From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter released by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated April 25, 1965. Sections of interest include a report of an injunction against a Sunflower County...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes 1965 voting legislation in Sunflower County that did away with literacy tests in the voter registration process. The report mentions the violent reactions of some...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the beginning of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which was founded in Shaw, Mississippi, to work for higher wages for cotton choppers and truck drivers. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report issued by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated July 7, 1965. Discusses the struggles, progress, and plans of the party with regard to the Congressional...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Accounts and evaluation of activities during the residential freedom school experiment, a two-part program which took place in Chicago, Illinois, and Cordele, Georgia.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes the inadequate conditions of Beasley School, an African American elementary school in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1965. It gives details of the boycott of the school, which...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Claude Ramsay addresses the need of labor union organization in the Mississippi Delta. He explains the condition of African American farmers in the Delta and the economic effects that...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes the inadequate conditions of Beasley School, an African American elementary school in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1965. It gives details of the boycott of the school, which...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 5; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated August 30, 1965. Includes an...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Congressional Report records the reports of both the majority and minority opinion of the Committee for Elections of the United States House of Representatives regarding the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report published by Southern Regional Council and American Civil Liberties Union. The report discusses aspects of the Southern judicial system, including inequality in sentencing, all-white...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Collected civil rights-related news reports collected by WATS lines from field offices in various states.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Collected civil rights related news reports collected by WATS lines from field offices in Mississippi.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report explains the reasoning and merits of the labor movement in 1965. It discusses the need for radical leadership and more union organization in the South. It also mentions students'...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report gives details about the economic shut out of poor African Americans that occurred during the 1960s due to greater plantation mechanization. The report includes transcribed meetings...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Copy of the newsletter for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for January 1966. Includes a report of a visit by Representative Joseph Resnick (D-NY) to Mississippi. A...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page report by Rita Walker about the December 1965 ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) elections in Mississippi's Marshall and DeSoto counties. A federal program, the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Brief report of news and developments in Holly Springs and surrounding areas. Topics include problems with distribution of relief supplies, a rape trial in Memphis, Tennessee, and a $1.5 million...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) describing the progress made in Sunflower County, Mississippi, with regard to the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Transcribed copy of a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) report of the results of the June 7, 1966, primary elections in Mississippi. Although the MFDP candidates did not win the primaries, members of the party were encouraged by the large...
