Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Poverty and Economic Justice

Poverty & Economic Justice Documents, 1964-68

For background information, see History & Timeline articles:

Freedom Information Service
Delta Ministry
Issues of Poverty, Exploitation, and Economic Justice
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union Founded
Poor Peoples Corporations, Cooperatives, & Quilting Bees
Poor Peoples Corporation

See also Mississippi Freedom Labor Union for web links.

Hunger-Related Documents

What Happens to All the Surplus Food?, Freedom Information Service flyer, late '64 or early '65.
Fight for Food for Freedom, (Delta Ministry?) 1964? 1965?
There is Enough Food, (Delta Ministry?) 1965?

Mississippi Freedom Labor Union Documents

MFLU Report. 1965? As reprinted from Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses, by Joanne Grant.

Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference)
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union Pledge, 1965.
Cotton Workers Form Labor Union. SNCC press release, November 1965.
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. Flyer, 1965.
Revolt in the Delta, Alvin Rapp? 1965?
Memo to Friends of SNCC, Mary Hawkins, MFLU. October, 1965.
Note to Friends of SNCC. 1965? 1966?
News Summary, Friends of SNCC, March, 1966.
Memo to Northern Offices, Margaret Lauren. Re MFLU problems. 1966?
Freedom City — What It Is and How It Got Started, Delta Ministry fund raising brochure.

We Have No Government. Isaac Foster, Unita Blackwell, Ida Mae Lawrence, Rev. Arthur Thomas. MFLU press conference transcript reprinted in Race and Economics. 1966?

Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM)

Child Development Group of Mississippi, Histories of Children, Employees, Centers, Community Support, Sept. 1966.
How to Get Food Money for Your Center, 1966. Hand-drawn training material.

Co-Ops & Related Documents

Poor Peoples Fund, letter & brochure. 1966.