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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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Keywords

  1. Allen, Louis
  2. Arrest
  3. Arson
  4. Baker, Wallace
  5. Benner, Charles J
  6. Bombings
  7. Brown, Levi
  8. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  9. China
  10. Church Buildings
  11. Civil Rights
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Clark, Norman
  14. Clergy
  15. Communism
  16. Congo
  17. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  18. Craig, Willie
  19. Cuba
  20. Davis, Robert
  21. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  22. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  23. Demonstrations
  24. Dirksen, Everett Mc Kinley
  25. Douglas, Paul
  26. Dulles, Allen, 1893 1969
  27. Education
  28. Felder, Ronald
  29. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  30. Free Southern Theater
  31. Freedom Day
  32. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  33. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  34. Greeley, Dana Mc Lean
  35. Hamer, Donald
  36. Hamm, Daniel
  37. Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895 1972
  38. Host Families
  39. Housing
  40. Humbert, Patricia
  41. Intimidation
  42. Jensen, Mary Ann
  43. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  44. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  45. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
  46. Ku Klux Klan
  47. Lawson, James M., 1928
  48. Lee, Herbert
  49. Lewis, John
  50. Lynching
  51. Maple, Louis A
  52. Marshall, Burke, 1922
  53. Mass Media
  54. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  55. Murder
  56. Murphy, John L
  57. Music
  58. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  59. Nonviolence
  60. Parents
  61. Police
  62. Republican Party (U.S.)
  63. Rice, Robert
  64. Rubin, Larry, 1942
  65. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  66. Segregation
  67. Selma To Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
  68. Stromquist, H. C
  69. Stromquist, Kris
  70. Stromquist, Marjorie
  71. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  72. Sugar, Margit
  73. Thomas, Walter
  74. Threats
  75. United Nations
  76. United States
  77. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  78. United States. Department Of Justice
  79. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  80. Volunteers
  81. Voter Registration
  82. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  83. Welch, Robert
  84. White Citizens Councils
  85. White, Lee C., 1923

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