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Hexter--Christopher Hexter papers, 1964; Z: Accessions, M2005-063, Folder 5

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Hexter, Christopher

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This folder consists of materials collected by white Freedom Summer teacher Christopher Hexter. It includes civil rights groups' statements on nonviolence. An undated map of the Mississippi Delta that includes "Freedom City" and "Strike City," as well as an Air Force base in Greenville. The wide-ranging platforms and statements of the Indianola Students Union and of the Ruleville Student Action Group, including Indianola students' opposition to a proposed nuclear testing site in Hattiesburg. A document on "The Economic Conditions of the Negro in the Mississippi Delta." 2004 agenda for an American Bar Association meeting in New Orleans. A general outline of the 1965 plans for summer volunteers which not only lays out the summer plans but documents continuing violence against local blacks associated with the civil rights movement. Essays by Delta sharecroppers and freedom school students. Summer 1964 issues of the Drew Freedom Fighter and of the Ruleville Freedom Fighter. A handwritten c
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Reports And Surveys Maps Essays Newsletters Correspondence Memoranda
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Keywords

  1. Agriculture
  2. Arrest
  3. Austin, David
  4. Baldwin, James, 1924 1987
  5. Bardanelli, Harold
  6. Bombings
  7. Brown, Charlie
  8. Burnham, Margaret
  9. Cannon, Bobby
  10. Clothing And Dress
  11. Cobb, Charles E., Jr
  12. Communism
  13. Congress Of Racial Equality
  14. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  15. Courthouses
  16. Day, Louise
  17. Day, Noel
  18. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  19. Discrimination
  20. Discrimination In Employment
  21. Doss, Ora
  22. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 1963
  23. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  24. Education
  25. Emerson, Ruth
  26. Eviction
  27. Fleming, T. A
  28. Food
  29. Freedom Rides
  30. Freedom Schools
  31. Giles, Oscar
  32. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  33. Harris, John
  34. Harrison, James Edward
  35. Heifetz, Esther
  36. Herring, Bessie Mae
  37. Host Families
  38. Housing
  39. Jack, Nathaniel
  40. Jail Experiences
  41. Johnson, Eddie
  42. Labor Unions
  43. Law
  44. Levine, Allan
  45. Libraries
  46. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  47. Lloyd, Mildred
  48. Lynd, Staughton
  49. Mc Clain, Deloris
  50. Mc Laurin, Charles
  51. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  52. Moses, Robert Parris
  53. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  54. Noel, Charles
  55. Nonviolence
  56. Nuclear Weapons Testing
  57. Oppenheim, Jack
  58. Peonage
  59. Police
  60. Robinson, Julia
  61. Rosen, Jake
  62. Sachar, Jeffrey
  63. Samstein, Mendy
  64. Segregation
  65. Shapiro, Howard
  66. Sharecroppers
  67. Shields, Elsie
  68. Silone, Ignazio
  69. Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
  70. Stembridge, Jane
  71. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  72. Students
  73. Sugarman, Tracy
  74. Teachers
  75. Tecklin, Jerry
  76. Training
  77. Unemployment
  78. United States
  79. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  80. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  81. Volunteers
  82. Voter Registration
  83. Wages
  84. Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915
  85. White Citizens Councils
  86. Wilder, Dougly
  87. Williford, W. O
  88. Winn, Fred

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