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Invitation, ''Mission to Mississippi''

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Bennett, John C. (John Coleman); Akselrad, Sidney; Stovall, Edward; Byfield, Richard; Jones, Charles; Carey, James T.; Jorgenson, Russell; Thomas, Cecil; McCoy, Charles S.

Place Written: Berkeley, Calif.

Document Date: [7/3/1961]

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Bennett, John C. (John Coleman); Akselrad, Sidney; Stovall, Edward; Byfield, Richard; Jones, Charles; Carey, James T.; Jorgenson, Russell; Thomas, Cecil; McCoy, Charles S.

Author Affiliation: Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Union Theological Seminary; Northern California Board of Rabbis; Western Christian Leadership Conference; Episcopal Diocese of California; Community Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Catholic Interracial Council; American Friends Service Committee; Bay Area Committee for Freedom Riders; Pacific School of Religion

Document ID: 610703-007

Document Date: [7/3/1961]

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: Cal. 7

Place Written: Berkeley, Calif.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 2 pp.

Document Note: Enclosed in 610703-005

Dates: 7/20/1961

Names: Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Thompson, Allen C. [Jackson. Office of the Mayor]; Pike, James A. (James Albert); Mangram, John; Jones, James A.

Organizations: Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo Southern Christian College; Jackson. Office of the Mayor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor

Places: Jackson, Miss.; Tougaloo, Miss.; Albany, Calif.

Topics: Afro-Americans - Civil rights; Afro Americans - Jewish relations; Arrest; Civil Disobedience; Discrimination in public accomodations; equality; Reconciliation; Freedom rides; Nonviolence; racism; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings; Church and Race Relations

Code for Location of Original: ASRC-RWWL

Location of Original: Southern Regional Council Papers, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga.

Location of Original - Detail: Reel 4, 1:50

Copy Location (1): CSKC-INP, Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands

Filing Info: M2 #256

Copy Location (2): ADBP-MsToT, Adam Daniel Beittel Papers, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.

Filing Info: Box 1, folder 15

Copy Location (3): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 6/13/2006 12:00:00 AM

Date Updated: 6/2/2015 3:52:56 PM