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. A large group of people enjoy refreshments outside the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the party celebrating the Center's opening on July 18, 1964. Volunteer...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A billboard identifies "George Wallace's political breeding farm" to motorists on the road that passes in front of the farm. In the several animal pens are hybrid creatures that...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local African-American children (left to right) Henry Lee and Lawrence Dantzler enjoy hot dogs and cold drinks at the party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train engine at the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at 7th Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Virginia "Jinny" Glass washes her face with water from a metal tub outside of a house at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Larry Lee sings during Freedom Summer in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964. Lee was probably singing during folksinger Pete Seeger's...
In this one-page letter, Jinny Glass writes to Zoya Zeman about her time in Mississippi working on the Mississippi Freedom Project. She explains that she has been working at a community center and has just attended a memorial service in Neshoba...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter, dated [July 11, 1964] from Joe Ellin to "kids" [Susan and Diane]. In this document, Joe's frustrations are evident in the tone he uses in writing. He talks of a lack of teaching materials in the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "S and D," [Susan and Diane] written on Wednesday, July 8, 1964. The letter speaks of the teaching experiences of the Ellins in the Freedom Schools in Hattiesburg and the neighboring...
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
