Papers, 1964-1965.

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Papers, 1964-1965.

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Newspaper articles and letters to his family from a summer volunteer from New York who worked on voter registration in Panola County, Mississippi, in 1964 and with the Natchez Freedom Project in 1965.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Natchez Freedom Project.

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Kates, James M.

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James (Jim) George Kates was born on March 4, 1945 in White Plains, New York. He became involved in the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, when he and a group of friends from White Plains helped solicit and collect donations for sharecroppers in Mississippi. Kates served as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Holly Springs and Batesville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 and volunteered again in Natchez in the summer of 1965. From the description of Kates (Jim) papers, 1963-2001 (bulk 1963-1...