CORE Southern Regional Office--Mississippi Freedom Summer, August 1962, March 1964, October 1965 (Congress of Racial Equity. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 17, Folder 2)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office

Description

This folder documents many of the preparations and plans for Freedom Summer. Among the items here are a spring 1964 COFO flyer and a printed pamphlet directed to black Mississippians, asking for their help in housing and supporting Freedom Summer volunteers; a highly illustrated CORE pamphlet entitled "The Right to Vote"; a COFO report submitted to the Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in March 1964 which lists many threats and violent incidents against civil rights workers as well as recently passed Mississippi state laws designed to obstruct their work; an April 1964 COFO report on the MFDP, laying out its plans for the summer and fall of 1964; an internal CORE document about tensions between groups of lawyers; information about federal programs, especially for farmers; an outline of Mississippi Summer research projects; a detailed outline for a CORE workshop on leadership training; a January 1965 document from the U.S. government explaining the 1964

Format:

Flyers And Handbills Pamphlets Reports And Surveys Memoranda Government Documents Correspondence

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