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Community Center Report - 2 register people for the programs then. They have been fixing up their building and recruiting people. They anticipate that there will be most demand among adults for literacy training. They need a person for recreation. 3. Greenwood: The facilities are very skimpy now, although after the summer the center will again have the COFO building. Right now they have one room in that office, 2 rooms in a house in another partof town and a big yard nearby. The staff is functioning, but the space problem bothers them. The ssaff is Monroe Sharpe, spokesman, Bambi Brown, Ray and Rita Rohrbaugh, JSaJLly Balfrage, and Evelyn Ellis. The library is operating, and the staff Juggles health and literacy classes among their locations. 4. Holly Springs: Staff is Gene Hunn, spokesman (apparently), Mike Clurman> Sandy Hard, Gltta Perl, Mary Jennings, Cathy Dahl, Ruth Koenig, They have two major programs. The day care program includes all ages up to Freedom School age. The program offers, arts and crafts, recreation and reading. The other program is the health program. Three people work on this along with some work e'noother federal programs. An outgoing program of health service to the community is in the planning stages. One registered nurse is applying for a Mississippi license. 5. Batesvllle: Staff is Mrs. Martha Tranquilli, Betty Allen and Claire O'Connor. They're three nurses, so their first program has been in the health program. They're organizing a training class in home nursing among high school young people. The program will teach basic information for lay people on personal hygiene, home care of invalids, infant care, etc. Since Mrs. Tranquilli and Mrs. Allen are leaving Monday, they need more staff rather badly. The oenter is an old, closed oollege--one building all on the first floor. Its a good facility, but it has a school pDogram opening on Monday. After Monday they will have the place after 2 p.m. and will be able to store their equipment and keep their library in it. in September the building will be available permanently. However, it seems probable that they can get a new center in the area. There is land available, and the staff has started to raise money from Quaker contacts in Illinois. They are also trying to raise equipment and supplies for a children's day care and recreation program. Tomorrow they are planning a "library Djy" to sort out and shelve their books. 6* Rulevilie: Staff is Fred Miller, spokesman, Ellen Siegal, L. Davis, and Heidi Dole. The center is very well established, according to their latest reports. More people come to the center than they can handle easily. The Freedom School and community center staffs work as a unit. Sinoe the school children are in regular school until 1 p. m., and since the same place serves as both community center and Freedom School, the schedule has been broken according to age group. In the morning, the center offers day care for children and the following programs for adults: typing (the staff collected 12 or 13 typewriters, so their typing class can accommodate that many people at a time), sewing, citizenship and Negro history, health, including first aid and biology and remedial reading, writing and math (both mornings and evenings). In the afternoons after 2:00 the staff has Freedom School. 7. Mileston: No report. Telephone communication is very difficult.
Object Description
Title | Belfrage--Miscellaneous COFO and SNCC material, 1963-1964, n.d. (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 6) |
Author/Creator | Belfrage, Sally, 1936- |
Folder Description | This folder contains an assortment of COFO and SNCC documents from 1963-1964, collected by Sally Belfrage. It includes the following: an unattributed article, "The Constitution as It Affects the Negros." The familiar "Freedom School Data" document and the revised "Declaration of Independence" written by freedom school students in Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi, near Hattiesburg. Joyce Brown's poem, "House of Liberty." Blank freedom school registration forms and schedules for the Hattiesburg/Palmer's Crossing area. Letters from Jane Stembridge to Anne Braden, Constance Curry, Bob Moses, Susanne Freund, and Tom Kahn regarding the possible establishment of a Southern Education Center (to teach literacy and vocational training to adults) and a Tougaloo Work-Study Program. Dona Richards' memo on the Tougaloo Work-Study Program. A tentative list of Mississippi cities and the civil rights activities scheduled for them. Handwritten notes from a SNCC meeting on the civil rights progress being made (or obstructed) in a variety of Mississippi towns. Biographical sketches of several prominent SNCC members. The familiar demographics-rich "General Condition of the Mississippi Negro." An unattributed, untitled document that starts out with a description of Hartman Turnbold's [sic--Turnbow's] act of self-defense and goes on to predict a mass uprising of blacks. A couple of 1964 COFO reports on community centers as well as a draft of such a report. A COFO form letter ("the white letter") to