Friesen --Friesen's Diary, November 30-December 15, 1964 (Jake Friesen papers, 1964-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 528, Box 1, Folder 5)

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Friesen, Jake

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Jake Friesen's diary (November 30-December 15, 1964) includes the many observations he made while distributing food, clothing, and shoes to several rural towns in Mississippi on behalf of the Mennonite Central Committee. He describes the abject poverty, illiteracy, and hopelessness of many black rural Mississippi residents as well as their vicitimization by banks and landlords, is suspicious of COFO and SNCC, and describes his close workings with local civil rights leader, Amzie Moore. Friesen brings a strongly religious and fairly conservative outlook to the suffering he observes in Mississippi. He brainstorms economic possibilities for Delta blacks, including sewing.

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Diaries

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