CORE-- Community centers - General memoranda and notes, 1964 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 8)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District

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This is a folder of documents on community centers during Freedom Summer and after. A document on "COFO's Proposed Community Centers" lays out the goals for the centers during Freedom Summer, the economic and social factors behind their inception, plans for volunteers and programs, and descriptions of the two community centers already in operation in Greenwood and Meridian. The first page of the familiar COFO memo to 1964 Summer Project staff, "An Overview of Community Centers," is also here, followed by a more sober assessment of community centers from later in the summer called "Progress and Problems of the COFO Community Centers." A form letter from Annell Ponder asks local people for their input on what programs they'd like to see in a community center and for help in staffing it. The familiar list of materials needed for the Mississippi Summer Project is here as well. A memo to community center staff asks for weekly written reports on their centers' activities. A letter from a C

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Reports And Surveys Memoranda Correspondence Meeting Minutes

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