SNCC field secretary in Mississippi, 1962-1965; particularly active in Greenwood during the 1963 voter registration campaign. Interview with Sinsheimer. Peacock discussed: the development of the NAACP chapter at Rust College in 1961 following the Greensboro sit-ins; meeting Robert Moses in Fall 1961; renewal of the Marshall County Voter's League, 1962; Amzie Moore's relationship with Robert Moses and other young SNCC organizers; formation of a SNCC singing quartet with Peacock and Hollis Watkins; working on voter registration activity in Sunflower County with Fannie Lou Hamer; assassination attempt on Jimmy Travis and Robert Moses outside Greenwood in 1963; problems in the 1964 Freedom Summer Project.
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