SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 6)
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- 1964-1965;
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This rich folder has an assortment of COFO documents. Among them are: COFO pamphlets: "The Mississippi Summer Project"; "Mississippi Freedom Summer"; "Freedom Registration (with blank Freedom Registration form)"; "Adopt a Freedom School [The "Freedom School Prospectus"]." COFO's December 1963 bylaws. Annell Ponder's brave and moving essay called "Citizenship Education in the 'Heart of the Iceberg'." A January 1965 appeal from John and Candie Carawan for freedom songs for a second volume of same. The familiar "Overview of the Freedom Schools" for freedom school teachers. The overview of COFO's political program. Part of the overview of COFO's community centers. Jesse Harris's October 1964 appeal to ex-volunteers for funds for a McComb community center. "Notes on Teaching in Mississippi." A blank official Mississippi voter registration form. "Sample Sections of the Mississippi Constitution" (presumably used in citizenship classes). Fascinating depositions taken in February 1965 about t
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Voter registration
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Community centers
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Tougaloo College
Threats
Intimidation
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Social classes
Public welfare
Agriculture
Arrest
Police brutality
United States. Department of Justice
Church buildings
Bombings
Arson
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Women
Unemployment
Lynching
Murder
Segregation
Assault and battery
Jails
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Education
Sexism
Music
Teachers
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Freedom Vote
Volunteers
Host families
Voting
Literacy tests (election law)
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Whites
Cooperative societies
Labor unions
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Freedom rides
Federal aid
Clothing and dress
Poor
Food drives
Housing
Poverty
Freedom Day
Students
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Demonstrations
Ku Klux Klan
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Libraries
Clergy
Lawyers
Communism
Training
Mississippi Free Press
Mass media
Mississippi Student Union
Civil rights demonstrations
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
Moses, Robert Parris
McNamara, Norris
Lyon, Danny
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
Travis, James
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Block, Samuel
Green, George
Holland, Ida
Smith, Atlean
Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909-1969
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Ponder, Annell
Carawan, Guy
Carawan, Candie
Day, Noel
Cobb, Charles E., Jr
Harris, Jesse
Stembridge, Jane
Samstein, Mendy
Bernard, Joel
Brooks, Eddie
Prather, Robert
Tubbs, T. J
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Adams, Dora
Young, Lem
Johnson, T. L
Gilman, Robert
Rice, Carl
Jackson, Jonnie
Purnell, Lillian
Roby, Georgia
Graves, Charles
Bell, John
Evens, Spurgeon
Gates, G. W
Morris, Jesse
Braden, Anne
Maxwell, Bruce
Weinberger, Eric
Jewett, Richard A
Richards, Dona
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Diebold, John
Howard, Houston James
McGhee, Silas
Fleischer, Barry
Collier, James
Mangrum, Fred
Hughes, Cephus
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969
Taylor, Ned
Quinn, Aylene
Vaughs, Cliff
Ware, William
Bass, Robert
Jackson, Ellis
Stigler, Joe Louis
Cunningham, Dick
Harris, Dave
Gordon, Bruce
Morse, Frank
Chaney, Fannie Lee
O'Dwyer, Paul
Long, Paul
Watkins, W. H., Jr
Emmerich, J. O
Turnbow, Hartman
Barnett, Willie
King, James
