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Belfrage--Location file: Moss Point, 1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 16)

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This folder consists of almost daily reports from the COFO office in Moss Point, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer. It also includes assorted affidavits about job discrimination at the Ingalls Shipyard; discriminatory treatment at courthouses; restaurants refusing service to African Americans; bottles being thrown out of cars at black pedestrians; and about a variety of incidents involving threats, shootings, beatings, and intimidation of blacks by white residents. There's also a special report on the shooting of a young black woman who was attending a mass meeting.
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Reports And Surveys Affidavits Correspondence
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Keywords

  1. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  2. Allen, Cora
  3. Arrest
  4. Arson
  5. Assault And Battery
  6. Barfield, Early
  7. Barnhill, Roger
  8. Biggs, J. C
  9. Brown, Joe B
  10. Burton, C. B
  11. Byrd, Cecil
  12. Campbell, Robert
  13. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  14. Chatmon, Thomas C
  15. Church Buildings
  16. Civil Rights
  17. Civil Rights Workers
  18. Communism
  19. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  20. Courthouses
  21. Courts
  22. Creer, John
  23. Demonstrations
  24. Discrimination
  25. Discrimination In Employment
  26. Dubose, Charles
  27. Ellickson, Mary
  28. Evers, Charles, 1922
  29. Eviction
  30. Fairley, L. J
  31. Freedom Schools
  32. Freedom Singers
  33. Freedom Vote
  34. Glenn, Charles
  35. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  36. Grandison, Elvira
  37. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  38. Host Families
  39. Hudson, B. J
  40. Intimidation
  41. Jackson, Charles T
  42. Jail Experiences
  43. Jefferson, Jerry
  44. Jones, James
  45. Kirschenbaum, Howard
  46. Labor Unions
  47. Leigh, Sanford
  48. Libraries
  49. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  50. Lynd, Theron C
  51. Mass Media
  52. Mc Donald, Raymond
  53. Mc Kay, Marianne
  54. Meely, Fred
  55. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  56. Mississippi Student Union
  57. Murder
  58. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  59. Neplowitz, Rita
  60. O'brien, Tony
  61. Packer, Alvin
  62. Palmer, Thomas
  63. Police
  64. Police Brutality
  65. Ramsay, Vertis G
  66. Ramsey, Claude
  67. Rand, Deborah
  68. Reese, Junior
  69. Reese, Willie
  70. Ridenour, Ron
  71. Rosenberg, John
  72. Ryerson, Sue
  73. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  74. Segregation
  75. Smith, Benjamin Eugene
  76. Smith, Joseph
  77. Stallworth, Jessia Mae
  78. Stern, Louis
  79. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  80. Taylor, Walter
  81. Tessaro, George
  82. Threats
  83. Tripple, W. C
  84. Turnipseed, Frances
  85. Turnipseed, Lamar
  86. Unemployment
  87. United States
  88. United States. Department Of Justice
  89. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  90. Vaughs, Cliff
  91. Verson, Alan
  92. Voter Registration
  93. Wages
  94. White Citizens Councils
  95. Wiggins, E. J
  96. Wiley, John
  97. Williams, Leroy
  98. Winans, Nedra
  99. Winham, Alfred R
  100. Winham, Margery

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