Funding for the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
provided by a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the
Institute for Museum and Library Services
File Description
| Alt ID: | ellin069 |
| Title: | Suggested outline for telephone calls to "influential people" urging federal intervention in Mississippi |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights movements |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights workers |
| Subject and Keywords: | Federal government |
| Subject and Keywords: | Mississippi Freedom Project |
| Description: | Guidelines for conducting phone calls to influential persons in an effort to solicit Federal support for civil rights workers in Mississippi. Compiled after the murder of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner), callers are reminded to make it clear that they are going to Mississippi and that Federal intervention is needed to insure their safety and that of other volunteers working in the South. |
| Publisher: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Other Contributors: | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. |
| Date: | [n.d.] (original) |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 2003-02-19 (digital reproduction) |
| Resource Type: | Text |
| Format: | (Extent) Digital reproduction of 1-page document. |
| Source: | Box 1, Folder 13 |
| Relation: | IsPartOf M323 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection. |
| Relation: | IsPartOf the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. |
| Coverage: | (Time Period) ca.1964 |
| Rights: | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |