- Collection:
- Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
- Title:
- Letter, Kathleen Dahl to Friends; September 1, 1964
- Creator:
- Dahl, Kathleen Aileen
- Date of Original:
- 1964-09-01
- Subject:
- Discrimination in medical care
Fund raising
Police misconduct - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page letter by Kathleen Dahl, a registered nurse and Freedom Summer volunteer in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes on behalf of Charles T. Scales, an African-American volunteer and native of Holly Springs, to solicit funds for Scales' hospital bills; he sustained injuries in a car accident while on business for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and was later mistreated by local hospital personnel and law enforcement officials.
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_67343524-a94d-456d-9825-c3f20ccdbdf9
- 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 31 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries
- Rights:
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