CORE--Civil Rights organizations other than CORE or SNCC - Correspondence, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 7)

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Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District

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Although this folder contains a printed copy of Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"; a summary of a June 1964 orientation conference by the Student Interracial Ministry, along with a list of attendees; and an issue of a newsletter put out by the Southern Student Organizing Committee, the bulk of the folder consists of Delta Ministry materials. A Delta Ministry fact sheet includes its history as well as biographical sketches of some of its members, a list of members of the Commission on the Delta Ministry, a description of its activities in Mississippi, demographic background on its sites in Hattiesburg, McComb, and Greenville, and a blank form for applying to work with the Dela Ministry. Delta Ministry documents called "Some Dynamics in Mississippi Today" and "Mississippi: Two Worlds" offer succinct descriptions of conditions in Mississippi in 1964. Arthur C. Thomas, the founder of Delta Ministry, writes about the church's role in civil rights. Decisions from the Del

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Correspondence Newsletters Forms Meeting Minutes Pamphlets

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CORE--Civil Rights organizations other than CORE or SNCC - Correspondence, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 7)

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