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Voter Registration The struggle for freedom in Mississippi can only be won by a combination of action within the state and a heightened awareness throughout the country of the need for massive federal intervention to ensure the voting rights of Negroes. This summer's program will work toward both objectives. Voter registration workers will operate in every rural county and important urban area in the state. These workers will be involved in a summer-long drive to mobilise the Negro community of Mississippi and assist in developing local leadership and organization. Forty thousand dollars must be raised for a Freedom Registration campaign. The registration campaign which was launched in February will be implemented by summer workers. Freedom Registrars will be established in every precinct, with registration books closely resembling the official books of the state. The Freedom Registration books will servo as a basis for challenging the official books and the validity of "official" federal elections this fail. Finally, voter registration workers will assist in the summer campaigns of Freedom Candidates who will be running for congressional office. Freedom Schools An integral part of SNCC's voter registration work is the development of leadership for politically emerging communities. Freedom Schools will begin to supply the political education which the existing system does not- provide for Negroes in Mississippi. The summer project will establish ten daytime Freedom Schools and three resident schools. The daytime schools will be attended by 10th, 11th, and 12th grade pupils; the schools will operate five days a week in the student's home towns. Instruction will be highly individualized - each school will have about fifteen teachers and fifty students. The program will include remedial work in reading, math and basic grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism and creative writing. Wherever possible, studies will be related to problems in the students' own society. The three resident schools will be attended by more advance students from throughout the state. The program will be essentially the same as that of the day schools, with emphasis on political studies. The students who attend the schools will provide Mississippi with a nucleus of leadership committed to critical thought and social action. Community Centers In addition to the Freedom Schools, Community Centers will provide services normally denied the Negro community in Mississippi. Staffed by experienced social workers, nurses, librarians and teachers in the arts and crafts, the centers will provide educational and cultural programs for the community. Instruction will be given in pre-natal and infant care, and general hygiene; programs will provide adult literacy and vocational training. The thirty thousand books now in SNCC's Greenwood office library will be distributed to these centers, and others will be obtained. The centers will serve as places of political education and organization, and will provide a structure to channel a wide range of programs into the Negro community in the future. Research Project The program of voter registration and political organization will attempt to change the fundamental structure of political and economic activity in Mississippi. In order to accurately picture this structure, extensive research must be done into Mississippi's suppressive political and economic life. Skilled personnel are needed to carry out this program both from within and outside the state. White Community Project The effort to organize and educate Mississippi whites in the direction of democracy and decency can no longer be delayed. About thirty students, southern whites who have recently joined the civil rights movement, will begin pilot projecfs in white communities. An attempt will be made to organize poor white areas to make steps toward eliminating bigotry, poverty and ignorance. Law Student Project A large number of law students will come to Mississippi to launch a massive legal offensive against the official tyranny of the state. The time has come to challenge every Mississippi law which deprives Negroes of their rights, and to bring suit against every state and local official who commits crimes in the name of his office. Trained Personnel Are Needed For applications write: Mississippi Summer Project, 1017 Lynch Street, Room 10, Jackson, Mississippi. (Applications must be received by mid-April) Development of the Mississippi Project Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has active projects in thirteen Southern states, it has achieved its most dynamic success in the state of Mississippi. A state where individual political life is nonexistent, where the economic condition of a vast majority of the population is appalling, the home of white supremacy, Mississippi has become the main target of SNCC's staff and resources. In August, 1961, SNCC went into Mississippi under the leadership of Project Director Robert Moses. Overcoming violence and hardship, SNCC workers have been able to expand their activity into all five of Mississippi's congressional districts. By fall, 1963, SNCC had joined with CORE, SCLC, the NAACP and many voting and civic groups in forming a statewide organization, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and through COFO conducted a Freedom Vote campaign in which 80,000 disenfranchised Negroes cast ballots for Aaron Henry for Governor. Preparation for real democracy calls for additional programs in the state. Literacy projects have been instituted, and food and clothing drives. But much more comprehensive programs are needed to combat the terrible cultural and economic deprivation of Negro
