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ORA DOSS f> 4 3 . cas IP- real 10 ye u in Central High or my school teacher tells •• slant that we all ir.uet go tc the ficldt to rice cotton. The next day we all go out ueually to Mr. QassOl antation and pick COttan, Thotoscher telle the clas3 that if we don't go we have to pay for 100 lbs of cotton wneeh ia $2.50 or #3.00. Ehe teacher also sain many ti.^ee tnat if we don't pay or cooperate with the clasa we will fiunk. The first year I ever went out waa when I was in the 7th grade, but nany go out when tney are youn/jer. I have never sees paid. I do not know where the money goes, hut I h^ve seen the oonoy being ^iver. by the manager on the plantation to the teacher. Last November I went out to the fields and picked cotton, i.y teacher who aaked the class to go ia named Mrs. Dorthy Killer. !
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 |
Type | Text; Image |
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Title | [p.1] |
Page Text | ORA DOSS f> 4 3 . cas IP- real 10 ye u in Central High or my school teacher tells •• slant that we all ir.uet go tc the ficldt to rice cotton. The next day we all go out ueually to Mr. QassOl antation and pick COttan, Thotoscher telle the clas3 that if we don't go we have to pay for 100 lbs of cotton wneeh ia $2.50 or #3.00. Ehe teacher also sain many ti.^ee tnat if we don't pay or cooperate with the clasa we will fiunk. The first year I ever went out waa when I was in the 7th grade, but nany go out when tney are youn/jer. I have never sees paid. I do not know where the money goes, hut I h^ve seen the oonoy being ^iver. by the manager on the plantation to the teacher. Last November I went out to the fields and picked cotton, i.y teacher who aaked the class to go ia named Mrs. Dorthy Killer. ! |
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 | BelfrageR2705 |