Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Teletype communications from the FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) in Mobile to the FBI Director and SAC-S in New Orleans, New York, and Chicago regarding the actions of Freedom Riders...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Herbert Randall's close-up of Sandy Leigh taken in Peggy Jean Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, meets with three men in the Green Door Cafe, located at 318 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, near...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. The intersection of East Third Street and the railroad tracks in the Mobile Street area of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The railroad tracks marked an invisible...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local African-American activist and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) delegate Levater Jackson walks past Williams' Dry Cleaners at 529 Mobile Street near project headquarters at 507...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American child stands in front of a car damaged by gunfire during Freedom Summer, 1964, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked at the side of local civil rights leader J.C....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen, Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, and Lawrence Spears (left to right) on July 11, 1964, the day after they were assaulted in Hattiesburg by two men from nearby Collins, Mississippi. At 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...
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...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for David P. Moore, candidate for Legislature for the Democratic Primary, perhaps in Alabama. Someone typed "defeated" at the top.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...