From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; September-October issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 108 features an article about a round-the-clock silent vigil...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; July-August issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 107 features an article about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; March-April issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 105, features an article about Freedom Day in Canton, Mississippi, held on...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; February issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the CORE-Lator. Issue number 104 features an article about the first CORE community center, established in...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure published by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) inviting college students, clergymen, laypersons, and businessmen to participate in various summer projects sponsored...
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...
Pamphlet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Pamphlet produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), includes descriptions of the consequences often encountered by those involved in the civil rights movement in the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page handwritten letter by Kathy Dahl addressed to the Berkeley, California, chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Dahl discusses the social impact and financial needs of the...
Transcribed copy of a case study that examines the purpose and philosophies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). It also examines the Pledge for Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report notes that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) actions are based on the values of love, equality and nonviolence. The report includes excerpts from SNCC's rules...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure distributed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in an effort to solicit economic support and volunteers for Freedom Schools. Describes the purpose and function of...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by James Farmer, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Michael Miller's letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and clarifies the phrase's meaning and usage...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; News release from "Southern Reporting Service" on the positive and negative effects the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project had in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The papers contain records created during Michaels' tenure with the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi between 1962 and 1964, including her field...
