From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local residents and volunteers standing outside the community center established in Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The meeting was likely...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local residents and volunteers standing outside the community center established in Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The meeting was likely...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A large group of people stand outside the Palmers Crossing Community Center during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. The meeting was probably a Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; After a caucus of the 5th Congressional District of a unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at St. John United Methodist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Anne Smith Taylor speaks to a caucus of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local boy Tilton Sullivan and volunteer William D. Jones, who later changed his name to Umoja Kwanguvu, interact on the porch of St. John United Methodist Church at Palmers Crossing in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 31, 1995 with long-time civil rights activist Ms. Winson Hudson. In 1956 her community challenged the enforcement of the "separate but equal" provision of Brown v. Board of Education. When local banks...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Reverend Harry C. Tartt was born on October 16, 1908, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Reverend Tartt attended New Orleans University (now Dillard University) in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, Reverend Tartt began teaching school at...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 3, 1964. Discusses an incident in which Zwerling was arrested for speeding, but not jailed. He also asks his parents for money for the project and...
