MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66)
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This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during June of 1965. Reports mention plans for an NAACP summer project, alluding to growing tensions between SNCC and the FDP and the NAACP. Many reports discuss the Congressional Challenge and question the role of J.P. Coleman as the attorney for the challenged congressmen, a former Mississippi governor who had signed the segregationist State Sovereignty Commission into being. Other reports discuss failed and successful integration attempts, many resulting in violence, at restaurants, movie theaters and parks throughout the South, in particular Georgia State Park. Of particular note is the overbearing police brutality in Jackson, Mississippi. The Medical Committee on Human Rights reports being denied access to injured prisoners and inmates and the threat of arrest while treating those in need in Jackson. Also mentioned is a pending civil rights sui
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Voter registration
Arrest
Jail experiences
Freedom schools
Civil rights workers
Murder
Boycotts
Violence
Police brutality
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Brownstein, Al
Doar, John, 1921-2014
Forman, James, 1928-2005
DeVine, Annie
Lewis, John, 1940 February 21
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012 - Location
- Mississippi; Georgia; Arkansas; Alabama; District of Columbia; New York; Tennessee; Maryland;
Jackson; Selma; Meridian; Natchez; Philadelphia; McComb; Holly Springs; Greenwood; Indianola; Starkville; Canton; Vicksburg; Columbus; Cambridge; Washington; Shaw; Moultrie; Biloxi; Little Rock; Tuskegee; Maben; Morehead; Erie; Cleveland; Pine Bluff; New York; - Format
- Reports and surveys
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- English
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- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County. MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66). 1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56668. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County, (1965) MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56668
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- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56668>.