From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; With amendments attached to the legislative bill, the future Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes the United States Senate, but still requires concurrence from the United States House of...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One-page report published in association with the Mississippi Freedom Project. The report describes the Federal Programs Project, which made information about legal and financial aid more...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report explains why federal aid did not get to the people who really needed it in the South in the 1960s. The report also suggests adjustments that can be made to the aid programs so that...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter, dated [July 11, 1964] from Joe Ellin to "kids" [Susan and Diane]. In this document, Joe's frustrations are evident in the tone he uses in writing. He talks of a lack of teaching materials in the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of an unidentified man (left) and Lafayette Surney (right) standing in front of a building. Surney worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three unidentified local African American residents standing near a sign that reads "Parking For Pastor Only" during Freedom Summer 1964. The photograph was likely taken in the parking lot of...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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. ; 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. ; The collection consists of pamphlets, books, reports and speeches concerning communism, fascism, civil rights, desegregation, and other race-related matters collected by William D. McCain. The collection...
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...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen outside of the courthouse in Laurel, Mississippi, during the first trial of Willie McGee. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen escorting Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching. McGee,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen escorting Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching. McGee,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen in a truck with Willie McGee during his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching....
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Outlines some race relation issues between African Americans and white Southerners. Twenty problems are listed, including that white Southerners fear African Americans and that African Americans...
