BOX 4
Folder 1: Why Mississippi?
Satirical comic strip, New York Times, "Views of the Civil Rights Crisis", June 28, 1964
Article Mississippi: A Profile of the Nation's Most Segregated State, [1964]
Graph of The Civil Rights Bill - Four Key Provisions and the Problems they are Designed to Correct
Folder 2: Articles from 1964
Folder 2.1:
Students Start Rights Training in Oxford, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 15, 196 Students Told Dixie Has Perils, by Raymond R. Coffey Chicago News, June 16, 1964
Students Told: Watch Out for Klan, by Nicholas Hoffman Chicago News, June 17, 1964
Two Valley City College Students Among Trainees for Rights Mission, by Raymond R. Coffey, CDN Forum News Service; Carrington, Mandaree Young Men Are Friends, Have Much in Common Morning Forum, Fargo, North Dakota
Students Warned on Southern Law, by Claude Sitton, The New York Times, Friday, June 19, [1964]
Racial Workers Ready to Invade State, Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss. Herald, Undated
Shaken But Staying, Mississippi Rights Corps Vow to Go On Full Steam, Monroe (LA) World, June 20, 1964
Group Wants Mississippi Occupied, by Joseph Alsop, Royal Tribune June 30, 1964;
Students Will Seek to Register 200,000 Mississippi Negroes, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 20, 1964 (two copies)
"Dangerous Summer, The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
U.S. Aide Cautions Rights Workers, The New York Times, June 20, 1964; Dangerous Summer, The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
200 Students Heading for Mississippi, Lafayette, LA Advertiser, June 21, 1964;
Race Corps Moving on Mississippi, by Hoke Norris, Pittsburgh Pa. Press, June 21, 1964
Mississippi Rights Bus Leaves Ohio, Pine Bluff Ark Commercial, June 21, 1964
Son in Miss. Jail, Father Asks U.S. Aid, New York Post, June 21, 1964
Folder 2.2:
Students Jam Mississippi to Aid Negroes, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 22, 1964
Second Session at Oxford, Missing Men Report Stirs Rights Trainees, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 23, 1964;
Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi, June 22, 1964; 2d Student Unit Begins Training, Cleveland Plain
Dealer, date unknown
The Dangerous Journey, New York Post, June 24, 1964
Oxford Demonstrators Undaunted Dayton News, June 24, 1964 (two copies)
Charred Hulk of Car Spurs Intense Search, New Haven, Conn. Register, June 24, 1964
Group Appeals for Protection, Hackensack, NJ Record, date unknown; UW Rights Worker Approaches Trip Soberly, Milwaukee Journal, June 25, 1964
Cranks on Phones Intimidate Parents, Hartford, Conn. Times, date unknown;
No Volunteers Quit Civil Rights Project, Bay City Mich. Times, June 1964
Travelers Yet to Come, by Jimmy Breslin, New York Herald-Tribune, June 25, 1964
Integration Students To Continue in The Project, Marion, Ind. Leader-Tribune, June 25, 1964
Week of Violence, New York Times, June 28, 2964
Mississippi Invasion Army, Columbia, S.C. Record, June 25, 1964
Wife of Missing Rights Worker Wants Sheriff to Deny Its Stunt Minneapolis Tribune, June 26, 1964
Make Mississippi Safe, Cleveland Press, June 25, 1964
More Rightists To Leave Oxford for Mississippi This Weekend, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 25, 1964;
Parents Backing Mississippi Drive Despite Danger, They Won't Bid Students Come Home by Thomas Buckley; Tribute to Youth In Mississippi Crisis, News American, Baltimore, MD.,(June 25, 1964?)
