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Series: HREC-0031 Sunflower County Election Organizing Records, 1965-19670.4 cubic feet (1 archives
box). This record group consists of materials related to the voter registration, education,
and organizing efforts leading up to the May 1967 municipal elections in Sunflower
County, Mississippi. Some materials also relate to political candidates' and workers'
training sessions in Bolivar County, where black candidates ran for fourteen contested
offices. Included are documents from a 1967 political education session for Bolivar and
Sunflower counties where Chicago organizers offered workshops in campaigning and
precinct organizing skills, including a workshop report, instructional materials, and
participant registrations, news clippings. Also included is a copy of the Independent
Precinct Workers' Handbook, the Handbook for Voter Education, and other educational
materials, background information on demographics and voter registration laws, and
several on the status of black residents of Mississippi and Alabama.
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Box-Folder
71/1
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1/1
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Bolivar County, Mississippi, Sunflower County, newspapers 1967 April-June
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Box-Folder
71/2
HREC Box/Folder
1/2
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Bolivar County, Mississippi, political workshop 1967 May-June
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Box-Folder
71/3
HREC Box/Folder
1/3
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Freedom Schools workshop, duplicates 1965 January
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Box-Folder
71/4
HREC Box/Folder
1/4
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Sunflower County, 1967
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Box-Folder
71/5
HREC Box/Folder
1/5
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Bolivar, Sunflower workshop duplicates 1966-1967
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Box-Folder
71/6-7
HREC Box/Folder
1/6-7
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Bolivar, Sunflower, materials used 1967
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