Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project collection, [1963?]-2001.

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Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project collection, [1963?]-2001.

The bulk of the collection consists of the following: photocopied letters of general and organizational correspondence; photocopied and original White Folks Project (WFP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) daily reports; photocopied WFP meeting minutes; completed Freedom Summer volunteer applications; photocopied and original articles, newsletters and booklets; photocopied photographic materials; and a 45-minute videotaped interview with the sister of a WFP volunteer.

.45 cu. ft.

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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....

Hamlett, Ed, 1939-

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Ed Hamlett was state director of the White Southern Students Project (WSSP), later known as the White Folks Project (WFP), in association with Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964. The outreach project was designed to help awaken poor white communities in the South to the social inequalities they lived with and to similar situations in Southern black communities. From the description of Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project collection, [1963?]-2001. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regiona...

White Folks Project

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Mississippi Freedom Project

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University of Southern Mississippi

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