Kates (Jim) papers, 1963-2001 (bulk 1963-1968).

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Kates (Jim) papers, 1963-2001 (bulk 1963-1968).

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This collection consists primarily of material for the book, Letters From Mississippi (1965, republished 2002). The book contains letters written in 1964 by Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers. The papers also contain material concerning the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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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....

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...

Mississippi Freedom Project

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University of Southern Mississippi

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