King--January 1964 WATS Line calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 2)
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- 1964-01
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January 1964 WATS Line Calls. This folder contains a day-by-day log of telephone calls placed from and received at Freedom Summer headquarters. Consisting primarily of news about SNCC activities from around the South received over the WATS telephone line, this folder also includes gives a minute-by-minute sense of developments and threats. It also includes news about the planned visit by cast of "Bonanza" to Jackson to perform before a segregated audience, a mass suspension of black high school students for demonstrating in January 1964, and assorted mass arrests of high school students, clergy, and other civil rights workers.
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King, Mary E., 1940
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Threats
Intimidation
Assault and battery
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mass media
Segregation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Education
Arrest
Demonstrations
Voter registration
Clergy
Boycotts
Schools
Freedom Day
Jails
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Libraries
Cross burning
Literacy tests (election law)
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Unemployment
Voting
White Citizens councils
Ku Klux Klan
Congress of Racial Equality
United States. Department of Justice
Food drives
Clothing and dress
Poor
United States. Department of Agriculture
Samstein, Mendy
Raymond, George
Smith, Henry Lee
Dennis, David
Brown, Tom
Greene, Lorne
Blocker, Dan, 1928-1972
Landon, Michael, 1936-1991
Bikel, Theodore
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
McNair, Landy
White, Don
Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah
Greene, George
Leigh, Sanford
Chase, Oscar
Stoner, Peter
Plump, Robert
Surney, Lafayette
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Bell, Emma
Washington, George
Chinn, C. O
Hewitt, Theodis
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Sayer, Michael
Bolton, Carol
Moses, Robert Parris
Bradford, John
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Collier, James
Weaver, Claude
Dotson, Julius
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Chinn, Henry Lee
Jackson, Barbara
Merritt, Carole
Morris, Patricia
Cooper, Henry
O'Neill, Helen
Hall, Carsie A
McLaurin, Charles
Henry, J. V
Cobb, Charles E., Jr
Robinson, Bobbie
Bosley, Alma
Carmichael, Stokely
Edelman, Marian Wright
Hewitt, Peter
Jewett, Richard A
Esco, Milton
Veal, William
Jackson, Levi
Jones, Martha
Thomas, Dorothy
Jones, James Oscar, 1943
Andrews, Samuel Allen
Miller, George (George Paul), 1891-1982
Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-1992
Lynd, Theron C
Love, John Clark
Harris, Doug
Turnbow, Hartman
Marshall, Burke, 1922
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Beckwith, Byron de la
Rollins, Avon
Brown, R. Jess, 1912
King, Mary
Lloyd, Oakley B
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972
Gaylord, Dianne
Thomas, Barbara Ann
Pratt, Jack
Chaffee, Lois
Cowan, Leonard
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
Stuart, James
Vaughs, Cliff
Armstrong, Robert
Register, Donald - Location
- Mississippi; Virginia; Georgia; North Carolina; Maryland; Washington, D.C.;
Jackson; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Canton; Selma, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; Hattiesburg;Indianola; Greenville; Lexington; McComb; Danville; Atlanta; Raleigh; Cambridge; - Format
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- Language
- English
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- King, Mary E., 1940. King--January 1964 WATS Line calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 2). 1964-01. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21358. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- King, Mary E., 1940, (1964-01) King--January 1964 WATS Line calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 2). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21358
- MLA citation style
- King, Mary E., 1940. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21358>.