From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page flyer advertising Rev. Albert C. Pegues' candidacy for Marshall County Board of Education representative. Flyer was bundled with Rita Walker's letter to Kathy Dahl dated September 26,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The Mississippi Newsletter, published by the Freedom Information Service (FIS), provides information on varied civil rights activities in Mississippi in June of 1966.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Personal narrative, correspondence, speeches, articles, and other materials documenting the work of the Delta Ministry in Mississippi in 1966. For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection contains correspondence and other records documenting Miller's work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, primarily between 1964 and 1966. For the full finding...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter from the personnel of the Freedom Information Center seeks to raise sufficient funds to stay in operation after March 25, 1966.
Transcribed copy of a handwritten letter from Jill Wakeman (Goodman) to friends dated Saturday, June 25 and Monday, June 27, 1966. Discusses the Meredith March against Fear and the rally held in Jackson afterwards, where speakers included civil...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from John Doar to Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) dated September 20, 1966. Doar (Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division) explains that the Department of Justice acted in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to friends and supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated February 10, 1966. Describes the current situation in the...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report in the form of a memo, titled "Mississippi Report of Citizenship Education Program" written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams). Describes the activities of and challenges faced by the Citizenship...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Copy of the newsletter for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for January 1966. Includes a report of a visit by Representative Joseph Resnick (D-NY) to Mississippi. A...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Minutes of a National Conference for New Politics board meeting, November 12-13, 1966. Topics include fundraising plans, the National Convention, and the Publications and Speakers Bureau. Also includes...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Decision of the United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, in the case of Fannie Lou Hamer, et all., vs. Cecil C. Campbell, et al., handed down on March 11, 1966. The Court ruled to postpone the upcoming...
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...
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...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers. Nashville Banner publicity photograph of H.A. and Margret Rey reading Curious George Goes to the Hospital, November 1966.
Oral history.; Barry Davis Jim, Sr., was born in Philadelphia Indian Hospital and grew up on the Pearl River Indian Reservation. He attended Pearl River Elementary Day School, which became Choctaw Central High School. Mr. Jim, a promising athlete,...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
