Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report notes that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) actions are based on the values of love, equality and nonviolence. The report includes excerpts from SNCC's rules...
Transcribed copy of a case study that examines the purpose and philosophies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). It also examines the Pledge for Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Discusses the philosophy of nonviolence and the tactic of nonviolent resistance. The paper profiles three nonviolent resisters: Jesus Christ, Mohandas (Mahatma) K. Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Volume 2 of the Freedom Flame includes articles by McEvans High School students in Shaw, Mississippi. The articles report the work that members of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) are doing...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The selected readings about nonviolent protests include quotes from Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, jr., James Farmer, Henry David Thoreau, Tom Kahn, Howard Zinn, and Lillian Smith.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretaries Bruce Gordon (left) and Cordell Hull Reagon (right) demonstrate with the assistance of a female volunteer how the Freedom Summer volunteers should protect themselves from...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows Freedom Summer volunteers gathered outside a brick building with SNCC Field Secretary Cordell Hull Reagon (third from right, wearing a hat) for instruction in nonviolent...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretary Dorie Ladner sits on a chair after speaking to the volunteers on nonviolent self-defense during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
