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//#9U. p.3 WATS R^OUTS Saturday, Juno •?, 1965
Qreenwool, :ont.
EVERS DESCRIBES NAACP SUMMER PROJECT
Charles Evers spoke at a meeting of the Greenwood NAAC? on Friday. He said
that the NAACP had nothing to do with FDP or COFO. He said he just didn't like
FDP's or COFO's Image, He said the NAACP is planning on working with middles-
class Negroes in Greenwood and Leflore Co.. that they were sending 5 cars
into Greenwood this summer, and would be able to pour money and people into
the state this summer. He asked how many people wanted workers to come into
the state • Everybody in the audience, except Mrs. Johnson of the FDP stood
up. fllhe workers would come in to do voter registration.) Evers said that the
NAACP had broken CORE, and was bending SNCC's back. He said he didn't want
anybodyirepresenting him in a beard and blue jeans, the only people who coul^
represent him would wear a shirt and tie. About 35-bO people attended.
They are now going around inviting people to the next meeting, next Friday.
STARKVILLE, MISS. Mike Kenney/Bab
MSU kids plan to integrate a theater tonight. Th*s will be the third time
they have gone to that theater successfully.
ABERDEEN, MISS. Everett McKeller/Bab
A group of Freedom Corps peoole just left to integrate a nearby restaurant.
PINE BLUFF, ARK. Arlene Wilgoren/Bab 9 pm
As a result of the integration of the formerly white Oakland "ark last Monday,
Negro people are now swimming there daily. They are going on their own.
When SNCC workers went there the first day, police gave Barbara Grinage a
ticket for running a non-existent stop sign. There have been no incidents
since then.
INDIANOLA McKinley Mack/Bab 9pm
Several people who live on neaby plantations came by the office today to
plan going on strike Monday.
CLEVELAND, MISS. Lee Bankhead/Bab 9s30pm MEFTTNG ON BOLIVAR CO. C.A. PRnopAM
At a meeting to discuss a Bolivar Co. Community Action Program (under the
Poverty Program), Lewis Kaplan, a white store owner, submitted a list of names
for the committee which would draw uu lhe program, txxxaam The list had the
names of only middle-class Negroes and members of the white t»uwwr structure.
(No poor people.) As soon as the list was oroDooed, a Negro, Rev. Cherry,
jumped up and moved nominations be closed. They were. This committee is
now supposed to meet in Atlanta on Tuesday with 0E0 representative Earl
Redwine. Cleveland FDP is sending a letter to the 0E0 in Washington saying
the committee doesn't represent the poor people, and wants Atlanta to tell
Redwine here.
Sunday, June 6, 1965
INDIANOLA Willie Epstein/Bab 8 pm
The MFLU is now organized. There is a meeting tonight, organized by1the
Indianola Improvement Assic, a middle-class group, none of whom are choppers,
with the Mayor and several of the planters. Several of the MFLU members will go.
HOLLY SPRINGS? Rita Walker/Bab
Ken Scudder swore out a warrant against Fitch and Smith. Fitch swore out
warrants against Ken, Hardy, and some others, charging them with trespassing,
threat of bodily harm, and disorderly conduct. Police and the Mayor have been
sitting at the Dairy Bar all day.
CORDELE, GA. Jim Parry/Bab two 10 ft. high crosses were found last night-
one burning on the steps of the Mt.Zion Baptist Church, around the corner
from the Freedom House, and one in front of Rev. Fullwood's old apartment.
