Ruth Koenig Mississippi Summer Project Collection

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Ruth Koenig Mississippi Summer Project Collection

1964-1966

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep846aec35d-9c92-47c5-9143-e3b7b7ebfc74

Materials related to the Civil Rights struggle, voter registration drive in Holly Springs, summer 1964: includes diaries, correspondence, business records, periodical articles, newsletters, and ephemera.

0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662871

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-

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Born on October 4, 1942, Bernice Johnson Reagon grew up in Albany, Georgia, where she became involved in the civil rights movement. As a student at Albany State College in 1961, Reagon was arrested for participating in a SNCC demonstration. She spent the night in jail singing songs and after her arrest joined the SNCC Freedom Singers to use music as a tool for civic action. Reagon earned her B.A. in history from Spelman College in 1970. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winn...

Koenig, Ruth, 1941-

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Born in 1941 in Scotia, N.Y., Ruth Koenig worked as a Freedom School teacher in Holly Springs, Miss. during Freedom Summer 1964. From the description of Koenig (Ruth) Freedom Summer collection, 1964-1994. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 55001271 ...