From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three African American girls from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand near a tree in front of True Light Baptist Church during Freedom Summer, 1964. Affixed to the tree is a hand-made sign reading...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Map Collection. Map of of the Louisiana Territory and Mississippi River Valley. Contains views of Niagara Falls, Father Louis Hennepin and buffalo. Color coded to show Louisiana, Florida, Canada, the Spanish colonies of Mexico, and the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American activist Andrew Wilson speaks at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American residents stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The woman in the center is local activist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Anne Smith Taylor speaks to a caucus of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu stands in front of the choir stall at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. Mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. There are two African American children...
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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Photograph of the remains of Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by fire in an act of racial violence. Three men stand looking at the remains of the...
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...
Article, "Mississippi: Rebuilding a Church," by Mark Panitch in the ADL Bulletin, circa 1965. The article discusses the efforts of a group of college students to rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, which had been...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a baptism performed by Rev. A. L. O’Briant of Immanuel Baptist Church, in Gordon’s Creek, circa 1908.
Photograph of the Baptist Student Center during construction. Text on back of photo: "BSU Center construction is nearing completion. The building is being constructed on the original property purchased by the MS Baptist Convention early in the...
