Letter, Ms. Annie Rankin, 25 May 1965
Annie Rankin, born in Harrison County, Mississippi in 1933, became active in the Freedom Movement in 1964 when she attempted to integrate a lunch counter in Natchez, Mississippi. Ms. Rankin participated in the March on Washington in 1965 and maintained an extensive correspondence with her "freedom friends" in the North, particularly in Providence, RI. In this letter Ms. Rankin described her everyday struggles and her new project, writing a petition to the Secretary of State explaining that young black men should not be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Throughout this letter, she also expressed her ideas on the term “Black Power” and her admiration for Stokely Carmichael.
Item information:correspondence
Created 1965-05-25 in Mississippi, Fayette
3 , 8x11
Sent from
Annie Rankin
Fayette, Mississippi, United States of America
Sent to
Frank Stewart
Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archive - T-90.19
Annie Rankin Box 1, folder 1
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