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Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. Devine and Mrs. Gray have an office in Washington, D. C. They are going to Washington to talk about your problems. They SecR£T*RV are going to go to many people in the government and talk about cotton allotments, commodities, tractors, schools and more jobs. They are going to talk about the FREEDOM VOTE and tell about how hard it is for everyone in Mississippi to vote. And they are going to ask Congress to let them sit in the seats for Mississippi and talk in Congress about the things you want. WHAT IS THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS? The United States Congress is a meeting of people from each of the 50 states in the United States. Congress makes the laws of the United States. Congress is supposed to make laws that are good for all the people in the country. Sometimes Congress makes laws that are good for only a few of the people. That happens because not all the people are represented in Congress. Congress is supposed to be a meeting of the representatives of all the people. Representatives are supposed to be chosen by voting. But in many states, like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia, only some of the people
Object Description
Title | CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional Challenge - Memoranda, 1964 Dec.-1965 Sept. (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38) |
Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District |
Folder Description | All the documents in this folder address the Congressional Challenge. Included in it are: Mendy Samstein's notes on plans and the rationale for the Congressional Challenge. A typed calendar for the Congressional Challenge. An MFDP pamphlet on the subject. Martin Luther King's statement of support for the Congressional Challenge. Newspaper clippings on the subject. An MFDP fact sheet about it. MFDP legal documents on the legal validity of the challenge and on the history of contested elections. William Fitts Ryan's December 22, 1964, statement on the seating of the Mississippi congressional delegation. Lawrence Guyot's outline of steps to be taken in the Congressional Challenge. Fannie Lou Hamer's legal challenge to the election of Jamie Whitten which includes statistics on the disproportionate voter registrations of whites vs. blacks in Mississippi and a listing of various violent acts (including Hamer's own police beating) under a "reign of terror" designed to intimidate African Americans from participating in elections. An MFDP reprint of James Roosevelt's statement in the January 4, 1965, issue of the Congressional Record whose headline is "They Cannot Win 'Elections' from a System Based on Murder." William Colmer's statement on the Congressional Challenge. A January 17, 1965, MFDP progress report on the challenge. Rules for taking depositions from officials involved in suppressing the African American vote in Mississippi. A description and transcription of a documentary on the Congressional Challenge. A March 1965 MFDP progress report. March 1965 statements by Lawrence Guyot, denying that the MFDP wants to be a third party. On May 17, 1965, James Farmer offers CORE's support for the Congressional Challenge, Martin Luther King offers SCLC's support, and John Lewis offers SNCC's. A May 17, 1965, press release by the MFDP on the submission of its 600+ depositions about obstacles placed in the way of African American voters in Mississippi. An MFDP reprint of an article from the Nation by a lawyer who had taken some of the depositions. A July 1965 MFDP progress report details Clerk of the House of Representatives Ralph R. Roberts' obstruction of the challenge by refusing to print the depositions in a timely fashion, his refusal to meet with MFDP representatives, and finally, his order to have all the MFDP visitors arrested. Sample MFDP ballot for the August 17, 1965, election. A press release from a California congressman announcing that he and several other congressmen had set a deadline of September 21 for resolution of the congressional challenge; a list of congressional representatives supporting the challenge is included. An indignant, but unattributed, document about a 5-member Committee on Administration, meeting in secret, on the Mississippi Challenge's effort to dismiss the charges. A September 1965 MFDP document called "The Mississippi Challenge Trip: A Primer" details the obstacles to the Mississippi Challenge so far and announces a mass lobbying effort and vigil in Washington D.C. by African Americans from Mississippi. James Farmer's September 9, 1965, memo to CORE members urges them to call their representatives to support the Congressional Challenge. Similar missives come from the National Council of Churches' Robert W. Spike, Martin Luther King, and MFDP's Mike Thelwell. The September 14, 1965, statement on the Congressional Challenge by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights urges the House to vote against the motion to dismiss the challenge. A reprint of the September 17, 1965, Congressional Report on dismissing the five contested congressional elections. Lists of the congressional representatives' votes on this issue. An MFDP report, following the Congressional Challenge's defeat, on the events in Washington of September 13-18, 1965. A copy of Freedom Primer No. 3--The Right to Vote and the Congressional Challenge--concludes the materials in this folder. |
