A collection of eight 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.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
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...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the exterior of the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a tow truck at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of training at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the exterior of the newly opened Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the exterior of the newly opened Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees in front of the Body Department at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees in the Parts Department at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees at the Talbert Leigh Pontiac and Cadillac car dealership on East Pine Street.
