Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Materials that document the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer in Holly Springs, Mississippi. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m362.htm.
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 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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of Mississippi Freedom Schools, arranged according to Mississippi Congressional Districts. Includes the numbers of students expected at each location, the number of teachers needed,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Mississippi Summer Project staff to Mississippi Community Center workers (no date) regarding plans for the community centers to be set up as part of the Mississippi Freedom...
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 Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Eighteen-page handwritten journal authored by Margaret Hazelton. The journal provides a day-by-day account of Hazelton's experience as a Freedom Summer volunteer working in Clarksdale,...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a local African-American teenager and David Batzka at the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of his wife, Loris Thomason, standing with four African-American children at the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of local African-American children making freedom chains at the Clarksdale (MS) community center.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Margie (Margaret) Hazelton (wearing glasses) and Paul Kendall as they work on a jigsaw puzzle with children at the...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Margie (Margaret) Hazelton with several African-American youths at the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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 Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African-American teenage girls exercising in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African-American teenagers and David Batzka (right) in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Six handwritten note cards outlining the Community Center at Clarksdale; Community centers were organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) as part of Mississippi Freedom...
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...
