- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Title:
- MFDP Lauderdale County--Meridian Precincts, Precinct No. 8 Meetings & Registration, 1964 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 2, Segment 38)
- Creator:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kotz, David
Griffiths, David - Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Volunteers
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Voter registration
Elections
Poll tax
Courthouses - People:
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Kotz, David M. (David Michael), 1943-
Griggs, Leona
Porter, R. S., Rev.
Turnipseed, Clemmie
Graham, Sarah
House, Dorothy V.
Harper, Martha J.
Wright, Doris V.
Heller, Gertrude
Griffin, Myra
Harris, Maud
Jackson, Audrey
Barnett, Jessie Mae
Gordon, Angel Ruth
Barnes, Tim
Hubbard, Willie B.
Griggs, Robert
Hellen, Henry
Jennings, Elvis
Owens, Jane - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- lists (document genres)
reports - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This folder consists primarily of notes and lists of residents of Precinct 8 in Meridian, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Among these notes, however, are COFO reports on the state of the precinct leadership and organization. It is noted by COFO that Precinct 8 has many active volunteers and registered voters as James Chaney had belonged to this precinct before his murder earlier that summer. Also noted is the support of Reverend R.S. Porter, Reverend Turnipseed and the success of community organizers Leona Griggs and Sarah Graham. Notes detail the lack of turn out from the southern side of the precinct and chart plans to expand organization south. Handwritten notes, presumably from canvassing door-to-door, detail many residents' interest in registration or problems encountered in trying to register. Also included are hand drawn maps of the precinct boundaries and notes on potential polling places.
- Metadata URL:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/57219
- IIIF manifest:
- https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/iiif/2/p15932coll2:57219/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
- Original Collection:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 55, Reel 2, Segment 38; WIHVM3976-A
- Holding Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Rights:
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