From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This five-page document provides background and justification for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project. It gives a description of the project, the importance of community centers and voter...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This pamphlet describes the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with the Mississippi Freedom Project through voter registration, freedom schools, community centers,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo to people who would interview applicants for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides guidance and pointers for determining if an applicant is suitable to work with the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Map of Mississippi counties, with larger cities and towns labeled. Locations of Freedom Schools, voter registration activities, "Project Continuing," and community centers throughout the...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document is p. [1] and p. 3 of a memo that describes the physical environment and atmosphere of the Mississippi Freedom Project office in Biloxi. The progress and routine of the Freedom...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Mississippi Freedom Project community centers describing how community centers improve the lives of African Americans in Mississippi. The report is organized by the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This brochure outlines the goals and activities of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) in the early 1960s. It describes the organization's structure and its coordination with the Council of...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This pamphlet explains what the Mississippi Summer Project is and how supporters can help this cause. It details the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) plans for voter registration...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Free Southern Theater, a drama group founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that performed the play "In White America" throughout...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A traveling folk singer is joined in song by Freedom School student Ronald Moore in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the various Freedom Summer...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Soren Sorenson writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks project (WFP), to communicate travel plans to Ohio and Mississippi for orientation and work with the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A girl of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, possibly a Freedom School student, claps her hands and sings in Hattiesburg during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the various Freedom Summer...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows Dr. Staughton Lynd, Director of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, lecturing to an audience of Freedom School teachers during the second SNCC orientation session held at...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter on official letterhead from Linda [Gordon] to Joseph and Nancy Ellin, dated July 16, 1964. Discusses the shipment of textbooks sent for use by the freedom schools in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter to Julie Prettyman of SNCC's New York office. Miller expresses disappointment at failure of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and he asks for fund raising ideas.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover letter from Staughton Lynd and Harold Bardanelli of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in Jackson, Mississippi, to Freedom School volunteer teachers. The cover letter gives...
