CORE--Neshoba County (Philadelphia, Mississippi) - Correspondence, Memoranda, Reports, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 73)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District

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This folder concerns Neshoba County and its surroundings. It opens with a memo from Alan Schiffmann to Sherwin Kaplan about legal hearings in Neshoba County, along with an affidavit from Richard Tinsley and a list of witnesses about a police attack on SNCC photographer Clifford Vaughs outside the county courthouse and their destruction of his cameras. There's correspondence regarding the lack of postal service in many Negro communities because streets were unpaved and whether federal postal regulations could be brought to bear on instances of municipal racial discrimination. After four days as a volunteer in rural Neshoba County, Bill Curtis describes his role with researching federal programs and talking with farmers and sets his goals for the fall. A series of affidavits attest to incidents of jailings for bad debts, loss of employment, or physical assault--mostly for trying to register to vote or for suing the school board--presumably collected for the United States Commission on Ci

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Memoranda Affidavits Correspondence Reports And Surveys Meeting Minutes

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CORE--Neshoba County (Philadelphia, Mississippi) - Correspondence, Memoranda, Reports, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 73)

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