.MEMO TO ACCEPTED APPLICANTS

To: Mississippi Sw-mner Project ~Jorkers

Fro Mississippi Sv.mmer Project COITll11i ttee

1) v e h9pe you are msldng preparations to have bona money re:::tdy in the event of your arrest. Bond money for a single arr st usually runs around $500. we shall assume tha~t the first person listed on your application as the perso~ to noti y for your bond will be the best person to contact in the event of your arrest.

2) ere will be a series of orientation periods starting in 1 id-June and running until the beginning of July at Bere College. People will be staggered over three sessions, each lasting about four days.

3) t\ ter July 1 there will be a series of summer long orien·­tatibn sessions held · at Mount Beaula h in Edwards, Mississippi. we e pect all surruner workers to go through some orientatiQn period before going into the fie~d.

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conference was held the weekend of March 21-22 at which us civil rights people and educators gathered in; New to work out a detai led curriculum for the Freedom Schools. onference brolce into sma il working groups which discussed a rious Freedom School programs -- remedia l instruction, rship training~ : cultura l activities, etc. At present

vari us people are pulling together the results of their sess · ons a nd sending reports to the Jackson office . By the end f April vre !lope to be able to put together a compre- _ hens:ve and detailed curriculum with working suggestions which will be circulated to all those who are being assigned to wbrk 'Ln Freedom Schools this summer.

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5) are presently in a very critical financial condition. we a e trying to run a number of very important progroms this spring e nd at the same time we are preparing for tl1is

r. We are running threE;. congressiona 1 campaigns as 21s 2 senatorial campaign a nd conducting a Freedom

Regi tra tion progr.am -- in wh ich we hope to register 400,000 Negv •es on our own registration books-- ond building a gra s - roots foundation for our delegation to the Democratic N2ti na l Convention to chal l enge the regular all-white party dele~ation. Believe it or not, a t the moment we a re ab­solu~ ely broke. Our wqrkers go without eating and our bills are piling up, While two yeors ago this would not have cut seribusly into our program, at the present time we can no longfr operate for extended periods without funds -- e.g. we need mone.y for office rent) phone; office supplies,

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tra sportotion, etc . We Dre enclosing s prosj_~:ectus of our spr ng program and hope tha t you could raise some -money, how ver smal l, to help f inance our current progrC~ms.

6) f course, we will 3lso be needing a huge amount of funds for this summer. For this purpose we are enclosing a JPreedom School Prospectus in the hope the< t you might interest some ohu ch, civic or other group ln financing a specific Freedom School. In nddition, it is hoped that you could help raise mone for general operating funds . If there is a Freedom Oent- r in your aren, this could probably best be done by wor~·ng along with the people active i n the center. Though, in t e fino l analysis, you would he be st judge of what appr a ch would produce the best results.

7) We would appre cia te two more photos of yours~lf as soon as poseible. These will be needed for publicity and other purposes.

8) F nc::J,ly we must point out that tho Mississippi leadership must resc:;rve the right to "deselect" any summer worl<:er at the ime of orientation ss well as to 3 Sk people to leave Miss ssippi nt a ny time during the summer .

fe will try to colTllnLmicate with you pe r J.. odica lJy from now ntil the time you come tq, Mls sissippi. We will be feed .ng you general information; specific instructionsJ and suggest ions of tb]_ngs you might do for the summer program before this summer . Tllus, we will shortly be sending a ll Freedom School t ec:: chers curri culum moterial as indicZtted abov 1

• In 2ddition, we will be send i ng out lists of moter­ials which it would be helpful i f you could help gather and 1end to us or bring with yo~. Further, there wi ll be spec fi e informntion on where you will be sssigned to work a nd hat ·you will be asked to do , when you will be expected at t e orientation pe r i od, etc. If you own a car and nre pl3n ing to bring it to Mississippi this summer there wi ll be s •me soecific informstion that v.;e will need to know.

keep ~n touch w:Lth us if y.ou hove nny suggestions, re­quir · ,J ny informotionJ etc.

Yours in Freed om,

Bob Mos es COFO Progrom Director