Freedom Information Service--Miscellaneous reports and news releases, 1962-1965, undated (Freedom Information Service Records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 3, Segment 2)

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This folder consists of reports of some of the threats, intimidation, arrests, and harassment of civil rights workers from 1963-1965. It also includes the familiar document, "Some Provisions [in the U.S. Code] for Federal Prosecution in Civil Rights," a handwritten list of church burnings in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, a memo by Lawrence Guyot detailing some last-minute procedures for the 1964 Freedom Vote, part of a letter from a Carleton College student about how, on his second day in Mississippi, he is now running the Jackson COFO office, and a 2-page list of Mississippi locations that had experienced "beatings, sluggings, cars overturned, shootings, bombings and burnings, testing [the public accommodations part of the Civil Rights Act] and being refused service or some sort of trouble, arrests, and unsolved murders" for April-May 1965 alone. A later document says that crosses were burned in 64 counties on April 24 [year not specified: 1965?]. A civil case brought against M

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Reports And Surveys Press Releases Memoranda Correspondence Legal Documents Handbills And Flyers

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Freedom Information Service--Miscellaneous reports and news releases, 1962-1965, undated (Freedom Information Service Records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 3, Segment 2)

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