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APRIL 1, 1963
Went to the office; had a meeting. Then went out canvassing, and returned to run off some stencils for the mass
meeting. I also ran off some slips asking the people to
come and walk with us to the court house to register.
Afterwards I went to put out the papers telling the people
about tne mass meeting. It took about Z hours. I then
returned to the office ana went to see if I could find a
truck before I could move the furniture out of the old
office that was burned.
After finding the truck I moved the furniture over to
the new office and then cleaned it out and
This was a hard 30b for just one man (myself). It took
me some time to load the furniture. Then I moved it to the
new office where the staff helped me unload it. Tnen I
cleaned the furniture off and then zu&i-e was a meeting en
canvassing. Mrs. Dianne Bevel was in charpe. 9ie told
the students what to say and how to canvass and hew to fill
out the form.
After the meeting I went out canvassing, telling the
people to come to the meeting, that there was nothing to
be afraid of. The reason for this was that the white
people have been telling everybody to stay off the streets—
Object Description
| Title | Belfrage--Voter registration reports, 1963, March-August (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 5) |
| Author/Creator | Belfrage, Sally, 1936- |
| Folder Description | This folder contains a rich assortment of first-person documents from 1963. There's an almost daily diary by Bobby Talbert about his voter canvassing and mass meetings in Itta Bena, Mississippi, including his account of sharing a jail cell with a group of men--all of whom eventually became prominent civil rights leaders in Mississippi--and how they entertained themselves while there. There's also an assortment of affidavits about police and other whites' mistreatment of blacks, comments people made when urged to register to vote, the use of police dogs to intimidate would-be voter registrants at the courthouse, and the abuse of prisoners. Perhaps the best document is a wonderfully warm (and surely ironic) 1963 letter from Charlie Cobb to Senator James Eastland on the first anniversary of intensive efforts to register voters in Eastland's home county, asking him to support federal protection for civil rights workers and to encourage African American workers on his plantation to register to vote. |
| State | Mississippi; |
| Place | Itta Bena; Milton; Greenwood; Sunflower County; Ruleville; Doddsville; Greenville; |
| Subject | voter registration; courthouses; police; music; demonstrations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; threats; intimidation; arrest; jail experiences; church buildings; mass media; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; teachers; clothing and dress; agriculture; education; unemployment; migration, internal; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); eviction; public welfare; White Citizens councils; |
| Personal Name | Rainey, E.; Williams, Rosie Lee; Talbert, Bobby; Greene, Dewey; Forman, James, 1928-2005; Moses, Robert Parris; Hayes, Curtis; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Peacock, Willie; Smith, Frank; Surney, Lafayette; McLaurin, Charles; Jones, James; Branton, Wiley Austin, 1923-1988; Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Dennis, Dave; McDew, Charles; Bevel, Diane Nash; Gregory, Dick; Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; Hughes, Matthew; ; Vivian, C. T.; Brown, Geneva; Johnson, Caroline; Johnson, Bessie; Nunn, Bennie; Boothe, Mary L.; Hancock, Milton; Washington, Willie; Amos, John B.; Dabb, Pauline; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Dorrough, Charles M.; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Irving, Emma; Irving, Robert; Logan, Doretha; Hoskin, Jeniver; Earl, William James; Tucker, L.; Brown, Frank; King, Billy; McGee, Lillie Mae; McGhee, Laura; McCaskill, Dorothy; Jackson, Eddie; Harris, Fred; Gilmore, Henry; Anderson, Cleveland; Cotton, MacArthur; Watkins, Hollis, 1941-; Pruitt, Jimmy; White, Don; |
| Event Date | 1963; |
| Year | 1963; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 5; WIHV91-A140 |
| Format | diaries; affidavits; 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 | fsBelfrageR1S5000 |
| Type | Text; Image |
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| Title | [p.1] |
| Page Text | APRIL 1, 1963 Went to the office; had a meeting. Then went out canvassing, and returned to run off some stencils for the mass meeting. I also ran off some slips asking the people to come and walk with us to the court house to register. Afterwards I went to put out the papers telling the people about tne mass meeting. It took about Z hours. I then returned to the office ana went to see if I could find a truck before I could move the furniture out of the old office that was burned. After finding the truck I moved the furniture over to the new office and then cleaned it out and This was a hard 30b for just one man (myself). It took me some time to load the furniture. Then I moved it to the new office where the staff helped me unload it. Tnen I cleaned the furniture off and then zu&i-e was a meeting en canvassing. Mrs. Dianne Bevel was in charpe. 9ie told the students what to say and how to canvass and hew to fill out the form. After the meeting I went out canvassing, telling the people to come to the meeting, that there was nothing to be afraid of. The reason for this was that the white people have been telling everybody to stay off the streets— |
| Language | English |
| Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 5 |
| 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 | Micro 599 - Reel 1 00592 |