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Council of Federated Organizations Shaw Office-- Records, 1964-1965 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 3063)

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Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.). Shaw Office (Miss.)

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This folder contains an assortment of materials collected by volunteer Mary Sue Gellaty, project director of the Shaw, Mississippi, freedom school from late 1964-1965. In addition, there are flyers and pamphlets advertising and explaining the November 1964 Freedom Vote (the pamphlet includes a completed sample ballot). The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom groups in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and Haddonfield, New Jersey, "adopted" Shaw around 1964-1965 and correspondence between Gellaty and the women in these organizations is included. There are also newspaper clippings about the Shaw project; the agenda for a conference on cotton agriculture held in Greenville; part of the Lowndes County, Alabama, freedom newsletter; a legal ruling on Shaw's ordinance on public assemblies; Aaron German's report on, a pledge form for, and the rules of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; a blank voter canvassing sheet for Shaw; handwritten meeting minutes; lyrics to protest songs; a blank pe
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Correspondence Clippings Reports And Surveys Pamphlets Flyers And Handbills Forms Newsletters Memoranda Legal Documents Meeting Minutes Music
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Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
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Keywords

  1. Adams, Jim
  2. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  3. Agriculture
  4. Archibald, Larry
  5. Arson
  6. Bail
  7. Bankhead, Lee
  8. Bonds, Charles
  9. Boycotts
  10. Bradford, John
  11. Bronstein, Alvin J
  12. Brumder, Mary
  13. Carmichael, Stokely
  14. Child Care Services
  15. Church Buildings
  16. Civil Rights
  17. Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909 1969
  18. Clothing And Dress
  19. Community Centers
  20. Cooperative Societies
  21. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  22. Courthouses
  23. Dane, Barbara
  24. Davis, Frank
  25. De Vine, Annie
  26. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  27. Demonstrations
  28. Doar, John, 1921
  29. Doyle, John
  30. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  31. Education
  32. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  33. Federal Aid
  34. Fetzer, Phil
  35. Flakes, Vinston
  36. Flannigan, Dennis
  37. Franz, Maxine
  38. Freedom Day
  39. Freedom Schools
  40. Freedom Vote
  41. Fusco, Liz
  42. Gellatly, Mary Sue
  43. German, Aaron
  44. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  45. Gray, Laurel
  46. Green, Edith, 1910 1987
  47. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  48. Hargreaves, Robert
  49. Hawkins, Andrew
  50. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  51. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
  52. Intimidation
  53. Jail Experiences
  54. John Birch Society
  55. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  56. Jones, Billy
  57. Kaste, Ivan
  58. Kaste, Nissley
  59. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
  60. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  61. Ku Klux Klan
  62. Lewis, Walter, Mrs
  63. Libraries
  64. Logan, Catherine
  65. Mass Media
  66. Michalowski, Judith
  67. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  68. Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
  69. Mississippi Student Union
  70. Moore, Amzie
  71. Morgan, Monty
  72. Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900 1974
  73. Morton, Grace
  74. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  75. Neuberger, Maureen
  76. O'connell, Robert
  77. Osman, Robert David
  78. Peonage
  79. Pierce, Kathy
  80. Pohlhaus, J. Francis
  81. Poverty
  82. Republican Party (U.S.)
  83. Reuss, Henry S
  84. Reynolds, Melvina
  85. Rice, Les
  86. Roberts, Wally
  87. Rody, George, Mrs
  88. Ross, Jim
  89. Scoville, Bob
  90. Segregation
  91. Sellers, Cleveland, 1944
  92. Short, Eddie
  93. Sowerwine, Charles
  94. Steinbach, Jenny
  95. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  96. Students
  97. Teachers
  98. Tobis, Heather
  99. United States
  100. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  101. United States. Department Of Justice
  102. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  103. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  104. Vogel, Lise
  105. Volunteers
  106. Voter Registration
  107. Wages
  108. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  109. Ware, Addie J
  110. Weil, Robert
  111. Werner, Hank
  112. Werner, Judy
  113. White Citizens Councils
  114. White, Lee C., 1923
  115. Whitten, Jamie
  116. Wilson, Elfrieda
  117. Wright, Willie
  118. Yordon, Hank
  119. York, Judy
  120. Ziegler, Nancy

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