From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Along with their respective city locations, the material provides a progress report on the Mississippi Freedom Schools, and Community centers.
Flyer from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Flyer distributed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in an effort to raise funds for community centers, which were central to the success of the CORE programs. Community...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Mississippi Freedom Project community centers describing how community centers improve the lives of African Americans in Mississippi. The report is organized by the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The memo, from Lois Chaffee, of the Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); presents diverse ideas on what should be the function of the community centers, and discusses money and staff...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Four main areas of the Mississippi Freedom Project are discussed: freedom schools, community centers, voter registration, and special projects.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, standing outside the Palmers Crossing Community Center on Old Airport Road, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The community center,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the Community Centers in the Hattiesburg project, talks with local African American residents who are helping to turn an old kindergarten building into the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The memo informs Freedom Centers of date changes for a scheduled Washington, D. C. hearing on Mississippi.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter (Vol. 1, no. 1) of the Child Development Group of Mississippi. Reviews the opening of 66 child development centers, the Food Stamp Program, and the visit of Senators Robert Kennedy and Joseph...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The Mississippi Newsletter, published by the Freedom Information Service (FIS), provides information on varied civil rights activities in Mississippi in June of 1966.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Prospectus for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, likely produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Contains justification for the project and its timing, also contains...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter explains that the basic role of the Freedom Centers is to serve as an organizational link between the Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) and the individual applicants of the...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Report of the planned programs for Freedom Summer of 1964. Beginning with a quote from James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed Society, the prospectus discusses issues such as goals of the Mississippi...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American children stand in the exhibit area of the Palmers Crossing Community Center where Freedom School students' art work is on exhibit. The large sign with handprints...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American male teenagers and boys and one volunteer worker with rakes and scythes to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three local African-American teenagers in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two young women sit on either...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local residents and volunteers standing outside the community center established in Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The meeting was likely...
