Container
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Title
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Mss 551
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Series: Correspondence and Personal Papers
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Personal Papers, 1941-1969, undated
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Correspondence
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Box
1
Folder
2-8
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Box
2
Folder
1-2
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1969-1970, undated
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Box
2
Folder
3
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Box
2
Folder
4
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Series: Records of Organizations
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Box
2
Folder
5
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Association of Communities of Quitman County, General Papers, 1967-1968, undated
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Bolivar County Community Action Program, Inc. and Association of Communities of Bolivar County, Cleveland, Mississippi
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Box
2
Folder
6
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Application and Program Proposals, 1965-1966
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Box
2
Folder
6
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Financial Reports, 1966
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Applications for Employment, 1966-1969
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Box
2
Folder
8-9
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General Records, 1965-1970, undated
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Box
2
Folder
10
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Petitions re: CAP Advisory Board, undated
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Child Development Group of Mississippi and Head Start
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Box
2
Folder
11
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Bolivar County Parents Petitions, 1966
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Box
3
Folder
1-2
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General Correspondence and Papers, 1965-1969, undated
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Box
3
Folder
3
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Employee Applications, 1966
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Box
3
Folder
4
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General Material, undated
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Box
3
Folder
5
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General Records of Staff and Students, 1965-1968
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Lessons and Educational Projects, undated
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Box
3
Folder
7
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Proposals for Bolivar County Head Start, 1965-1966
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Individual Centers
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Box
3
Folder
8
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Cleveland Center - Records of Staff and Student Attendance, 1966
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Box
3
Folder
9
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New Kingdom Center - Records of Staff and Student Attendance, 1966
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Box
3
Folder
10
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New St. Phillip Center - Records of Staff and Student Attendance, 1966
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St. Peter Rock Center
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Box
3
Folder
11
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Attendance Records and Marks, 1968-1969
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Box
3
Folder
12
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Lesson Plans
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Box
3
Folder
13
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Records of Staff and Student Attendance, 1966
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Box
4
Folder
1
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United Baptist Center - Records of Staff and Student Attendance, 1966
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Box
4
Folder
2
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Citizens' Advocate Center, Washington, D.C., 1968
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Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty
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Box
4
Folder
3
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Second Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Papers from Forum C, Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor, 1966 April 13-14
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Box
4
Folder
4
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General Material, 1967, undated
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Citizens' Rights and Complaint Center - Proposal for Funding, 1967
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Delta Ministry Programs, 1965-1970, undated
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Box
4
Folder
7
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Delta Opportunity Corporation, Greenville, Mississippi, 1965-1969
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Box
4
Folder
8
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The Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Mississippi - Papers and Other Political Material, 1965-1970, undated
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Box
4
Folder
9
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The Foregate Harmonizers - Ledger of Schedules, Minutes, and Cash on Hand; Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1953-1956
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Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc.
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Box
4
Folder
10
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General Papers, 1965-1969
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Box
4
Folder
11
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Applications of Trainees and Aides
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Box
5
Folder
1
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Mississippi Action for Progress, 1966-1968, undated
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Box
5
Folder
2
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Mississippi Adult Education Program, 1962, undated
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Box
5
Folder
3
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Mississippi Research and Development Center, 1968-1969
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Box
5
Folder
5
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Mississippi Voter Registration and Education League, 1966-1969
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Box
5
Folder
6
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1967-1968, undated
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Box
5
Folder
7-10
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National Office - Printed Memoranda and Press Releases, 1955-1970, undated
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Box
6
Folder
1-2
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Mississippi State Conference of Branches - Printed Memoranda, Press Releases, and Other Papers, 1964-1970, undated
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Cleveland Mississippi Branch
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Box
6
Folder
3
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General Papers, 1955-1969, undated
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Box
6
Folder
4
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Membership Lists, 1957-1968
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Box
6
Folder
5
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. - Mississippi Welfare Rights Handbook, circa 1966
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Box
6
Folder
7
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National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1966-1967
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Box
6
Folder
8
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Operation Freedom - Loan Applications and Other Papers, 1962-1969
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Box
6
Folder
9-10
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Other Organizations and Miscellaneous Material
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Box
7
Folder
1
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Other Organizations and Miscellaneous Material (continued)
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Box
