From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Volume 1, Number 1 of the Freedom Carrier records news stories about the Mississippi Freedom Schools and racial violence that occurred in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. The small newsletter...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated May 23, 1964, in which she writes about preparations for her summer participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project. She also asks for input from her family about her summer schedule...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a letter from Joseph Ellin to the Gazette, dated July 10, 1964. Discusses freedom schools, freedom school students, volunteers, and education. Ellin also discusses the...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Report of the planned programs for Freedom Summer of 1964. Beginning with a quote from James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed Society, the prospectus discusses issues such as goals of the Mississippi...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children from the Mobile Street area participate in a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Second from the left is Charles Ray Leggett, and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Students and teachers laugh as some of the students joke around during SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh's lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) during Freedom Summer in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Sandra Adickes and Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth in the Freedom School hosted by Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Folksinger Julius Lester plays the guitar while Freedom School students sit around him outside of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Lester was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Beth More supervises registration for the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. In the background is Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Dorothy Duncan writes during a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs.Two African American students sit together at a desk in a room over the entrance to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. One student is using the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of young African Americans of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand and sing in front of the headquarters of local civil rights leader Victoria Jackson Gray's campaign for the U.S. Senate on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Cynthia Perteet (left) and volunteer Beth More (right) are photographed together in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. More was a teacher in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local civil rights leader Daisy Harris assists with a Freedom School class during Freedom Summer, 1964. The class was probably held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Freedom School student Sharon Hunter sings and claps her hands during a Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church that met during Freedom Summer, 1964 in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the Community Centers in the Hattiesburg project, talks with local African American residents who are helping to turn an old kindergarten building into the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Legendary folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger plays his guitar for a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4 as part of Freedom Summer,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Adda Dilts to Nancy Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses contributions of textbooks to freedom schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, including some that were given to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photo is Herbert Randall's close-up of Freedom School teacher Sandra Adickes during Freedom Summer, 1964. Adickes was a teacher in the Freedom School hosted by Priest Creek Missionary...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Sandra Adickes (center) teaches one of her Freedom School classes at Priest Missionary Baptist Church in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. ...
