Civil Rights Movement Documents
Grenada Freedom Movement 1966-68

The Grenada Freedom Movement (1966)

Grenada Mississippi, 1966 Chronology of a Movement

Grenada County Research, Bruce Hartford, SCLC. Summer 1966.

Daily Log of Grenada Events, July-Dec 1966. Bruce Hartford. SCLC.

Grenada MS map showing Black neighborhoods

Grenada MS organizer's canvasing map (showing Afro-American streets)

Demands of the Grenada Movement introduction & background.

July 9th, 1966
August 6th, 1966
September 8th, 1966

Example Flyers From the Grenada Movement

Staff reports from the Grenada MS Movement introduction & background.

List of persons fired (partial), Bruce Hartford. Undated
Summary of Legal Cases, Bruce Hartford. July 17, 1966
Daily Report, Bruce Hartford. August 10, 1966
Weekly Individual Report, Bruce Hartford. August 12, 1966
Weekly Report, Bruce Hartford. September 1, 1966
School Integration Report, Bruce Hartford. September 16, 1966
Arrest Report, Bruce Hartford. October 27, 1966
ASCS Organizing Report #1, Bruce Hartford. Undated (fall 1966)
ASCS Report #2, Bruce Hartford. Undated (fall 1966)
Election Report, General Election, Bruce Hartford. November 8, 1966
North & South Report, Bruce Hartford, December 1966
Letter excerpt re trial of mob members who attacked Black school children, Bruce Hartford, 1967
Report from Grenada, Charles Jefferson. August 2, 1968
Report from Grenada, Charles Jefferson. September 14, 1968
Report from Grenada Charles Jefferson. September 22, 1968
Report from Grenada Charles Jefferson. October 28, 1968
Letter to Hosea Williams Charles Jefferson. November 6, 1968
Report from Grenada Charles Jefferson. November 18, 1968
Report from Grenada Charles Jefferson. December 9, 1968

Poor Peoples Committee

Poor Peoples Committee Report, Bruce Hartford, December 6 1966
Poor Peoples Committee Report, Bruce Hartford, January 4, 1967
Your Welfare Rights, Marian Wright, LDF. Undated (possibly 1965 or 1966)
Mississippi Welfare Rights Handbook, Marian Wright, LDF. 70-page large file. Undated (probably '65 or 66)
Eligibility for Welfare in Mississippi (Summary Form & work sheets), Marian Wright, LDF, Bruce Hartford, SCLC. 1966

Legal Documents from the Grenada MS Movement

March and Picketing Rules, federal Judge Claude Clayton, July 22, 1966
Cunningham v Grenada School District Henry Aronson, Marian Wright, Jack Greenberg, LDF. 1966
To Parents of Schoolchildren, Marian Wright, Paul & Iris Brest. December 20, 1966
Grenada anti-boycott lawsuit A.G. Corporation (Pak-N-Sak grocery market). September 27, 1966
Grenada anti-boycott injunction Judge Patterson, Mississippi Superior Court. September 28, 1966
Mississippi Postscript Pete Eikenberry. 2010

Grenada Advocate

Grenada Weekly Advocate, MS. November, 25, 1966
Grenada Weekly Advocate, MS. December 23, 1966
Grenada Weekly Advocate, MS. January 6, 1967

Grenada-Related Documents From the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

Surveillance of suspected NAACP activity in Grenada, agents of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 1/15/58

Spy report that NAACP literature might have been found in Grenada, agent of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 1/27/59

Surveillance of NAACP activity in northern Mississippi and plan to integrate Grenada Lake swimming facilities, agents of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 5/27-6/13/1960

Working for the Voice of the South, Taylor Ford, Negro. Undated 1966 (possibly July)
Probably a phony flyer promoted by Mississippi Sovereignity Commission.

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. July 11 1966.

Sovereignity Commission intelligence memo on Grenada demonstrations, Erle Johnston, MSC Director. July 14 1966.

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. July 18 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence memo on SCLC in Grenada, Erle Johnston, MSC Director. August 11 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. August 17 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. September 12 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. September 20 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence memo on Grenada , Erle Johnston, MSC Director. October 11 1966

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. January 10 1967

Sovereignity Commission intelligence report on Grenada Movement, Tom Scarbrough, MSC investigator. February 1 1967

Surveilance report on SCLC Poor Peoples march from Grenada, surveilance of small march by City police, Highway Patrol, Army Intelligence, and Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 6/12/69

 

Miscellaneous Documents

Justice in Grenada Mississippi, SRC. Undated probably later 1966 or early 1967

Community Survey (used by organizers in Grenada MS). SCLC? 1966

Grenada County Political Handbook (Freedom Information Service)


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