- Collection:
- Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
- Title:
- Newsletter from Freedom House, Holly Springs, Mississippi; May 14, 1965
- Date of Original:
- 1965-05-14
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers
Fund raising
African American churches
Police
Mississippi Freedom Project
Holly Springs (Miss.) - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Benton County, 34.81729, -89.18848
United States, Mississippi, Marshall County, Holly Springs, 34.7676, -89.44869 - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi. This newsletter describes or mentions numerous events, including: Howard Jeffries in jail; expired insurance on 100 Rust Avenue; Antioch Baptist Church; St. Joseph's church in Marshall County; a Baptist college that had been burned; plans to run a 1965 summer project through Freedom Democratic Party (FDP) rather than Council of Federated Organizations (COFO); updates on civil rights workers; activities in Benton, Desoto, and Tippah counties and Fayette County (Tennessee); and that U.Z. Nunnally had successfully obtained a driver's license after eight tries (police opposition).
Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. - Metadata URL:
- https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_f8b3f18d-d22c-4f55-a576-29b34a7c45ab
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- University Libraries provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. 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. When possible, we have provided information regarding the copyright right status of an item; however, the information we have may not be accurate or complete. Obtaining permissions to publish or otherwise use is the sole responsibility of the user.
- Original Collection:
- M357 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection
Box 1, Folder 10 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries
- Rights:
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