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Zinn--Mississippi "chronology," 1963-1964 (Howard Zinn Papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 1, Folder 22)

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This folder includes many reports of violence and intimidation of Mississippi blacks, especially those involved in registering to vote, and of civil rights workers from 1961 on, COFO's hopes for university faculties' involvement in the civil rights movement, an analysis of laws designed to impede Freedom Summer workers newly passed by the Mississippi state legislature, assorted SNCC press releases, and various legal documents relating to voter registration, the poll tax, and attempts to obtain more federal judges in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. There are excerpts from the Mississippi Democratic Party's platform and principles, and from Governor Johnson's 1963 campaign literature as well. A form letter sent to university faculty around the country in April 1964, soliciting their participation in Freedom Summer as observers, researchers, and seminar leaders, is particularly illuminating for the areas of research COFO leaders were interested in. There is a fascinating 5-page singl
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Keywords

  1. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  2. Allen, Louis
  3. Arrest
  4. Arson
  5. Assault And Battery
  6. Association Of Tenth Amendment Conservatives
  7. Beckwith, Byron De La
  8. Bombings
  9. Cameron, John, Rev
  10. Civil Rights
  11. Civil Rights Movements
  12. Congress Of Racial Equality
  13. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  14. Cox, Harold
  15. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  16. Demonstrations
  17. Dennis, David
  18. Donaldson, Ivanhoe
  19. Education
  20. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  21. Freedom Day
  22. Gillon, Marion
  23. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  24. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  25. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  26. Hochstedler, Eli
  27. Houston, James Monroe
  28. Intimidation
  29. Jails
  30. Jewett, Richard A
  31. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  32. Ku Klux Klan
  33. Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
  34. Labor Unions
  35. Lawyers
  36. Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
  37. Lynching
  38. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  39. Moses, Robert Parris
  40. Murder
  41. Samstein, Mendy
  42. Segregation
  43. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  44. Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906 1980
  45. Threats
  46. Unemployment
  47. Volunteers
  48. Voter Registration
  49. Voting
  50. Wallace, Ceda
  51. Whites

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