From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page statement written by John Lewis, chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963-1966. Lewis's statement compares the struggle for equal rights for African...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This transcription of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chairman John Lewis's address to the Equal Rights Subcommittee of the Democratic National Committee explains what SNCC is...
Oral history.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
