Park--Robert W. Park papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks SC658
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Park, Robert W
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This folder contains a wide assortment of materials by various authors. Most are from 1965. Some of the materials document the split between the MFDP and a new integrated Democratic Party in Mississippi. Others discuss freedom schools, and the jailing of hundreds of demonstrators in the State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi, during the summer of 1965. Other items are the following: Volunteer Cornelia Mack's excited August 1964 letter describing freedom schools in Hattiesburg and Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi, and the Freedom School Convention in Meridian. Robert Park's notes describing civil rights workers' 1965 imprisonment at the State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi. Jane Stembridge's notes on a workshop conducted by Stokely Carmichael at the Work-Study Institute planned by Howard Zinn and others that took place in Waveland, Mississippi, in the spring of 1965. A registration form for a short-lived freedom school in Jackson, Mississippi. The August 1964 constitution of the
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- Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903 1998
- Adams, Jane
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Agriculture
- Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 2000
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Atkins, Josie
- Bass, Derrick
- Bender, Rita L
- Bombings
- Boycotts
- Boyd, Malcolm, 1923
- Brewer, William
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Carter, Hodding
- Carter, James
- Celler, Emanuel, 1888 1981
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Chappell, Levy
- Child Care Services
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Community Centers
- Cooper, Irving Ben
- Cooperative Societies
- Cosey, Mildred
- Cox, Harold
- Crain, William
- Crystal, Daniel
- De Vine, Annie
- Deacons
- Delta Ministry
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Dodds, Wilmer
- Donald, Cleveland
- Duckworth, C. J
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Education
- Evers, Charles, 1922
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Fisher, Nick
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Free Southern Theater
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Week
- Garner, Edna Mae
- Gellatly, Mary Sue
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Gordon, Maggie
- Greene, George
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hastie, William, 1904 1976
- Hawkins, Andrew
- Head Start Programs
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Higgs, William L
- Hill, Thelma
- Horton, Myles, 1905 1990
- Host Families
- Housing
- Hutchinson, Flavous
- Intimidation
- Jackson, Jonas
- Jails
- Jews
- Johnson, Allen
- Johnson, June
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Johnson, Willie
- Jordan, E. O
- Kaplan, Sherwin
- Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- King, Edwin H
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Kinoy, Arthur
- Kittsley, James
- Kline, John
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
- Labor Unions
- Lagrone, Wade
- Larks, Miller
- Lawyers
- Libraries
- Light, Bill
- Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet)
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Lynching
- Lynd, Theron C
- Mack, Cornelia
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908 1993
- Martin, L. J
- Martin, Willie Mae
- Mass Media
- Maxwell, Bruce
- Mc Ghee, Silas
- Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
- Meredith, James, 1933
- Metcalf, George
- Miller, Beatrice
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Moore, James
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Moss, Barbara Chaney
- Murder
- Music
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Nonviolence
- O'neil, Clarence
- Oswald, Robert
- Peacock, Willie
- Phipps, James Earl
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Poor People's Corporation
- Poverty
- Public Welfare
- Quinn, John
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Ramsay, Claude
- Rancher, Lucinda
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889 1979
- Ready, William R
- Rice, Rosemond
- Robinson, Spottswood W
- Roosevelt, James, 1907 1991
- Ruffin, Susie
- Rural Urban Migration
- Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
- Schools
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Seeger, Pete, 1919
- Seese, Linda
- Segregation
- Sellers, Nettie
- Shelton, George
- Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Solucos, Simon
- Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
- Stavis, Morton
- Stearns, Nancy
- Stein, Evelyn
- Stembridge, Jane
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Swanson, Richard
- Taylor, Wendell P
- Thomason, Sylvester
- Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906 1980
- Threats
- Training
- Turnbow, Hartman
- Turner, Windell
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Van Tassel, Harriet
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Walker, Prentiss, 1917 1998
- Waltzer, Bruce C
- War On Poverty
- Watson, Tom
- Weil, Robert
- Weiss, Ron
- Westbrook, Alonzo
- White Citizens Councils
- Wilcox, Jimmie
- Wright, Mary
- Young, Charles
- Young, M. L
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