supporters about the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. An overview of COFO's political program. "A Brief Memorandum on Federal Civil Rights Authority." A memo on providing bail bonds for civil rights workers. The COFO legal guide. "Some Aspects of Black-White Problems as Seen by Field Staff." A optimistic document on nonviolence by Charles Sherrod. A form and document about community organizing, apparently based on a book by Irving T. Sanders. A heartbreaking document by Charles Cobb on the 22,000 blacks of Leflore County cut off public welfare and allowed to starve by local white officials. A copy of the poem "I've Seen Black Hands" by Richard Wright, used in a freedom school. A curriculum guide on black history in the U.S., 1860-1900. Reprint of an article by Richard Woodley called "It Will Be a Hot Summer in Mississippi"; by Ben H. Bagdikian called "Negro Youth's New March on Dixie"; and the familiar one by Howard Zinn called "Incident in Hattiesburg." A COFO cartoon about the deaths of the three civil rights workers during Freedom Summer concludes the contents of the folder. |
State | Mississippi; Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina; New York; |
Place | Hattiesburg; Palmer's Crossing; McComb; Greenwood; Vicksburg; Clarksdale; Itta Bena; Greenville; Jackson; Holly Springs; Calhoun County; Marks; Batesville; Mileston; Panola County; Crenshaw; Sunflower County; Bolivar County; Quitman County; Ruleville; Cleveland; Drew; Indianola; Mound Bayou; Shaw; Tallahatchie; West Point; Starkville; Columbus; Holmes County; Lexington; Washington County; Sharkey County; Issaquena County; Flora; Carthage; Harmony; Philadelphia; Meridian Mississippi; Laurel; Biloxi; Moss Point; Pascagoula; Ocean Springs; Wiggins; Leflore County; Rankin County; Liberty; Amite County; Indianola; Atlanta; Sasser; Raleigh; Greensboro; Orangeburg; New York; |
Subject | Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); freedom schools; education; Free Southern Theater; Freedom Singers; Tougaloo College; Mississippi State Penitentiary; voter registration; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; bail; church buildings; wages; poverty; agriculture; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.); community centers; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; police; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Department of Justice; arrest; jail experiences; assault and battery; libraries; Operation Freedom; quilting; clothing and dress; food drives; unemployment; civil rights workers; bombings; Freedom Day; arson; clergy; whites; Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.); housing; migration, internal; unemployment; Freedom Vote; lawyers; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; intervention (Federal government); nonviolence; public welfare; White Citizens councils; murder; black history; Congress of Racial Equality; Ku Klux Klan; segregation; civil rights demonstrations; Black Muslims |
Personal Name | Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917-; Scott, Dred, 1809-1858; Lynd, Staughton; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; Brown, Joyce; Belafonte, Harry, 1927-; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; Davis, Ossie; Lee, Ruby; Bikel, Theodore; Moses, Gilbert; O'Neal, John, 1940-; Hutchinson, William; Seeger, Pete, 1919-; Turner, Gil; Cohen, Bob; Moses, Robert Parris; Harrison, Joe; Braden, Anne; Braden, Carl; Stembridge, Jane; Baker, Ella, 1903-1986; Campbell, Will; Horton, Myles, 1905-1990; Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; Jenkins, Tim; Curry, Constance, 1933-; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Blyth, John W.; Freund, Susanne; Beittel, Adam Daniel; King, Edwin H.; ; Kahn, Tom; Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Richards, Dona; Morris, Jesse; Smith, J. W.; Collins, Ben; Davis, Joe; Edgeworth, Roger; Turner, Clint; Jones, P. Elizabeth; Weaver, Claude; Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909-1969; Hubbard, Earl; Dorrough, Charles M.; Edwards, Don; McLaurin, Charles; Hollowell, William; Williford, W. O.; Lary, Curtis; Josey, Thomas; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Price, Cecil; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Kitchens, Wilson; Leigh, Sanford; Lewis, John; Forman, James, 1928-2005; Hansen, William; Hall, Prathia; Robinson, Reginald; Bond, Julian, 1940-; Harris, Donald (Donald Stuart); Turnbow, Hartman; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Halper, Vicki; Dolgoff, Tom; Mutnick, Barbara; Steele, Virginia; Batzka, David; Hazelton, Margaret Jo, 1942-; Zemon, Zoya; Pendleton, Charles; Sharp, Monroe; Brown, Bambi; Rohrbaugh, Ray; Rohrbaugh, Rita; Belfrage, Sally, 1936-; Ellis, Evelyn; Hunn, Eugene; Clurman, Mike; Hard, Sandy; Perl, Gitta; Jennings, Mary; Dahl, Katherine; Koenig, Ruth; Tranquilli, Martha; Allen, Betty; O'Connor, Claire; Miller, Fred; Siegel, Ellen; Davis, Linda; Dole, Heidi; Winn, Fred; Barrett, Lynell; Logan, Catherine; Guy, Bonnie; York, Judy; Manoff, Tom; Bock, Arlene; Benes, M.; Forer, Marion; Shideler, Sally; ; Gardner, Clark; Gross, Carole; Teeter, Jack; Aranoff, Harold; Thurmond, Lenora; Kabat, Lucien; Horwitz, Diane; Gallo, Ruth; Hunter, John; O'Brien, Frances; van