Tribute to Youth in Mississippi Crisis, Baltimore, MD. News American, June 1964
In Mississippi Students Urged to Work Harder, Greenville, Tex. Herald Banner, date unknown; Johnson's
Warning on Rights, Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 25, 1964
Mississippi's Lawless Invaders, Shreveport Louisiana Journal, June 24, 1964
"Work Harder, Civil Rights, School Students Urged, 6/26/64
Last Oxford Group Off to Mississippi, The Plain Dealer, June 28, 1964
Folder 2.3:
Milwaukeean On the Scene in Mississippi, Milwaukee Sentinel, date unknown
Southern Critics: Oxford Blamed for Rights Meet, Dayton News, June 23, 1964
Collegiates Will Invade Mississippi, Vicksburg Post, 1964
Fight to Avoid Use of Troops in Mississippi, Racine, Wis. Journal-Times, June 30, 1964
Workers Will Move Full Steam, by John Hall,El Paso, Tex. Times, date unknown
"Rights Workers Shaken but Still Pour into Miss, June 30, 1964
Mississippi Now Has Armed Guerrilla Units, Lewiston, Idaho Tribune, June 1964
U.S. Puts Rights Army On Its Own in Dixie, Chicago News, date unknown
More FBI Agents in Mississippi, Gastonia, N.C. Gazette, date unknown
Students Get Taste of Terror at School, Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, date unknown
Oxford Still Talks of Training Meet, Article; White Moderate Lives in Fear Very Real Danger in Mississippi,
Minneapolis Tribune, 7/12/64
Mississippi Project Friends Seek Donations to Aid Work, Oxford Press, July 2, 1964; Rights Group Knew
Mississippi Dangers, Columbus Dispatch, date unknown
Rights Workers Vow Miss. Push, Elmira, NY, Star Gazette, June 30, 1964
Negroes Plan to Test Bill, Murfreesboro Tenn. News-Journal, date unknown; Rights Invaders Told: Be Wary of Mississippi Cops, Chicago News, date unknown; Trainees for Rights Mission, Fargo, ND Morning Forum, date unknown
No Religious Beliefs, In Mississippi Today, Cool Look at Long Summer Articles; First Page of Thoughts on
Civil Rights Orientation
Editors Mail Two Articles
Fear Clash With Militia, Article; Volunteers Are Lauded, Warned, Article
Senseless Slaughter, Thursday, August 6, 1964
Young Rights Trainees Scared, Dedicated, Austin Texan, date unknown; Tommies Liked His Song, Carbondale, Ill. South Illinoisan, July 2, 1964
Ex-St. Paulite Risks Life in Mississippi, Minneapolis, Minn. Tribune, date unknown
Folder 2.4:
Rights Worker Reports on Mississippi: ‘In some Cases the People Were Polite’ Philadelphia Bulletin, date unknown
Rights Worker to Speak Here, Cincinnati Post & Times Star, 8/27/64
Urges Caution on Rights Test, Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
Editorial Comment Article; Death Fears Slow Dixie Rights Drive Article; Workers Vow Strong Drive in
Mississippi, Toledo Times, date unknown; Rights Workers will continue, Thomasville Times, June 30, 1964
Fight to Avoid Use of Troops in Mississippi, Racine, Wis. Journal-Times, June 30, 1964
U.S. Powers are Limited in Dealing with Civil Rights Strife, Article
No Volunteers Quit Civil Rights Project, Bay City Mich. Times, June 1964
FBI Joins in Search in South for 3 Missing Rights Workers, Yonkers, NY Herald Statesman, date unknown; Freedom To the Delta, Charleston, SC Post, date unknown
Dulles Being Sent to Scene; On LBJ Orders, Bridgeport, Conn. Post, date unknown; Dulles Heads Probe of Missing Rights Trio in Mississippi Article
Says Mississippi Project has responsible leadership, Lancaster, PA. Intelligencer-Journal; More Volunteers
For Mississippi, Columbia, MO. Tribune
Three Greater Boston Students in Mississippi: Bullets Threats Ostracism, Article
SNCC Aids Insurrectionary Group Article, The Agony of Mississippi Daring New Gospel is Heard, New York Journal American, 1964
Rights Workers Trained to Cope With Violence, Jail, Milwaukee Journal, July 5, 1964
In Mississippi Greenville, Tex. Herald Banner, date unknown
For Freedom Schools, To Deputize 50 Farmers Articles on One page (Week of Violence Article on Back)
Rights Training Classes Slated for June 12-27 Cleveland Plain Dealer, undated
Folder 3: Articles from 1964
"Alpha Sigma Alpha Pledges 12 Women for Fall Classes, October 25, 1963
"The First Step:, The Miami Student, December 6, 1963
Academic Freedom, The Miami Student, Friday, February 14, 1964
Posters, Pickets and Tickets, The Miami Student, Tuesday, April 28, 1964
Gregory, Freedom Group Stage Civil Rights Benefit, The Miami Student, Tuesday, April 28, 1964
Spotlight: Civil Rights, The Miami Student, Friday, March 20, 1964
Rumor, The Miami Student, Friday, May 1, 1964
Gregory Concert Yields No Violence, May 1, 1964
Gregory Discusses Student's Action in Press Interview, The Miami Student, May 11, 1964
FBI Joins in Search in South for 3 Missing Rights Workers, Yonkers, NY Herald Statesman, date
Matter of Fact, Murder by Night,by Joseph Alsop, Washington Post, June 17, 1964
Civil Rights Study Begins on Western College Campus, The Oxford Press, June 18, 1964
"Dear Friend of the Mississippi Summer Project, June 28, 1964, 2 pages
"The News of the Week In Review as Demonstrators and Violence Focused the Nation's Attention on the Civil
Rights Struggle"
"Dear Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project, July 4, 1964
Civil Rights Groups at Western Prepare for Voter Registration, August 1964
Birmingham Place for Hope Reports Dr. R. Frank Fulton, The Oxford Press, Thursday, July 30, 1964
Mourning a son, Copy of Photograph, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman reacts as the body of their son Andrew is taken from a plane at Newark Airport on August 7.
