Lake (Ellen) Freedom Summer collection, 1964.

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Lake (Ellen) Freedom Summer collection, 1964.

This collection consists of photocopies of materials collected by Ellen Lake relating to the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, including correspondence, reports, and a copy of "Last Summer in Mississippi," an article by Ellen Lake's mother, Alice, published in the November 1964 edition of Redbook.

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Lake, Ellen, 1944-

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Ellen Lake was born in New York City on November 11, 1944. She worked with the voter registration project in Gulfport, Mississippi, as a Mississippi Freedom Summer Project volunteer in 1964. She was a co-founder, editor, and reporter for The Southern Courier, a weekly newspaper begun in 1965 to cover news of civil rights and the African-American community in Alabama. From the description of Lake (Ellen) Freedom Summer collection, 1964. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Ca...

University of Southern Mississippi

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Mississippi Freedom Project

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Lake, Alice, 1916-

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