From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; James Forman, Executive Secretary of SNCC, addresses a meeting of COFO-Hattiesburg Project volunteers in an African-American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers in front of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting during Freedom Summer 1964. ...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people socialize with Freedom Summer volunteers at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close up of Arthur Reese who, along with his wife Carolyn Reese, was Co-Coordinator of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of volunteer Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinator of the Hattiesburg Freedom Schools, during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local African American residents mingle on the front steps of St. Paul United Methodist Church after a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting during Freedom Summer...
Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated July 28, 1964. Discusses improvements to the library collections, services offered, and various projects within the libraries.
