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Walker, Johnnie Mae

Biography:

Field secretary for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Civil rights activist who participated in a sit-in at Greenville Air Force Base on January 31, 1966.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  • CORE--Fourth Congressional District Project Office general reports and memoranda, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 28) (Reports)
  • CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - Memoranda and reports, 1964-1966 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reels 2-3, Segment 37) (Reports)
  • Montgomery--SNCC: Circulars, newsletters, program outlines, incidents, 1963-1966 (Lucile Montgomery Papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 3, Segment 48) (Pamphlets)
  • Starobin--Miscellaneous clippings, reprints and other ephemera,1964-1967 (Robert S. Starobin papers, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 428, Box 2, Folder 10) (Clippings (information artifacts))
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Reverend Art Thomas, Isaac Foster, Unita Blackwell, Johnnie Mae Walker and other demonstrators participating in a sit-in at Greenville Air Force Base, as found in the Sovereignty Commission's file for Washington County, Greenville, Mississippi, 1966 January 31 (Black-and-white photographs)