From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actor Susan Tabor performs in Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 3 as part of Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actors, from left to right, Denise Nicholas, John O'Neal, and Gilbert Moses perform Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of an unidentified man (left) and Lafayette Surney (right) standing in front of a building. Surney worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC staffer Marion Davidson sits on the wooden bed of a truck and a man stands beside her as they relax at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the Hattiesburg project, sits on the steps of project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three pairs of Freedom Summer volunteers are seated on the lawn at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, site of the second SNCC Orientation Session held between June 22-27, 1964. In the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretary Dorie Ladner sits on a chair after speaking to the volunteers on nonviolent self-defense during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith (left) and SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh explain to elderly African American Hattiesburg resident Felix Smith the procedures required in order to register to vote...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School teachers listen to a lecture given in a theater during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater guitarist and SNCC Field Secretary Stu House performs in Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 3 as...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up photograph of SNCC Field Secretary Dona Richards Moses in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Her husband, Bob Moses, also served as a SNCC Field Secretary as well...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter from Muriel Tillinghast, representing the SNCC Finance Committee. She requests that all money donations be made out to SNCC and provides other guidelines for donating materials.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Summary of acts of violence and intimidation against African Americans and civil rights workers that occurred in Mississippi in October 1964. Includes the date, location, and brief...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff, dated December 28, 1964. Informs friends of COFO of the plans to send 1,000 people...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Free Southern Theater, a drama group founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that performed the play "In White America" throughout...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from SNCC Northern Campus Coordinator Jon Else to returned Freedom Summer volunteers, dated November 3, 1964. Else discusses the Freedom Vote of November 1964, the October...
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,...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
Transcribed copy of a case study that examines the purpose and philosophies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). It also examines the Pledge for Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary,...
