(Continued from Mississippi Winter 1964-65) We left Jackson in April 1965. My molars were rotting away. A dentist in Pittsburgh PA who was a steadfast supporter of the civil rights movement offered to work on my teeth for free. Getting my molars fixed for free, with novocaine, felt like advanced socialism, by contrast to the Cuban kind, …
(Continued from Cuba 1963) In the summer of 1964 the civil rights movement launched a major campaign, Freedom Summer, to bring voter registration and other basic civil rights to the Deep South, centering on Mississippi. Viki and I spent the summer in New York, working. I had a summer job with a branch of the …
These are snapshots I took in the winter of 1964-65 in some of our Jackson Mississippi Freedom School sessions, at churches and in our 852 Short Street library, and a few portraits of some of our “regulars” in nearby settings. The class leader and storyteller is Viki Ortiz. This was the house at 852 Short …
1208 Trinity Jackson, Miss Feb. 19, 1965 Dear Friends, We enclose this time a flyer which we wrote for distribution to Jackson students, but which we thought you would find interesting. Last Tuesday we travelled to Issaquena county to get first-hand information — the press has blacked it out completely — and came away very …
January 10, 1965 Dear friends: We went into the center of town the other day with Mrs Bell, our landlady: tax paying time had rolled around again, and we drove her to City Hall and then to the County Court House. Both coming and going our ride was uneventful; upon our arrival at 1208 Trinity, …
