From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Congressman Ogden R. Reid to Mrs. Israel Zwerling dated May 11, 1965. Reid expresses sympathy over the deaths of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter on Congressional letterhead from Senator Jacob K. Javits to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated November 6, 1964. Javits affirms the belief that all Americans have a right to...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 20. Features an article about recovery of the bodies of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten statement by Robert and Carolyn Goodman, the parents of Andrew Goodman, dated August 5, 1964. The Goodmans express grief over the deaths of their son and fellow civil rights...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Telegram from Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated August 4, 1964, sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Jacob Javits, Senator Kenneth Keating, Congressman William F. Ryan, Congressman Ogden...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A letter inviting attendance at a memorial service for James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner on August 9, 1964, in Washington, D.C.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Senator Jacob K. Javits to Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated July 7, 1964. Javits thanks Zwerling for his letter about the safety of civil rights workers James Chaney,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Includes an article about James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers who were murdered in...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Congressman William F. Ryan to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 24, 1964. Ryan relates his efforts to involve the President, Attorney General, and other Federal...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection; Copy of a typewritten telegram from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, dated June 23, 1964, about the disappearance of two New York civil rights workers, Andrew...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 23, 1964. Keating responds to Zwerling's telegram about the disappearance of James Chaney, Andrew...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo, presumably written by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated June 22, 1964, regarding the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. James...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Five-page document details the Federal chronology of events that took place when three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) disappeared in Philadelphia,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Chronology of communications among FBI agents, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the U.S. Justice Department, and others during the first days of the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney,...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This piece of Ku Klux Klan propaganda maintains that civil rights workers are Communists in disguise and that governmental officials are in league with them. An interview with an unnamed official of the KKK...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document which addresses legal aspects of the case against the Neshoba County men accused of murdering civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Cheney. It describes...
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...
