From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Unit VII, Part 2 of a larger document. The information is to educate Freedom School teachers and prepare them to converse on topics covered, including the history and goals of the Council of...
From the Southern Tourism Collection. A municipal report created in 1964 that details the history of the city of Hattiesburg and also contains a large amount of information about the infrastructure, government, and developments occurring in 1964.
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of Major Casteel, Camp Shelby Public Relations Office. Major Casteel stands on a platform to speak to a Hattiesburg audience during World War II. Among those seated on the platform are (l-r):...
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers.; Photograph of Rabbi Charles Mantinband taken after his confirmation at the Temple B'nai Israel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mantinband is shown walking up the aisle of the temple.
From the Southern Tourism Collection. The pamphlet created by the Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce extols the virtues of Hattiesburg and the surrounding areas. The author discusses the state of Hattiesburg in the 1920s and explains things such as...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Duncan Gray, dated November 5, 1964. Campbell writes for Gray's opinion on the organization of an interracial Committee for Mississippi Churchmen.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) reporting the police beating of Joe Schwartz, a COFO worker. Schwartz was stopped by police and beaten after an office...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. J.C. Herrin, dated March 5, 1962, in which Campbell discusses the situation of Rev. R.B. Smith of Indianola, Mississippi. Smith, a pastor, was forced to...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. An short, open letter from Doug and Gail [Brown] to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office personnel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Travel plans and activity in the Jackson and...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Standing in front of the COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street are volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three young female Freedom Summer volunteers arrive a few doors down from the COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the end of June, 1964. One of the three may...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary and COFO-Hattiesburg Project Director Sandy Leigh standing beside the blackboard while giving a lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American children -- a girl and two little boys -- sweep and pick up litter from the porch of the COFO-Hattiesburg project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close up of Arthur Reese who, along with his wife Carolyn Reese, was Co-Coordinator of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Students in a Freedom School class taught by volunteer Arthur Reese read copies of Ebony magazine on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