Object Description
Title | CORE--Mississippi Summer Project (COFO, SNCC, CORE) - Memoranda and reports, 1964 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 72) |
Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District |
Folder Description | This folder on the Mississippi Summer Project opens with a letter to university faculty, asking for faculty volunteers for Freedom Summer. The familiar "Prospectus for the Mississippi Freedom Summer" follows, along with a "Memo to Freedom Centers" on the screening of applicants and development of freedom school curricula. It also includes the following: a COFO pamphlet on "Mississippi Freedom Summer." A SNCC pamphlet on the "Mississippi Summer Project." The familiar memo to "Mississippi Freedom School Teachers." A blank application form for summer volunteers. A SNCC press release about shifting its headquarters from Atlanta to Greenwood for the summer. Letters to volunteers about what to bring and to expect in Mississippi and in their orientation programs in Oxford, Ohio. Biographical sketches of leaders of an unidentified west coast (?) seminar. A Stanford University document entitled "Information Sheet - Project Mississippi" explains the rationale for Freedom Summer and the role its students played in Mississippi in 1963. A SNCC memo called "Memorandum: On the SNCC Mississippi Summer Project." A long list of Freedom Summer workers in the state as of June 29, 1964. An unattributed but proud document written just after Freedom Summer called "The Mississippi Summer Project" touches on each Freedom Summer site and some of the high and low points of the summer. |
State | Mississippi; Illinois; Kentucky; New York; Georgia; Ohio; California |
Place | Jackson; Edwards; Hattiesburg; Greenwood; Amite County; Pike County; Walthall County; Holly Springs; Marks; Batesville; Clarksdale; Crenshaw; Coahoma County; Panola County; Philadelphia; Sunflower County; Bolivar County; Cleveland; Drew; Ruleville; Indianola; Shaw; Mound Bayou; Greenville; Starkville; West Point; Columbus; Vicksburg; Canton; Carthage; Meridian; Harmony; Palmers Crossing; Laurel; Natchez; McComb; Moss Point; Pascagoula; Gulfport; Biloxi; Ocean Springs; Wiggins; Stone County; Gluckstadt; Chicago; Berea; New York; Atlanta; Oxford; Stanford; |
Subject | federal aid; volunteers; police; arrest; voter registration; education; bail; elections; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.); Freedom Vote; freedom schools; community centers; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Black history; Mississippi Student Union; students; medicine; libraries; employment; segregation; whites; lawyers; poverty; Free Southern Theater; Tougaloo College; training; fund raising; leadership; Freedom Day; teachers; Democratic Party (U.S.); murder; lynching; assault and battery; mass media; clergy; United States. Department of Justice; White Citizens councils; nonviolence; public welfare; unemployment; eviction; music; sheriffs; courthouses; quilting; peonage; agriculture; housing; migration, internal; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; host families; jail experiences; arson; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; |
Personal Name | Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Moses, Robert Parris; Dennis, David; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Whitten, Jamie; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Samstein, Mendy; McNamara, Norris; Lyon, Danny; Day, Noel; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Lewis, John; Forman, James, 1928-2005; Bond, Julian, 1940-; Wasserstrom, Richard; Beyers, Robert; Brown, Robert McAfee; Carter, Jared; Gunther, Gerald; King, A. Richard; Krause, Marshall; McCord, William; Mothershead, John; Nemerovski, Howard; Pease, Otis; Howard, John; Kepler, Roy; Miller, Michael; Sandperl, Ira; Vickery, Ed; Wallborn, Judy; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Tracy, Spencer; Collins, Ben; McGhee, Silas; Luckett, Vernon O.; Price, Cecil; Bender, Rita L.; |
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 3, Segment 72; WIHVC239G-A |
Format | correspondence; memoranda; pamphlets; forms; reports and surveys |
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. |
