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STATEMENT FROM CERTAIN TEENAGERS IN RULEVILLE MISSISSIPPI Statement from oertain teen-agero in Kulevilie Mississippi Problems in ^isaiasippi -(1) Negro Children in Mississippi don't have any recreation. (2J No joba for the Negro high school graduates© (3) We are born in Miesiseipii and can't get jobe. (4) Police protection (5) White citizens ruls the town. There is a necessity to communicate with the whites trv/J control of the economic etructure the Constitution is getting the older peeple to vote, can put soiceone in oft ice who people. a state you are a citisen; lawe away your right to vote The White xr.an is in Police ehould etudy Freedom of religion Freedom of epeech Freedom of assembly Freedom of Press The young people's job in Mississippi When the old people etart voting they will provide economic welfare for the (13) Summare of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Amendment to abolieh slavery Amendment eaying that if you are born within no etate can take away the protection of the Amendment 15 says that no person should take and no State can take away your right to vote. Probleae in School (1) Wee need more activitiee new books better library free lunch program we aaat to know where the money goee that we raise every year. we are paying funds for school uses we raise approximately $2,000 every year axxd don't know where it goee. If ycu don't bring the money to She class they ask you to go out in the etreet. It eeema very clear wr.at the authorities of our school are intereeted in. (10) When things go wrong at school things that the principal ie aoaa to do hiaself, he calls the police in. The teacnera will force ycu to do thinge. Students tnat work in school should be paid, m Much of the Janitor's work is done for free. What he does and how aueh he gets paid are aleo important questions. We buy and furnish the thinge in the lounge, but we can't use it. We fataish the Homemaking department with ite gooda. The teachers a Si ths smaller chaldron sadly. Then are 70 people in the high school Aglehrn class. The 12th grade English claes has not |onw beyond concentaation on grammar. 16) The teachere will net explain thinge to the etudente. 171 One of the eoiutlone to these problems might be s etudent government. '18j Why ie the echool run by all white. ,19) If having a good education or good experiences means getting with the whitee then that is what we want. 9) fill
Object Description
Title | Belfrage--Location file: Ruleville, 1962-1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21) |
Author/Creator | Belfrage, Sally, 1936- |
Folder Description | Charles Cobb, Bobby Talbert, and others' reports on early voter registration attempts--and their consequences--in Ruleville and Sunflower County. A firsthand report of seeing Fannie Lou Hamer and Annell Ponder in jail following their 1963 beatings there. Several informative reports by SNCC researcher Jerry Tecklin: on his interview with Hodding Carter III on the subject of agricultural mechanization and the out-migration of African Americans from Mississippi; on the demographics, politics, and economics of Ruleville, Mississippi; on prominent whites, institutions, and economic demographics in Sunflower and Bolivar counties; on the all-black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. A 1964 [?] list of Sunflower County officials. A blank questionnaire form on economic status of Ruleville African Americans. Assorted SNCC press releases on voter registration-related incidents in Ruleville and Sunflower County, including a large mass arrest in Drew, Mississippi. Affidavits concerning in incident where Indianola police and city officials invaded a voter registration meeting held on private property and threatened a rabbi with a gun. "Statement[s] from Certain Teenagers in Ruleville, Mississippi" document school conditions in segregated black schools, including charges of peonage. Affidavits from individuals who had lost their jobs and/or been evicted from plantations because they had hosted civil rights volunteers or tried to register to vote. The Ruleville Freedom School schedule. Charles McLaurin's letter to John F. Kennedy, asking why federal protection is offered to Vietnamese, but not to Americans wanting to vote. Accounts by witnesses of a shooting into a house in which two girls were injured. |
