Stromquist--Mississippi Freedom Project correspondence and writings, 1964 (Shelton Stromquist papers, 1963-1978; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 641, Box 1, Folder 4)
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Two hate letters written to the parents of volunteer Shelton Stromquist open this folder. The writer(s?) object to Stromquist's participation in the civil rights movement on the basis of the writers' fear of communism, one-world government, and racial ''mongrelization'' and state that all civil rights workers deserve to be murdered. An unattributed newspaper clipping describing the capture of a group of African Americans in Harlem dedicated ''to exterminating whites in the area'' may have accompanied one of these letters. There's also a letter in praise of young Stromquist from another individual. A hate letter directed to John Lewis is also included. There's an account of Stromquist's (?) visit to Selma, Alabama, the day after the famous march was broken up by police on the Edmund Pettus bridge, and of a meeting with a 53-year-old black factory worker too afraid to sign a voter registration form. There are letters from Stromquist's minister and the Stromquist family to public official
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- Allen, Louis
- Arrest
- Arson
- Baker, Wallace
- Benner, Charles J
- Bombings
- Brown, Levi
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- China
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clark, Norman
- Clergy
- Communism
- Congo
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Craig, Willie
- Cuba
- Davis, Robert
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Demonstrations
- Dirksen, Everett Mc Kinley
- Douglas, Paul
- Dulles, Allen, 1893 1969
- Education
- Felder, Ronald
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Free Southern Theater
- Freedom Day
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Greeley, Dana Mc Lean
- Hamer, Donald
- Hamm, Daniel
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895 1972
- Host Families
- Housing
- Humbert, Patricia
- Intimidation
- Jensen, Mary Ann
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lawson, James M., 1928
- Lee, Herbert
- Lewis, John
- Lynching
- Maple, Louis A
- Marshall, Burke, 1922
- Mass Media
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Murder
- Murphy, John L
- Music
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nonviolence
- Parents
- Police
- Republican Party (U.S.)
- Rice, Robert
- Rubin, Larry, 1942
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Selma To Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
- Stromquist, H. C
- Stromquist, Kris
- Stromquist, Marjorie
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Sugar, Margit
- Thomas, Walter
- Threats
- United Nations
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
- Welch, Robert
- White Citizens Councils
- White, Lee C., 1923