Recruitment Forms, CDGM, 22 February 1967

During the fall and winter of 1966, Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), along with its supporting organization, the Citizens’ Crusade Against Poverty (CCAP), mobilized a fervent struggle to regain Head Start funds from the federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). By December 1966, CDGM received a third grant to run centers in fourteen counties for a year. But by then, white outsiders governed the initially Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party-affiliated CDGM attracting criticism from black power advocates. One of CDGM’s greatest assets had been its ability to empower local black community members as decision-makers and participants in running their preschool programs. The forms for recruitment, which appear here, show the dwindling of that power. Local black people became demoralized as white program directors put greater effort into recruiting white participants. Names of participants, which appear in the original documents, are hidden in here to protect individual privacy.

Item information:
Organizational document
Created 1967-02-22 in Canton, Mississippi
5 , 8.5x11



Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archives - T-89.08
Box 1, folder Folder 12

Record 92

Brown University Tougaloo College STG