A collection of ten 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.; 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 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...
Oral history.; Eva Gates was born on October 4, 1948. Marriage and pregnancy at fifteen caused her to temporarily leave school although her return proved difficult because of her husband's protests and the prevailing school policies concerning...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Ray E. Robinson, pastor of the Methodist Church in Lodi, Wisconsin. The letter is based on a sermon dated June 16, 1963, and discusses the murder of Medgar Evers and the church's...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains eight affidavits detailing the violence and discrimination against African Americans and/or civil rights workers in Mississippi during the Mississippi Freedom Project in...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Chronology of communications among FBI agents, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the U.S. Justice Department, and others during the first days of the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Five-page document details the Federal chronology of events that took place when three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) disappeared in Philadelphia,...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from COFO director Robert Moses to contacts and parents of students volunteering in Mississippi. Moses writes of the continuing potential for violence and describes steps taken by COFO to...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Confidential six-page newsletter by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) contains information about arrests, violence, and harassment experienced by civil rights workers and local...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the Director to the New Orleans office, dated July 10, 1964. Gives instructions to conduct an investigation into an attack on Rabbi...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Untitled Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memo summarizing two statements given to the FBI regarding the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld on July 10,...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the New Orleans office to the Director dated July 11, 1964. Describes the attack on Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, Lawrence Spears, and David...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the New Orleans office to the Director, dated July 12, 1964. Report on the investigation of the attack on Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, David...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the Director to the New Orleans office, dated July 13, 1964. Includes instructions for conducting the investigation of an attack on Rabbi...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Alex(" Rosen to Alan ") Belmont dated July 13, 1964, about the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 10, 1964. The...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Alex ") Rosen to Alan ") Belmont dated July 17, 1964, about the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 10, 1964. The...
