CORE--Violence and harassment summary reports (Southern Regional Council, COFO, SNCC, CORE), 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 94)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District

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This entire folder documents some of the many acts of violence, economic reprisals, threats, and intimidation experienced by civil rights workers before, during, and after Freedom Summer. Reprinted articles about African American Mississippians' 1963 efforts to encourage voter registration in the face of threats, shootings, and intimidation open this folder. There are a couple of lengthy summaries of civil rights efforts--and opposition--in 1963 in Mississippi and other parts of the South. COFO Publication Number 10 details violence against civil rights workers, and there's a list of "anti-Negro laws" passed by the Mississippi legislature in advance of Freedom Summer. A number of affidavits recounting attacks against civil rights workers, including Robert Moses' report on Louis Allen's murder, are also here. There's a reprint of a newspaper article on Louis Allen's murder, reports of African Americans being driven out of the state under duress, and a list of early 1964 cross burnings i

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CORE--Violence and harassment summary reports (Southern Regional Council, COFO, SNCC, CORE), 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 94)

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