SEDFRE records on Mississippi civil rights activities, 1962-1966

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Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality

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Records of a fund-raising and legal defense arm of the Congress of Racial Equality covering civil rights activities in Mississippi, including materials on the slayings of civil rights workers James...

Records of a fund-raising and legal defense arm of the Congress of Racial Equality covering civil rights activities in Mississippi, including materials on the slayings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; the Meridian, Mississippi, community center planned by SEDFRE as a memorial to the three slain civil rights workers; the legal case brought against the Neshoba County sheriff and others alleging a conspiracy in the death of the three; the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional Challenge; legal files related to discrimination cases; CORE press releases; and a manuscript on the history of Negro voting in Mississippi.

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