Hexter--Council of Federated Organizations (Christopher Hexter papers, 1964; Z: Accessions, M2005-063, Folder 1)
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Hexter, Christopher
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This folder primarily contains an assortment of official COFO and SNCC documents: "What Is COFO?: Mississippi: The Structure of the Movement and Present Operations"; "COFO Political Program"; "Case Study: Statements of Discipline of Non-Violent Movements"; part of a curriculum guide to and lesson plans on Mississippi politics and COFO's political program (Unit 7, part 2); "Memorandum on the SNCC Mississippi Summer Project"; an essay on "Freedom Rides"; "Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi: Subversion of the Fifteenth Amendment in Mississippi"; "Economic and Training Needs, Mississippi Delta"; a 1968 article by Hodding Carter III entitled "The Negro Exodus from the Delta Continues" that was published in the New York Times; "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party" (a COFO document); handwritten notes for a talk on Mississippi; a blank form for SNCC lobbying in Washington; Christopher Hexter v. City of Indianola (Hexter was charged with illegal leafleting); and the "1964 Platform of
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- Agriculture
- Assault And Battery
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Carter, Hodding
- Civil Rights
- Clothing And Dress
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Farmer, James, 1920 1999
- Federal Aid
- Food Programs
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Vote
- Frerichs, C. A
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Hexter, Christopher
- Housing
- Houston, James Monroe
- Intimidation
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Labor Unions
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Nonviolence
- Poor
- Poverty
- Rural Urban Migration
- Segregation
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Threats
- Travis, James
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- Voter Registration
- Voting