Walker -- Staff Reports, 1964-1965 (Samuel Walker Papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 655, Box 1, Folder 6)

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Walker, Samuel

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The dominant feature of the materials in this folder consists of internal complaints about the workings of COFO, especially of the Jackson office. Through signed field reports from a variety of Mississippi Freedom Summer centers and in the verbatim transcripts of some staff meetings, the voices of frustrated but hopeful volunteers and local people (black and white, male and female) come through clearly. R. Hunter Morey's December 1964 report, "Cross Roads in COFO," summarizes the major issues facing the organization at that time. Other materials in the folder include "The Stresses of the White Female Worker in the Civil Rights Movement in the South" by Alvin F. Poussaint (1965), a Medical Committee for Human Rights member at the time; assorted reports from a variety of Mississippi locales about their freedom schools, community centers, and voter registration activities; some monthly financial documents detailing COFO expenses and expenditures; a SNCC fact sheet on Hattiesburg; and an

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Reports And Surveys Meeting Minutes Memoranda Newsletters

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