Belfrage--Location file: Ruleville, 1962-1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21)
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Charles Cobb, Bobby Talbert, and others' reports on early voter registration attempts--and their consequences--in Ruleville and Sunflower County. A firsthand report of seeing Fannie Lou Hamer and Annell Ponder in jail following their 1963 beatings there. Several informative reports by SNCC researcher Jerry Tecklin: on his interview with Hodding Carter III on the subject of agricultural mechanization and the out-migration of African Americans from Mississippi; on the demographics, politics, and economics of Ruleville, Mississippi; on prominent whites, institutions, and economic demographics in Sunflower and Bolivar counties; on the all-black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. A 1964 [?] list of Sunflower County officials. A blank questionnaire form on economic status of Ruleville African Americans. Assorted SNCC press releases on voter registration-related incidents in Ruleville and Sunflower County, including a large mass arrest in Drew, Mississippi. Affidavits concerning in inci
Reports And Surveys Forms Press Releases Affidavits
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- Adair, Charles
- Agriculture
- Alexander, Bryce
- Andrews, Nelson
- Arrest
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Baker, Joe
- Banks, Charles
- Banks, Ethel
- Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
- Beverly, Robert Earl
- Beverly, William
- Black History
- Black, Cecil
- Block, Samuel
- Borodofsky, Ted
- Boycotts
- Boyd, Sally Mae
- Bradford, John
- Brown, Fred
- Brownlow, Juanita
- Brumfield, Frank T
- Buckley, Grady Lee
- Buckley, Tommy
- Burns, William
- Burton, Phillip
- Campbell, Cecil
- Campbell, Maybelle
- Cannon, Bobby
- Carter, Hodding
- Carter, Joseph, Rev
- Castro, Fidel, 1926
- Childe, Roy
- Childs, Eddie
- Choctaw Indians
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clark, Anniebell
- Clergy
- Clothing And Dress
- Cobb, Charles E., Jr
- Coleman, Samuel
- Collins, Eddie
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Conley, James
- Conley, Martha
- Connally, Cleo
- Connely, Martha
- Conrod, Dorothy
- Corson, James
- Cotton, Mac Arthur
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Courthouses
- Crosby, Ira T
- Crowe, Lester
- Dann, James
- Davis, Golden
- Davis, Horace
- Davis, Leonard
- Davis, Ruby
- Day, Louise
- De Moss, Gary
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Dickens, John W
- Dillard, Alma
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Dorrough, Charles M
- Dorrough, Charles M., Jr
- Doss, Bettie Jean
- Doss, Ora
- Durrough, Charles M
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Education
- Edwards, Don
- Edwards, John Clark
- Edwards, Len
- Eviction
- Fisackerly, Eugene
- Fleming, T. A
- Floyd, Curtis E
- Food Drives
- Ford, Bobby
- Ford, Shirley
- Foster, Aileen
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Vote
- Frerichs, C. A
- Fusco, Liz
- Gentry, Lacey
- Givens, O. C
- Goldstick, David
- Grant, N. J., Jr
- Green, Benjamin T
- Green, Bessie Lee
- Gresham, James
- Gronemeier, Dale
- Gruidfest, Jack
- Guest, Lucia M
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hackett, Roberta
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hamer, Pap
- Hamilton, Farmer H., Jr
- Hammett, H. K
- Hardy, Henry Lee
- Harper, Jack
- Harris, John
- Harvey, Mary
- Hawkins, Gus
- Hayes, Nora
- Hexter, Christopher
- Hicks, Augustana
- Hicks, Luella
- Hicks, Matilda
- Holder, John
- Holland, Ida
- Hollowell, William
- Holman, James
- Host Families
- Hough, John H
- Housing
- Huddleston, John F
- Intimidation
- Jack, Nathaniel
- Jackson, Paul
- Jail Experiences
- Jews
- Johnson, Eddie Lary
- Johnson, Florine
- Johnson, Herman
- Johnson, Ida
- Johnson, Irene
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Jones, George Lee
- Jonniton, Estella
- Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900 1975
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- Kent, Robert
- King, Earline
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kyle, Ramona
- Labor Unions
- Lane, Mary
- Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
- Lee, Fannie
- Levine, Allan
- Levingston, Sidney
- Levingston, Stanley
- Lewis, John
- Libraries
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Locke, Don C
- Mac Donald, Rebecca
- Machell, Jack
- Maria, Linda
- Marlow, W. D
- Martin, Willie
- Mass Media
- May, Cassell
- Mc Clendon, Leona
- Mc Donald, Joe
- Mc Intyre, Willine
- Mc Laurin, Charles
- Mc Nair, Landy
- Migration, Internal
- Miller, Dorothy
- Miller, Fred
- Minor, Amos
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Montgomery, I. T
- Moore, Pauline
- Moore, Thomas
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- Music
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- National Lawyers Guild
- Nelson, E. G
- Newsome, Nancy
- O'bryant, Mathilda
- O'neal, John, 1940
- Omerberg, Maynard
- Operation Freedom
- Parker, J. S
- Patterson, W. W
- Peonage
- Perkins, Dudley
- Perry, M. C
- Police
- Ponder, Annell
- Powell, M. C
- Price, Charles
- Primack, Nathan
- Public Welfare
- Purnell, Willie
- Quilting
- Rice, Ollie
- Rogers, Gertrude
- Rosenberg, John
- Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
- Sachar, Jeffrey
- Scattergood, Charles
- Schaum, Ed
- Schwarz, Gretchen
- Scott, Lenora
- Scruggs, W. P
- Seese, Linda
- Segregation
- Sharecroppers
- Sharp, Ernest
- Shurden, W. O
- Siegel, Ellen
- Simpson, Euvester
- Smith, David
- Smith, H. R
- Smith, James
- Smith, Joe
- Smith, Willie Mae
- Smith, Williebell
- Somerville, A. D
- Spencer, E. A
- Sterilization Of Women
- Stokley, W. T
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Surney, Bettye Louise
- Talbert, Robert
- Taylor, Edward
- Taylor, Julia
- Teachers
- Tecklin, Jerry
- Thomas, Everlean, Mrs
- Thompson, Roy
- Threats
- Townsend, P. J., Jr
- Tucker, James
- Tucker, Mary
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Valentine, John W
- Van, Walter, Jr
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Wade, George K
- Wallace, Mike, 1918 2012
- Webb, Wilbur
- Webster, Wally
- West, Darnella
- West, James
- White Citizens Councils
- White, E. L
- Whites
- Wiggers, Gertrude
- Williams, Bertha
- Williams, D. C
- Williams, Eddie
- Williams, Eta Mae
- Williams, M. H
- Williams, R. L
- Williams, Rennie, Mrs
- Williford, W. O
- Willingham, Jesse
- Wilson, James
- Wilson, P. O
- Winter, George
- Women
- Wood, Doris
- Yarrow, C. H. Mike