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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- Africa
- Arrest
- Ash, J. M
- Baker, Ella
- Boycotts
- Bratton, Boyce
- Brown, Otis, Jr
- Clergy
- Communism
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Cotton, Mac Arthur
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Courthouses
- Courts
- Cox, Courtland
- Cox, Harold
- Crockett (Special Investigator)
- Crockett, George W., Jr
- Current, Gloster
- Dann, James
- Davis, Jesse
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Dennis, Dave
- Devine, Annie
- Donaldson, Ivanhoe
- Education
- Evans, Walter
- Evers, Charles
- Farmer, James
- Forman, James
- Frey, Richard
- Gray, Victoria
- Greenberg, Jack
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hanson, Bruce
- Harris, Jessie
- Harris, John
- Hedgeman, Anna
- Henry, Aaron
- Holt, Len
- Intimidation
- Jenkins, Linnie
- Jewett, Richard
- Jews
- Johnson, Lyndon
- Jones, Dean
- Jones, W. H
- Jury
- Kaminsky, Herschel
- King, Edwin
- King, Martin Luther
- Labor Unions
- Lawyers
- Leadership
- Lefever (Judge)
- Lewis, John
- Lindsay, Rev
- Lowenstein, Allard
- Mack, Mc Kinley, Jr
- Mack, Thelma
- Miles, Robert
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888 1965
- Morris, Jesse
- Morsell, John
- Moses, Robert Parris
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- National Lawyers Guild
- Packer, Alvin
- Patsworth, John
- Pitts, Tom
- Police
- Ponder, Annell
- Poverty
- Pratt, Jack
- Purvis (Sheriff)
- Rauh, Joseph
- Roach, Henry
- Rogers, William Henry
- Rosenthal, L. H
- Rubin, Larry
- Rustin, Bayard
- Samstein, Mendy
- Scarborough, Tom
- Scattergood, Charles
- Scott, William
- Segregation
- Sheriffs
- Smith, Clinton Douglas
- Smith, R. L. T
- Snodgrass, Charlie
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Spike, Robert
- Steptoe, E. W
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Surney, Lafayette
- Thomas, Arthur
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Threats
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
- Voter Registration
- Wages
- Wilkins, Roy
- Young, Andrew