Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, 1963-1964.

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Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, 1963-1964.

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Printed matter collected by Greenberg consisting of letters, telegrams, minutes, reports, and memoranda from the 1963 voter registration drive organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi; material related to the Arkansas Project; and printed matter from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project organized by the Council of Federated Organizations, including some material on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Freedom Schools.

.4 lin. ft.

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party created in 1964 as a branch of the populist Freedom Democratic organization in the state of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. It was organized by African Americans and whites from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time allowed participation only by whites, when African-Americans made up 40% of...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

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Mississippi Freedom Project

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Greenberg, Iris, d. 1978,

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Field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, 1963-1964. From the description of Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, 1963-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122466173 From the guide to the Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, 1963-1964, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) ...