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This is the first page of a Mississippi state sovereignty commission report about Tugaloo college. It is from Earl Johnston Junior, the director of the Mississippi State College sovereignty commission. The memo is set to Governor Paul B Johnson, lieutenant governor Carol Garten, and the chairman of the state judiciary committee EK Collins. It was sent March 10, 1964.<br /><br />
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The memo reads as follows:<br /><br />
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One. The staff of the sovereignty commission has been engaged in extensive research complying with an order to assemble evidence which might be used as valid reasons for revoking the charter of two glue and or canceling it’s a credit Dacian by the Mississippi accrediting commission. This will be the first of a series of reports as information is developed and evaluated. The investigation is continuing.<br /><br />
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Two. Reference is made to Dr. AD Beittel<br /><br />
, President of Tugaloo college. And testimony before the general legislative investigating committee at 1962, Mr. JB Matthews of New York City, and outstanding authority and communism, testified under oath that there were two major propaganda groups operate in the south. He defined as “and infiltrated group” and a “communist front” the southern regional Council with main headquarters in Atlanta and the southern conference educational fund with headquarters in New Orleans. He lent these two directly with the southern conference for human welfare. Mr. Matthews identified Dr. AD Beittel as an active member of all three groups. He said Dr. Beittel and the other individuals identified with these groups were “a veteran supporters of communist causes and communist enterprises.“<br /><br />
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Three. We have in our files information that Dr. OR Paul has openly advocated to his class that speakers lecture on the campus in defense of communism. Dr. Powell, who is white, teachers sociology at Tugaloo. He has also conducted devotionals at the school. One of his topics as shown on a school program was “the heresy of the spirit.””<br /><br />
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For. There is ample evidence that to the loo has departed from its chartered responsibility of teaching liberal arts and related subjects. Classroom time as well as time after classes is being devoted to political discussions led by representatives of CORE, SNCC, and NAACP. The college publication the votes considerable space to these activities. The Mississippi student union, which is the youth organization of Council of Federated organizations,

Memo, Erle Johnston, Jr., to Paul B. Johnson, Carroll Gartin, and E.K. Collins; 10 March 1964.

Brochure Cover<br /><br />
Black youth with sweat on his face looks toward camera wide eyed with his mouth open. Below the text reads "Mississippi Summer Project"

Mississippi Summer Project Brochure

Trifold brochure for Mississippi Summer Project also know as Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964

A small sheet of four gold stamps. Each stamp has an extended black fist turned inward and raised. Gripped tightly in the fist are a book with the text "Education", a gavel with the text "Justice" a voting card with the text "Vote", paper money with a "$" sign, and an obscured item with obscured text. There are broken chains on the wrist the text "sncc" on the inside forearms and a white starburst in the upper right corner.

Four seals with the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) name and graphic

Sheila B. Michaels<br /><br />
87 Columbia Street<br /><br />
New York City, New York 10002<br /><br />
Telephone: Yukon 2-0794<br /><br />
Office: 9352261<br /><br />
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THE WHITE GIRL<br /><br />
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She was scared of Negroes, but her newspaper conscience called her to join the civil rights <br /><br />
movement. She knew she would feel guilty if she associated with Negroes, and guilty if she did not; and <br /><br />
she thought it was as well to hang for a sheep as a lamb. Southern Interracial Student Teams had the greatest reputation for spectacle and derring-do. In view of the momentous step she was about to take it did seem niggling and just too dull to settle on a cause that would be half-measure.<br /><br />
It was a Saturday in early Fall. The first weekend of her sophomore year. Her roommate had gone home for the weekend, and she did not want to begin tackling the cleaning that had to be done in the new apartment. The last tenants had been pigs. She and Sherry would be no different. She went by the Student Union, but there was no one to whom she could confide her plan. She really didn’t want anyone to know, anyway. If she made some spectacular failure, better not to do it in a three-ring circus. She went to the bookstore and read picture books and looked at greeting cards for about an hour. Then she went home and piddled about, daydreaming until after lunch,. [typo] Finally, she called the Funds for SIST – the group’s Northern, fund-raising arm—and got the directions.<br /><br />
The bus rumbled and splatted away over the cobblestones through the empty downtown streets; leaving her alone. She would have stayed on until it circled back to school if she could have faced the bus driver. It seemed like an awfully bright, unreal day in the downtown silence, full of clear sun and sharp [typo] shadows.<br />

The White Girl Manuscript Draft

First page of draft manuscript for "The White Girl" written by Sheila Michaels

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