From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large, double-ended skidder with tank car. Work crew and possibly L.O. Crosby in...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the 1941 Eureka high school football team; 5 x 7; The Eureka high school football team was undefeated in 1941. They are posed in uniform outside the school.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people and volunteers cross arms and join hands to sing the anthem of the civil rights movement, "We Shall Overcome," at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as part of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld leaves Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a wheelchair on July 11, 1964, upon being released. Rabbi Lelyveld was hospitalized after being assaulted the...
From the Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers. Photograph of Miguel Otero, Mary Blackwood Otero (Miguel Otero's wife), and an enslaved Black girl, photograph taken circa 1860s. The Oteros are sitting at a table with tea cups on it while a young Black...
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; Exterior view of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A mass meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) has just...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of an African American volunteer at the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified female volunteer playing the guitar and singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of volunteer Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinator of the Hattiesburg Freedom Schools, during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.
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. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of two unidentified women standing at machines making .50 caliber ammunition at Komp Equipment Company; 6 x 6
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. This photo shows the Copeland sisters of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Brenda is on the left and Peggy is on the right. They lived with their grandparents, Mr. King David Patton and his wife Mrs....