From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the plan for the Freedom Schools, part of the Mississippi Freedom Project. Includes the purpose and curriculum for the schools, specifically academic, citizenship,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document explains to staff members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) what the "Friends of SNCC" groups do. These groups support SNCC's programs in the Civil Rights...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document contains Silas Norman's critique of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) publication, the Student Voice. He notes the content of the publication and suggests that...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal discusses the symptoms and needs of civil rights workers who have been on the front lines in the South. The author feels that the shock of civil rights work on individuals would be...
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...
Front page of the 22 February 1962 special edition of the Student Printz regarding the new university status. "It's University of Southern Mississippi Bill Passes House Goes to Barnett."
Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated November 11, 1963. The front-page article covers the recent Freedom Vote, in which over 70,000 African-American voters in Mississippi cast ballots. Other articles include...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Members of a Freedom School class sitting on the lawn of Morning Star Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The teacher is SNCC Field Secretary Barbara...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified Freedom School student reading Ebony magazine while lounging on the front porch of a house on Gravel Line Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church meets during Freedom Summer, 1964 on the lawn outside the church, located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students who have been...
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; Students in a Freedom School class taught by volunteer Arthur Reese read copies of Ebony magazine on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; This edition of the Freedom Press, a production of Freedom School students, contains articles on topics such as canvassing, letters to government officials, and breaking down the barriers...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written by student Julie Ann McCarty that expresses her enthusiasm for the Freedom School which she is attending.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a brief essay written by Freedom School student Neretha Stewart about the lack of freedom for African Americans.
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...
