Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified Freedom School student reading Ebony magazine while lounging on the front porch of a house on Gravel Line Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written by student Julie Ann McCarty that expresses her enthusiasm for the Freedom School which she is attending.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children attending a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964, sit on the church steps with their teacher. The...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a large tent shading hundreds of people attending a service. Immanuel Baptist Church, organized in 1907, met in this tent at the corner of Arledge Street and Magnolia Avenue until the first...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A shoe salesman labeled "Congress" sits on a stool. Two shoeboxes labeled "Congressional" and "Appropriations" sit on the floor next to the stool. The salesman is attending a woman labeled "Great Society," who is wearing a...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter authored by civil rights activist Ned Opton. Opton writes from Palmer's Crossing, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to coworkers and friends about the political, economic and social...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Charles Jones, dated November 14, 1963. Campbell discusses the pressures on members of the clergy from opponents of the civil rights movement. Many...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated April 26, 1964. Zeman began writing this letter on April 26 after attending a conference at Stanford University, and then finished it on May 23, 1964. Zeman explains that the main...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The Grim Reaper hides behind a sign that reads, "School Zone (not in effect during summer months)." Children carry school books and approach the sign. A caption reads, "More...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Postcard mailed to Kathleen Dahl on April 22, 1965; image taken by Edwin Friend at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN during Labor Day weekend 1957, features Martin Luther King, Jr., Abner W....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) office in Jackson, Mississippi, with instructions to Freedom Summer volunteers about attending the July 21-27 orientation in Oxford Ohio....
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a group of people attending a talk in the kitchen appliance showroom at Mississippi Power on West Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a group of people attending a talk in the kitchen appliance showroom at Mississippi Power on West Pine Street.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
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...