Object Description
| Title | MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66) |
| Author/Creator | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County |
| Folder Description | This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during June of 1965. Reports mention plans for an NAACP summer project, alluding to growing tensions between SNCC and the FDP and the NAACP. Many reports discuss the Congressional Challenge and question the role of J.P. Coleman as the attorney for the challenged congressmen, a former Mississippi governor who had signed the segregationist State Sovereignty Commission into being. Other reports discuss failed and successful integration attempts, many resulting in violence, at restaurants, movie theaters and parks throughout the South, in particular Georgia State Park. Of particular note is the overbearing police brutality in Jackson, Mississippi. The Medical Committee on Human Rights reports being denied access to injured prisoners and inmates and the threat of arrest while treating those in need in Jackson. Also mentioned is a pending civil rights suit against the city of Jackson as well as a granted motion for injunction prohibiting the Jackson police from interfering in peaceful protests and distributing leaflets. |
| State | Mississippi; Georgia; Arkansas; Alabama; District of Columbia; New York; Tennessee; Maryland; |
| Place | Jackson; Selma; Meridian; Natchez; Philadelphia; McComb; Holly Springs; Greenwood; Indianola; Starkville; Canton; Vicksburg; Columbus; Cambridge; Washington; Shaw; Moultrie; Biloxi; Little Rock; Tuskegee; Maben; Morehead; Erie; Cleveland; Pine Bluff; New York; |
| Subject | Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Congress of Racial Equality; voter registration; arrest; jail experiences; freedom schools; civil rights workers; murder; boycotts; violence; police brutality; |
| Personal Name | Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006 ; Brownstein, Al; Doar, John, 1921-2014; Forman, James, 1928-2005; DeVine, Annie; Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; |
| Event Date | 1965 |
| Year | 1965 |
| Month | June |
| Language | English |
| Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66; WIHVM3976-A |
| Format | reports and surveys |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2015 |
| 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 | fsMFDPLauderdaleR2S66000f |
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| Page Text | //#9U. p.3 WATS R^OUTS Saturday, Juno •?, 1965 Qreenwool, :ont. EVERS DESCRIBES NAACP SUMMER PROJECT Charles Evers spoke at a meeting of the Greenwood NAAC? on Friday. He said that the NAACP had nothing to do with FDP or COFO. He said he just didn't like FDP's or COFO's Image, He said the NAACP is planning on working with middles- class Negroes in Greenwood and Leflore Co.. that they were sending 5 cars into Greenwood this summer, and would be able to pour money and people into the state this summer. He asked how many people wanted workers to come into the state • Everybody in the audience, except Mrs. Johnson of the FDP stood up. fllhe workers would come in to do voter registration.) Evers said that the NAACP had broken CORE, and was bending SNCC's back. He said he didn't want anybodyirepresenting him in a beard and blue jeans, the only people who coul^ represent him would wear a shirt and tie. About 35-bO people attended. They are now going around inviting people to the next meeting, next Friday. STARKVILLE, MISS. Mike Kenney/Bab MSU kids plan to integrate a theater tonight. Th*s will be the third time they have gone to that theater successfully. ABERDEEN, MISS. Everett McKeller/Bab A group of Freedom Corps peoole just left to integrate a nearby restaurant. PINE BLUFF, ARK. Arlene Wilgoren/Bab 9 pm As a result of the integration of the formerly white Oakland "ark last Monday, Negro people are now swimming there daily. They are going on their own. When SNCC workers went there the first day, police gave Barbara Grinage a ticket for running a non-existent stop sign. There have been no incidents since then. INDIANOLA McKinley Mack/Bab 9pm Several people who live on neaby plantations came by the office today to plan going on strike Monday. CLEVELAND, MISS. Lee Bankhead/Bab 9s30pm MEFTTNG ON BOLIVAR CO. C.A. PRnopAM At a meeting to discuss a Bolivar Co. Community Action Program (under the Poverty Program), Lewis Kaplan, a white store owner, submitted a list of names for the committee which would draw uu lhe program, txxxaam The list had the names of only middle-class Negroes and members of the white t»uwwr structure. (No poor people.) As soon as the list was oroDooed, a Negro, Rev. Cherry, jumped up and moved nominations be closed. They were. This committee is now supposed to meet in Atlanta on Tuesday with 0E0 representative Earl Redwine. Cleveland FDP is sending a letter to the 0E0 in Washington saying the committee doesn't represent the poor people, and wants Atlanta to tell Redwine here. Sunday, June 6, 1965 INDIANOLA Willie Epstein/Bab 8 pm The MFLU is now organized. There is a meeting tonight, organized by1the Indianola Improvement Assic, a middle-class group, none of whom are choppers, with the Mayor and several of the planters. Several of the MFLU members will go. HOLLY SPRINGS? Rita Walker/Bab Ken Scudder swore out a warrant against Fitch and Smith. Fitch swore out warrants against Ken, Hardy, and some others, charging them with trespassing, threat of bodily harm, and disorderly conduct. Police and the Mayor have been sitting at the Dairy Bar all day. CORDELE, GA. Jim Parry/Bab two 10 ft. high crosses were found last night- one burning on the steps of the Mt.Zion Baptist Church, around the corner from the Freedom House, and one in front of Rev. Fullwood's old apartment. |
| Language | English |
| Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66 |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2015 |
| 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 | MFDPLauderdaleCoR2S61496 |