The Interpreter: The Truth About Mississippi's Hungry Children by Mississippi Council on Human Relations - 1967

Jackson, MS: Mississippi Council on Human Relations, 1967. A publication collecting four reports issued by the Mississippi Council on Human Relations as an "honest reflection of the problem of hunger and malnutrition among the poverty-stricken children of our state." The self-described major report is "Observations on the Health Status of Indigent Families in Leflore, Humphreys, Washington and Bolivar Counties" and was submitted by the Governor of Mississippi, Paul Johnson, to the Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty. The three other reports include those by a group of doctors sponsored by the Field Foundation in conjunction with the executive committee of the Southern Regional Council, by the United States Surgeon General, William H. Stewart, before the Senate Subcommittee on Poverty, and by the Mississippi Council on Human Relations, also submitted to the Senate Subcommittee. All the photographs were shot by Al Clayton and depict poor Black families and their undernourished children. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 12 p., photographs. Machine folded, considerable chipping to the fore-edge, newsprint toned, old mailing label and stamp to back page, Good+. No record for this publication in OCLC, although we note a copy in the Patricia Derian papers and the Allan Eugene Cox papers at Mississippi State and the Bob Blauner papers at UC Berkeley.