WIMS Materials

In the late spring of 1964, Height and Cowan and the WIMS staff prepared the WIMS women to go South. They put together packets of background information.

• Mississippi Glossary
  WIMS provided this document to its Northern Visitors and is a listing of each type of Civil Rights organization working in Mississippi along with a synopsis of the purpose and goals of each.
• General Background Material
  Another document WIMS provided to its Northern Visitors. This document provides detailed statistics on the imbalance of opportunities between blacks and whites as relating to on education, employment, and economics.
• Median of School Completed by Adults in 1960 per MS County: Whites, Non-Whites
  A comparison of the education by average white and non-white Mississippians reveals that the state-wide average of whites who have completed their education is almost double that of non-whites.
• White Women Supporters
  When the summer was over, the WIMS staff put together a report that recorded their major activities, accomplishments, and findings. The report talked about the reaction of those white women who were asked to provide housing for the white WIMS women. It was no small task for white women to host northern visitors, even white visitors. The white women of Mississippi faced possible retribution: being ostracized by their friends; being punished by their husbands; and worst of all - being responsible for their husbands losing their jobs.