Park--Robert W. Park papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks SC658
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This folder contains a wide assortment of materials by various authors. Most are from 1965. Some of the materials document the split between the MFDP and a new integrated Democratic Party in Mississippi. Others discuss freedom schools, and the jailing of hundreds of demonstrators in the State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi, during the summer of 1965. Other items are the following: Volunteer Cornelia Mack's excited August 1964 letter describing freedom schools in Hattiesburg and Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi, and the Freedom School Convention in Meridian. Robert Park's notes describing civil rights workers' 1965 imprisonment at the State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi. Jane Stembridge's notes on a workshop conducted by Stokely Carmichael at the Work-Study Institute planned by Howard Zinn and others that took place in Waveland, Mississippi, in the spring of 1965. A registration form for a short-lived freedom school in Jackson, Mississippi. The August 1964 constitution of the
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Park, Robert W
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Murder
Lynching
Rural-urban migration
Literacy tests (election law)
Voter registration
Housing
Police
Ku Klux Klan
Education
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Free Southern Theater
Community centers
Child care services
Music
Libraries
Host families
Volunteers
Police brutality
Assault and battery
Arrest
Jails
Delta Ministry
Lawyers
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Mass media
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Head Start programs
Poverty
Agriculture
Training
Nonviolence
Bombings
Arson
Threats
Intimidation
Church buildings
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Freedom Week
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
Segregation
Jews
Freedom Day
United States. Department of Justice
White Citizens councils
Public welfare
Labor unions
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Deacons
Poor People's Corporation
Boycotts
Schools
Unemployment
Civil rights workers
War on Poverty
Cooperative societies
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Seeger, Pete, 1919
Lynd, Theron C
Mack, Cornelia
Weiss, Ron
King, Edwin H
Light, Bill
Greene, George
Fisher, Nick
Stembridge, Jane
Carmichael, Stokely
Turnbow, Hartman
Stein, Evelyn
Young, M. L
Johnson, Allen
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
Turner, Windell
Moss, Barbara Chaney
Swanson, Richard
Moore, James
McGhee, Silas
Johnson, June
Peacock, Willie
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
Hill, Thelma
Taylor, Wendell P
Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Cox, Harold
Evers, Charles, 1922
Rancher, Lucinda
Wilcox, Jimmie
Bass, Derrick
Kline, John
Thomason, Sylvester
Wright, Mary
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Cooper, Irving Ben
Robinson, Spottswood W
Hastie, William, 1904-1976
Solucos, Simon
Phipps, James Earl
Gordon, Maggie
Sellers, Nettie
Boyd, Malcolm, 1923
Ruffin, Susie
Larks, Miller
Martin, Willie Mae
Garner, Edna Mae
Meredith, James, 1933
Brewer, William
Shelton, George
Watson, Tom
Gellatly, Mary Sue
Weil, Robert
Atkins, Josie
Hawkins, Andrew
Miller, Beatrice
Seese, Linda
Maxwell, Bruce
Rice, Rosemond
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet)
Oswald, Robert
Young, Charles
Ramsay, Claude
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
Donald, Cleveland
Westbrook, Alonzo
Lagrone, Wade
Carter, Hodding
Carter, James
Ready, William R
Chappell, Levy
Hutchinson, Flavous
Kinoy, Arthur
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Smith, Benjamin Eugene
Stavis, Morton
Higgs, William L
Waltzer, Bruce C
Crystal, Daniel
Crain, William
Bender, Rita L
Kaplan, Sherwin
Kittsley, James
Stearns, Nancy
Van Tassel, Harriet
Moses, Robert Parris
Johnson, Willie
Jordan, E. O
Duckworth, C. J
Martin, L. J
Dodds, Wilmer
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Hamer, Fannie Lou
DeVine, Annie
Ryan, William F., 1922-1972
Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000
Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012
Rainey, Lawrence A
Metcalf, George
Jackson, Jonas
Quinn, John
O'Neil, Clarence
Cosey, Mildred
Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998
Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Adams, Jane - Location
- Mississippi; Wisconsin; Illinois; Louisiana; Washington, D.C.;
Hattiesburg; Meridian; Holly Springs; Palmer's Crossing; Jackson; Edwards; Waveland; Bay St. Louis; Philadelphia; Neshoba County; Canton; Greenwood; Cleveland; West Point; Holmes County; Franklin County; Amite County; Lincoln County; Shaw; Indianola; Meyersville; Leake County; McComb; Natchez; Carroll County; Madison County; Panola County; Madison; Chicago; New Orleans; - Format
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- English
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- Park, Robert W. Park--Robert W. Park papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks SC658. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21218. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Park, Robert W, Park--Robert W. Park papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks SC658. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21218
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- Park, Robert W. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/21218>.