State | Mississippi; Georgia; Maryland; Illinois; |
Place | Ruleville; Greenwood; Sunflower County; Shaw; Drew; Indianola; ; Bolivar County; Cleveland; Mound Bayou; Shelby; Winstonville; Winona; Atlanta; Cambridge; Chicago; |
Subject | voter registration; threats; intimidation; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Mississippi State Penitentiary; White Citizens councils; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; music; police; sharecroppers; jail experiences; assault and battery; unemployment; civil rights workers; literacy tests (election law); eviction; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); public welfare; students; United States. Department of Justice; libraries; segregation; arrest; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; church buildings; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; peonage; boycotts; migration, internal; Choctaw Indians; labor unions; women; food drives; clothing and dress; host families; volunteers; whites; Jews; clergy; Ku Klux Klan; Operation Freedom; quilting; discrimination in employment; courthouses; Freedom Vote; arson; murder; sterilization of women; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; community centers; freedom schools; freedom rides; education; housing; agriculture; mass media; communism; teachers; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.); National Lawyers Guild; agriculture; black history; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; |
Personal Name | Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Block, Samuel; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Dorrough, Charles M.; Holland, Ida; O'Neal, John, 1940-; Lane, Mary; O'Bryant, Mathilda; Cotton, MacArthur; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Simpson, Euvester; West, James; Ponder, Annell; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Green, Bessie Lee; Thomas, Everlean, Mrs.; ; Johnson, Irene; Hamer, Pap; Marlow, W. D.; Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008; McLaurin, Charles; Boyd, Sally Mae; Fleming, T. A.; Talbert, Robert; Martin, Willie; McDonald, Joe; ; ; MacDonald, Rebecca; Durrough, Charles M.; Hicks, Luella; Price, Charles; Wilson, James; Wiggers, Gertrude; Crosby, Ira T.; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Wilson, P. O.; Brumfield, Frank T.; Dickens, John W.; Fisackerly, Eugene; Patterson, W. W.; Nelson, E. G.; Hammett, H. K.; Gruidfest, Jack; Wade, George K.; Hamilton, Farmer H., Jr.; Carter, Hodding; Tecklin, Jerry; Grant, N. J., Jr.; Tucker, Mary; Davis, Leonard; ; Carter, Joseph, Rev.; Levingston, Sidney; Spencer, E. A.; Webb, Wilbur; Moses, Robert Parris; Primack, Nathan; Borodofsky, Ted; ; Scruggs, W. P.; Conley, James; Doss, Ora; Cannon, Bobby; Ford, Bobby; Williams, Rennie, Mrs.; Davis, Ruby; Hackett, Roberta; Campbell, Maybelle; Smith, David; Foster, Aileen; Hicks, Augustana; Lee, Fannie; Holman, James; Rogers, Gertrude; Conley, Martha; Floyd, Curtis E.; Hicks, Matilda; Connally, Cleo; Smith, Willie Mae; Edwards, Len; Perkins, Dudley; Gronemeier, Dale; Hollowell, William; Alexander, Bryce; Dorrough, Charles M., Jr.; Minor, Amos; Buckley, Grady Lee; Campbell, Cecil; Williams, D. C.; Harper, Jack; Parker, J. S.; Levingston, Stanley; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Jones, George Lee; Smith, James; Banks, Ethel; White, E. L.; Hough, John H.; Purnell, Willie; Machell, Jack; Sachar, Jeffrey; Dann, James; Crowe, Lester; Rosenberg, John; Edwards, Don; Ryan, William F., 1922-1972; Hawkins, Gus; Burton, Phillip; Lewis, John; Kent, Robert; Harris, John; Stokley, W. T.; Moore, Pauline; Hayes, Nora; Townsend, P. J., Jr.; Shurden, W. O.; Black, Cecil; Holder, John; Coleman, Samuel; Givens, O. C.; Willingham, Jesse; Bradford, John; Montgomery, I. T.; Green, Benjamin T.; Banks, Charles; Huddleston, John F.; Johnson, Herman; Moore, Thomas; Williams, R. L.; ; Somerville, A. D.; Miller, Fred; Yarrow, C. H. Mike; McNair, Landy; Scattergood, Charles; Schwarz, Gretchen; Williford, W. O.; Gresham, James; Omerberg, Maynard; Hexter, Christopher; Siegel, Ellen; Winter, George; Maria, Linda; Surney, Bettye