From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Seven-page document from the Ecumenical Center for Renewal (ECR) with a cover letter signed by R.B. Kochtitzky. Provides detailed plans for a model for twelve proposed regional centers of renewal in the South,...
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Copies of an arrest record for Albert F. Gordon and offense reports from the Jackson, Mississippi, police department dated July 9, 1961. The offense report lists names and addresses of eight...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document records Jules Irving's experiences while visiting Jackson, Mississippi, to help set up the Free Southern Theatre. Irving's notes record the reactions of community members to his...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of participants of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention at the Masonic Temple in Jackson, Mississippi.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a group of white and African-American civil rights demonstrators at the Woolworth's store in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1963. The sit-in was an attempt to...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
From the Lovell (Mansfield) Letters. Letter from Mansfield Lovell to his son Joseph, dated 27 March 1863, written from Jackson, Mississippi. Lovell encourages his son, almost twelve years old, to study hard and take his mother for daily walks.
One letter written by U. S. Brigadier General Boyle to his wife while he was in camp outside Jackson, Mississippi. The shelling of Jackson, the discovery of Jefferson Davis' papers, and events connected with the 3rd Texas Cavalry are detailed. ...
Letter from John Duncan to Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles concerning the travel of two women, Mrs. Newman and Miss Byers, into Federal territory in Mississippi. Ruggles had provided a flag and an escort.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 5; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated August 30, 1965. Includes an...
