- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Title:
- SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5)
- Creator:
- Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Lynching
Murder
Ku Klux Klan
Association for the Preservation of the White Race
White Citizens councils
Volunteers
Parents
African Americans
Whites
Voter registration
Threats
Intimidation
Police - People:
- Bender, Rita L.
Chaney, Fannie Lee
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Connor, Peggy Jean
Robinson, Mary
Gould, John
Moses, Robert Parris
Morey, Hunter, 1940-
Schein, Ruth
Ladner, Dorie
King, Edwin H.
Hausfather, Nathan
Hausfather, Edith
Trimble, Glen
Trimble, Eleanor
Price, Cecil Ray, 1938-2001
Rainey, Lawrence, 1923-2002
Birdsong, T. B.
Smith, John
Jones, Paul
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Rosenthal, Len, 1940-
Kinoy, Arthur
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Smith, Benjamin Eugene
Wulf, Melvin L., 1927-
Waltzer, Bruce C., 1932-
Stavis, Morton, -1992 - Location:
- 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
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Metadata URL:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/28956
- IIIF manifest:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/iiif/2/p15932coll2:28956/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 The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain.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:
- Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5; WIHVS1140-A;
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Rights:
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