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.