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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
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Reports And Surveys Flyers And Handbills Statistics Curricular Materials Maps Pamphlets
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Agriculture
  3. American Civil Liberties Union
  4. Batt, William L. (William Loren), 1916 2004
  5. Beale, Helen
  6. Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877 1947
  7. Blalock, James
  8. Brown, Joyce
  9. Bullock, Joe
  10. Burney, Doris
  11. Cayden, Casey
  12. Chaffee, Lois
  13. Chandler, Barbara
  14. Chapman, L. D
  15. Child Development Group Of Mississippi
  16. Choctaw Indians
  17. Church Buildings
  18. Cinque
  19. Civil Rights
  20. Cobb, Charlie
  21. Cotton, Linda
  22. Cotton, Mac Arthur
  23. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  24. Culberson, P. L
  25. Culberson, Peggy
  26. Dane, Barbara
  27. Day, Noel
  28. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  29. Denson, Ronald
  30. Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
  31. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 1963
  32. Education
  33. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  34. Fatheree, T. B
  35. Federal Aid
  36. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  37. Free Southern Theater
  38. Fusco, Liz
  39. Germany
  40. Goldberg, Phyllis
  41. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  42. Greer, Floria
  43. Griffin, Ida Ruth
  44. Griffith, Henry
  45. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  46. Handley, H
  47. Harris, J. S., Jr
  48. Harris, Sandra
  49. Head Start Programs
  50. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  51. Hildebrand, Greg
  52. History
  53. Housing
  54. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
  55. Indians Of North America
  56. Johnson, John
  57. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  58. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  59. Johnson, Percy
  60. Johnson, W. E
  61. Jones, Frank
  62. Killeen, Carolyn M
  63. King, Edwin H
  64. Leach, Guy
  65. Leadership
  66. Lynd, Staughton
  67. Mannie, Verna
  68. Mansell, A. B., Jr
  69. Mansell, E. D
  70. Martin, Gladys
  71. Mass Media
  72. Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
  73. Medicine
  74. Migration, Internal
  75. Minnis, Jack
  76. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  77. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  78. Mississippi Student Union
  79. Morris, Margaret
  80. Moses, Dona Richards
  81. Moses, Robert Parris
  82. Music
  83. Natchez Trace
  84. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  85. Ousley, Odille
  86. Perkins, Sally
  87. Poverty
  88. Powell, Lillie Mae
  89. Public Welfare
  90. Religion
  91. Rice, C. E
  92. Rivers, Dorris W
  93. Sadow, Sue
  94. Samstein, Mendy
  95. Sandman, Ilse
  96. Segregation
  97. Sillers, Walter, 1888 1966
  98. Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907 1988
  99. Sims, V. A
  100. Smith, Everett
  101. Smith, M. Ross
  102. Smith, R. L
  103. Staffney, Margaret
  104. Stembridge, Jane
  105. Students
  106. Teachers
  107. Thurman, Carolyn
  108. Tougaloo College
  109. Tubman, Harriet, 1820? 1913
  110. Unemployment
  111. United States
  112. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  113. United States. Department Of Agriculture
  114. Vardaman, James K. (James Kimble), 1894 1972
  115. Voter Registration
  116. Wages
  117. Wallace, L. D
  118. Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915
  119. White, Gladys
  120. Whites
  121. Wolgamot, Irene
  122. Wright, Richard, 1908 1960

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