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.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter, dated June 28, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad." The letter was written a couple of days after leaving the training session in Oxford, Ohio. It contains information about Hattiesburg, and descriptions of...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Letter, dated 1 November 1872, written by Joseph Reid Anderson, president and owner of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia to the New York firm of Messrs. Niel, Davidson & Co. relating to the payment of a bill.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Postcard photograph featuring the west side of Main Street, between Front and Pine Streets, circa 1907. Business establishments pictured are the Davidson Company, Conner Shoe Company, First National Bank...
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 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. SNCC staff member Marion Davidson serving hot dogs to local children during a party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 18,...
