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...
Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
Photograph of the model for Cook Library, showing the entrance to the new library building and the courtyard beside the Power House. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 48, no. 1 (Summer 1995) on page 16.
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and others at the Cook Library ground breaking ceremony. Also featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 50.
Photograph of the one millionth item being added to the university's library collection. President Aubrey Lucas holds the barcode scanner and the acid free slip with the book's barcode as Ann Branton, Head of Cataloging, looks on. Also pictured...
Photograph of the addition to Joseph Cook Memorial Library. The new addition doubled the size of the library. Image appeared in the Student Printz on 22 October 1968.
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...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
