From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum suggestions for prospective freedom school teachers. Table of contents delineates three distinct curriculum areas: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic; document...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Information packet for prospective contributors to COFO's freedom school program; consists of the original proposal for the program, written by Charlie Cobb.
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; Freedom School student Anthony Harris sits at a table writing in a notebook at the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Arthur Reese lectures to a class of Freedom School students at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
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; 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; 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Draft, with editorial marks and instructions, of a speech or monologue by Robert Moses. Moses discusses many topics, including Mississippi civil rights activism in the early 1960s, current...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Carolyn Reese teaching a Freedom School class at an African-American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The students include Aljorie, Sharon, and Velisa Clark and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Carolyn Reese teaching a Freedom School class at an African-American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Her students include Aljorie, Velisa, and Cherylyn Clark...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The Clark sisters, students in a Freedom School class taught by volunteer Carolyn Reese, sit in an African American church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This two-page document introduces the programs to be undertaken and/or continued by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) from the winter of 1964 to spring of 1965. Programs include...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure distributed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in an effort to solicit economic support and volunteers for Freedom Schools. Describes the purpose and function of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum guidelines for freedom schools; includes headings for leadership development, remedial academic work, contemporary issues, and non-academic curriculum.
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; 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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of Dr. Staughton Lynd, Director of Freedom Schools, during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
