Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Description
Records collected by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission on Canton and Madison County, Mississippi. The file includes a memorandum about a planned walk-out from the African American school; a letter from a state senator from Canton seeking information about an African American pastor; reports by investigator A. L. Hopkins on the local situation; a page of handwritten notes; and a memorandum with notes obtained from the United States Secret Service about John Earl Brown, an African American man from Canton.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Record Contributed By
Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Men
- African American Schools
- African American Students
- African Americans
- Boycotts
- Canton
- Canton (Miss.)
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Forms
- Government
- History
- Legislators
- Madison County
- Madison County (Miss.)
- Mississippi
- Politics And Government
- Race Relations
- Subversive Activities
- Voting