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Robinson--Diaries, 1964 (Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson papers, 1960-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 191, Box 2, Folder 1)

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This almost-daily diary begins with Robinson's passage through Memphis at the beginning of Freedom Summer and continues through her living and working experiences in freedom schools and voter registration efforts in Canton and Flora, Mississippi, through August 8, 1964. Her contacts with the police, the hosts with whom she lives, and the people among whom she worked--including fellow volunteers--appear in the pages of her diary. Her discussion of tensions within the black community, among the volunteers, and among the volunteers and the local people is particularly interesting. She discusses tension within the movement around interracial dating and mentions a couple of volunteers who were sent home for inappropriate behavior. She attended the Madison County MFDP Precinct Convention and the 4th District Caucus in Meridian and has notes on and descriptions of them as well. Robinson is a vivid writer, and you can visualize, smell, and feel the Mississippi she writes about as she des
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Arrest
  3. Arson
  4. Assault And Battery
  5. Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
  6. Best, James S
  7. Black Muslims
  8. Bombings
  9. Boycotts
  10. Cato, Jerry
  11. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  12. Church Buildings
  13. Civil Rights
  14. Civil Rights Workers
  15. Clergy
  16. Community Centers
  17. Congress Of Racial Equality
  18. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  19. De Vine, Annie
  20. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  21. Demonstrations
  22. Dennis, David
  23. Duke, Barbara
  24. Duke, Truman
  25. Evers, Charles, 1922
  26. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  27. Freedom Day
  28. Freedom Rides
  29. Freedom Singers
  30. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  31. Gore, Robert
  32. Green, Johnnie
  33. Hall, Marcia
  34. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  35. Harding, Vincent
  36. History
  37. Hoble, Billy
  38. Host Families
  39. Hughes, Langston, 1902 1967
  40. Intimidation
  41. Jackson State College
  42. Jacobson, May
  43. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  44. King, Jeannette
  45. King, Margaret
  46. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  47. Lehman, Laura
  48. Lehman, Louis
  49. Libraries
  50. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  51. Lynching
  52. Lynd, Staughton
  53. Mass Media
  54. Medicine
  55. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  56. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  57. Moses, Dona Richards
  58. Murder
  59. Music
  60. Muste, Abraham John, 1885 1967
  61. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  62. Nonviolence
  63. Papworth, John
  64. Pickett, Milton
  65. Piore, Michael J
  66. Police
  67. Police Brutality
  68. Praetz, Peter
  69. Race Riots
  70. Raymond, George
  71. Republican National Convention (1964)
  72. Robinson, Willard
  73. Sandburg, Carl, 1878 1967
  74. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  75. Segregation
  76. Sex
  77. Small, Dennis
  78. Smith, Jerome
  79. Stipp, John L
  80. Teachers
  81. Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906 1980
  82. Threats
  83. Tougaloo College
  84. Twain, Mark, 1835 1910
  85. Unemployment
  86. United States
  87. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  88. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  89. Vietnam War, 1961 1975
  90. Volunteers
  91. Voter Registration
  92. Voting
  93. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  94. Weiland, Pat
  95. White Citizens Councils
  96. Whites
  97. Woolf, Virginia, 1882 1941
  98. X, Malcolm, 1925 1965
  99. Zimmerman, Paul

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