Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
A three-page typed letter written by Joseph Ellin to "the Editor of the [Kalamazoo] Gazette," July 10, 1964. The document describes the local violence associated with the movement, the conditions in Hattiesburg, and opinions on desegregation. Also...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 1, 1994 with Judge Harvey T. Ross (born 1920). In the mid-1960s, Judge Ross was active in laying the groundwork for Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Booklet published by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in an effort to inform the public about a piece of legislation intended to inflict genocide upon African...
Oral history.; Foster discusses the Mississippi Humanities Council, the teaching of African-American history in Mississippi schools, grant writing and funding, and race relations in Mississippi.
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Copies of newspaper clippings and programs collected by the Dahmer family in 1966, 1968-69, and 1986. Clippings focus on the death of Vernon F. Dahmer and the trials of those men arrested in the case. For...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Correspondence, newspaper articles and other items that document events surrounding the cancellation of Rev. Alvin Kershaw's scheduled appearance at the University of Mississippi in February 1956. For the...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Correspondence, photographs, news clippings, campaign materials, scrapbooks, manuscripts, copies of published books, videocassettes, plaques and other personal items. For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Information concerning David Owen's involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, including personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, a photograph, and information concerning various civil...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Minutes of the August 8, 1966 meeting of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and a report entitled "Report on Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (1964-1967). For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; NAACP correspondence and other materials documenting the contributions of this Hattiesburg, Mississippi civil rights leader. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m340.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Newspaper and magazine articles, journals, newspapers, bumper stickers, cartoons, etc. concerning anti-Semitism and civil rights. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m338.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Papers and photographs documenting Margaret Hazelton's Freedom Summer volunteer work in Clarksdale, Miss. from June to August of 1964. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m359.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Photographs documenting John Maurer's activities as a volunteer worker in Panola County, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m358.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Photographs taken by Herbert Randall during Freedom Summer (1964) in Hattiesburg, Miss. and at an orientation session in Ohio; information concerning the "Faces of Freedom Summer" photographic exhibit; and...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Primarily copies of speeches prepared for delivery by Alabama Governor George C. Wallace between 1961 and 1965; includes also biographical information, copies of interviews, statements, and telegrams. For...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a two-page typed memoir of Mrs. Phillip's experiences as an African American in a segregated society and the consequences associated with being a civil rights activist. She...