7
Folder
2
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Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 1951-1962
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Box
7
Folder
3
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Royal Funeral System - Agent's Monthly Reports and Other Papers, 1959-1970
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St. Peter Rock Church
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Box
7
Folder
4-5
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Membership Reports, 1958 May-1959 January
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Box
7
Folder
6
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Other Material, 1958-1968, undated
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Box
7
Folder
7
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference Citizenship School and Other Papers, 1958-1965, undated
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Box
7
Folder
8
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United Order of Friendship, undated
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Box
7
Folder
9
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United States Commission on Civil Rights, Mississippi State Advisory Committee, 1963-1969
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Box
7
Folder
10
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White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1966 June 1-2
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Series: Subject Files
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Box
7
Folder
11
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Box
8
Folder
1
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Bolivar County Food Stamp Petitions, undated
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Box
8
Folder
2
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Demographic and Medical Information, 1965-1968
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Box
8
Folder
3-4
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Financial and Need Statements, and Requirements of Others, 1964-1967, undated
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Box
8
Folder
3-4
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Ledger, 1965-1966
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Box
8
Folder
5
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Name and Address Lists
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Box
11
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Name and Address Cards
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Box
8
Folder
6
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Politics - General Material, 1962-1969, undated
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Box
8
Folder
7
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Reports of Field Workers, 1962
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Box
8
Folder
8
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Box
8
Folder
9
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Box
8
Folder
10
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Voting and Voter Registration Petitions, 1962
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Box
9
Folder
1
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Voting and Voter Registration - Lists of Registered Voters and Canvassers' Reports, 1967, undated
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Series: Financial Records
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Personal
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Box
9
Folder
2
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Accounts, Past Due Bills, Loans, 1953-1970, undated
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Box
9
Folder
3-5
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Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1947, 1952-1959, 1965-1969
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Box
9
Folder
6
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Insurance Policies, 1948-1969
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Box
9
Folder
7-8
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Moore's Beauty Shop, 1958-1960; Ledger, , 1958
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Box
10
Folder
1
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Moore's Service Station, 1954-1968
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Box
10
Folder
2
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Rental Property Records, 1965-1968
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Box
10
Folder
3
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Tax Returns, Receipts, and Statements, 1951-1970
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Box
10
Folder
4
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VA and FHA Loan Records, 1942-1966
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Box
10
Folder
5
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W&M Store - Stock Records, 1957, undated
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Box
10
Folder
6
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Wage and Income Statements, 1952-1969
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Other Organizations
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Box
10
Folder
7
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ACBC Community Fund - Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1968
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Box
10
Folder
8
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Bolivar County Educational Committee, 1966
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Box
10
Folder
9
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Bolivar County Public Service Employees Union and Mississippi Public Service Employees - Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1968-1970
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Box
10
Folder
10
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Cleveland Federal Credit Union - Report of Examination, 1952
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Box
10
Folder
11
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Community Relief Fund, 1964-1966
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Box
10
Folder
12
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Levine Community Fund - Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1964-1968
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Box
10
Folder
13
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Miscellaneous
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Box
10
Folder
14
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St. Peter Rock Church - Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1958-1960
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Audio 845A
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Series: Tape Recordings
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Subseries: Interviews Conducted by Amzie Moore
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845A/1
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Interview with a Rev. Buell of Shaw, Mississippi, 1958 March 30 : Buell was accused of arson after the local school burned. Moore implies that Buell was accused as a means of discrediting him as a black leader, even though Buell professes no interest in integration. On Side 2, continuing on Side 1. (3 3/4 ips)
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845A/1 (continued)
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Interview, undated and virtually unintelligible, with a black woman who was abducted (and raped?) by a white man : The tape is in very poor condition.
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845A/2
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Accounts by Curtis Hayes and Hollis Watkins, field secretaries for SNCC, 1963 February : Both men were arrested during a lunch counter sit-in at McComb, Mississippi in August 1961, and subsequently spent 35 or 37 days in jail, were released, then jailed again for 35 days after participating in a school walkout only three days later. The students were protesting the expulsion of another student. They then worked on a voter registration project at Hattiesburg. Watkins describes poor prison conditions, attempts at retaliation against his father, and a threat of lynching. (7 1/2 ips)
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845A/3
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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, who lost their jobs after registering to vote, 1963 July 10 : Mr. Palmer lost his job on the plantation where he had worked since 1945, only 4 1/2 days after he registered. Mrs. Palmer, who cleaned a doctor's office, lost her job the day after registering. Contains information on working conditions. Mr. Palmer was paid $5 per day despite working 12-14 hours daily, and was in debt to the plantation owner for an undisclosed sum. On Side 1.
