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CORE--Madison County Movement (voter registration) - Memoranda, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 63)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District

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This Madison County-based folder includes the following items: Detailed "to-do" list for setting up the COFO/Madison County [Voter Registration] Movement in Canton. List of the Madison County Movement's Executive Committee. List of delegates and alternates from the Madison County MDFP. Officers of the Madison County Movement. A list of Ridley Hill delegates. Nominees to the July 25th [1964? MFDP?] convention. A convention resolution on better roads and better schools. A February 1964 report on contacts made in Camden, Mississippi, a predominantly African American community near Canton: the reports contains a list of the people contacted. A June 1964 "outline of committee work" details the preparations to be made by local African Americans for the arrival of Freedom Summer volunteers. Flyer for a 1965 Madison County MFDP convention. One press release describes a federal court order to county registrar Foote Campbell to apply the same voter registration standards to African Americans tha
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Reports And Surveys Affidavits Flyers And Handbills Press Releases Correspondence Newsletters
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Keywords

  1. Adams, Antrunette
  2. Arrest
  3. Boycotts
  4. Boyd, Minnie L
  5. Brown, Walter
  6. Campbell, L. Foote
  7. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  8. Clergy
  9. Clothing And Dress
  10. Coleman, Elbert
  11. Coleman, Geneva
  12. Community Centers
  13. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  14. Courthouses
  15. Cox, Harold
  16. Croft, Eddie Lee
  17. Dannett, Wendy
  18. De Vine, Annie
  19. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  20. Devine, Monette
  21. Dinkins, Gladys
  22. Discrimination
  23. Discrimination In Employment
  24. Education
  25. Elections
  26. Food Drives
  27. Freedom Schools
  28. Fund Raising
  29. Goodloe, John
  30. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  31. Grey, George
  32. Hamblin, Julia
  33. Hamblin, Otha Lee
  34. Hamblin, William
  35. Harper, Booker T
  36. Head Start Programs
  37. Housing
  38. Jackson, Doris Jean
  39. Johnson, Thomas
  40. Jones, Hercules A
  41. Jones, Martha J
  42. Jury
  43. Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
  44. Kennedy, John
  45. Libraries
  46. March Against Fear (James Meredith March)
  47. Mc Cloud, W. M
  48. Mc Donald, Lora
  49. Mc Donald, Sammie L
  50. Mc Ree, J. F
  51. Meredith, James, 1933
  52. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  53. Moore, Claude
  54. Murder
  55. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  56. Novotny, Michael
  57. Operation Freedom
  58. Patterson, Joseph Turner
  59. Perry, J. W., Jr
  60. Police Brutality
  61. Ransom, Gladies
  62. Ransom, J. C
  63. Robinson, Wilbert
  64. Romo, Susan
  65. Rouse, William
  66. Rouser, Carrie
  67. Rouser, Revelia
  68. Rouser, Willie J
  69. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  70. Slaughter, Asa
  71. Smith, Lewis, Mrs
  72. United States
  73. United States. Department Of Justice
  74. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  75. Volunteers
  76. Voter Registration
  77. Watkins, Robert P
  78. Watkins, Roosevelt
  79. Williams, Joe
  80. Williams, Otha

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