SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action Vertical File, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 577, Box 16, Folder 6)

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Council of Federated Organizations

Description

This folder is composed primarily of documents detailing the nature and inner-workings of the Mississippi Freedom Schools. The bulk of the materials are academic curricula and lesson plans used by Freedom School teachers in educating their students. Also, present are correspondence introducing new volunteers to the program, histories relating the African American experience in the United States, and case studies in legislation affecting voting rights.

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Text

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Reports And Surveys Memoranda Correspondence Curricula

Rights:

Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.