From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of local activist Gracie Hawthorne sitting on the steps outside COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the Hattiesburg project, sits on the steps of project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Freedom Summer volunteers and local activists at a meeting held in an African American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Volunteer Johanna "Johnnie" Winchester is...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcript of a handwritten letter from Jan [Bhuyan] to Nancy and Joe Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses a letter she wrote to the Gazette in support of the civil rights movement. ...
