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Memo to all participating groups in the Civil Rights movement; 1965

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Identifier	mus-mm153
Title	Memo to all participating groups in the Civil Rights movement; 1965
Description	From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights movement and all civil rights workers to support the purposed Voting Rights Act of 1965. The second page is on Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) letterhead. It advertises a press conference to publicize the future MFDP events and projects. The rest of the pages record recent events in the civil rights movement in the South that are meant to prove the climate is right for new voting legislation. They also address a few other current bills in which xivil rights workers would be interested.
Creator	Farmer, James, 1920-
Date	1965
Coverage (time period)	1965 (primarily February)
Subject	Legislation. Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Voter registration. Voting. United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Resource type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of a 8-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 of 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	M368 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection.
Source	Box 3, Folder 9
Digital repository	University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections.
Digital collection	Historical Manuscripts and Photographs.

Title	Page 1
File size	1316.229 KB
File extension	JPG
Width	1640
Height	2180
Color space	Grayscale
File name	mm153_1.jpg

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