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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Lester G. McKinnie letter]

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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

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Page 3 of a letter written by Lester G. McKinnie addressed to a "Jim." This page of the letter contains information about the attempted murder of a John Hardy in McComb, Mississippi. McKinnie notes that the sheriff is investigating, but he places the word "investigating" in quotation marks, indicating sarcasm. McKinnie also states that he is working to raise money for students involved in the civil rights movement in McComb.Classified by the Sovereignty Commission as Integration OrganizationsThe Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

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Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Social Reformers
  3. African Americans
  4. Attempted Murder
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Fund Raising
  8. Mc Comb
  9. Mississippi

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