King--Mississippi Summer Project, miscellaneous files (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 21)
King, Mary E., 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains a wealth of information on plans, programs, and the events of Freedom Summer. Included are: SNCC plans for East Coast and Southern events in February 1964. Chronology of events in…
SEDFRE--COFO Field Staff Reports and Proposals, 1964 (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main St…
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial EqualityView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe documents in this folder concern the community center in Meridian, Mississippi, that was staffed by James Chaney and Rita and Michael Schwerner (among others) starting in mid-January 1964. In a Ja…
Lipsky--Holly Springs, 1964-1966 (Michael Lipsky and David J. Olson papers, 1935-1981; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 851, Box 1, Folder 5)
Lipsky, MichaelView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder, consisting primarily of newsy fundraising letters from late 1964-1966, shows some of the stresses, strains, and accomplishments of the civil rights movement after Freedom Summer. A Septem…
SAVF-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 47, Folder 16)
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains an assortment of SNCC-related items, some of them fairly unique. Staughton Lynd's "SNCC: The Beginning of Ideology" opens this folder, followed by Don White and John Lewis's first…
Montgomery--SNCC: Circulars, newsletters, program outlines, incidents, 1963-1966 (Lucile Montgomery Papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Micr…
Montgomery, LucileView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis hefty folder contains primarily SNCC-produced materials from 1963-1966. It includes the following: a pamphlet on SNCC's structure and history. Newspaper clippings on SNCC and on Carver Neblett's…
Kinoy--Legal documents re: COFO v. Rainey, 1964 : Brief, 1964 (Arthur Kinoy papers, circa 1930-2003; Z: Accessions, M2007-010, Box 8, Folder 22)
Kinoy, ArthurView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIncluded in this folder are 1964 notes from a meeting in New York that took place after the Democratic National Convention, in which assorted civil rights organizations tried to work out differences a…
Poor People's Corporation--News clippings, 1964-1966 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 6)
Poor People's CorporationView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThorough description of the Poor People's Corporation; "Up from Mississippi" (a report of Thelma Glover's radicalization); "Partial List of Racial Murders in the South in the Last Two Years"; brochure…
Robinson--Miscellaneous, 1964-1965 (Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson papers, 1960-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 191, Box 1, Folder 9)
Robinson, Jo Ann, 1942View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis large folder contains articles by and about volunteers on their Freedom Summer work in Madison County, Mississippi; plans for such work in Canton, Mississippi; a description of a 1964 attempt to…
Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 & undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder…
Lynd, StaughtonView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe materials in the three Staughton Lynd folders, describing situations in various parts of the South and the North, show that civil rights issues went far beyond Mississippi. Many official SNCC docu…
Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 & undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder…
Lynd, StaughtonView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe materials in the three Staughton Lynd folders, describing situations in various parts of the South and the North, show that civil rights issues went far beyond Mississippi. Many official SNCC docu…
Friesen --Reports of Trips, Visits, and Investigations, 1964-1966 (Jake Friesen papers, 1964-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 528, Box 1, Folder 7)
Friesen, JakeView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder consists of detailed reports and recommendations from several trips to Mississippi made by ministers associated with the Mennonite Central Committee. Most of the trips were made in 1964, t…
King--SNCC Communications Section (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 14)
King, Mary E., 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains a number of documents from SNCC's Communication Department in Atlanta. There's contact info for major media and of civil rights supporters around the US, a list of law students su…
King--June 1964 WATS Line calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 7)
King, Mary E., 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyJune 1964 WATS line calls include the arrests and beatings of several civil rights workers in jail; church burnings; and reports of blacks' attempts to attend Democratic Party precinct meetings around…
Nelson--Letters, 1964 (Eugene Nelson letters, 1964; Archives Main Stacks, SC888)
Nelson, EugeneView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyEugene Nelson, a Yale student from Evanston, Illinois, wrote his parents while he was training for Freedom Summer in Oxford, Ohio, and while he was working at the community center in Mileston, Mississ…
MFDP--Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee (partial), 1964 August 22 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic PartyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains a transcript of testimony for and against the Democratic National Convention's 1964 Credentials Committee's seating of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party instead of the all-…
Shirah--Civil rights material, 1961-1964, undated (Samuel C. Shirah, Jr., papers, 1961-1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 540, Box 1, Folder 2)
Shirah, Samuel C., 1943View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains an assortment of SNCC, Highlander Center, and southern campus organizing efforts from 1959-1964. It includes the following: "One Southerner to Another" addresses the question of w…
Friesen --Friesen's Diary, November 30-December 15, 1964 (Jake Friesen papers, 1964-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 528, Box 1, Folder 5)
Friesen, JakeView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyJake Friesen's diary (November 30-December 15, 1964) includes the many observations he made while distributing food, clothing, and shoes to several rural towns in Mississippi on behalf of the Mennonit…
Allan--Russell Allan papers, 1964; Archives Main Stacks, SC626
Allan, RussellView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis small folder contains letters to his parents from a New York volunteer from his training site in Oxford, Ohio, and from his work site in Greenville, Mississippi, where, among other things, he des…
Kaufmann--Walter Kaufmann papers, 1964-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 1210
Kaufmann, Walter M., 1933View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyWalter Kaufmann, a refuge from Nazi Germany, was a lawyer and CORE volunteer in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Though many of these materials relate to his efforts to continue his CORE-related act…
DeMuth--Jerry DeMuth papers, 1962-1987 (Archives Main Stacks, SC3065)
DeMuth, Jerry, 1937View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn this folder, Jerry DeMuth, a freelance writer, includes many articles--published and unpublished--that he wrote between 1964 and 1979 (the bulk is from 1964-1967) about his observations and analysi…