
Digital Format | XML |
Digital Identifier | FSCOREsroB17f2000 |
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Title | p. 1 |
Page Text | MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER Thousands of Americans from all over the country are interested in joining our Struggle for Freedom. Some are Teachers, some are college students, some are law students, some are doctors. They are both Negro and white. They want to come to Mississippi this summer to work with us to make our state a true democracy. They want to work with us in our Struggle for what Is right. There are Three kinds of things they can do5 1. Voter Registration - They can canvass to find people to register to vote. They can hold citizenship classes. They can take people to the courthouse. 2. Freedom Schools - A Freedom School would be for high school students, but not like a regular school. It would teach febout our government, and about Negro history, and about Freedom. It would teach arts and crafts, music., etc. It would show movies, put on student plays and hold talent shows. Students In a Freedom School would have their own government and newspaper. 3. Community Centers - A community center would be a place where every one would go to feel at home. It would be a place where someone could come to bring his problems. Community centers would have the following prograi games and story-telling for children classes in reading and writing, arts and crafts, typing and other skills, Negro history classes to help farmers, mothers who are expecting, and mothers with li&tle babies. Music, movies, plays. If you would like, we could have these programs in your community, but only with your support. There would be a job for everyone to do to make these things work. Things you pan do: 1. Find housing for workers who you like to come to your community this summer. 2. Find a building to hold the Freedom School or community center. ■ 3. Send us the names of high school students who would like to attend a Freedom School. Write to us it the following address, or call us up. . '. Council of Federated Organizations 1017 Lynch Street, Jackson, Miss, telephone: 352-9605 |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 17, Folder 2; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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Digital Identifier | FSCOREsroB17f2001 |