Belfrage--Location file: Ruleville, 1962-1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21)
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Charles Cobb, Bobby Talbert, and others' reports on early voter registration attempts--and their consequences--in Ruleville and Sunflower County. A firsthand report of seeing Fannie Lou Hamer and Annell Ponder in jail following their 1963 beatings there. Several informative reports by SNCC researcher Jerry Tecklin: on his interview with Hodding Carter III on the subject of agricultural mechanization and the out-migration of African Americans from Mississippi; on the demographics, politics, and economics of Ruleville, Mississippi; on prominent whites, institutions, and economic demographics in Sunflower and Bolivar counties; on the all-black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. A 1964 [?] list of Sunflower County officials. A blank questionnaire form on economic status of Ruleville African Americans. Assorted SNCC press releases on voter registration-related incidents in Ruleville and Sunflower County, including a large mass arrest in Drew, Mississippi. Affidavits concerning in inci
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Belfrage, Sally, 1936
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Voter registration
Threats
Intimidation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi State Penitentiary
White Citizens councils
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Music
Police
Sharecroppers
Jail experiences
Assault and battery
Unemployment
Civil rights workers
Literacy tests (election law)
Eviction
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Public welfare
Students
United States. Department of Justice
Libraries
Segregation
Arrest
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Church buildings
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Peonage
Boycotts
Migration, internal
Choctaw Indians
Labor unions
Women
Food drives
Clothing and dress
Host families
Volunteers
Whites
Jews
Clergy
Ku Klux Klan
Operation Freedom
Quilting
Discrimination in employment
Courthouses
Freedom Vote
Arson
Murder
Sterilization of women
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Community centers
Freedom schools
Freedom rides
Education
Housing
Agriculture
Mass media
Communism
Teachers
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
National Lawyers Guild
Black history
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Cobb, Charles E., Jr
Block, Samuel
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Dorrough, Charles M
Holland, Ida
O'Neal, John, 1940
Lane, Mary
O'Bryant, Mathilda
Cotton, MacArthur
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Simpson, Euvester
West, James
Ponder, Annell
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Green, Bessie Lee
Thomas, Everlean, Mrs
Johnson, Irene
Hamer, Pap
Marlow, W. D
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
McLaurin, Charles
Boyd, Sally Mae
Fleming, T. A
Talbert, Robert
Martin, Willie
McDonald, Joe
MacDonald, Rebecca
Durrough, Charles M
Hicks, Luella
Price, Charles
Wilson, James
Wiggers, Gertrude
Crosby, Ira T
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Wilson, P. O
Brumfield, Frank T
Dickens, John W
Fisackerly, Eugene
Patterson, W. W
Nelson, E. G
Hammett, H. K
Gruidfest, Jack
Wade, George K
Hamilton, Farmer H., Jr
Carter, Hodding
Tecklin, Jerry
Grant, N. J., Jr
Tucker, Mary
Davis, Leonard
Carter, Joseph, Rev
Levingston, Sidney
Spencer, E. A
Webb, Wilbur
Moses, Robert Parris
Primack, Nathan
Borodofsky, Ted
Scruggs, W. P
Conley, James
Doss, Ora
Cannon, Bobby
Ford, Bobby
Williams, Rennie, Mrs
Davis, Ruby
Hackett, Roberta
Campbell, Maybelle
Smith, David
Foster, Aileen
Hicks, Augustana
Lee, Fannie
Holman, James
Rogers, Gertrude
Conley, Martha
Floyd, Curtis E
Hicks, Matilda
Connally, Cleo
Smith, Willie Mae
Edwards, Len
Perkins, Dudley
Gronemeier, Dale
Hollowell, William
Alexander, Bryce
Dorrough, Charles M., Jr
Minor, Amos
Buckley, Grady Lee
Campbell, Cecil
Williams, D. C
Harper, Jack
Parker, J. S
Levingston, Stanley
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Jones, George Lee
Smith, James
Banks, Ethel
White, E. L
Hough, John H
Purnell, Willie
Machell, Jack
Sachar, Jeffrey
Dann, James
Crowe, Lester
Rosenberg, John
Edwards, Don
Ryan, William F., 1922-1972
Hawkins, Gus
Burton, Phillip
Lewis, John
Kent, Robert
Harris, John
Stokley, W. T
Moore, Pauline
Hayes, Nora
Townsend, P. J., Jr
Shurden, W. O
Black, Cecil
Holder, John
Coleman, Samuel
Givens, O. C
Willingham, Jesse
Bradford, John
Montgomery, I. T
Green, Benjamin T
Banks, Charles
Huddleston, John F
Johnson, Herman
Moore, Thomas
Williams, R. L
Somerville, A. D
Miller, Fred
Yarrow, C. H. Mike
McNair, Landy
Scattergood, Charles
Schwarz, Gretchen
Williford, W. O
Gresham, James
Omerberg, Maynard
Hexter, Christopher
Siegel, Ellen
Winter, George
Maria, Linda
Surney, Bettye Louise
Jackson, Paul
Brown, Fred
Edwards, John Clark
Van, Walter, Jr
Hardy, Henry Lee
Davis, Golden
Scott, Lenora
Williams, Bertha
Harvey, Mary
Andrews, Nelson
Davis, Horace
Johnson, Florine
Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975
Smith, Joe
Levine, Allan
Goldstick, David
Newsome, Nancy
Corson, James
Castro, Fidel, 1926
Frerichs, C. A
Fusco, Liz
Perry, M. C
Williams, Eddie
Valentine, John W
Adair, Charles
Jack, Nathaniel
Schaum, Ed
Rice, Ollie
Sharp, Ernest
Dillard, Alma
Wood, Doris
Burns, William
DeMoss, Gary
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012
Brownlow, Juanita
Collins, Eddie
Williams, M. H
Day, Louise
Jonniton, Estella
Johnson, Eddie Lary
Smith, H. R
Beverly, Robert Earl
May, Cassell
Webster, Wally
Childs, Eddie
Miller, Dorothy
Doss, Bettie Jean
Locke, Don C
Powell, M. C
Williams, Eta Mae
Guest, Lucia M
West, Darnella
Taylor, Julia
Beverly, William
Gentry, Lacey
Childe, Roy
Ford, Shirley
Tucker, James
King, Earline
Johnson, Ida
McClendon, Leona
Thompson, Roy
Buckley, Tommy
Connely, Martha
Kyle, Ramona
Seese, Linda
Baker, Joe
Smith, Williebell
Clark, Anniebell
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Conrod, Dorothy
McIntyre, Willine
Taylor, Edward - Location
- Mississippi; Georgia; Maryland; Illinois;
Ruleville; Greenwood; Sunflower County; Shaw; Drew; Indianola; ; Bolivar County; Cleveland; Mound Bayou; Shelby; Winstonville; Winona; Atlanta; Cambridge; Chicago; - Format
- Reports and surveysFormsPress releasesAffidavits
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Belfrage, Sally, 1936. Belfrage--Location file: Ruleville, 1962-1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21). 1962-1964. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/37206. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Belfrage, Sally, 1936, (1962-1964) Belfrage--Location file: Ruleville, 1962-1964 (Sally Belfrage papers, 1962-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 599, Reel 2, Segment 21). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/37206
- MLA citation style
- Belfrage, Sally, 1936. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/37206>.