From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of young people dancing at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are sitting on a porch of the Ruleville Community Center, and the civil rights...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are smiling for the picture while sitting on the porch of the Ruleville...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American youths on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Two signs reading "MFDP" (for Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; With amendments attached to the legislative bill, the future Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes the United States Senate, but still requires concurrence from the United States House of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix A describes the history of political disenfranchisement of African Americans in Mississippi in detail and notes Civil Rights movement activities that have been taken to restore the...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet reveals that Communism's ultimate goal is "Black Supremacy,"a Soviet South," and "then a Soviet America."
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet states the Caucasian-Americans from a biological perspective, are superior to African-Americans.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; "A Call to Action" issued by the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, requesting the support of churches for the Congressional Challenge effort led by the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American residents and volunteers gather in the parking lot of St. John United Methodist Church in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Local...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet published by the White Citizens' Council of Winona, Mississippi, Gillespie states that racial separation is the way to support racial harmony. He says that Soviet Communists are...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Excerpt from the book "Down to Earth." The material stresses the perceived negative affects of racial integration.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is a newsletter to inform people what is going on in Clay County, because the mainstream media rarely reports on civil rights news or issues regarding African Americans. It explains why...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cartoon produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that shows the coffins of three civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) who were killed in...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet contains a series of letters from Dr. Dotson McGinnis Nelson, President of Mississippi College, who believes in the segregation of the white and Negro races, and from Tom, an alumnus of...
