SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 6)
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This rich folder has an assortment of COFO documents. Among them are: COFO pamphlets: "The Mississippi Summer Project"; "Mississippi Freedom Summer"; "Freedom Registration (with blank Freedom Registration form)"; "Adopt a Freedom School [The "Freedom School Prospectus"]." COFO's December 1963 bylaws. Annell Ponder's brave and moving essay called "Citizenship Education in the 'Heart of the Iceberg'." A January 1965 appeal from John and Candie Carawan for freedom songs for a second volume of same. The familiar "Overview of the Freedom Schools" for freedom school teachers. The overview of COFO's political program. Part of the overview of COFO's community centers. Jesse Harris's October 1964 appeal to ex-volunteers for funds for a McComb community center. "Notes on Teaching in Mississippi." A blank official Mississippi voter registration form. "Sample Sections of the Mississippi Constitution" (presumably used in citizenship classes). Fascinating depositions taken in February 1965 about t
Pamphlets Reports And Surveys Memoranda Correspondence Forms Legal Documents Clippings Flyers And Handbills Meeting Minutes
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- Adams, Dora
- Adams, Jane
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Agriculture
- Allen, Louis
- Allison, Robert J
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Baker, Oscar
- Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
- Barnett, Willie
- Bass, Robert
- Bates, James
- Baumgartner, John
- Beech, Robert, 1935 2008
- Beecher, John
- Beechy, Atlee
- Bell, John
- Bernard, Joel
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
- Block, Samuel
- Bolton, James E. H
- Bombings
- Bowman, Joanne
- Boyd, Stan
- Braden, Anne
- Bray, Sandra
- Brooks, Eddie
- Brown, Lovie
- Burnham, Margaret
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Carawan, Candie
- Carawan, Guy
- Carver, Ronald
- Case, Charles
- Chaney, Fannie Lee
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Chastain, Norman
- Church Buildings
- Cieciorka, Frank
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Clark, Don
- Clark, Kit
- Clarke, Angus
- Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909 1969
- Clergy
- Clothing And Dress
- Cobb, Charles E., Jr
- Cocroft, Mason Freeman
- Collier, James
- Combs, Brian
- Combs, Chad
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Conner, Peggy
- Cooperative Societies
- Corson, James
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Crawford, Eartiss James
- Crosby, Donald
- Crossley, John P., Jr
- Cunningham, Dick
- Curry, Sally Stauffer
- Darden, Ann
- Davies, John
- Day, Duane
- Day, Noel
- De Lott, Elaine
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Demonstrations
- Dennis, Dave
- Diebold, John
- Doar, John, 1921
- Dorrough, Charles M
- Dorworth, Burke
- Dotson, Paul R
- Education
- Emmerich, J. O
- Evens, Spurgeon
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Eyrich, Clarence
- Federal Aid
- Finley, John
- Fisher, Theo
- Fleischer, Barry
- Fletcher, Donald R. (Donald Rodgers), 1919
- Floum, Dick
- Flowers, Dick
- Food Drives
- Forsyth, William H
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Vote
- Fusco, Liz
- Garman, Betty
- Gates, G. W
- Giles, Oscar, Mrs
- Gilman, Robert
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Gordon, Bruce
- Graham, Benjamin
- Gravatt, Walter
- Graves, Charles
- Green, George
- Gregory, Dick
- Grier, Bob
- Gronemeier, Dale
- Guerrero, Gene
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamlett, Ed, 1939
- Hancock, Milton
- Harris, Dave
- Harris, Jesse
- Hayden, Casey
- Heinze, Fred
- Henderson, Kathleen
- Henderson, William
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Hindman, Neil
- Holland, Ida
- Host Families
- Hotz, Marilyn
- Housing
- Howard, Houston James
- Hughes, Cephus
- Ichiyama, Ken
- Intimidation
- Jackson, Ellis
