King--May 1964 WATS Line Calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 6)
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May 1964 WATS line calls. The usual arrests, demonstrations, mass meetings, beatings, and threats and intimidation are documented here. Unique entries involve the confiscation of books from Mississippi freedom schools by police; the tear gassing and bayoneting of Cambridge, Maryland, demonstrators by the National Guard; and a report by Joanne Bowman about the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission's theft of her correspondence and surveillance of her.
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- Abramson, Roger
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Alexander, Gary
- Arrest
- Arson
- Arundel, Martin
- Assault And Battery
- Association Of Tenth Amendment Conservatives
- Baptiste, John
- Bell, Derrick A
- Berger, Bob
- Bergstresser, Lawrence
- Black Muslims
- Blackwell, Charles
- Blanton, Catherine
- Block, Sam
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian, 1940
- Bowman, Joanne
- Boynton, Bruce
- Branch, Stanley
- Briley, Beverly
- Broom, Essie
- Brown, Sam
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Chandler, Len
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Civil Rights
- Clergy
- Coates, Charles
- Coleman, Jerry
- Collins, Clinton C
- Communism
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Conn, Bernard
- Conyers, John, 1929
- Cotton, Mac Arthur
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Crisp, Arthur
- Crockett, George W
- Davis, Jesse
- Demonstrations
- Dennis, Dave
- Doar, John, 1921
- Dohrenburg, Arlan P
- Donald, Grady
- Due, John
- Everett, Ulysses
- Ezra, Rosemary
- Farmer, James, 1920 1999
- Fitts, Joe
- Frazier, John
- Freedom Day
- Gates, Herman
- Glenn, B. C
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Gorton, Dee
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hall, Clayton
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamilton, Mc Kennedy
- Harris, Doug
- Harris, Jesse
- Harrison, D. L
- Hartfield, Ben
- Hemphill, Ralph
- Henry, J. V
- Higgs, William
- Hindman, Neil
- Hines, Frank
- Hobson, Julius
- Hollander, Edward S
- Holt, Len
- Houston, James Monroe
- Intimidation
- Jails
- Jaramillo, Louis
- Johnson, Bobby
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Jones, Eric P
- Jones, Jimmy
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- Ketchem, A. W
- King, Edwin H
- King, Jeannette
- Kiselbasch, Hamid
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lane, Lawrence
- Lawyers
- Leigh, Sanford
- Leonard, Frederick
- Lerner, Alan
- Lewis, John
- Light, Bill
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Lyon, Danny
- Mac Namara, Robert
- Maddox, E. A
- Mangrum, Fred
- Mass Media
- Mc Call, Leroy
- Mc Dew, Randy
- Mc Donald, Billy
- Mc Donnell, Howard
- Mc Ghee, Clarence
- Mc Ghee, Laura
- Mc Kinnie, Lester
- Miller, Leroy
- Miller, Lewis
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Mississippi. National Guard
- Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888 1965
- Moore, Howard
- Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Dona Richards
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- National Lawyers Guild
- Norris, Mildred
- Orman, Geddis
- Packard, Alvin
- Parker, Nancy
- Patterson, Phil
- Peacock, Willie
- Peebles, Jack
- Perry, Rudolph Allen, Jr
- Phoenix, Roger
- Police
- Powell, Albert
- Public Welfare
- Rathbone, Basil
- Reagon, Cordell
- Reese, James Foster
- Republican Party (Miss.)
- Rester, Joe
- Richardson, Gloria, 1922
- Roberts, Kenneth A. (Kenneth Allison), 1912 1989
- Robinson, Reginald
- Rubin, Larry, 1942
- Salter, John R
- Samstein, Mendy
- Saulter, R. R
- Schooley, T. A
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Seifert, Rick
- Sellers, Cleveland, 1944
- Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Smith, Hazel Brannon
- Smith, Kelley Miller
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Smith, Willie Mae
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Stoner, Peter
- Stuart, Alexander
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Suarez, Matteo
- Thompson, Kenneth
- Threats
- Thurmond, Lenora
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Vance, T. G
- Vanderveen, Peter R
- Vaughs, Cliff
- Veterans
- Vivian, C. T
- Voter Registration
- Walker, Joe
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
- Washington, Cynthia
- Watters, David A
- Weil, Robert
- Weinberger, Eric
- White Citizens Councils
- Williams, John Bell
- Wise, Stanley
- Wolf, Allen Philip
- Woll, Charles
- Wyse, Stanley
- X, Malcolm, 1925 1965
- Zellner, Bob