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Page Text | Voter Registration The struggle for freedom in Mississippi can only be won by a combination of action within the state and a heightened awareness throughout the country of the need for massive federal intervention to ensure the voting rights of Negroes. This summer's program will work toward both objectives. Voter registration workers will operate in every rural county and important urban area in the state. These workers will be involved in a summer-long drive to mobilise the Negro community of Mississippi and assist in developing local leadership and organization. Forty thousand dollars must be raised for a Freedom Registration campaign. The registration campaign which was launched in February will be implemented by summer workers. Freedom Registrars will be established in every precinct, with registration books closely resembling the official books of the state. The Freedom Registration books will servo as a basis for challenging the official books and the validity of "official" federal elections this fail. Finally, voter registration workers will assist in the summer campaigns of Freedom Candidates who will be running for congressional office. Freedom Schools An integral part of SNCC's voter registration work is the development of leadership for politically emerging communities. Freedom Schools will begin to supply the political education which the existing system does not- provide for Negroes in Mississippi. The summer project will establish ten daytime Freedom Schools and three resident schools. The daytime schools will be attended by 10th, 11th, and 12th grade pupils; the schools will operate five days a week in the student's home towns. Instruction will be highly individualized - each school will have about fifteen teachers and fifty students. The program will include remedial work in reading, math and basic grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism and creative writing. Wherever possible, studies will be related to problems in the students' own society. The three resident schools will be attended by more advance students from throughout the state. The program will be essentially the same as that of the day schools, with emphasis on political studies. The students who attend the schools will provide Mississippi with a nucleus of leadership committed to critical thought and social action. Community Centers In addition to the Freedom Schools, Community Centers will provide services normally denied the Negro community in Mississippi. Staffed by experienced social workers, nurses, librarians and teachers in the arts and crafts, the centers will provide educational and cultural programs for the community. Instruction will be given in pre-natal and infant care, and general hygiene; programs will provide adult literacy and vocational training. The thirty thousand books now in SNCC's Greenwood office library will be distributed to these centers, and others will be obtained. The centers will serve as places of political education and organization, and will provide a structure to channel a wide range of programs into the Negro community in the future. Research Project The program of voter registration and political organization will attempt to change the fundamental structure of political and economic activity in Mississippi. In order to accurately picture this structure, extensive research must be done into Mississippi's suppressive political and economic life. Skilled personnel are needed to carry out this program both from within and outside the state. White Community Project The effort to organize and educate Mississippi whites in the direction of democracy and decency can no longer be delayed. About thirty students, southern whites who have recently joined the civil rights movement, will begin pilot projecfs in white communities. An attempt will be made to organize poor white areas to make steps toward eliminating bigotry, poverty and ignorance. Law Student Project A large number of law students will come to Mississippi to launch a massive legal offensive against the official tyranny of the state. The time has come to challenge every Mississippi law which deprives Negroes of their rights, and to bring suit against every state and local official who commits crimes in the name of his office. Trained Personnel Are Needed For applications write: Mississippi Summer Project, 1017 Lynch Street, Room 10, Jackson, Mississippi. (Applications must be received by mid-April) Development of the Mississippi Project Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has active projects in thirteen Southern states, it has achieved its most dynamic success in the state of Mississippi. A state where individual political life is nonexistent, where the economic condition of a vast majority of the population is appalling, the home of white supremacy, Mississippi has become the main target of SNCC's staff and resources. In August, 1961, SNCC went into Mississippi under the leadership of Project Director Robert Moses. Overcoming violence and hardship, SNCC workers have been able to expand their activity into all five of Mississippi's congressional districts. By fall, 1963, SNCC had joined with CORE, SCLC, the NAACP and many voting and civic groups in forming a statewide organization, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and through COFO conducted a Freedom Vote campaign in which 80,000 disenfranchised Negroes cast ballots for Aaron Henry for Governor. Preparation for real democracy calls for additional programs in the state. Literacy projects have been instituted, and food and clothing drives. But much more comprehensive programs are needed to combat the terrible cultural and economic deprivation of Negro |
Language | English |
Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 72 |
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 01345 |