CORE Southern Regional Office--Mississippi reports, general: April 1955, April 1962, February-October 1964 (Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 8, Folder 1)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office

Description

This folder contains an assortment of mostly official internal CORE and COFO materials. Included are financial reports on CORE's contribution to the Mississippi Freedom Project from July-September 1964 and from July-December 1964, and on COFO's finances from May-July 1964; COFO's expenses from January-October 1964; a blank official Mississippi voter registration form; part of an incident summary; Bill Higgs's very thorough "Mississippi Political Handbook" that's referred to in transcripts of Anne Romaine's interviews with MFDP figures and which sets out the way Mississippi precincts, state conventions, and voter registration work; a statistical report on Canton, Mississippi, by Edward Hollander; Richard Jewett's affidavit about his beating by police; draft of an employment workshop handbook; some weekly reports from October-November 1964 from Richard Jewett and from Greg Kaslo from January 1965; a chronology of contacts with the federal government over the three civil rights workers

Format:

Reports And Surveys Forms Correspondence Legal Profession Affidavits Clippings

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