Mississippi Civil Rights Project
History of the 82 counties
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- Freedom Schools in Sharkey CountyOrganization
Freedom Schools were established by rights activists to provide high quality educators to underserved areas. In Sharkey and Issaquena Counties, Freedom Schools were started in the mid-1960s to ensure students who were suspended for wearing pro-SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) paraphernalia still had the opportunity to attend public school.
Sources:"Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)."King Encyclopedia.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/cofo.htm"An Oral History with Honorable Unita Blackwell."Civil Rights in Mississippi: Digital Archive. 1977.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/blackwell.htm"Barfootin'."Unita Blackwell and JoAnne Prichard Morris. Crown Publishers. 2006.
"From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice."Thomas F. Jackson. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006.
"National Council of Churches."http://home.wlu.edu/~connerm/AfAmStudies/Contemporary%20Culture%20Projec...
"Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi."Mark Newman. University of Georgia Press. 2004.
"Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi."John Dittmer. University of Illinois Press. 1994.
"The Issaquena Genealogy and History Project: W.E. Mollison."http://www.rootsweb.com/~msissaq2/mollison.html
"An Oral History with Mrs. Minnie Ripley."Civil Rights in Mississippi: Digital Archive. 1979. http://anna.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/ohripleymp.html
"SNCC: 1960-1966."
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/