Letter, Jailed Dartmouth College student, Adams County Jail, 4 June 1965
This letter, originally written on toilet paper and presented here in the original and in a typed version, was written by a Dartmouth College student working in Natchez, Mississippi. Other letters from the same student in the Tougaloo College Archives show him to be a vivid writer, well aware of the danger he faced as a white civil rights worker. Describing his ideology as "non-violent to a degree," he requests that his Northern friends send him a weapon with which to defend himself. He represents the thoughts of many activists who, by 1965, had faced repeated violence. His sign off "Freedom Now" shows his committment to the movement and the work he had undertaken despite the danger.
Item information:correspondence
Created 1965-06-04 in Adams Co. Jail
3 pages, 8x11
Sent from
Peter Muilenburg
Natchez, Mississippi, United States of America
Sent to
Nacho
Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archive - T-90.20
Edward King Collection, Box 3 , folder 122
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