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Kaufmann--Walter Kaufmann papers, 1964-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 1210

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Walter Kaufmann, a refuge from Nazi Germany, was a lawyer and CORE volunteer in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Though many of these materials relate to his efforts to continue his CORE-related activities in California after his return home, the best materials have to do with Freedom Summer itself. There's an August 21, 1964, telegram reporting violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi; a short day-by-day journal of his activities in Philadelphia, Mississippi around the time of the discovery of and initial service for the missing civil rights workers' bodies, an eloquent letter describing the tensions between the white community and Freedom Summer workers there in the week afterwards, and a fascinating analysis of the white Mississippi power structure and the cotton economy in Mississippi. The folders also contain appeals for money, supplies, and pressure on legislators regarding the Congressional challenge; personal correspondence from former volunteers to Kaufmann; memos about plan
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Reports And Surveys Press Releases Flyers And Handbills Correspondence Memoranda Clippings Affidavits
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Keywords

  1. Adam, Bidwell, 1894
  2. African Americans
  3. Agriculture
  4. Arrest
  5. Arson
  6. Assault And Battery
  7. Baldwin Piano Company
  8. Bank Of America
  9. Blackwell, Randolph
  10. Bombings
  11. Brown, Benjamin A
  12. Brown, Hal
  13. Butler, Raymond
  14. Carey, Gordon R
  15. Chaney, Ben
  16. Chaney, Fannie Lee
  17. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  18. Church Buildings
  19. Clergy
  20. Clothing And Dress
  21. Cole, Calloway
  22. Coleman, Clara
  23. Coleman, Val
  24. Collier, James
  25. Collier, Jewell
  26. Congress Of Racial Equality
  27. Cotton, Hether
  28. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  29. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  30. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  31. Dennis, David
  32. Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Company
  33. Diamond, Dion T
  34. Dobbs, C. H
  35. Doss, Eddie Lee
  36. Douthard, William J
  37. Duncan, Chet
  38. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  39. Evans, M. Stanton (Medford Stanton), 1934
  40. Evers, Charles, 1922
  41. Farmer, James, 1920 1999
  42. Fawcett, Le Ann
  43. Feingold, Mimi
  44. Feldman, Howard
  45. Fetherstone, Ralph
  46. Fielder, Curtis A
  47. Food Drives
  48. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  49. Freedom Day
  50. Freedom Rides
  51. Gaize, Marshall
  52. Gitin, Joseph
  53. Glaser, Joseph B
  54. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  55. Gore, Robert
  56. Grayson, Horace V
  57. Haley, Richard
  58. Hangam, Clabe
  59. Harris, Eddie
  60. Healey, Richard
  61. Hearin, Robert M
  62. Hernandez, Mary
  63. Holmes, Wavelyn Yvonne
  64. Hood, Robert E
  65. Hunter, Robert Louis
  66. Intimidation
  67. Jails
  68. Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904 1986
  69. John Birch Society
  70. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  71. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  72. Kittredge, Gretchen
  73. Kolb, Jon
  74. Ku Klux Klan
  75. Libraries
  76. Lumbard, Rudy
  77. Lynching
  78. Magee, Silas
  79. Marshall, Burke, 1922
  80. Mass Media
  81. Mc Cain, James T
  82. Mc Clelland, Amos
  83. Mc Gucken, Joseph T
  84. Mc Keigny, Alex
  85. Mc Mullan, W. P. (William Patrick)
  86. Mesher, Shirley
  87. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  88. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  89. Mississippi Power And Light Company
  90. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
  91. Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
  92. Moses, Robert Parris
  93. Murder
  94. Neblett, Carver
  95. Nelson, Tracy
  96. Noble, Gus
  97. Nonviolence
  98. Patterson, R. A
  99. Perez, Louis
  100. Perkins, Joe
  101. Pierce, Bettye
  102. Police Brutality
  103. Poor
  104. Price, Cecil
  105. Rachlin, Carl
  106. Rainey, Lawrence A
  107. Raymond, George
  108. Reichstein, Kenneth Jay, 1938
  109. Republican Party (U.S.)
  110. Rich, Marvin
  111. Riemer, Richard
  112. Robinson, Marvinin
  113. Robinson, Richard
  114. Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908 1979
  115. Rogers, Lois
  116. Rosen, Sanford Jay
  117. Rudolph, Edward
  118. Schiffman, Alan
  119. Schwarzschild, Henry
  120. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  121. Segregation
  122. Sillers, Walter, 1888 1966
  123. Simmons, Ned
  124. Smith, George
  125. Solomon, Gabe
  126. Standard Oil Company
  127. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  128. Sullivan, Joseph
  129. Suttles, R. C
  130. Thompson, Bruce
  131. Threats
  132. Tinsley, Richard
  133. Tougaloo College
  134. Travis, James
  135. Turnbow, Hartman
  136. Turner, Melvin
  137. United States
  138. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  139. Valentine, Irad
  140. Vardaman, James K. (James Kimble), 1894 1972
  141. Vaughn, Alice J
  142. Vizzard, James L
  143. Volunteers
  144. Voter Registration
  145. Walker, Edwin A. (Edwin Anderson), 1909 1993
  146. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  147. Warren, Earl, 1891 1974
  148. Weir, Laurel
  149. Weiss, Peter
  150. White Citizens Councils
  151. Whittington, Ben
  152. Wills, Josephine
  153. Wilson, R. B
  154. Wolf, Peter
  155. Yarbrough, George
  156. Young, Frank
  157. Zucker, John J., 1909 1981