Mays--COFO Freedom Schools (James N. Mays papers, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 404, Box 1, Folder 7)
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This folder includes a syllabus for teaching Negro history; an ad for two plays, one from the Free Southern Theater and one about Medgar Evers; an appeal to Freedom School teachers to collect students' essays for possible publication; 1966 rules for getting child care workers paid in a more timely way; a form for teaching in Citizenship Schools; guidelines for Head Start agencies whose facilities are in churches; 1966 document on USDA's National School Lunch programs; a 1966 guide for parent education on nutrition; Head Start (?) school day schedules of activities; blank report card from Detroit, Michigan, school; a 1946 and 1949 teacher's guide to scheduling and planning from the Detroit, Michigan school system; Liz Fusco's 1964 report on Freedom Schools in Mississippi; a 1-page analysis of the Freedom Summer curriculum that likened conditions for blacks in the South to Nazi Germany; a copy of a Freedom School newsletter (The Freedom Echo, Mt. Nebo, Mississippi); and 1963 "Prospectus
Reports And Surveys Flyers And Handbills Statistics Curricular Materials Maps Pamphlets
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- African Americans
- Agriculture
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Batt, William L. (William Loren), 1916 2004
- Beale, Helen
- Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877 1947
- Blalock, James
- Brown, Joyce
- Bullock, Joe
- Burney, Doris
- Cayden, Casey
- Chaffee, Lois
- Chandler, Barbara
- Chapman, L. D
- Child Development Group Of Mississippi
- Choctaw Indians
- Church Buildings
- Cinque
- Civil Rights
- Cobb, Charlie
- Cotton, Linda
- Cotton, Mac Arthur
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Culberson, P. L
- Culberson, Peggy
- Dane, Barbara
- Day, Noel
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Denson, Ronald
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 1963
- Education
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Fatheree, T. B
- Federal Aid
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Free Southern Theater
- Fusco, Liz
- Germany
- Goldberg, Phyllis
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
- Greer, Floria
- Griffin, Ida Ruth
- Griffith, Henry
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Handley, H
- Harris, J. S., Jr
- Harris, Sandra
- Head Start Programs
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Hildebrand, Greg
- History
- Housing
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
- Indians Of North America
- Johnson, John
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Johnson, Percy
- Johnson, W. E
- Jones, Frank
- Killeen, Carolyn M
- King, Edwin H
- Leach, Guy
- Leadership
- Lynd, Staughton
- Mannie, Verna
- Mansell, A. B., Jr
- Mansell, E. D
- Martin, Gladys
- Mass Media
- Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
- Medicine
- Migration, Internal
- Minnis, Jack
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mississippi Student Union
- Morris, Margaret
- Moses, Dona Richards
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Music
- Natchez Trace
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Ousley, Odille
- Perkins, Sally
- Poverty
- Powell, Lillie Mae
- Public Welfare
- Religion
- Rice, C. E
- Rivers, Dorris W
- Sadow, Sue
- Samstein, Mendy
- Sandman, Ilse
- Segregation
- Sillers, Walter, 1888 1966
- Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
- Sims, V. A
- Smith, Everett
- Smith, M. Ross
- Smith, R. L
- Staffney, Margaret
- Stembridge, Jane
- Students
- Teachers
- Thurman, Carolyn
- Tougaloo College
- Tubman, Harriet, 1820? 1913
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Agriculture
- Vardaman, James K. (James Kimble), 1894 1972
- Voter Registration
- Wages
- Wallace, L. D
- Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915
- White, Gladys
- Whites
- Wolgamot, Irene
- Wright, Richard, 1908 1960