Louise; Jackson, Paul; Brown, Fred; Edwards, John Clark; Van, Walter, Jr.; Hardy, Henry Lee; Davis, Golden; Scott, Lenora; Williams, Bertha; Harvey, Mary; Andrews, Nelson; Davis, Horace; Johnson, Florine; Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975; Smith, Joe; Levine, Allan; Goldstick, David; ; Newsome, Nancy; Corson, James; Castro, Fidel, 1926-; Frerichs, C. A.; Fusco, Liz; Perry, M. C.; Williams, Eddie; Valentine, John W.; Adair, Charles; Jack, Nathaniel; Schaum, Ed; Rice, Ollie; Sharp, Ernest; Dillard, Alma; Wood, Doris; Burns, William; DeMoss, Gary; Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012; Brownlow, Juanita; Collins, Eddie; Williams, M. H.; Day, Louise; Jonniton, Estella; Johnson, Eddie Lary; Smith, H. R.; Beverly, Robert Earl; May, Cassell; Webster, Wally; Childs, Eddie; ; Miller, Dorothy; Doss, Bettie Jean; Locke, Don C.; Powell, M. C.; Williams, Eta Mae; Guest, Lucia M.; West, Darnella; Taylor, Julia; Beverly, William; Gentry, Lacey; Childe, Roy; Ford, Shirley; Tucker, James; King, Earline; ; Johnson, Ida; McClendon, Leona; Thompson, Roy; Buckley, Tommy; Connely, Martha; Kyle, Ramona; Seese, Linda; Baker, Joe;; Smith, Williebell; Clark, Anniebell; ; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Conrod, Dorothy; McIntyre, Willine; Taylor, Edward; |
Event Date | 1962-1964; |
Year | 1962-1964; |
Language | English |
Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21; WIHV91-A140 |
Format | reports and surveys; forms; press releases; affidavits; |
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 | fsBelfrageR2S21000 |
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Page Text | STATEMENT FROM CERTAIN TEENAGERS IN RULEVILLE MISSISSIPPI Statement from oertain teen-agero in Kulevilie Mississippi Problems in ^isaiasippi -(1) Negro Children in Mississippi don't have any recreation. (2J No joba for the Negro high school graduates© (3) We are born in Miesiseipii and can't get jobe. (4) Police protection (5) White citizens ruls the town. There is a necessity to communicate with the whites trv/J control of the economic etructure the Constitution is getting the older peeple to vote, can put soiceone in oft ice who people. a state you are a citisen; lawe away your right to vote The White xr.an is in Police ehould etudy Freedom of religion Freedom of epeech Freedom of assembly Freedom of Press The young people's job in Mississippi When the old people etart voting they will provide economic welfare for the (13) Summare of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Amendment to abolieh slavery Amendment eaying that if you are born within no etate can take away the protection of the Amendment 15 says that no person should take and no State can take away your right to vote. Probleae in School (1) Wee need more activitiee new books better library free lunch program we aaat to know where the money goee that we raise every year. we are paying funds for school uses we raise approximately $2,000 every year axxd don't know where it goee. If ycu don't bring the money to She class they ask you to go out in the etreet. It eeema very clear wr.at the authorities of our school are intereeted in. (10) When things go wrong at school things that the principal ie aoaa to do hiaself, he calls the police in. The teacnera will force ycu to do thinge. Students tnat work in school should be paid, m Much of the Janitor's work is done for free. What he does and how aueh he gets paid are aleo important questions. We buy and furnish the thinge in the lounge, but we can't use it. We fataish the Homemaking department with ite gooda. The teachers a Si ths smaller chaldron sadly. Then are 70 people in the high school Aglehrn class. The 12th grade English claes has not |onw beyond concentaation on grammar. 16) The teachere will net explain thinge to the etudente. 171 One of the eoiutlone to these problems might be s etudent government. '18j Why ie the echool run by all white. ,19) If having a good education or good experiences means getting with the whitee then that is what we want. 9) fill |
Language | English |
Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21 |
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 | BelfrageR2697 |