Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office --Miscellany (Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office records, 1963-1965; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 521, Box 1, Folder 13)

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Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.). Panola County Office (Miss.)

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This folder contains several reports on economic and political conditions in Mississippi and on segregation there, 1963-1965. They include: "Notes from Negroes of Mississippi to the White People of Mississippi"; "Mississippi's Economics and Mississippi's 'New Image'?"; Tom Hayden's 1963 "Power of the Dixiecrats"; and "The Condition of Farm Workers in 1963" by Fay Bennett. Forms include: a 1965 form for recording discriminatory acts following passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964), one for a survey of the West Batesville Farmers' Association, and one for active "Freedom Force" workers. There's also a SNCC memo asking Freedom Force people to notify the Atlanta office when they leave a project, so that the northerners who send them subsistence money can be informed. There's an application to register to vote, and a document about testing the public accommodations portion of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by Henry Aronson and Marian Wright. A program and memo from the Free Southern Theater's

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Reports And Surveys Poems Forms Memoranda

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Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office --Miscellany (Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office records, 1963-1965; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 521, Box 1, Folder 13)

Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.). Panola County Office (Miss.)

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