Mississippi Summer Project Voter Registration

Correspondence and other material, including several items on the disappearance of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi, a list of New England students involved in the project, and a letter signed by thirty-eight northeastern educators requesting protectio...

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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. White: Louis Martin called to say that a committee of 8 hasbeen chosen to call the Attorney General or his designee at Justice Department in connection with the three missing people in Miss. A Resolution was passed approx. 2:30: "orderly demonstrations for Wed. morning, June 24, to be conducted around the Justice Department and / or the White House at the committees discretion so that the people of the U.S. and the Attorney General will know of our determination that he use the full arm of his department to investigate this cruel incident".