From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
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...
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 Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Transcription of a conversation between Doug [?] and Dr. [?] Mason about the possibility of having a civil rights leadership speaker at the Rotary Club, and the potential for dialogue rather...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American teenager Doug Smith, Assistant Director and Youth Coordinator of the Hattiesburg project (left), Clarence Wilson (center), and another local African- American teenager...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith (left) and SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh explain to elderly African American Hattiesburg resident Felix Smith the procedures required in order to register to vote...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Doug Tuchman stands with two local African American men in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Visible between the...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. White blown and cast sulfide glass sculpture of three apothecary bottles stacked on top of each other, by Stephan Paul Day.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. An short, open letter from Doug and Gail [Brown] to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office personnel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Travel plans and activity in the Jackson and...
Photograph of the 1950 "M Club" featured in the 1950 Southerner yearbook on page 164. Pictured left to right, seated: Frank Spruell (President) Reese Snell (Secretary) Tom LeGros (Vice President) Jim Owen (Treasurer); 2nd row: Ed Langford, Brew...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers and local activists participate in a meeting held in a large room with square pillars in one of the participating African-American churches in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during...
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.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
