Papers of Tracy Sugarman, 1964-1965, 2004.

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Papers of Tracy Sugarman, 1964-1965, 2004.

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Papers relate to Mr. Sugarman's experiences during the civil rights struggle in Mississippi in the sixties. The collection contains an overview of Orientation Week, 1964, for summer volunteers working with fieldworkers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A notebook [Log #1] describes activities including conflict between the students and field workers, discussions of the moral and political ramifications of non-violence as a tactic, role-playing theater to teach students non-violent protection, travel to Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta, volunteer Charles McLaurin, first mass civil rights meetings in Ruleville and Mound Bayou, disappearrance of civil rights workers Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney, and canvassing for votes. Notebooks [logs #2 and #3] describes the Ruleville Freedom School, arrests of students and local blacks, confrontrations between volunteers and police in Drew followed by arrests, arraignments and raising bail, attack by nightriders, and voter registration attempt in Indianola. Notebook pages from a 1965 return to Mississippi record impressions of changes in 1964 including schisms between volunteers and local blacks, attempts to heal rifts, resurgance of movement morale with return of McLaurin, and interviews with Sheriff Hollowell in Indianola, and local residents Betty Lindsey, Lake Lindsey and Dick Milburn.

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