King, Edwin
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Among the assorted items from 1963-1968 in this folder are the following: a blank official Mississippi voter registration form. A 1963 proposal for a Southern Education Center (perhaps a precursor to freedom schools?). COFO pamphlets on the Mississippi Student Union; on Freedom Registration (the latter includes a blank Freedom Vote registration form); and on the Work-Study Program at Tougaloo. A late 1963 memo to SNCC staff regarding "Operation Mississippi" (an early view of Freedom Summer) accompanied by plans and budget needs from each of the project directors in Operation Mississippi's five districts; Charlie Cobb's report to SNCC on "Economic Needs and Aids in Rural Areas"; and a map of the five districts. An affidavit by volunteer Saundra Lee Hill about being driven off the road. A pamphlet called "The Power of Your Vote." A late 1963 report on African Americans' efforts to participate at the county and precinct level of the Mississippi Democratic Party. Several eloquent letters v
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- Africa
- Agriculture
- Arnold, Carl
- Assault And Battery
- Baldwin, James, 1924 1987
- Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
- Beckwith, Byron De La
- Beittel, Adam Daniel
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927
- Bell, Emma
- Black Power
- Block, Samuel
- Blue, Willie
- Blyth, John W
- Bray, Gerald
- Buffington, John
- Church Buildings
- Clergy
- Cobb, Charles E., Jr
- Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
- Cotton, Mac Arthur
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- De Alessi, Gene
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Demonstrations
- Economic Conditions
- Edelman, Marian Wright
- Education
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Federal Aid
- Flowers, Dick
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Singers
- Freedom Vote
- Frey, Richard
- Greene, Dave
- Greene, George
- Gregory, Dick
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Harris, Jesse
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Hill, Saundra Lee
- Hughes, Langston, 1902 1967
- Hughes, Matthew
- Intimidation
- Jail Experiences
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Jones, James
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- King, Edwin H
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Ku Klux Klan
- Labor Unions
- March Against Fear (James Meredith March)
- Mc Daniels, E. L
- Mc Ghee, William
- Mc Laurin, Charles
- Meredith, James, 1933
- Miller, Michael
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Student Union
- Moore, Amzie
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Muilenburg, Peter
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
- Neblett, Carver
- Nonviolence
- O'neal, John, 1940
- Odetta, 1930 2008
- Operation Freedom
- Peacock, Willie
- Poitier, Sidney
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Poverty
- Prewitt, Jimmy Lee
- Republican Party (U.S.)
- Seeger, Pete, 1919
- Segregation
- Selma To Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
- Shaw, Willie
- Simpson, Euvester
- Smith, Frank
- Smith, Willie
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Sumrall, John
- Tougaloo College
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Department Of Justice
- Vasser, Elizabeth
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Volunteers
- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
- Voter Registration
- Wasserman, Miriam
- Watkins, Hollis, 1941
- Weaver, Claude
- White, Don
- Williams, John Bell