Ziff, Ed
Heinze, Fred
Phipps, Leon
Ross, Daniel
Newell, Bob
Shulman, Howard
King, Annie Mae
Smith, Robert
Williams, Bob
Payne, Bruce
Beecher, John
Case, Charles
Chastain, Norman
Winn, Fred
Winter, George
Brown, Lovie
Williams, Mary
Giles, Oscar, Mrs
Finley, John
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Trice, Clifford
Simpson, Richard
Lee, Lucille
Flowers, Dick
Graham, Benjamin
Williamson, Gordon
Mitchell, Francis
Weil, Robert
Light, Bill
Schrader, Emmie
Wolf, David
McWorter, Gerald A
Bolton, James E. H
White, Thelma
Patch, Penny
Burnham, Margaret
Moses, Dona Richards
Hayden, Casey
O'Neill, Helen
Pittman, James
Hamlett, Ed, 1939
Dennis, Dave
Garman, Betty
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Paul, John Lyon
Torkington, Roy Bernard, 1940
McGhee, Willie
Doar, John, 1921
Marshall, Burke, 1922
Hindman, Neil
Smith, Scott B
Price, Cecil
Rainey, Lawrence A
Gregory, Dick
Von Hoffman, Nicholas
Clarke, Angus
Allen, Louis
Dorrough, Charles M
Corson, James
Gronemeier, Dale
Shaw, Terri
Lynd, Staughton
Crossley, John P., Jr
Ronander, Albert
Pettit, Mary Lou
Lipnick, Jerome
Pontikes, George
Fisher, Theo
Wiegmann, F. W
Van Kranenburgh, E
Moore, Paul
Starr, Michael
Kehm, George
Marikawa, Jitsue
Baumgartner, John
Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996
Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
Cameron, John, Rev
Spears, Lawrence
Nye, Lowell, Mrs
Henderson, William
Henderson, Kathleen
Ogden, Galen
Moseley, Louise
Hotz, Marilyn
Stiles, Lee
Ward, Mae York
Weeks, Carol
Moreman, Bill
McClintock, Howard
Clark, Don
Nystren, Joe
Ichiyama, Ken
Weinberger, Martin
Martin, Allan
Olson, Dayton
Newberg, Arthur
Pickering, Alan J
Watson, James
Combs, Chad
Combs, Brian
Vastine, William
Pedi, Stephen
McAlpin, David H
Stansbery, Leslie
Patterson, Mary Jane
Johnson, Newell
Beechy, Atlee
King, Arthur
Newcomb, Nadine
Slee, John
Welch, Rosa Page
Davies, John
Reblee, Fred
Jones, Jimmy
Hancock, Milton
Zaretsky, Malcolm
Werner, Peter
McKenna, Warren H
Litt, Dan
Gravatt, Walter
Day, Duane
Jacobs, Solomon
Owen, George Earl
Keppel, Jack
Rossman, Doris
Kremer, Barbara Graybeal
Dorworth, Burke
Allison, Robert J
Fletcher, Donald R. (Donald Rodgers), 1919
Porter, Jack
Porter, Margaret Ann
Smith, Sally
LaRue, Mary Ellen
Totten, F. Norman
Curry, Sally Stauffer
McKinstry, Herbert
Rudd, Barrett
Lomas, Winifred
Van Voorhis, Dick
Clark, Kit
Rawlings, Chuck
Jacobs, Donald
Quigley, Harold
Speyer, Judith
Wilson, Jack
Witt, Hal
Floum, Dick
Baker, Oscar
Owens, David
Dotson, Paul R
McCord, Joe
Marsh, Clinton M. (Clinton McClurkin), 1916
Sigler, Richard E
Schwartz, Thatcher
Grier, Bob
Crosby, Donald
Winsor, Gordon
McClellan, Graydon E., 1914
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Paige, Vera
Lindsay, Merrill W
Smith, Frank
Young, Charles
Suarez, Matteo
Conner, Peggy
Sayer, Michael
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Bowman, Joanne
Adams, Jane
Bates, James
Cieciorka, Frank
Boyd, Stan
Rubin, Larry, 1942
Forsyth, William H
McHugh, Madeline
Ramsey, Tom
Rich, Marvin
De Lott, Elaine
Crawford, Eartiss James
Raymond, George
Darden, Ann
Simpson, Euvester
Watts, Sandra
Carver, Ronald
Jones, Jimmie Lee
Fusco, Liz
Bray, Sandra
Williams, Floyd
Cocroft, Mason Freeman
Kabat, Lucien
Lucky, Cleota
Phipps, Bobby
Neblett, Carver
Eyrich, Clarence
Price, Charles
Parker, Ron K
Thrasher, Sue
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- English
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- SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 6). 1964-1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/30209. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (1964-1965) SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 6). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/30209
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