CORE--Educational materials - Workbooks, outlines, handbooks, 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 22)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District

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The SCLC Citizenship workbook which opens this folder is a fascinating document in itself, full of literacy and arithmetic basics, a synopsis of black history and of freedom song lyrics, and advice about planning a voter registration campaign and a block party. "The 1964 Civil Rights Law and What It Means to You" follows. Also included are the following: the March 1964 report of a committee working on the freedom school curriculum for the Mississippi Summer Project. A 1963-1964 CORE report on books, equipment, and funds the organization had received. A document called a "Civil Rights Mosaic"--a summary of the civil rights movement in U.S. history--along with "Sources for Further Information on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi." An analysis of police and minority groups in Boston and Philadelphia by Alan Gartner. Jane Stembridge's notes on Stokely Carmichael's Waveland workshop on Black English. A list of the books in the Canton Freedom Library. A first draft (May 1965) of a "s

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