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Feinglass-- Robert Feinglass papers, 1964 (Archives Main Stacks, SC3066)

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Feinglass, Robert

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This folder contains the familiar multi-paged running summary of incidents in Mississippi during Freedom Summer; a letter from Illinois volunteer Robert Feinglass to his father ("This new party in this state is going to be the salvation of the black man and the white." "It is the most stimulating, satisfying work I have ever done."); an essay by a freedom school student about her first encounter with a "freedom worker"; COFO's plans for winter 1964-spring 1965; a letter from volunteer Tom Foner describing his experiences in Neshoba County; an essay by a black Mississippian about what his work in the civil rights movement means to him; letters from politicians with whom Robert Feinglass's father had shared his son's letters; clippings about the University of Wisconsin's Friends of SNCC's appeals for more federal protection for civil rights workers; flyers advertising mass meetings; crib sheets (?) for preparing to take the voter registration test on the Mississippi constitution in Bent
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Correspondence Reports And Surveys Clippings Handbills And Flyers Forms Poem
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