MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, March-April 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66)
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- 1965
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This folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during March to April of 1965. March reports primarily detail the marches and violence in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Reports discuss the marches, picketlines, injuries and death to civil rights workers as well as the friction between SNCC leaders and SCLC leaders in Alabama. Of note are reports of picketing and sit-ins around the White House in order to get President Johnson's attention. Other reports discuss protest and integration attempts in other cities, such as Little Rock, Arkansas. Messages of solidarity from northern friends and partners are also reported.
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Voter registration
Arrest
Jail experiences
Freedom schools
Civil rights workers
Murder
Boycotts
Violence
Police brutality
Sellers, Cleveland, 1944
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Lewis, John, 1940 February 21
Reed, James
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Forman, James, 1928-2005 - Location
- Mississippi; Georgia; Alabama; District of Columbia; Ohio; Massachusetts; California; Michigan; Maryland; Arkansas; Pennsylvania; Iowa; Illinois;
Jackson; Hattiesburg; Selma; Meridian; Natchez; Philadelphia; McComb; Pine Bluff; Brinkley; Ocilla; Holly Springs; Greenwood; Indianola; Starkville; Canton; Vicksburg; Columbus; Cambridge; Washington; Harlem; Shaw; Valley View; Batesville; Moultrie; Biloxi; Boston; Bakersfield; San Jose; Sacremento; Yellow Springs; Detroit; Los Angeles; Little Rock; Philadelphia; Toronto; Urbana; - Format
- Reports and surveys
- Language
- English
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- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County. MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, March-April 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66). 1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56527. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County, (1965) MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, March-April 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 3, Segment 66). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56527
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- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/56527>.