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845A/3 (continued)
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Interviews conducted by Moore and Bob Moses, with relatives of persons jailed in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on June 18, 1963, undated : Several persons interviewed were also interviewed on July 20, 1963 (see tape No. 4). Poor sound.
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845A/4
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Series of interviews with relatives of persons arrested at Itta Bena on June 18, 1963, 1963 July 20 : Conducted by Amzie Moore at the Hopewell Baptist Church in Itta Bena. On June 18, a voter registration meeting at the Hopewell Baptist Church was broken up by a tear gas bomb thrown into the Church. Many of those interviewed believed that several young black men were hired by whites to throw the bombs. Afterwards, those at the meeting marched towards town to demand protection from the sheriff, whereupon 45 or 49 of the demonstrators were arrested and jailed. Most of those interviewed had sons, brothers, or husbands arrested. The interviews also contain information concerning conditions of life and work. Interviews begin on the left track, side 1, and continue on the right track. (3 3/4 ips)
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845A/5
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Three interviews conducted at Cleveland, Mississippi, 1964 April 17 : Two are with women who had not worked since the cotton-picking season of the previous December. They describe the difficulties of finding employment, and life on relief. The third interview is with a young child who asked for clothes and shoes. Apparently, Amzie Moore outfitted many residents in Cleveland with shoes.
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845A/5 (continued)
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Gospel music and preaching by two men : A narrator identifies preachers. Poor quality recording.
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845A/5 (continued)
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Brief interview with a sharecropper who was in debt, undated : Entire tape is in poor condition. (3 3/4 ips)
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845A/6
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Brief interview with a Mr. Johnson in Cleveland, Mississippi, undated : Johnson, a sharecropper and plantation laborer, was requesting shoes for his 7 children and “any kind of help a man can get.” He and his family lived on $17 per week. The previous year he had produced 16 bales of cotton and earned $200. The interviewer (Moore?) says that his “reason for asking questions...,” is because, “we want the world to know that our people aren't lazy and shiftless...but it's just that they can't find sufficient work....” Side 2 is blank.
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845A/7
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Interview with Linda Brown of Cleveland, Mississippi, undated : Brown's 1-year-old child died after receiving a measles shot, and Brown blamed the mishandling of the inoculation for the death.
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845A/7 (continued)
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Brief discussion with unidentified speakers on political conditions and the Linda Brown case, undated : Side 2 is blank. (3 3/4 ips)
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845A/8
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Brief conversation with an unidentified female musician (Interviewer not identified), undated : Gospel music, with some of the groups identified on tape by Moore, is on Side 2. (3 3/4 ips)
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Subseries: Gospel Music Recordings
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845A/9
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Recording of music, including a radio broadcast of the Foregate Harmonizers, undated : Poor quality sound. (1 7/8 ips)
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845A/10
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Singing convention at Rosedale, Mississippi : A festival of church groups performing gospel music. Performers were from Rosedale, Beulah, and other communities. A commentator, speaking between the songs, describes and introduces the performers and songs. He remarks: “It's customary that people in the Delta area...sing a lot...it gives them courage and strength to live another day under the adverse circumstances under which they live.” Tape in poor condition.
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845A/11
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Recording of a group of male singers (accompanied on guitar by a Rev. Pinson) singing gospel music : (Side 1 is 7 1/2 ips, Side 2 is 3 3/4 ips.)
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Subseries: Other Tapes
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845A/12
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Testimony before a body, identified by Amzie Moore as the “Investigative Educational Conference,” on Communist activity within the NAACP in Arkansas, circa 1958 : Many civil rights leaders and groups are implicated, including the Highlander Folk School and Martin Luther King. Moore occasionally interjects comments. (3 3/4 ips)
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845A/13
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Undated recording of Arkansas State Legislature committee hearings on Communist activity in Arkansas, circa 1958 : Sound is very poor. (3 3/4 ips)
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