Trustees Set Policy College to Refuse Rights Prep School, Akron Beacon Journal, March 26, 1965
Event sincere, Selma Marcher Tells NAACP, Hamilton, May 20, 1965
Training for the freedom fight, Activists recall Oxford program, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 20, 1989
Rights Worker Service Slated, The Daily Standard, Celina, O., June 21, 1989
Plaque honors human rights, The Oxford Press, Thursday, October 29, 1992
Oxford marks registration projects 30th anniversary on Tuesday, June 21, Times Bulletin, Van Wert, O., June
18, 1994
Miami civil rights monument gets guarantee, Journal-News, Friday, February 26, 1999
Freedom Summer volunteers among those who were truly great Article, April 11, 1999
"Miami's tribute to civil rights martyrs by Allan Winkler, June 28, 1999
Miami memorial to honor civil rights activists, Wednesday, October 13, 1999
Terrorists Cheated of Victim: Three Lives for Mississippi Article, undated
A Reflection on June, 1964 and Racism, Then and Now, Speech from Rick Momeyer, June 18, 1994; Criticism is Beamed at Oxford, Hamilton, 6/28/64
78 Leave Here on Summer Rights Project Cincinnati Enquirer, June 1964
"Missing" Poster (two copies)
Alvin Silverman Urges Caution on Rights Test, Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
Three Youths Trained Here Disappear, The Oxford Press, June 25, 1964
Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi, June 22,1964;
Editorially Speaking... Why Blame Us? Your Right to Know is the Key to Liberty The Oxford Press, July 2,
1964
Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation June 26, 1964, Oxford, Ohio, by Phyllis Hoyt (two copies)
The First Step, The Miami Student, Friday, December 6, 1963
Wesley Foundation Discusses New Civil Rights Legislation, The Miami Student, October 25, 1963
Matter of Fact: Murder by Night, Washington Post, June 17, 1964
Rights Worker Service Slated, The Daily Standard, Celina, O., June 21, 1989
Oxford marks registration projects 30th anniversary on Tuesday, June 21, Times Bulletin, Van Wert, O., June 18, 1994
Miami to build memorial to activists, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, February 26, 1999
Monument sought for martyrs of movement, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, February 8, 1999
Miami's tribute to civil rights martyrs, Cincinnati Post, June 28, 1999
Memorial will honor slain civil rights workers, Cincinnati Post, May 5, 1999
Black History at Miami University had key role in movements, The Miami Student, Friday, February 16, 1996
Missing auto of trio found by FBI Tuesday (1964), The Neshoba Democrat, June 25, 1964
Historical context of 1964 civil rights murders, The Neshoba Democrat, June 25, 1964
Visiting media (July 9, 1964), The Neshoba Democrat, July 9, 1964
$1 million suit filed against NBC, others, The Neshoba Democrat, July 23, 1964
Civil Righter's suit dismissed/August 6, 1964, The Neshoba Democrat, August 6, 1964
Bodies of missing trio found buried in levee, The Neshoba Democrat, August 6, 1964
Justice Department Attorney is Booed at Civil Rights School, Minneapolis, Minn. Tribune, date unknown
Folder 4: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Commemoration, 1989
Freedom school's grads return to tell life's lessons, The First Cox Newspaper, Thursday, March 30, 1989
Miami to recall role in civil rights tragedy, The Journal-News, Saturday, June 17, 1989
Observance to mark slayings in Mississippi, Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Sunday, June 18, 1989
Remembering slain activists for civil rights, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, June 20, 1989
"Twenty Fifth Commemoration of Freedom Summer an Oxford Community Celebration" June 21, 1989
Service at Miami University remembers place in history, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, June 22, 1989
Service Honors Trio of Martyrs, The Journal-News, Thursday, June 22, 1989
Civil rights movement veterans honor slain workers, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, June 22, 1989
Freedom Summer 1964, High Street Journal, December 2, 1999
Folder 5: Articles from 1964
Western C. To Host Civil Rights School, Oxford Press, May 28, 1964
U.S. Aide Cautions Rights Workers, The New York Times, June 20, 1964
Over 100 Students-Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi, June 22, 1964; 3 Rights Workers Are Freed
After Paying $20 Fines, Baton Rouge, LA. State Times, date unknown; 2nd Student Unit Begins Training,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
"COFO, the Coalition That's Battling by Dom Bonafede, The Herald Tribune, date unknown
With Dignity and Restraint, Clarksdale, Miss. Press Register, date unknown.
Course at WCW In Civil Rights to Enroll 600, 1964
"Article by Hank Hokamp", Champaign, Ill. News-Gazette, August 30, year unknown
The March on Mississippi, Daytona Beach, Journal;
Postdeb Joins Crusade, Milwaukee Wis. Sentinel, date unknown
Freedom Summer Orientation
