Hattiesburg Report & Evaluation Forms
Summer 1964

In January of 1964, SNCC asked the Commission on Religion and Race (CORR) of the National Council of Churches to recruit northern ministers to participate in the first Hattiesburg Freedom Day, January 22, 1964. Their hope was that — as was the case Selma's Freedom Day the previous October — the presence of mostly white clergy would draw national media attention and both prevent police repression and pressure the federal government to enforce voting rights court rulings.

The tactic proved so successful that a "Ministers Project" was initiated to cycle clergy and laymen through Hattiesburg to bear witness in support of the Freedom Movement. Northern ministers, rabbis, deacons, seminary students, and others mobilized through religious institutions, picketed the courthouse, attended mass meetings, and helped canvas for voter registration — some for a few days, some for a longer period.

The project expanded during Freedom Summer, and then in the Fall evolved into an ongoing organization called the Delta Ministry

The evaluation forms below were filled out by clergy and laity who volunteered to serve during this project.

See also Freedom Summer Letters & Reports From Hattiesburg & Forrest Co
1964	R. Mark Allen	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	William S. Bason	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Fannie M. Bennett	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Fannie M. Bennett #2	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Leslie Eugenia Bogan III	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	A. Stauffer Curry	Ministers Evaluation, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Harold L. Daniel	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Jean Dimond	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Jean Dimond	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, September 1964
1964	Theo O. Fisher	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Donald R. Fletcher	Ministers Evaluation, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mrs. Donald Frey	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Robert K. Greer	Ministers Evaluation, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Alicia Gruka	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mrs. Truing Guembel	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mrs. Margaret Hejtmanek	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Sally Kietzman	Evaluation form, Hattiesbug Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Merle Longwood, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Jerome Lipnick, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Clinton Marsh, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Joseph McCord, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mark Miller, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Walter Press, DM	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Walter Ransom Rice Jr.	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mary Ellen la Rue	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Paul Rutgers	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	C. Thatcher Schwartz	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Carl Scovel	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Richard Sigler	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	J. Raymond Sikkel	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Harold B. Smith	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Jeff Smith	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Miss Sally A. Smith	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Mrs. S.N. Vilma Thompkins	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Frank Norman Totten	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Don Van Voorhis	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	F.W. Wiegmann	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Loretta M. Witmet	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964
1964	Don Ward	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, August 3, 1964
1964	James Whitehead	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, August 25, 1964
1964	William Bickel	Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, August 29, 1964

  For more information, see:

Freedom Day in Hattiesburg (Jan '65)
Mississippi Summer Project, undated 1964
Delta Ministry Founded in Mississippi (Sept '64)

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