From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Details of a March 26, 1968, meeting for the staff of the Poor People's Campaign, including the names of those in attendance, minutes of the meeting, and the strategy for march planned during April for...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father, after two phone conversations, dated March 5, 1964. Zeman writes that she will apply as a volunteer for the Mississippi Freedom Project and...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 6, 1964, in which she writes about the plans of civil rights workers to help more citizens of Mississippi become active in state and local government and to attend the Democratic...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father, dated July 3, 1964, 9:10am. Zeman writes that she is safe and staying at the home of Dr. Aaron Henry in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She is having an enjoyable time, but needs to work on...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 5, 1964. Zeman writes about possible dates for her father to come to Mississippi to help with the health team on the Mississippi Freedom Project. She mentions the Freedom rides...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
Typewritten document describing the growth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the rural South, the importance of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), and the need for lobbying in Washington, D.C. for the MFDP...
From the Kershner (Charles) Papers. A seven page speech by Charles “Chuck” Kershner, the editor of The Student Printz in spring 1964. The speech was delivered during the Symposium on Social Justice held at USM’s Thad Cochran Center on...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers leave St. John United Methodist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after a meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Washington, D.C., office of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Northern supporters and committees on challenge, sent in an attempt to organize the conference...
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers.; Photograph of Addie Mae Jackson standing beside a car. Jackson was host to Sandra Adickes in Palmers Crossing near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964.
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. Peter Werner talks on the phone shortly after having been assaulted while walking in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with two other volunteers, Susan Patterson and William D. Jones. The...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Thomas Business Building dedication at William Carey College in 1975. Pictured at the dedication are President Ralph Noonkester, Ollie Thomas, John D. Thomas, and Jerry King, chairman...
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 Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This digital copy of Rabbi David Z. Ben-Ami's University of Southern Mississippi identification card identifies him as a part-time instructor for the school year ending in June 1964 and is signed by...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 3 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 4 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
