Hodes--William Hodes papers , 1964 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 3080)
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- 1964; 1965;
- Description
This folder consists primarily of two kinds of documents, letters from a white volunteer to his parents, and letters and meeting minutes among members of the Mississippi Project Parents' Committee in New York City. The parents' primary intent was to persuade the federal government to provide protection to the civil rights workers, and their frustration can be seen in a flyer called "Our Powerless Government." In his weekly letters to his parents, William Hodes, a Harvard student working as a volunteer in Greenwood, describes in great detail his voter registration work; efforts to integrate movie theaters, restaurants, and swimming pools; the threats and intimidation he and his friends faced from the police; his first-hand observations of co-worker Stokely Carmichael; and tensions between SNCC workers and black youth over non-violence as a tactic.
- Creator
Hodes, William
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Volunteers
Parents
Voter registration
Libraries
Threats
Intimidation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Lynching
Murder
United States. Department of Justice
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Demonstrations
Host families
Segregation
Nonviolence
Police brutality
Lawyers
Arrest
Boycotts
Jails
Assault and battery
Mass media
Bombings
Arson
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom rides
Congress of Racial Equality
Church buildings
Freedom Day
Labor unions
Agriculture
Whites
Hodes, Jane E
Hodes, William
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Ryan, William F., 1922-1972
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Handy, John
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
Bender, Rita L
Carmichael, Stokely
McGhee, Silas
McGhee, Jake
Henderson, Slim
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Orris, Peter
McGhee, Clarence
Zellner, Bob
Moore, Philip
Zellner, Dorothy M
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Lott, Hardy
Beckwith, Byron de la
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
McGhee, Willie
Kotz, David
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Lamb, Martha Turner
Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
Travis, James
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006 - Location
- Mississippi; New York;
Greenwood; Tallahatchie County; Carroll County; Belzoni; Itta Bena; Philadelphia; New York; - Type
- text
- Format
- CorrespondenceClippingsMeeting minutesPress releasesFlyers and handbills
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
- Chicago citation style
- Hodes, William. Hodes--William Hodes papers , 1964 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 3080). 1964; 1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/17511. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Hodes, William, (1964; 1965) Hodes--William Hodes papers , 1964 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 3080). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/17511
- MLA citation style
- Hodes, William. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/17511>.