Letter, Annie Rankin, 12 August 1967

Annie Rankin, a grass roots Mississippi activist, maintained a lively correspondence with Northern friends. In this 1967 letter, she describes how a white man shot and killed a black man because the black man voted for black candidates in the Jefferson County election. Violence around voting continued in Mississippi long after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.

Item information:
correspondence
Created 1967-08-12 in Mississippi, Fayette
3 pages, 8x11

Sent from
Annie Rankin
Fayette, Mississippi, United States of America

Sent to
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart

Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archive - T-90.19
Annie Rankin, Box 1, folder 1

Record 71

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