The project received widespread publicity in national media, and contributed to broader recognition of need to afford protection to southern churches that supported the civil rights movement.
Long before white civil rights workers arrived, Rust College Students, began to challenge segregation of public accommodations.
Civil Rights workers stationed at Freedom House began to link to self-contained movements in Marshall and the nearby counties of Benton and Tippah.
[2]A letter from the Sovereignty Commission on the same date seeks advice from the local circuit judge as to whether Mrs. Foster has registered to vote and inquires of any connection to the NAACP.
[4] A major goal of Freedom Summer, including the work performed out of Holly Springs, was to break through obstacles to black voting in Mississippi.
For that reason, Holly Springs COFO workers in Northern Mississippi Counties worked to enhance black participation in Agricultural Stabilization Committee elections.