CORE Southern Regional Office-- Reports from Madison, Miss., 1964, January-1965, November (Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office records, 1954-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 85, Box 8, Folder 7)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Southern Regional Office

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This is a hodgepodge of materials from Canton, Mississippi, from early 1964 through part of 1965. It consists of letters from CORE's David Dennis and Edward Hollander in Canton, Mississippi, to the U.S. President and Attorney General demanding federal protection for civil rights workers; flyers regarding the newly passed anti-leafleting law in Canton; many clippings about voter registration attempts in Canton and the response they elicited; a list of clergy who came to observe events in Mississippi in February 1964; affidavits and reports by local blacks regarding the violence against them; a letter asking for support for Carole Merritt, a black Cincinnati resident arrested in Mississippi for civil rights activities; communications about an economic boycott in Canton and a boycott by black students of their high school (and a list of their demands); some weekly reports to a regional director of CORE from March and September 1964 and January and February 1965; a list of those arrested f

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Flyers And Handbills Correspondence Clippings Reports And Surveys Press Releases Legal Documents Newsletters Memoranda

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