- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Title:
- MFDP--Legal briefs and memoranda, 1964-1966 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 586, Box 1, Folder 10)
- Creator:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Date of Original:
- 1962/1971
- Subject:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Voter registration
Republican Party (U.S.)
Unemployment
Eviction
Murder
Lynching
White Citizens councils
Threats
Intimidation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Police brutality
Assault and battery
Segregation
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Arrest
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Labor Unions
Communism
White supremacy movements
Literacy tests (Election law)
Ku Klux Klan
Association for the Preservation of the White Race
John Birch Society
Black Muslims
Federal Aid
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Poll tax
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Education
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
United States. Department of Justice
Democratic Party (U.S.) - People:
- Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 1911-1992
Holmes, Eleanor K.
Jaffe, H. Miles
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Adam, Bidwell, 1894-
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Barrett, Russell H.
Phillips, Rubel L.
Smith, Lamar
Lee, Herbert, 1919-1961
Hurst, E. E.
Allen, Louis, 1919-1964
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Davis, Leonard
Dorrough, Charles M.
Burkes, Marylene
Hillett, Vivian
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995
Whitten, Jamie L.
Cameron, John E., 1932-
Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980
Houston, James Monroe
Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983
Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
King, Edwin H.
DeVine, Annie
Bailey, John M. (John Moran), 1904-1975
Bush, Dorothy Vredenburgh
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Ogden, Florence Sillers
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Brady, Thomas P., 1903-1973
Rayburn, Sam
Oswald, Robert
Meredith, James, 1933-
Hodges, Luther
Collins, LeRoy
Corrigan, Richard
Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis), 1895-1956
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003
Carmack, George
Frank, Barney, 1940-
Daniel, Price
Connor, Peggy Jean
Anderson, Helen
Beittel, Adam Daniel
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blalock, Marie
Bowens, Sylvester
Brown, J. W.
Bryant, Charles
Carr, James
Chaffee, Lois Carroll, 1939-
Collier, Choice
Ervin, Will
Fairley, J. C.
Greene, Dewey
Hudson, Winson
Jackson, Johnny
Kirkland, N. L.
Lane, Mary (Civil rights worker)
Lindsay, Merrill W. (Merrill Winston), 1911-
Mack, Eddie
Matthews, Lula
McGowan, Yvonne
McLaurin, Charles
McLemore, Leslie Burl
Miles, Robert (Batesville, Miss.)
Millsaps, Otis
Palmer, Hazel T.
Porter, R. S., Rev.
Scott, Willie
Sias, Henry
Darden, C. R.
Evans, Ruby
Giles, Oscar
Graves, Charles
Hall, Pinkie
Harper, George N.
Hardaway, Macy
Hawkins, Andrew
Jackson, Willie
Lloyd, Alta
McRee, James F., approximately 1919-
Middleton, W. G.
Newton, Joe
Phelps, M. A., Mrs.
Polk, Beverly
Reaves, Henry
Roby, Harold
Sanders, Emma
Smith, Cora
Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
Tyson, Elmira
Waborn, L. H.
Stinson, Robert Lee
Stallworth, Slate
Steptoe, Eldridge W., 1936-
Stone, Joseph
Thomas, Eddie
Travis, James, 1942-
Turnbow, Hartman, 1905-1988
Washington, Abraham
Whitley, Clifton R.
Williams, Robert W.
Wright, J. Walter
Giles, Roselle
King, Annie Mae
Weeks, Marie R.
Johnson, Cora
Campbell, Cecil C.
Rosenthal, Len, 1940-
Kinoy, Arthur
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Waltzer, Bruce C., 1932-
Smith, Benjamin Eugene
Stavis, Morton, -1992
Robertson, Stokes V.
Robeson, George
Lynch, John R.
Chalmers, James R. (James Ronald), 1831-1898
Hightower, R. H.
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Higgs, William L.
Crystal, Daniel
Crain, William
Kaplan, Sherwin
Kittsley, James
Bender, Rita L.
Stearns, Nancy
Van Tassel, Harriet
Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998
McClendon, B. B.
Nelson, Steven R.
Roberts, Ralph R.
Patterson, Joseph Turner, 1907-1969
Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998
Raymond, George, 1943-
Sandidge, Milton H.
Cameron, Benjamin Franklin, 1890-1964
Cox, W. Harold (William Harold), 1901-
Black, Hugo
Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888-1965
Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909-1969
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Mississippi, Neshoba County, 32.7535, -89.11757
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379 - Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
StillImage - Format:
- image/jp2
- Metadata URL:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/30958
- IIIF manifest:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/iiif/2/p15932coll2:30958/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- 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.
- Original Collection:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 586, Box 1, Folder 10; WIHV3937S-A
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Rights:
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