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WATS LINE PROCEDURES The WATS Line is our t elephone communication system* "WATS" stands for Wide Area Transmission, It is a special telephone line which allows us to call anywhere in the state for a flat monthly rate. All such calls must be made from the Little Rock office. When you need to talk to Little Rocks you do one of the following things $ (1) Wait for your daily project calls from Little Rock. Little Rock will call twice daily at regular times. (2) If just anybody on a project wishes to speak to anybody in Little Rocks call colle ct for Phyllis Brown. She will be out. Your call will be refused and you will be called within 15? minutes. Leave your number for her to call back. (3) *f y°u want only to speak to a certain person, then call person to person^ collect for that person. Your call will be refused and the person you wanted will call you as soon as feasible. (l\.) If you are at a different number than any known SNCC of f ice, make sure you leave the number you are calling froms otherwise we can not return your call over the WATS Line. (3>) No collect calls will be accepted. (6) ALL COLLECT CALLS TO "GEORGE SMITH" WILL BE ACCEPTED. THIS IS ONLY FOR EXTREME EMERGENCY PURPOSES. (7) Numbers to call for Little Rock to call you on the WATS? Pr 5-9081 Pr £-2359 ••• second choice Everyone;, in Little Rockj, asks permission from WATS operator (or others temporarily designated as WATS operator) to use the WATS line. This is just to keep the daily calls to projects from getting fouled up.
Object Description
Title | SAVF-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 9) |
Author/Creator | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Folder Description | This folder is made almost entirely out of Wide Area Telephone Reports compiled by SNCC between the months of June and September 1965. The reports detail the organization's day-to-day operations and the harassment their field workers received as a result of these efforts. Existing in the background of these reports is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's Congressional Challenge, the appointment of James P. Coleman to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and SNCC's attempts to organize workers into the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. |
State | Arkansas; Mississippi; District of Columbia; Alabama; Illinois; Maryland; New York; Louisiana; Georgia; Tennessee; Virginia; Michigan; North Carolina; Massachusetts |
Place | Little Rock; Greenville; Shaw; Natchez; Cordele; Moultrie; Tribbett; Rosedale; Bolivar County; Washington; Indianola; Selma; Doddsville; Duncan; Washington County; Pine Bluff; Star City; Cleveland; Lowndes County; Hayneville; Holly Springs; Eutaw; Starkville; Aberdeen; Centrala; Canton; Americus; Chicago; Cambridge; New York; Harlem; Tuskegee; Waveland; Biloxi; West Helena; Sunflower County; New Orleans; Montgomery; Wilcox County; Albany; Greenwood; Jackson; Dallas County; Sidon; Sumter County; Leflore County; Helena; Whiteville; Forest City; Camden; Baker County; Somerville; Bogalusa; Laurel; Gulfport; Hattiesburg; Dumas; McComb; Brandon; York; Charleston; Powhatan County; Amite County; Hale County; Detroit; Cummington; Tchula; Mound Bayou; Greensboro; West Memphis; Acron; Olive Branch; Liberty; Covington; Leake County; Pike County; Gould; Fayette County; Newton; Belzoni; Baker County; Denton; Enfield; Columbia; Powellsville; Lexington; Panola; Boston; West Point; Brownsville; Norfollk; Powellsville; Quitman; Eufala; Desoto County; Eufaula; Northampton County; Meridian; Troy; Victoria; Stuttgart; Barbour; Moscow; Sidon |
Subject | employment; intimidation; agriculture; Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; Ku Klux Klan; segregation; violence; demonstrations; civil rights demonstrations; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); boycotts; civil rights demonstrations; arrest; economic conditions; sharecroppers; Freedom Day; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); education; United States. Department of Justice; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; labor unions; poverty; arson; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Congress of Racial Equality; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; SCLC; freedom schools; voter registration; literacy tests (election law); police; police brutality; wages; cross burning; church buildings; United States Commission on Civil Rights; lynching; jail experiences; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; lawyers; murder; bombings |
Personal Name | Eastland, James O.; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Evers, Charles; Willis, Benjamin C.; Daley, Richard J.; Gray, Victoria; Coleman, James P.; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Sherrod, Charles; Devine, Annie; Forman, James; Guyot, Lawrence; Lewis, John; Carmichal, Stokely; Cobb, Charles; Sellers, Cleveland; Block, Sam; Seeger, Pete; Carawan, Guy; Belafonte, Harry; Peacock, Willie; Feingold, Mimi; Steptoe, Charles; Barry, Marion; Reuss, Miek; Reuss, Henry; Clark, Jim; King, Edwin; Ryan, William Fitts; Brandt, Barbara; Katzenbach, Nicholas; Harrison, Albertis S. |
Year | 1965 |
Language | English |
Source | Social Action Vertical File, circa 1960-1980; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 9; WIHVS3310-A |
Format | reports and surveys |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2016 |
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 | fsSAVFB48F9000 |
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Page Text | WATS LINE PROCEDURES The WATS Line is our t elephone communication system* "WATS" stands for Wide Area Transmission, It is a special telephone line which allows us to call anywhere in the state for a flat monthly rate. All such calls must be made from the Little Rock office. When you need to talk to Little Rocks you do one of the following things $ (1) Wait for your daily project calls from Little Rock. Little Rock will call twice daily at regular times. (2) If just anybody on a project wishes to speak to anybody in Little Rocks call colle ct for Phyllis Brown. She will be out. Your call will be refused and you will be called within 15? minutes. Leave your number for her to call back. (3) *f y°u want only to speak to a certain person, then call person to person^ collect for that person. Your call will be refused and the person you wanted will call you as soon as feasible. (l\.) If you are at a different number than any known SNCC of f ice, make sure you leave the number you are calling froms otherwise we can not return your call over the WATS Line. (3>) No collect calls will be accepted. (6) ALL COLLECT CALLS TO "GEORGE SMITH" WILL BE ACCEPTED. THIS IS ONLY FOR EXTREME EMERGENCY PURPOSES. (7) Numbers to call for Little Rock to call you on the WATS? Pr 5-9081 Pr £-2359 ••• second choice Everyone;, in Little Rockj, asks permission from WATS operator (or others temporarily designated as WATS operator) to use the WATS line. This is just to keep the daily calls to projects from getting fouled up. |
Language | English |
Source | Social Action Vertical File, circa 1960-1980; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 9 |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2016 |
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 | fsSAVFB48F9001 |
Type | Text |