From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This flyer advertises a speaking engagement for James Houston, a candidate for the third Congressional district of Mississippi, in 1964. The backside of the flyer explains the Mississippi...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document contains Silas Norman's critique of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) publication, the Student Voice. He notes the content of the publication and suggests that...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief document explaining what, where, and why SNCC organizes groups of people for action. Includes some recommendations for more efficient future organizational work.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The brochure points out the decision to have the commodity program, the decision to give commodities to people only on welfare, or to give commodities only in winter, are made by the all-white...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Collected civil rights-related news reports collected by WATS lines from field offices in various states.
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains details of events from July 2-5, 1964, relating to the Mississippi Freedom Project. It describes harassments, scare tactics, threats, and violence that the civil rights...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include an incident of discrimination against a mother and her sick child, Freedom Schools, the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include the beatings of civil rights workers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, announcements of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include a sit-in in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, racial violence and discrimination, the Free...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter entitled "The Voice of the Movement," distributed by the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, branch of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), dated August 17, 1964. Volume 1,...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Charles Ghigna Papers.; Two typescript pages entitled "Images and Impressions of South America" written by Charles Ghigna on his trip to Venezuela (1998). 8.5" x 11"
The following regulations are established in relation to the receipt of Four per cent Bonds and Certificates offered in payment for Texas, by C. G. Memminger, Secretary of Treasury.