Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
A collection of six 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Copy of a typewritten letter, dated October 21, 1962, from P. D. (Percy Dale) East to several friends, in which East explains the difficult situation in which he finds himself in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Some members of the community have accused...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Biloxi Police Director Tommy Moffett was born March 2, 1950, in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He grew up in a household of ten siblings, and they all helped in sharecropping until Mr. Moffett was fifteen years old. His childhood was...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter written by Rita Walker to Kathleen Dahl. Walker writes about organizational problems with, presumably, individuals from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Fundraising letter with accompanying television transcript dated April 24[?], 1967. The letter and transcript are about the legal difficulties of the Louisiana-based Southern Consumers' Education...
From the East (P.D.) Collection. Typewritten copy of an address by P.D. East titled "On the attainment of distinction" and delivered at Vassar College in December 1962. East discusses his newspaper, The Petal paper, public and commercial...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An extensive list of incidents of violence and discrimination in Mississippi in October 1964. The last page of the document lists the officers of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written by a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary following the bombing of the home of Alyene Quin and the Society Hill Baptist Church. The author...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Handbook of security precautions that should be taken by Mississippi Freedom Project volunteers. Topics covered include: "Travel," "Living at Home or in Freedom Houses," "Personal...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of acts of harassment and violence committed against African Americans and civil rights activists in McComb, Mississippi, from June through September 1964. The report provides a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Betty Garman (Robinson), Atlanta SNCC office, to friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and campus contacts, dated October 28, 1964. Garman reports...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Jon Else, presumably of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to all college contacts, dated November 1, 1964. Labeled "Urgent," the memo encourages immediate...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated October 30, 1964. Addresses the need for heightened investigation of illegal political practices against the MFDP...
