Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, August 20-December, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 7)

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This file consists of reports made by some of the approximately 300 National Council of Churches clergy who visited Mississippi for 1-3 weeks each during Freedom Summer and the autumn afterwards. Several of the clergy point out the similarities between Mississippi and Nazi Germany. The majority of the reports are from Hattiesburg: one report focuses on threats and intimidation toward Hattiesburg and Palmers Crossing civil rights workers in the summer of 1964; another describes the preparation, work, and number of ministers there during Freedom Summer. In an otherwise favorable report, an unidentified married clerical couple visiting Vicksburg criticizes civil rights workers for their lack of gender equality and describes a demographic survey of black households in the Fourth Precinct that took place. There are two Columbus reports, the first of which reiterates a frequent complaint in the reports here and elsewhere that the lack of working vehicles is one of the biggest hindrances to t

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Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, August 20-December, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 7)

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