CORE--Fourth Congressional District Project Office general reports and memoranda, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 28)
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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District
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This folder consists of some substantive reports and correspondence, interspersed by many lists. Among the documents are the following: "Outline for Local Organization" (guidelines for CORE volunteers); several 1965 field reports on civil rights activities in the Fourth District; a tentative agenda for a 1965 Fifth Congressional District CORE planning meeting; blank forms for CORE project managers to fill out monthly concerning their activities and expenses; a request from George Wiley for field reports for "MAC"; a 1964 (?) letter from a project manager in the field to George Wiley, assessing various volunteers and staffers and begging Wiley to visit for morale reasons; the draft (?) of a 1965 letter to national CORE offices with a proposed monthly budget compiled by local project directors; a December 1965 letter from Bob Gore in the national CORE office to field staffers about CORE's dire financial straits. The lists include the following (most are undated): Fourth District MFDP
Reports And Surveys Memoranda Press Releases Affidavits Diaries Pamphlets Meeting Minutes Correspondence Forms
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- Alexander, Richard
- Anderson, Charles
- Arrest
- Assault And Battery
- Austin, Patty
- Bartie, Louis
- Beech, Robert, 1935 2008
- Blakely, Sherry Ann
- Boyd, Minnie L
- Bradshaw, J. R
- Bromberg, Charney V
- Brown, Walter
- Buckley, Robert A
- Buckley, Sears, Jr
- Buckley, Walter
- Burnside, Alvin
- Burnside, Margaret
- Buxton, Warner
- Buyant, Obie
- Byrd, Joe
- Campbell, L. Foote
- Chaffee, Lois
- Chaney, Barbara
- Chapman, Dan
- Child Care Services
- Chinn, C. O
- Civil Rights
- Clergy
- Coleman, Elbert
- Coleman, Preston P
- Collier, Clinton
- Collier, Hester
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Conner, Peggy
- Cook, Jack
- Cooperative Societies
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Crawford, Eartiss James
- Crosby, Mary Louise
- Crowell, Catherine
- Cunningham, Phyllis
- Curnal, Melvin
- Day, Ed
- Delta Ministry
- Devine, Annie
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Donald, Lois
- Duckworth, Lloyd D
- Education
- Elections
- Employment
- Evans, Dan
- Evans, Laura
- Evans, Laurel
- Evans, Ruby Lee
- Fawcett, John E
- Fletcher, James L
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Forsythe, William H
- Frasier, Helen
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Vote
- Freeney, Charles
- Goodloe, John
- Gore, Robert
- Haley, Richard
- Hamberlin, William
- Harper, Booker T
- Harvey, F. M
- Hasberry, Robert
- Head Start Programs
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Hewitt, Theodis
- Higgins, John
- Hollander, Lynne
- Hopskin, Lee
- Hosek, Bob
- Hosey, Victor H
- Host Families
- Hurns, Andora
- Jewett, Richard A
- Johnson, Thomas
- Jones, Ben
- Jones, Naomi
- Kaslo, Greg
- Kennedy, John
- Killingsworth, J. C
- Kirkland, Melvin
- Knox, Sarah
- Leadership
- Leahy, Jay
- Leburg, Vivian
- Leverett, Howell
- Lindsay, Flossie
- Lingston, W. B
- Lombard, Rudy
- Love, W. M
- Mack, Cornelia
- Madison County Movement (Miss.)
- Manoff, Tom
- Marshall, Lee
- Maxson, Suzanne
- Mc Cray, Rufus
- Mc Donald, Sammie L
- Mc Groarty, Mary
- Mc Ree, J. F
- Mc Shepper, Mary
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Moore, Claude
- Morris, Jesse
- Morris, Joe
- Moses, Dona Richards
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nonviolence
- Norman, Lewis
- Nusbaum, Judi
- Palmer, James Gulley
- Perry, J. W., Jr
- Pickett, Milton
- Police
- Poll Tax
- Ponder, Preston
- Postal Service
- Radley, James
- Ramsey, A. L
- Raymond, George
- Rigby, C. L
- Rouser, Revelia
- Salas, Rick
- Sansing, T. A
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Sewing
- Shaffer, Mary
- Sharira, Pam E
- Sharp, Al
- Sharp, Judy
- Sharp, Philip W
- Smith, Agnes
- Smith, Douglas
- Smith, George
- Smith, Johnnie
- Smith, Johnny Lee
- Smith, Lon
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Sours, Nancy Ann
- Spense, Mary
- Stamp, Johnny
- Stewart, Brooks
- Teal, Dorothy
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Agriculture
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Vaughn, Lexi
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Walker, D. J
- Walker, Johnnie Mae
- War On Poverty
- Watkins, Robert P
- Watson, Alsenia
- Watson, Eli
- Webb, W. Harold
- Wilbourn, Emma Jean
- Wiley, George A
- Williams, Joe
- Williams, Otha
- Windham, Chambers
- Winter, Leila
- Wright, Martha
- Young, Eva Mae