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Object Description
| Title | CORE--Freedom Day, Madison County, May 29, 1964 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 36) |
| Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District |
| Folder Description | This folder, all of whose documents concern the May 1964 Freedom Day in Canton and Madison County, Mississippi, reveals the obstacles, threats, intimidation, loss of jobs, beatings, arrests, and detention of African Americans trying to register to vote on this day. The folder begins with handwritten notes on the logistics of Freedom Day in Madison County, and is followed by a series of eloquent affidavits from persons about their experiences trying to register to vote in Foote Campbell's courthouse. Finally, a legal document details the arrests, beatings, and jail experiences of numerous people trying to register on Freedom Day. |
| State | Mississippi; |
| Place | Madison County; Canton; |
| Subject | Freedom Day; voter registration; police; threats; intimidation; unemployment; arrest; jail experiences; assault and battery; police brutality; lawyers; segregation; courts; bail; |
| Personal Name | Bosley, Alma; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Stokes, Welton; Garret, Coleman; Chinn, C. O.; Thurmond, Lenora; McNair, Landy; Sanders, James; Gross, Leo; Boyd, Rosomore; Honeysucker, Percy; Veal, William; Catchings, John; Ransom, Tom; Washington, Benjamin J.; Boyd, Rulia; Campbell, L. Foote; Williams, Mattie; Noble, Bill; Day, Joe Nathan; Small, Julia Mae; Zimmerman, G. Dean; Small, Marvis; Baldwin, Lizzie; George, Fannie; Kennedy, Julie; Boyd, Aurelia; Cauthen, Jack; Read, Elvin; Cathings, Mollie; Forsyth, William H.; Harper, Booker T.; Richard, Anita; Blackman, Edward; Hall, Carsie A.; Young, Jack H.; Greenberg, Jack, 1924-; Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005; Bell, Derrick A.; Amsterdam, Anthony G.; Zarr, Melvyn, 1936-; Due, John; Beech, Robert, 1935-2008; Hamblin, McKinley; Anderson, James; Alexander, Earms; Austin, Christine; Bartoo, Wendall E.; Bennett, James; Bennett, Willie C.; Body, John Lee; Brown, Barbara Jean; Brown, Charles Ray; Brown, Kenneth; Brown, Shirley M.; Buckley, Sears, Jr.; Clay, Annie Pearl; Colo, Mozio; Davis, Ike James; Dawson, Jessie Mae; Dawson, Herman O.; Drain, Edward, Jr.; Esco, Eliza; Evans, Marie; George, Wyatt Adam; Grant, Dewett; Gray, Barbara Ann; Hamblin, Lorraine; Harris, Roby B., Jr.; Hawblue, Joe Lee; Hollander, Edward S.; Hollis, Ernestine; Hosman, Glen B.; Johnson, Mary; Johnson, Percy; Jones, Willie B.; Lacey, John F.; Luckett, Barbara Nell; Luckett, Leon; McCullough, Closie; Milton, Jack; McMerty, J. T.; Mory, Charles; Nichaolls, Susie; Owens, Mack; Shell, Betty Jean; Small, Rosa Mae; Smith, Connie Ray; Walker, Sonny Lee; Washington, Frank; Washington, James Alwin; |
| Event Date | 1964; |
| Year | 1964; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 36; WIHVC239G-A |
| Format | reports and surveys; affidavits; legal documents; |
| 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 | fsCOREMS4thR2S36000 |
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| Title | [p.1] |
| Page Text | WITNESS FORM witness for; N <_Vt /^Ud/_s_^fegg_^^y^ a Occupation' ADDRESS PHONE ^5//^ &C*FZt&--y-^ COUNTY_ _J^_AF/k^zt. v, HAT THE WITNESS WILL T EST1 FY > BOUT:__/^ .^_^__^__.^1^£_____^^ liY tariff A £ =^_3 T' H E V I T NESS CAN ft. CON T A C T EC THROUGH: TtZT^O ^££A2--/2dA2zl^F^Z^Z. j^2(L |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 36 |
| 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 793 - Reel 2 01060 |