CORE--Canton Project history (1964) - Memoranda, 1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 5)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District

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This folder includes several eye-opening reports about Canton, Mississippi. It opens with an unfinished 1965 "Fact Sheet on Voter Registration and Freedom Days [in Canton]" detailing several attempts by African Americans to register to vote at the Madison County Courthouse and their treatment by registrar Foote Campbell and local police and sheriffs. It is followed by a 1964 "White Community - Fact Sheet," a report about Canton's White Citizen Council members and their affiliation with local banks, hospitals, schools, law enforcement, and commodity food distribution; white clergy; and law enforcement officials. There's a 1964 "Fact Sheet on School Boycott and School Integration" which describes efforts to integrate the white Canton high school and white resistance to it. There's a summary of incidents and arrests that took place in Canton in January 1964. It ends with a (monthly?) budget for the Madison County and Leake County COFO projects and a handwritten 1964 list of "major events

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CORE--Canton Project history (1964) - Memoranda, 1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 5)

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