From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of the...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Bob Smith, U. Z. Nunnally, Annanais McGhee (seated in the background), Howard Jeffries and Barbara Bloomfield on their way to a meeting. Nunnally,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Flyer announcing a Clarksdale youth meeting to be held at Mount Moriah Church on Thursday, August 13 [1964?]. Teenagers and young adults are invited to attend.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a community meeting held in a church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Participants hold hands as they sing "We Shall...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Flyer advertising a town hall meeting about civil rights in Mississippi to be held at New York University on August 20, 1964. Lists the panelists involved, and details of date, time, and...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; An "area town hall" is having "budget meetings." Bursting out of the roof is a missle labeled "tax rates." The missile "zooms" out of the building into the night sky.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Jim Forman (left), Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and a local person at a...
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...
Flyer from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Flyer that reads,"Ku Klux Klan Rides Again," posted to gain support for the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. According to the flyer, all inquiries were to be directed to Horace Sherman Miller of Waco,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev stands smiling and holding a large four leaf clover labeled "Detente." He is looking at an American tank labeled, "Defense build up." On the tank is a sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Rising crime problem" sits on one corner of a large "Suggestion box" that is placed next to a wall under a sign that reads, "Southern Governors Conference." A...
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...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. People seated in the audience hold...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Bob Moses stands at the podium. Dr....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Minutes of the April 1965 meeting of COFO's fifth district leaders in Waveland, Mississippi. Includes discussion of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, labor unions, cooperative marketing,...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
