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Letter, Jesse Morris to workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project; September 14, 1964

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Identifier	mus-zz008
Title	Letter, Jesse Morris to workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project; September 14, 1964
Description	From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter written by Jesse Morris for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and sent to the workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project of 1964. The letter is written on the back of a CODO poster that reads "Now with your hand, pull the lever down." Voting booth levers are labeled Justice, Equality, and Freedom. Also shows chains and three pairs of hands labeled with the names of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964. The first pair of hands is chained, the second is breaking the chain, and the third pair is unchained.
Creator	Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) Morris, Jesse.
Date	14 September 1964
Coverage (time period)	1964-1965
Subject	Civil rights movements. Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) Mississippi Freedom Project.
Resource type	Image Text
Format	Digital reproduction of 2-page document.
Language	English
Publisher	University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version)
Contributors	Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Notes	This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive.
Rights	Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Contributing institution	Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.
Collection	M320 Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.
Source	Box 1, Folder 8
Digital repository	University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections.
Digital collection	Historical Manuscripts and Photographs.

Title	Page 1
File size	1388.678 KB
File extension	JPG
Width	1684
Height	2199
Color space	Grayscale
File name	zz008_1.jpg

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