- Jackson, Jonnie
- Jacobs, Donald
- Jacobs, Solomon
- Jails
- Jewett, Richard A
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Johnson, Newell
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Johnson, T. L
- Jones, Jimmie Lee
- Jones, Jimmy
- Kabat, Lucien
- Kehm, George
- Keppel, Jack
- King, Annie Mae
- King, Arthur
- King, James
- Kremer, Barbara Graybeal
- Ku Klux Klan
- La Rue, Mary Ellen
- Labor Unions
- Lawyers
- Lee, Lucille
- Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913 1996
- Libraries
- Light, Bill
- Lindsay, Merrill W
- Lipnick, Jerome
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Litt, Dan
- Lomas, Winifred
- Long, Paul
- Lucky, Cleota
- Lynching
- Lynd, Staughton
- Lyon, Danny
- Mangrum, Fred
- Marikawa, Jitsue
- Marsh, Clinton M. (Clinton Mc Clurkin), 1916
- Marshall, Burke, 1922
- Martin, Allan
- Mass Media
- Maxwell, Bruce
- Mc Alpin, David H
- Mc Clellan, Graydon E., 1914
- Mc Clintock, Howard
- Mc Cord, Joe
- Mc Ghee, Silas
- Mc Ghee, Willie
- Mc Hugh, Madeline
- Mc Kenna, Warren H
- Mc Kinstry, Herbert
- Mc Namara, Norris
- Mc Worter, Gerald A
- Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
- Mississippi Free Press
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Mississippi Student Union
- Mitchell, Francis
- Moore, Paul
- Moreman, Bill
- Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
- Morris, Jesse
- Morse, Frank
- Moseley, Louise
- Moses, Dona Richards
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- Music
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Neblett, Carver
- Newberg, Arthur
- Newcomb, Nadine
- Newell, Bob
- Nye, Lowell, Mrs
- Nystren, Joe
- O'dwyer, Paul
- O'neill, Helen
- Ogden, Galen
- Olson, Dayton
- Owen, George Earl
- Owens, David
- Paige, Vera
- Parker, Ron K
- Patch, Penny
- Patterson, Mary Jane
- Paul, John Lyon
- Payne, Bruce
- Pearson, Drew, 1897 1969
- Pedi, Stephen
- Pettit, Mary Lou
- Phipps, Bobby
- Phipps, Leon
- Pickering, Alan J
- Pittman, James
- Police Brutality
- Ponder, Annell
- Pontikes, George
- Poor
- Porter, Jack
- Porter, Margaret Ann
- Poverty
- Prather, Robert
- Price, Cecil
- Price, Charles
- Public Welfare
- Purnell, Lillian
- Quigley, Harold
- Quinn, Aylene
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Ramsey, Tom
- Rawlings, Chuck
- Raymond, George
- Reblee, Fred
- Rice, Carl
- Rich, Marvin
- Richards, Dona
- Roby, Georgia
- Ronander, Albert
- Ross, Daniel
- Rossman, Doris
- Rubin, Larry, 1942
- Rudd, Barrett
- Samstein, Mendy
- Sayer, Michael
- Schrader, Emmie
- Schwartz, Thatcher
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Sexism
- Shaw, Terri
- Shulman, Howard
- Sigler, Richard E
- Simpson, Euvester
- Simpson, Richard
- Slee, John
- Smith, Atlean
- Smith, Frank
- Smith, Robert
- Smith, Sally
- Smith, Scott B
- Social Classes
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Spears, Lawrence
- Speyer, Judith
- Stansbery, Leslie
- Starr, Michael
- Stembridge, Jane
- Stigler, Joe Louis
- Stiles, Lee
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Suarez, Matteo
- Taylor, Ned
- Teachers
- Thrasher, Sue
- Threats
- Till, Emmett, 1941 1955
- Torkington, Roy Bernard, 1940
- Totten, F. Norman
- Tougaloo College
- Training
- Travis, James
- Trice, Clifford
- Tubbs, T. J
- Turnbow, Hartman
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Van Kranenburgh, E
- Van Voorhis, Dick
- Vastine, William
- Vaughs, Cliff
- Volunteers
- Von Hoffman, Nicholas
- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
- Voter Registration
- Voting
- Ward, Mae York
- Ware, William
- Watkins, W. H., Jr
- Watson, James
- Watts, Sandra
- Weeks, Carol
- Weil, Robert
- Weinberger, Eric
- Weinberger, Martin
- Welch, Rosa Page
- Werner, Peter
- White, Thelma
- Whites
- Wiegmann, F. W
- Williams, Bob
- Williams, Floyd
- Williams, Mary
- Williamson, Gordon
- Wilson, Jack
- Winn, Fred
- Winsor, Gordon
- Winter, George
- Witt, Hal
- Wolf, David
- Women
- Young, Charles
- Young, Lem
- Zaretsky, Malcolm
- Ziff, Ed