Freedom Information Service--WATS reports, August 1964 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 1, Segment 6)

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The raw material for August 1964 WATS line calls to Jackson is in this folder. During this period of time, the following events occurred: the county MFDP convention; volunteer Wayne Yancey was killed in car accident; the freedom school convention; Free Southern Theater performances of "In White America"; Pete Seeger and Judy Collins sing in Mississippi; the state MFDP convention takes place; the bodies of missing civil rights workers found; a memorial walk in Meridian to remember James Chaney; Freedom Day in McComb following several serious bombings there; and lots of church burnings, shootings, threats, and murders. The unemotional reports of all of these events are often buried among reports of who is joining or leaving the Summer Project, who is traveling where and whether they've arrived safely, and accounts of people being arrested and other people trying to find out where they're being held.

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Freedom Information Service--WATS reports, August 1964 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 1, Segment 6)

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