Werner--Assorted documents on Freedom Schools and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Hank Werner papers; Z: Accessions, M71-358, Box 1, Folder 5)
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An assortment of documents, many about freedom schools, giving the organizers' perspective on the challenges, needs, and curricula, and on the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party. Among them are lists of freedom school supplies volunteers should bring with them; advice for potential teachers about teaching in Mississippi; Aug. 1964 "final report" on Freedom Schools in Mississippi; Aug. 1964 "final report" on COFO community centers; fascinating "Memo to Accepted [Freedom Summer] Applicants"; COFO orientation on art workshops; Freedom [Voter] Registration Form; Voter Registration Canvassing Form; Written Voter Registration Application Form; MFDP on their Democratic Convention challenge; COFO Legal Newsletter; "Resolution by the Democratic Party of Mississippi"; "Provisions for Federal Prosecution in Civil Rights"; COFO contacts with Neshoba County law enforcement over the missing civil rights workers; MFDP's "Freedom Candidates"; "Freedom School Data"; letters from volunteers' parents a
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Reports And Surveys Correspondence Meeting Minutes Newsletters Forms Affidavits Clippings Press Releases
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- Adams, Jane
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Africa
- Agriculture
- Alperovitz, Gar
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Bail
- Baldwin, James, 1924 1987
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927
- Beymer, Richard
- Bikel, Theodore
- Black History
- Blum, Norman
- Bombings
- Boycotts
- Brown, Joyce
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Clergy
- Cobb, Charles E., Jr
- Cohen, Bob
- Colmer, William
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Cooperative Societies
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Davis, Ossie
- Davis, Raymond
- Day Care Centers
- Day, Noel
- Dee, Ruby
- Delaney, Hubert T
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Derby, Doris Adelaide
- Devine, Annie
- Doar, John, 1921
- Dotson, Phillip
- Drinan, Robert F
- Education
- Elections
- Farmer, James, 1920 1999
- Featherstone, Ralph
- Federal Aid
- Fleming, Karl
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Fraser, Lillian
- Free Southern Theater
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Singers
- Freedom Vote
- Friedland, Louis
- Fusco, Liz
- Gerow, R. O
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Goodman, Robert
- Green, Andrew Lee
- Green, Edith, 1910 1987
- Gregory, Dick
- Griffin, Charlotte
- Griffin, Ida Ruth
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamer, Perry
- Harvy, Margie
- Helms, Grace
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Herring, Minnie
- Houston, James Monroe
- Howe, Mark De Wolfe, 1906 1967
- Hudson, Cleo
- Hudson, Joan
- Hughes, Langston, 1902 1967
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
- Hutchinson, William
- Intimidation
- Jackson, William
- Jail Experiences
- Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904 1986
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Johnston, A. L
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- Kirschenbaum, Howard
- Kirstein, Lincoln
- Koppelman, Ann
- Ku Klux Klan
- Labor Unions
- Langdon, Willy
- Le Paul, Eddie
- Leadership
- Leatherwood, Tom
- Levy, Leonard
- Lewis, John
- Luckett, Vernon O
- Lynd, Staughton
- Lynd, Theron C
- Mass Media
- Mays, James
- Mc Kee, Marie
- Mc Nair, Landy
- Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
- Medicine
- Meyers, William
- Miller, William
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Dona Richards
- Moses, Gilbert
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Nelson, Gaylord, 1916 2005
- Norman, Silas
- Ostrow, Robert W
- Parents
- Pickett, Milton
- Police Brutality
- Price, Cecil
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889 1979
- Raymond, George
- Republican Party (U.S.)
- Reuss, Henry S
- Ridenour, Ron
- Riley, David
- Roby, Harold
- Samstein, Mendy
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Schwerner, Nathan H
- Seeger, Pete, 1919
- Segregation
- Sheriffs
- Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
- Smith, Jerome
- Smith, Scott B
- Smith, Steven L
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Stembridge, Jane
- Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Suarez, Matteo
- Tarvin, Marion
- Thomas, Morton
- Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906 1980
- Threats
- Tillow, Walter
- Tougaloo College
- Training
- Turner, Gil
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Varela, Mary
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Wages
- Wahman, Thomas
- War On Poverty
- Warren, Leonard
- Washington, Cynthia
- White Citizens Councils
- Whites
- Whitten, Jamie
- Williams, Robert Bell
- Wilmore, Ron