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<item>rand0631</item>
<coll>crmda</coll>
<repo>usm</repo>
<public>yes</public>
<dc_title>Lorne Cress records MFDP vote</dc_title>
<dc_creator>Randall, Herbert, 1936-</dc_creator>
<dc_subject>African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Mississippi Freedom Project</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Hattiesburg, Miss.)</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Blackboards</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Cress, Lorne</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>From the Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, records on a blackboard the nominations for Chairman of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at a meeting held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.  The nominees are George Harper, Andrew Wilson, and Betty Stepps.</dc_description>
<dc_description>Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>Hattiesburg, Miss. : University of Southern Mississippi Libraries</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi)</dc_contributor>
<dc_date>2001-04-26</dc_date>
<dc_type>Black-and-white photographs</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/manu,5931</dc_identifier>
<dc_source>Box 5, Folder 4, M351-631, M351 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi.</dc_source>
<dc_relation>Forms part of the Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive.</dc_relation>
<dc_relation>Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive.</dc_relation>
<dc_relation>Forms part of University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections.</dc_relation>
<dc_relation>Forms part of USM - Historical Manuscripts.</dc_relation>
<dc_relation>Forms part of the Mississippi Digital Library.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1964-07/1964-08</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Hattiesburg (Miss.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Forrest County (Miss.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_rights>Copyright protected.  Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law.  Permission to publish or reproduce is required.</dc_rights>
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