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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

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Records collected by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission on Canton and Madison County, Mississippi. The file includes a memorandum about a planned walk-out from the African American school; a letter from a state senator from Canton seeking information about an African American pastor; reports by investigator A. L. Hopkins on the local situation; a page of handwritten notes; and a memorandum with notes obtained from the United States Secret Service about John Earl Brown, an African American man from Canton.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Record Contributed By

Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African American Schools
  3. African American Students
  4. African Americans
  5. Boycotts
  6. Canton
  7. Canton (Miss.)
  8. Civil Rights
  9. Civil Rights Movements
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Forms
  12. Government
  13. History
  14. Legislators
  15. Madison County
  16. Madison County (Miss.)
  17. Mississippi
  18. Politics And Government
  19. Race Relations
  20. Subversive Activities
  21. Voting

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