Freedom Information Service--WATS reports, November 1964-December 1964 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 1, Segment 9-10)

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Freedom Information Service

Description

This folder consists of WATS line messages from November and December, 1964. Included are accounts of arrests, bombings, beatings, church burnings and vandalism, and accounts of surveillance and harassment by the police as well as cases of police brutality. Attempts to integrate restaurants, lunch counters, public libraries, and bus stations are described. Efforts by COFO to put forth candidates in the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) elections and irregularities surrounding those elections including the arrests of poll watchers are covered. Cases of businesses refusing to hire African Americans and boycotts or those businesses are reported.

Format:

Reports And Surveys

Rights:

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