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From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page poem authored by Rita Walker, a Freedom Summer volunteer and native of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
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From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page personal account by Rita Walker, an African-American civil rights worker from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Walker writes about being mistreated by the white doctor and white nurses near the end of her pregnancy in 1963 and two months after the birth of her son.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page report by Rita Walker about the December 1965 ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) elections in Mississippi's Marshall and DeSoto counties. A federal program, the ASCS allowed rural Mississippi farmers to act as administrators in their local agricultural communities. Walker describes incidents of discrimination during the election process in these communities and urges examination of election results. She also typed a personal note to Kathy (Dahl) at the end of the report.
19 January 1966
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker asks Dahl to send clothes and food to Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes about civil rights workers U.Z. (Nunnally), Howard (Jeffries) and Aviva (Futorian). She also discusses local voter registration efforts and work shared with her husband, Bud, to organize welfare and Social Security for the people of Holly Springs.
29 January 1966
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page letter written by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker thanks Dahl for sending money and reports on the progress of a number of community development projects in the area.
29 April 1966
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter written by Rita Walker to Kathleen Dahl. Walker writes about organizational problems with, presumably, individuals from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta, including someone she names "Mr. Black Power" who wants to close down the Holly Springs Project. She also touches on boycott successes in Holly Springs and the pessimism of some African Americans towards efforts to integrate local schools and medical facilities.
26 September 1966
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl and her family. Walker, a native of Holly Springs, writes to Dahl about area politics, her efforts at voter education and voter registration, and her frustration with African Americans who seem to have no interest in voting and bettering themselves.
24 October 1966
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information, expresses frustration with social and economic conditions and with President Lyndon Johnson, mentions rioting in New York, Chicago and Detroit. Walker discusses difficulty finding work in northern states.
27 July 1967
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker to Kathy Dahl. Walker writes from Aurora, Illinois, about the lack of jobs in Mississippi. She writes that African Americans did not make use of opportunities to talk to Bobby Kennedy at a statewide meeting in Jackson when he was in Mississippi trying to find out how to help feed poor people. She writes of her daughter's difficulties in school. Three years after Freedom Summer, Walker expresses frustration and discouragement.
13 July 1967
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information. Discusses upcoming visit from Dahl and that many Holly Springs people have relocated to Illinois. She writes that Hardy [Frye] had been to Memphis but not to Holly Springs, saying he was "threw [sic] with them people."
12 September 1967
