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FROM MONTGOMERY TO BROWN 09/01/1966
December 1, 1966
Mr. Otis Brown, Jr.
Srt? flower County Improvement Association
Indianola, Mississippi
Dear Friend Who Never Gives Up:
If there were about one thousand people
like you in the United States we could make this
place into a paradise in about ten years.
I am sorry to be so slow in replying to
your letter of September 14. Z have a feeling there
is an October or November letter somewhere around,
which I will come across eventually, but I have just
had the excruciating pleasure of rereading the
September one.
I was proud to learn that the people in
Indianola were determined to try to enroll their
children in the white school in spite of all the
obstacles and with no comment on how bad those schools
are.
I wish I had been able to send a box-car
full of clothes. I will try to send a few clothes
next week.
For a while I was up to date on the
struggle going on in Mississippi between C.A.P. and
the local groups for funds to keep the headstart
program going. At the moment I realize that I don't
know exactly what is happening, though I do remember
that funds were curtailed for many headstart programs
throughout the United States. In fact, I learned
last week that the headstart program in Evanston has
been hanging ever since September, with children and
teachers waiting for approval to continue the program.
I hope your volunteer program has been
able to continue somehow. The whole story about voter
Object Description
| Title | Montgomery--Indianola, Mississippi (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 20) |
| Author/Creator | Montgomery, Lucile |
| Folder Description | 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 progress of the Sunflower community center and asking for money to continue the project. There's also a report on Sunflower County incidents related to efforts to desegregate a movie theater in the spring of 1965. An undated (1966?) letter from John Harris discusses the possibility of Indianola's having the first elected black municipal officials if a massive voter registration campaign can be funded, now that a federal injunction has made the voter registration process identical for whites and blacks. A newspaper clipping reports that municipal elections have been postponed in Sunflower County due to passage of the new Voting Rights Act. There's a blank official voter registration form used in Mississippi before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and a running summary of incidents in Sunflower County, Mississippi, from summer 1964 - spring 1965. "This is Sunflower County" contains a description of a 1904 lynching by Senator James O. Eastland's father and a particularly grisly description of a 1929 lynching at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman). |
| State | Mississippi; Illinois; Alabama; California; Wisconsin; Tennessee; |
| Place | Indianola; Cleveland; Sunflower County; Drew; Leland; Greenville; West Point; Moorhead; Sunflower; Ruleville; Jackson; Doddsville; Evanston; Perry County; Lowndes County; Berkeley; Madison; Knoxville; |
| Subject | education; segregation; clothing and dress; Community Action Programs (U.S.); War on Poverty; Head Start programs; voter registration; unemployment; black power; United States. Department of Justice; arson; assault and battery; police brutality; jail experiences; White Citizens councils; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; agriculture; unemployment; community centers; libraries; child care services; poverty; eviction; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); arrest; United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; communism; literacy tests (election law); threats; intimidation; bombings; church buildings; murder; host families; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Free Southern Theater; cross burning; Mississippi State Penitentiary; sterilization of women; lynching; |
| Personal Name | Brown, Otis, Jr.; Harris, Ruffin; Bankhead, Lee; Carmichael, Stokely; Glass, Janell; Horman, Allen; McComb, Guy; Buffington, John; Glass, Janell; Smith, Frank; Smith, Jean; Jenkins, Linda;; Scattergood, Charles; Smith, Willie D.; Mack, McKinley; Conway, John; Harris, John; Hills, Charles M.; Campbell, Cecil; Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909-1969; Hamer, Fannie Lou; King, Annie Mae; Weeks, Marie R.; Johnson, Cora; Giles, Roselle; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Patterson, Joseph Turner; Ladner, Heber; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Stavis, Morton; Kinoy, Arthur; Smith, Benjamin Eugene; Waltzer, Bruce C.; Dann, James; Smith, Joseph; Edwards, Len; Strong, Annie Mae; Strong, Ron; Hayes, Louis; Vaughs, Cliff; Newell, Bob; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Giles, Oscar; Floyd, Curtis E.; Wilder, Dougly; ; Johnson, Ike; Whitten, Jamie; Jones, J. Fred; Hough, John H.; Crook, Robert L.; Pierce, Clarence Albert; Holbert, Claude; Lauren, Margaret; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Townsend, Eddie J.; |
| Event Date | 1964-1966; |
| Year | 1964-1966; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 20; WIHVM4340-A |
| Format | correspondence; reports and surveys; clippings; forms; |
| 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 | fsMontgomeryr1s20000 |
| Type | Text; Image |
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| Title | p. 1 |
| Page Text | FROM MONTGOMERY TO BROWN 09/01/1966 December 1, 1966 Mr. Otis Brown, Jr. Srt? flower County Improvement Association Indianola, Mississippi Dear Friend Who Never Gives Up: If there were about one thousand people like you in the United States we could make this place into a paradise in about ten years. I am sorry to be so slow in replying to your letter of September 14. Z have a feeling there is an October or November letter somewhere around, which I will come across eventually, but I have just had the excruciating pleasure of rereading the September one. I was proud to learn that the people in Indianola were determined to try to enroll their children in the white school in spite of all the obstacles and with no comment on how bad those schools are. I wish I had been able to send a box-car full of clothes. I will try to send a few clothes next week. For a while I was up to date on the struggle going on in Mississippi between C.A.P. and the local groups for funds to keep the headstart program going. At the moment I realize that I don't know exactly what is happening, though I do remember that funds were curtailed for many headstart programs throughout the United States. In fact, I learned last week that the headstart program in Evanston has been hanging ever since September, with children and teachers waiting for approval to continue the program. I hope your volunteer program has been able to continue somehow. The whole story about voter |
| Language | English |
| Source | Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 20 |
| Format | manuscript |
| 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 | JPEG2000 |
| Digital Identifier | gray01321 |