Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1964, in which the Mantinbands discuss their life in Texas. While they return to Mississippi occasionally upon the invitation of...
Photograph of Pi Omega Pi featured in the 1964 Southerner yearbook on page 143. The caption reads: Pi Omega Pi is an honorary business education fraternity. Alpha Sigma Chapter of Pi Omega Pi was organized on April 27, 1940, at the University of...
Photograph of senior "Yellow Jacket" club member, Eudoro Iturbe shaving the head of a freshmen member. This photo was featured in the 1964 Southerner yearbook on page 59 and in the May 4, 1982 Student Printz; 5 x 7
Photograph of registration. The caption reads, "Registration is hel...d over every year." This photograph is featured in the 1964 Southerner yearbook on page 60; 8 x 3
From the Southern Tourism Collection. A municipal report created in 1964 that details the history of the city of Hattiesburg and also contains a large amount of information about the infrastructure, government, and developments occurring in 1964.
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains eight affidavits detailing the violence and discrimination against African Americans and/or civil rights workers in Mississippi during the Mississippi Freedom Project in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document relates the history of the election contest statute (Title 2 U. S. C. Section 201) and sets forth the main objections of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the 1964...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This brochure describes the United States Congress and its functions. It also explains what the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is and why it is challenging the 1964 election...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
Pamphlet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Pamphlet produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), includes descriptions of the consequences often encountered by those involved in the civil rights movement in the...
From the Ed Renfro Papers.; Color separation, with text and outline of underlying illustration on plastic overlay. The illustration was done by Ed Renfro for Leland Jacobs' Old Lucy Lindy (1964). 20" x 13"
From the Flavia Gag Papers.; Watercolor (?) illustration on acetate of the preliminary dust jacket design for Flavia Gag's The Melon Patch Mystery (1964). 6.5" x 8"
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page fund raising letter by James Baldwin addressed to Friends. Baldwin, an African-American novelist/activist in the 1960s, asks the public to support the Freedom Summer volunteers already...
