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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff to a Freedom Summer volunteer, dated May 18, 1964. The letter informs the recipient that he/she has been...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated May 23, 1964, in which she writes about preparations for her summer participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project. She also asks for input from her family about her summer schedule...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff to Mississippi Summer Project participants, no date given. The letter informs participants of the 1st orientation session...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Photographs taken by Herbert Randall during Freedom Summer (1964) in Hattiesburg, Miss. and at an orientation session in Ohio; information concerning the "Faces of Freedom Summer" photographic exhibit; and...
Photograph of Southern Mississippi cheerleaders with the Liberty Bell, a symbol of the rivalry with Tulane University (Battle for the Bell). Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 53, no. 1 (Summer 1999) on page 18.
Photograph of head baseball coach Hill Denson talking with Andy Woodward (left) during a game. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 43, no. 1 (Summer 1990), p. 4.
Photograph of four football players dressed in new uniforms. Focus groups that met to consider new uniforms included fans, donors, faculty, and members of the business community and athletic department. Photograph featured in the Talon, vol. 57,...
A collection of six 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...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure published by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) inviting college students, clergymen, laypersons, and businessmen to participate in various summer projects sponsored...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff to volunteers chosen to work on voter registration as part of the Mississippi Summer Project, dated May 5, 1964. Informs...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated May 26, 1964, and titled "Whites Organize to Oppose Mississippi Summer Project." Statement warns those...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Matthew Zwerling speaking at the Freedom Summer office in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken during the summer of 1964 at the Freedom Summer office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The man standing in the center of the group of people is tentatively identified as Matthew...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
