Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith drives one of Vernon Dahmer's tractors pulling a flat bed hauling group of Freedom Summer volunteers. The group includes Arthur Reese (holding a radio), Terri Shaw...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local people and Freedom Summer volunteers sit on a tractor at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on the Dahmer property in the Kelly...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Copies of newspaper clippings and programs collected by the Dahmer family in 1966, 1968-69, and 1986. Clippings focus on the death of Vernon F. Dahmer and the trials of those men arrested in the case. For...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of Freedom Summer volunteers and local people singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local people sing at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the other guests on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1964. A female...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The sons of Reverend Robert Beech, Director of the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, reach for cold drinks in a Coca-Cola cooler at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; William G. (Bud) Gray was born in Beat Five, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, on December 27, 1914. He attended a consolidated school in Crawford, Lowndes County, and high school in Artesia, where he played football. He went to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 8, 1994 with Mrs. Elizabeth Price (born 1897). In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Price worked for the Civil Rights Commission, investigating and documenting issues of mistreatment as well as recruiting sympathizers....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified female volunteer playing the guitar and singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Photograph of a local African American child and other guests at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local people clap their hands and sing while African-American teenagers watch from an automobile at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property at in the Kelly...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A little girl identified as Della Balam stands behind a wooden post at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people mingle 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 of...
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; Local African-American residents sing 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 of Hattiesburg,...
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...
