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Tecklin --Reports, 1964, undated (Jerry Tecklin Papers, 1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 538, Box 1, Folder 6)

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Tecklin, Jerry

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This folder consists of dense, beautifully written, well-researched, and informative reports on Bolivar and Sunflower County communities written by Freedom Summer volunteer Jerry Tecklin, along with assorted SNCC press releases. The reports--based on interviews with local citizens (black and white) and his own research--include interesting observations of the white community's response to the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964), facts about the variety of religions in the area, and analyses of the white cotton growers, industrialists, bankers, and law enforcement officers in the area. He is repeatedly struck by the number of Jewish and Chinese merchants in the area. His reports emphasize the white power structure's efforts to prevent blacks' collective action and economic progress. A lengthy paper describes white efforts to encourage blacks to migrate to the North as kind of "final solution to the race problem" in Mississippi. He describes some of these efforts, such as cutting bl
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Reports And Surveys Press Releases
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Keywords

  1. Agriculture
  2. Arrest
  3. Arson
  4. Bombings
  5. Burton, Phillip
  6. Carter, Hodding
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Clothing And Dress
  10. Community Centers
  11. Cooperative Societies
  12. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  13. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  14. Dorrough, Charles M
  15. Education
  16. Edwards, Don
  17. Farm Mechanization
  18. Food Programs
  19. Gronemeier, Dale
  20. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  21. Hawkins, Gus
  22. Host Families
  23. Housing
  24. Intimidation
  25. Jews
  26. Kent, Robert
  27. Ku Klux Klan
  28. Labor Unions
  29. Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
  30. Libraries
  31. Mc Laurin, Charles
  32. Migration, Internal
  33. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  34. Police
  35. Poor
  36. Quilting
  37. Rural Urban Migration
  38. Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
  39. Segregation
  40. Sterilization Of Women
  41. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  42. Teachers
  43. Threats
  44. Unemployment
  45. United States
  46. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  47. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  48. Voter Registration
  49. White Citizens Councils
  50. Whites
  51. Women

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