From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American children stand in the exhibit area of the Palmers Crossing Community Center where Freedom School students' art work is on exhibit. The large sign with handprints...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Statement to Attorney General Ramsey Clark compiled by the National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower (NCFES) and delivered by a delegation led by Congressman William F. Ryan and Bayard Rustin....
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Test designed by the Citizenship Education Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Consists of information about the United States government and constitution.
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 Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Address written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) for the National Conference for New Politics Convention, dated September 2, 1967, to gain support for African American voters in Mississippi. Adams requests...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Booklet produced by the Bolivar County Education Committee with detailed information about politics and education in Bolivar County and the state of Mississippi. Outlines the basic government structure in...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Certificate from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) acknowledging the attendance of Victoria J. Gray (Adams) at a Citizenship School Training Program, August 19-23, 1963.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter (Vol. 1, no. 1) of the Child Development Group of Mississippi. Reviews the opening of 66 child development centers, the Food Stamp Program, and the visit of Senators Robert Kennedy and Joseph...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Discusses the history and mission of the Citizenship Education Program, an organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in South Carolina by Septima P. Clark and Esau...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Constitution and by-laws of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Printed in Atlanta, Georgia, the pamphlet consists of a preamble and seven articles that govern the proceedings of the SCLC....
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Booklet prepared by the Mississippi Council on Human Relations outlining the organization's purpose and protocols for meetings, membership, and governance.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Article reprinted from Soul Force, the journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated March 31, 1968. Discusses the foundation of SCLC, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The article...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The first page of the document explains the statute and grounds that are the basis of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's (MFDP) Congressional challenge. It describes each step of the...
Flyer advertising a workshop on March 31, [1965?] in Mt. Beulah, Mississippi, and to include speakers from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Delta Ministry, CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and several other civil rights organizations.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Describes the political campaigns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in 1964. It introduces the freedom registration and provides biographical sketches and platforms for the four...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Chronological outline of the involvement of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the civil rights movement from 1955-1968.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Papers and other materials generated and collected by a leader of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m345.htm.
Pamphlet from the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Pamphlet designed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to inform civil rights workers of their legal rights if arrested and questioned by the police. Prepared in reaction to a...