State | Washington, D.C.; Mississippi; Alabama; |
Place | Jackson; McComb; Vicksburg; Liberty; Amite County; Canton; Laurel; Tallahatchie County; Hattiesburg; Meridian; Batesville; Panola County; |
Subject | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); elections; voter registration; lawyers; murder; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; boycotts; arson; church buildings; bombings; intimidation; threats; Democratic Party (Miss.); Democratic Party (U.S.); police brutality; assault and battery; cross burning; freedom schools; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Americans for Democratic Action; White citizens councils; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; Republican Party (U.S.); segregation; Mississippi State Penitentiary; courthouses; veterans; agriculture; sheriffs; literacy tests (election law); United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Congress of Racial Equality; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jail experiences; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); eviction; unemployment; civil rights workers; American Civil Liberties Union; Freedom Vote; |
Personal Name | Samstein, Mendy; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; DeVine, Annie; Whitten, Jamie; Williams, John Bell; Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998; Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Morris, John D.; Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969; McCormack, John W., 1891-1980; Ryan, William F., 1922-1972; Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995; Winstead, William A.; Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Delaney, James J.; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971; Vaughs, Cliff; Kinoy, Arthur; Smith, Benjamin Eugene; Higgs, William; Stavis, Morton; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Turnbow, Hartman; Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991; Burleson, Omar; Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet); Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981; Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Lynd, Theron C.; Dabbs, Wallace; Cauthen, Jack; Jones, Daniel Bryant; Price, Cecil; Minor, William; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Quinn, Aylene; Cox, Harold; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Johnson, Earl, Jr.; Morphew, Richard; Johnson, George; Lewis, John; Slaff, George; Reeb, James, 1927-1965; Miles, Robert; Waltzer, Bruce C.; Lewton, Mike; Jackson, Roy; Darby, Ross; Hubbard, Earl; Williams, Chris; Kuykendall, William; Williams, C. J.; Thomas, Lamarr; Seals, Ira; Kuykendall, Linda; Middleton, W. G.; ; Gardner, Charles; Perry, Clara; Milam, R. L.; Patch, Penny; O'Connor, Claire; Lester, Charles E.; Shankle, Ike; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Pemberton, John de J.; Roberts, Ralph R.; Patterson, Joseph Turner; McClendon, B. B.; Burton, Phillip; Green, Edith, 1910-1987; Cosey, Mildred; Applewhite, Nellie; Willis, Lillie; Washington, Ernestine; Hawkins, Andrew; Vaughn, Roosevelt; Graham, James; Cattlin, David; Reed, Herbert; Guthrie, Benjamin; Adams, Brock, 1927-2004; Fraser, Don; Cohelan, Jeffery, 1914-1999; Thompson, Frank; Ashmore, Robert; Peart, William; Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren); Goodell, Charles E.; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Hawkins, Augustus; Johnson, Allen; |
Event Date | 1964-12; 1965-01; 1965-02; 1965-03; 1965-04; 1965-05; 1965-06; 1965-07; 1965-08; 1965-09; |
Year | 1964; 1965; |
Month | December; January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38; WIHVC239G-A |
Format | reports and surveys; pamphlets; clippings; legal documents; correspondence; press releases; forms; memoranda; |
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 | fsCOREMS4thR3S38 |
Type | Text; Image |
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Title | p.4 |
Page Text | Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. Devine and Mrs. Gray have an office in Washington, D. C. They are going to Washington to talk about your problems. They SecR£T*RV are going to go to many people in the government and talk about cotton allotments, commodities, tractors, schools and more jobs. They are going to talk about the FREEDOM VOTE and tell about how hard it is for everyone in Mississippi to vote. And they are going to ask Congress to let them sit in the seats for Mississippi and talk in Congress about the things you want. WHAT IS THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS? The United States Congress is a meeting of people from each of the 50 states in the United States. Congress makes the laws of the United States. Congress is supposed to make laws that are good for all the people in the country. Sometimes Congress makes laws that are good for only a few of the people. That happens because not all the people are represented in Congress. Congress is supposed to be a meeting of the representatives of all the people. Representatives are supposed to be chosen by voting. But in many states, like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia, only some of the people |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38 |
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 3 00198 |