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Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16)

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Smith, Benjamin Eugene

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Among other things, this folder contains an assortment of materials relating to the recently passed Mississippi state law--followed by similar municipal laws--which limited freedom of assembly.There's an April 1964 statement by ministers on the arrest of 8 of their brethren for violating this law, May 1964 newspaper clippings about arrests on related city laws, and affidavits from other people arrested under these laws. Also in this folder are SNCC internal documents about expanding the civil rights movement to include labor issues, on state conferences, and on leadership institutes; new rules (1963) for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi; minutes from a cantankerous September 1964 meeting of the National Council of Churches about the Mississippi Project, following the MFDP challenge to the National Democratic Convention; handwritten notes on the "COFO 9" arrested in February 1965 for participating in a school boycott; and an eloquent legal document asking that m
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Keywords

  1. Africa
  2. Arrest
  3. Ash, J. M
  4. Baker, Ella
  5. Boycotts
  6. Bratton, Boyce
  7. Brown, Otis, Jr
  8. Clergy
  9. Communism
  10. Congress Of Racial Equality
  11. Cotton, Mac Arthur
  12. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  13. Courthouses
  14. Courts
  15. Cox, Courtland
  16. Cox, Harold
  17. Crockett (Special Investigator)
  18. Crockett, George W., Jr
  19. Current, Gloster
  20. Dann, James
  21. Davis, Jesse
  22. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  23. Dennis, Dave
  24. Devine, Annie
  25. Donaldson, Ivanhoe
  26. Education
  27. Evans, Walter
  28. Evers, Charles
  29. Farmer, James
  30. Forman, James
  31. Frey, Richard
  32. Gray, Victoria
  33. Greenberg, Jack
  34. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  35. Hanson, Bruce
  36. Harris, Jessie
  37. Harris, John
  38. Hedgeman, Anna
  39. Henry, Aaron
  40. Holt, Len
  41. Intimidation
  42. Jenkins, Linnie
  43. Jewett, Richard
  44. Jews
  45. Johnson, Lyndon
  46. Jones, Dean
  47. Jones, W. H
  48. Jury
  49. Kaminsky, Herschel
  50. King, Edwin
  51. King, Martin Luther
  52. Labor Unions
  53. Lawyers
  54. Leadership
  55. Lefever (Judge)
  56. Lewis, John
  57. Lindsay, Rev
  58. Lowenstein, Allard
  59. Mack, Mc Kinley, Jr
  60. Mack, Thelma
  61. Miles, Robert
  62. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  63. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
  64. Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888 1965
  65. Morris, Jesse
  66. Morsell, John
  67. Moses, Robert Parris
  68. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  69. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  70. National Lawyers Guild
  71. Packer, Alvin
  72. Patsworth, John
  73. Pitts, Tom
  74. Police
  75. Ponder, Annell
  76. Poverty
  77. Pratt, Jack
  78. Purvis (Sheriff)
  79. Rauh, Joseph
  80. Roach, Henry
  81. Rogers, William Henry
  82. Rosenthal, L. H
  83. Rubin, Larry
  84. Rustin, Bayard
  85. Samstein, Mendy
  86. Scarborough, Tom
  87. Scattergood, Charles
  88. Scott, William
  89. Segregation
  90. Sheriffs
  91. Smith, Clinton Douglas
  92. Smith, R. L. T
  93. Snodgrass, Charlie
  94. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  95. Spike, Robert
  96. Steptoe, E. W
  97. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  98. Students
  99. Surney, Lafayette
  100. Thomas, Arthur
  101. Thoreau, Henry David
  102. Threats
  103. Unemployment
  104. United States
  105. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  106. Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
  107. Voter Registration
  108. Wages
  109. Wilkins, Roy
  110. Young, Andrew

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