On the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project I was in Greenville after orientation at Oxford the first week as a COFO voter registration volunteer. We worked on MFDP registration and the organization of precinct and county meetings. I attended the district caucus, state convention in Jackson, and was in Atlantic City for the MFDP Convention Challenge.
I returned to Mississippi the summer of 1965 with the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC). The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law did not accept the LSCRRC assignment, and I was reassigned to the National Lawyers Guild. We worked with volunteer law firms preparing lawsuits for the desegregation of public facilities in several different counties in Mississippi.
Since graduation from law school I have lived in Washington, D.C. where I worked as a federal administrative judge for more than 22 years before retiring at the end of March 2006. I have attended reunions of the MSP volunteers, collected a lot of books about the Movement in Mississippi, and started writing an autobiographical essay about the MFDP.
I would like to connect with other volunteers who have been sharing their stories and others who may be better than I at remembering the details of being in Greenville the summer of 1964.
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