Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16)
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- 1964-1965
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Among other things, this folder contains an assortment of materials relating to the recently passed Mississippi state law--followed by similar municipal laws--which limited freedom of assembly.There's an April 1964 statement by ministers on the arrest of 8 of their brethren for violating this law, May 1964 newspaper clippings about arrests on related city laws, and affidavits from other people arrested under these laws. Also in this folder are SNCC internal documents about expanding the civil rights movement to include labor issues, on state conferences, and on leadership institutes; new rules (1963) for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi; minutes from a cantankerous September 1964 meeting of the National Council of Churches about the Mississippi Project, following the MFDP challenge to the National Democratic Convention; handwritten notes on the "COFO 9" arrested in February 1965 for participating in a school boycott; and an eloquent legal document asking that m
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Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Arrest
Lawyers
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Clergy
Voter registration
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Labor unions
Boycotts
Education
Courts
Police
Courthouses
Unemployment
Wages
Poverty
Leadership
Students
Sheriffs
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Intimidation
Jews
Threats
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
National Lawyers Guild
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Congress of Racial Equality
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Communism
Africa
Segregation
Jury
Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888-1965
Cox, Harold
Thoreau, Henry David
Bratton, Boyce
Rubin, Larry
Smith, Clinton Douglas
Packer, Alvin
Frey, Richard
Patsworth, John
Rogers, William Henry
Holt, Len
Jones, W. H
Scarborough, Tom
Roach, Henry
Ash, J. M
Crockett (special investigator)
Lefever (judge)
Scott, William
Evans, Walter
Lindsay, Rev
Morris, Jesse
Harris, Jessie
Davis, Jesse
Surney, Lafayette
Cotton, MacArthur
Purvis (sheriff)
King, Martin Luther
Snodgrass, Charlie
Ponder, Annell
Current, Gloster
Greenberg, Jack
Rauh, Joseph
Hanson, Bruce
Farmer, James
Hedgeman, Anna
Lowenstein, Allard
Pratt, Jack
Young, Andrew
Spike, Robert
Morsell, John
Cox, Courtland
Samstein, Mendy
Thomas, Arthur
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
Moses, Robert Parris
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Wilkins, Roy
Johnson, Lyndon
Evers, Charles
Forman, James
Devine, Annie
Miles, Robert
Rustin, Bayard
Henry, Aaron
Gray, Victoria
Jones, Dean
Smith, R. L. T
Baker, Ella
King, Edwin
Steptoe, E. W
Lewis, John
Dennis, Dave
Jewett, Richard
Kaminsky, Herschel
Mack, Thelma
Jenkins, Linnie
Brown, Otis, Jr
Mack, McKinley, Jr
Harris, John
Dann, James
Scattergood, Charles
Pitts, Tom
Crockett, George W., Jr
Rosenthal, L. H - Location
- Mississippi; Georgia; Florida; Alabama; New Jersey; New York; Ohio
Hattiesburg; Holly Springs; Oxford; Lafayette County; Forrest County; Marshall County; Greenwood; Meridian; Jackson; Vicksburg; Biloxi; Belzoni; McComb; Issaquena County; Savannah; Jacksonville; Atlantic City; New York; Oxford; - Type
- text
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- Press releasesClippingsLegal documentsMeeting minutesAffidavits
- Language
- English
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- Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
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- Smith, Benjamin Eugene. Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16). 1964-1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/7084. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- Smith, Benjamin Eugene, (1964-1965) Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/7084
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- Smith, Benjamin Eugene. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/7084>.