From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 13. Covers political events in Mississippi in 1964 and activities of the Mississippi Freedom Project. Includes an...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 23. Features articles about the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to increase its...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This brochure describes the United States Congress and its functions. It also explains what the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is and why it is challenging the 1964 election...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
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...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
Flyer advertising a workshop on March 31, [1965?] in Mt. Beulah, Mississippi, and to include speakers from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Delta Ministry, CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and several other civil rights organizations.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African-American youths on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. One sign reading "MFDP" (for Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of young African Americans of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand and sing in front of the headquarters of local civil rights leader Victoria Jackson Gray's campaign for the U.S. Senate on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American youths on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Two signs reading "MFDP" (for Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Booklet compiled for delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) who will attend the Democratic National Convention. Describes the MFDP and the contributions of...
Transcribed copy of a list of suggestions for teaching methods for teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Suggestions include an emphasis on teaching the students to clearly express their ideas as opposed to an emphasis on grammar and...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
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.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
