This is the subject file of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Fourth Congressional District Office, along with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), all in one office located in Canton, Mississippi (re-located October 1965 to Carthage, Leake County, Mississippi). The files contain correspondence, reports, memoranda, affidavits, minutes, bulletins, publications, and lists concerning civil rights activities in Madison County, Mississippi (and some adjacent counties) from approximately February 1964 to October 1965. The principal activities documented are voter registration, the founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and attempts to gain recognition, the Freedom Schools, Community Centers, Federal aid projects, and school desegregation.
The subject file is arranged alphabetically and material within each folder is chronological. Information in parentheses in the folder list below has been provided by the processor in an attempt to help clarify this collection in which material overlaps and projects and organizations are sometimes obscure. In addition, in some cases publications or bulletins have been listed under the folder title. Cross references may be found on the folder identification sheets on the microfilm. Though the original folder numbers are listed for convenient navigation, the collection is available only in microfilm form.
