Papers, 1962-1971.

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Papers, 1962-1971.

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Papers of a woman civil rights worker in Bolivar County, Mississippi, who served as local head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and as a staff member of the Tufts-Delta Health Center.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Bolivar County, Miss.)

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North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative (Mound Bayou, Miss.)

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Bankhead, Lee, 1936- .

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Tufts-Delta Health Center (Mound Bayou, Miss.)

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The Delta Health Center was established in the mid-1960s, in the rural, all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., and served Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty was widespread. The Center, which was federally funded through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was one of the first community health centers in the United States. The comprehensive community health center model aimed at building upo...