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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

03 Aug 2014

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

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Aug 03, 2014

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5

Cousin County aids Holmes County Mississippi drive

The piece recounts SNCC activist Kenney and Cubert Cooper returning to Iowa from Freedom Summer in 1964 to aid Mississippi voters. It notes violence fears, Freedom Democratic Party efforts, Freedom Schools, and Holmes County’s poverty, education needs, and a farm cooperative debt as residents seek long term aid.

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Ken Mike Kenney University of Iowa Iowa Mississippi Holmes County Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee Kenney SNCC Freedom Democratic Party Atlantic City N.J Freedom Democratic Freedom Cubert Cooper Mileston Miss Cooper Cubeit Cedar Rapids Iowa City Waterloo Marion Springville Whittier
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Time Machine spotlights Eastern Iowa link to Mississippi aid

Eastern Iowa readers are invited to share time travel ideas while a Gazette project revisits key people places and events. The Time Machine highlights the Cousin County Mississippi aid drive begun in 1964 with drive efforts in Johnson County and Iowa City.

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Iowa Diane.langton Sourcemedia.net Thegazette.com
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Diane Langton the Gazette Courtesy Matt Horror Mike Kenney Johnson County Marshall County Coralville Cousin County Marshall Holly Springs Linn County Washington, D.C Linn Holmes Diane. Langton
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