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Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, February-August 19, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 6)

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This folder includes white ministers' reports to various religious organizations about Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, (January 22, 1964) and on voter registration efforts and police intimidation from a variety of places in Mississippi; some personal letters documenting the motivations for their civil rights work, their observations of segregation, and their shock at (in some cases) being turned away from services in white churches; interviews with local Mississippi ministers regarding civil rights issues during Freedom Summer; descriptions of the State Freedom Convention; and evaluations from these northern ministers who visited Mississippi during Freedom Summer about their experiences there. Donald Crosby reports confusion among black residents between actual voter registration and "freedom registration" (registration forms for voting in alternative elections since most blacks were prevented from registering to vote in real ones). The general impression these reports from a
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Reports And Surveys Interviews Correspondence Flyers And Handbills Affidavits
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Keywords

  1. Anderson, Wesley A
  2. Andrews, Charles
  3. Arrest
  4. Assault And Battery
  5. Ball, Lee H
  6. Beckwith, Leon
  7. Beech, Robert, 1935 2008
  8. Boycotts
  9. Cameron, John, Rev
  10. Carter, Robert L., 1917 2012
  11. Cauthen, Jack
  12. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  13. Chase, Oscar
  14. Church Buildings
  15. Civil Rights
  16. Civil Rights Movements
  17. Clergy
  18. Community Centers
  19. Conduct Of Court Proceedings
  20. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  21. Crosby, Donald
  22. Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913
  23. De Muth, Jerry, 1937
  24. Demonstrations
  25. Dugan, Herschel
  26. Dulles, Allen, 1893 1969
  27. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  28. Education
  29. Evers, Charles, 1922
  30. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  31. Farmer, James, 1920 1999
  32. Freedom Day
  33. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  34. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  35. Henderson, Kathleen
  36. Henderson, William
  37. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  38. Host Families
  39. Howard, Walden
  40. Intimidation
  41. Iske, Frank
  42. Jails
  43. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  44. Kaplan, Kivie, 1904 1975
  45. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  46. King, Edwin H
  47. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  48. Lawyers
  49. Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913 1996
  50. Levine, Allan
  51. Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
  52. Libraries
  53. Lion, F. Danford (Felix Danford), 1914 2008
  54. Lynd, Theron C
  55. Mass Media
  56. Mc Clellan, Graydon E., 1914
  57. Mc Gown, David J
  58. Mc Kinstry, Herbert
  59. Medicine
  60. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  61. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  62. Moses, Robert Parris
  63. Murphy, Paul
  64. Music
  65. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  66. Noble, Bill
  67. Owens, David
  68. Pedi, Stephen
  69. Phelps, George H
  70. Pigee, Vera Mae
  71. Police
  72. Police Brutality
  73. Pratt, Jack
  74. Race Riots
  75. Rudd, Barrett
  76. Sampson, W. Douglas
  77. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  78. Seeger, Pete, 1919
  79. Segregation
  80. Smith, Donald P
  81. Smith, John C
  82. Spears, Lawrence
  83. Steffenson, David
  84. Stone, Robert John, 1919
  85. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  86. Students
  87. Thomason, Frazer
  88. Thomason, Loris
  89. Threats
  90. Unemployment
  91. United States
  92. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  93. United States. Department Of Justice
  94. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  95. Voter Registration
  96. Voting
  97. Weber, W. M
  98. White Citizens Councils
  99. Whites
  100. Woodard, Barbara
  101. Zimmer, Layton

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