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Freedom summer digital collection

Selected materials from more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

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Date of Original
1964

Subject
Mississippi Freedom Project
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
College students--Political activity--Mississippi

Location
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036

Medium
web sites

Type
InteractiveResource

Description
Selected materials from more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Materials include official records of organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the personal papers of movement leaders and activists; and letters and diaries of northern college students who went South to volunteer for the summer. Other materials include newsletters produced in freedom schools, racist propaganda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, magazine articles, telephone call logs, candid snapshots, internal memos, and press releases.

Metadata URL
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15932coll2

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
Wisconsin Historical Society

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49. Poor People's Corporation--News clippings, 1964-1966 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 6;)

Creator:: Poor People's Corporation
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

50. Robert Kastenmeier papers: Mississippi Challenge Correspondence, 1965

Creator:: Kastenmeier, Robert
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

51. Robert Kastenmeier papers: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party telegrams, 1965

Creator:: Kastenmeier, Robert
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

52. Walker--WATS Line Reports, 1965 (Samuel Walker Papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 655, Box 1, Folder 5)

Creator:: Walker, Samuel
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

53. Woman and Group of Men

Date of Original:: 1965-01
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

54. Woman Holding Sign

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

55. Young--Medical Committee on Human Rights volunteer information, 1964 (Quentin Young papers, 1964-1975; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 880, Box 4 Folder 14)

Creator:: Young, Quentin
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

56. CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional Challenge - Memoranda, 1964 Dec.-1965 Sept. (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38)

Creator:: Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi Fourth Congressional District
Date of Original:: 1964-12
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Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society