SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5)
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The legal case brought by COFO, relatives of two murdered civil rights workers, and others against the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi--where the men were killed--and other Mississippi law enforcement officials and white supremacy organizations, alleging a conspiracy to deny blacks their constitutional rights through a variety of means, especially terrorism, and asking for federal enforcement of, especially, the right to vote in Mississippi.
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Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Lynching
Murder
Ku Klux Klan
Americans for Preservation of the White Race
White Citizens councils
Volunteers
Parents
African Americans
Whites
Voter registration
Threats
Intimidation
Police
Bender, Rita L
Chaney, Fannie Lee
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Connor, Peggy Jean
Robinson, Mary
Gould, John
Moses, Robert Parris
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
Schein, Ruth
Ladner, Dorie
King, Edwin H
Hausfather, Nathan
Hausfather, Edith
Trimble, Glen
Trimble, Eleanor
Price, Cecil
Rainey, Lawrence A
Birdsong, T. B
Smith, John
Jones, Paul
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Rosenthal, L. H
Kinoy, Arthur
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Smith, Benjamin Eugene
Wulf, Melvin L
Waltzer, Bruce C
Stavis, Morton - Type
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- Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality. SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5). 1964. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/28956. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, (1964) SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/28956
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- Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/28956>.