Beyers (Robert West) papers

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Beyers (Robert West) papers

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Table of contents

Personal File 1963-1966.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, writings, notes and personal documents generated by Robert W. Beyers relating to the Mississippi Summer Project

box 1, folder 1

Mississippi Summer Project data sheet 1964

Correspondence

box 1, folder 2

1964

box 1, folder 3

1965

box 1, folder 4

Undated

box 1, folder 5

Speech material 1964-1965.

Scope and Contents note

Drafts and notes for talks at Stanford University and in the San Francisco Bay Area about Mississippi Summer Project

box 1, folder 6

Press releases 1963-1965.

Scope and Contents note

Drafts and final press releases for Council of Federated Organizations in Mississippi and for Stanford University News Service

box 1, folder 7

Incident reports 1964

Scope and Contents note

Draft and final reports of incidents of violence and discrimination associated with the Mississippi Summer Project. Includes interview summaries by Beyers and affidavits

box 1, folder 8

Mississippi notes 1964-1966

box 1, folder 9

Miscellaneous notes, undated

Stanford University File 1963-1969.

Scope and Contents note

Circulated materials, newsletters and radio broadcast transcripts relating to Stanford University student participation in the Mississippi Summer Project

box 2, folder 1

General 1964-1969.

Scope and Contents note

Circulars, lists and newsletters emanating from the Stanford University and Bay Area community about the Mississippi Summer Project. Includes lists of participating Stanford students and newsletters of Bay Area support groups

box 2, folder 2

Luke Kabat writings 1964

Scope and Contents note

Circulated typescript and mimeographed letters by Kabat, a Stanford student volunteer in Mississippi

box 2, folder 3

KZSU (Stanford University) 1963-1965.

Scope and Contents note

Radio broadcast transcripts and reports about coverage of civil rights activities in the South

Council of Federated Organizations File 1963-1965.

Scope and Contents note

Circulars, reports, memoranda and other issuances by the Council of Federated Organizations relating to the Mississippi Summer Project

box 2, folder 4

Prospectus, leaflets and announcement of Mississippi Summer Project 1964

box 2, folder 5

Background studies 1963-1964.

Scope and Contents note

Includes "Outline for Projected Black Belt Program," "The General Condition of the Mississippi Negro," "The Mississippi Legislature" and "On Arkansas in General"

box 2, folder 6

Circulars, internal memoranda and reports relating to progress of the Mississippi Summer Project 1964-1965

box 2, folder 7

Incident reports of violence and discrimination associated with the Mississippi Summer Project 1964-1965

box 3, folder 1

Freedom Schools reports and circulars 1964

Scope and Contents note

Includes Southern Teaching Program report

box 3, folder 2

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Press releases, circulars and resolutions 1964-1965.

Scope and Contents note

Includes report, "Mississippi: How Negro Democrats Fared"

Printed Matter 1962-1966.

Scope and Contents note

Flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, printed articles, clippings and other printed matter relating to the Mississippi Summer Project and civil rights in the South

box 3, folder 3

Congress of Racial Equality issuances 1962-1965

box 3, folder 4

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issuances 1964-1966

box 3, folder 5

National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee issuances 1963-1965

box 3, folder 6

Southern Christian Leadership Conference issuances 1964-1966

box 3, folder 7

Southern Conference Educational Fund issuances 1964

box 3, folder 8

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee issuances 1964-1966

box 3, folder 9

Miscellaneous civil rights organization issuances 1964-1966

box 3, folder 10

United States government issuances (mainly by the Department of Justice) 1963-1965

box 3, folder 11

Mississippi Black Paper (documentary publication) 1965

box 3, folder 12

Sequoia (Stanford University literary magazine). Special issue focusing on the Mississippi Summer Project 1965

box 3, folder 13

Tucker, Shirley, Mississippi from Within 1965

Printed miscellany 1964-1966.

Scope and Contents note

Includes anti-communist circulars, special issue of Jet on Mississippi, and journal article reprints

box 3, folder 14

Printed miscellany

box 3

National press coverage of the Mississippi Summer Project and civil rights in the South

box 4

National press coverage of the Mississippi Summer Project and civil rights in the South

box 3, folder 15

1962-1963

box 3, folder 16

1964 January-June

box 4, folder 1

1964 July-August

box 4, folder 2

1964 September-December

box 4, folder 3

1965

box 4, folder 4

1966

box 4, folder 5

Undated

Stanford and Bay Area press coverage of the Mississippi Summer Project and civil rights in the South

box 4, folder 6

1963

box 4, folder 7

1964

box 5, folder 1

1965-1966 and undated

Mississippi press coverage of the Mississippi Summer Project and civil rights in the South

box 5, folder 2

1963

box 5, folder 3

1964 March-June

box 5, folder 4-5

1964 July

box 5, folder 6

1964 August-November

box 5, folder 7

1965-1966

Collection Contents

Personal File

Stanford University File

Council of Federated Organizations File

Printed Matter