Horne, Holly; Popkin, Ann Hunter, 1945-; Handke, Jan; Kress, Lorne; Davidson, M.;Gellatly, Mary Sue; Mullvain, Martin; Ponder, Annell; Chaffee, Lois; Sharp, Philip W.; Fast, Mark; Dolgoff, Bob; Cunningham, Marion Phyllis; Cocroft, Mason Freeman; Black, Edie; Nelson, Gene; Cole, Mary B.; Nichols, Susan; Allen, John; Madison, Don; Ray, J. L.; Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948; Sherrod, Charles, 1937-; Sanders, Irving T.; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Michener, James; McDonald, Joe; Till, Emmett, 1941-1955; Lee, Herbert; Franklin, Benjamin; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960; Woodley, Richard; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Bender, Rita L.; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Parker, Mack; Stoner, Peter; Maguire, John; Pierce, M. B.; Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980; Bagdikian, Ben H.; McDew, Charles; Chatfield, Jack; Block, Samuel; Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010; Chase, Oscar; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; |
Event Date | 1963-1964; |
Year | 1963-1964; |
Language | English |
Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 6; WIHV91-A140 |
Format | reports and surveys; poems; forms; correspondence; memoranda; clippings; |
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 | fsBelfrageR1S6000 |
Type | Text; Image |
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Title | p.2 |
Page Text | Community Center Report - 2 register people for the programs then. They have been fixing up their building and recruiting people. They anticipate that there will be most demand among adults for literacy training. They need a person for recreation. 3. Greenwood: The facilities are very skimpy now, although after the summer the center will again have the COFO building. Right now they have one room in that office, 2 rooms in a house in another partof town and a big yard nearby. The staff is functioning, but the space problem bothers them. The ssaff is Monroe Sharpe, spokesman, Bambi Brown, Ray and Rita Rohrbaugh, JSaJLly Balfrage, and Evelyn Ellis. The library is operating, and the staff Juggles health and literacy classes among their locations. 4. Holly Springs: Staff is Gene Hunn, spokesman (apparently), Mike Clurman> Sandy Hard, Gltta Perl, Mary Jennings, Cathy Dahl, Ruth Koenig, They have two major programs. The day care program includes all ages up to Freedom School age. The program offers, arts and crafts, recreation and reading. The other program is the health program. Three people work on this along with some work e'noother federal programs. An outgoing program of health service to the community is in the planning stages. One registered nurse is applying for a Mississippi license. 5. Batesvllle: Staff is Mrs. Martha Tranquilli, Betty Allen and Claire O'Connor. They're three nurses, so their first program has been in the health program. They're organizing a training class in home nursing among high school young people. The program will teach basic information for lay people on personal hygiene, home care of invalids, infant care, etc. Since Mrs. Tranquilli and Mrs. Allen are leaving Monday, they need more staff rather badly. The oenter is an old, closed oollege--one building all on the first floor. Its a good facility, but it has a school pDogram opening on Monday. After Monday they will have the place after 2 p.m. and will be able to store their equipment and keep their library in it. in September the building will be available permanently. However, it seems probable that they can get a new center in the area. There is land available, and the staff has started to raise money from Quaker contacts in Illinois. They are also trying to raise equipment and supplies for a children's day care and recreation program. Tomorrow they are planning a "library Djy" to sort out and shelve their books. 6* Rulevilie: Staff is Fred Miller, spokesman, Ellen Siegal, L. Davis, and Heidi Dole. The center is very well established, according to their latest reports. More people come to the center than they can handle easily. The Freedom School and community center staffs work as a unit. Sinoe the school children are in regular school until 1 p. m., and since the same place serves as both community center and Freedom School, the schedule has been broken according to age group. In the morning, the center offers day care for children and the following programs for adults: typing (the staff collected 12 or 13 typewriters, so their typing class can accommodate that many people at a time), sewing, citizenship and Negro history, health, including first aid and biology and remedial reading, writing and math (both mornings and evenings). In the afternoons after 2:00 the staff has Freedom School. 7. Mileston: No report. Telephone communication is very difficult. |
Language | English |
Source | Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 1, Segment 6; |
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 00705 |