From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mrs. Walker's autobiography was originally published in May of 1965 in The Movement, 1: (2)" In it, she describes her early life and employment history in Mississippi. She laments losing her...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Draft, with editorial marks and instructions, of a speech or monologue by Robert Moses. Moses discusses many topics, including Mississippi civil rights activism in the early 1960s, current...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief history of the Council of Federated Organizations, its origins, leaders, and bases of support.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Congressional record of testimony regarding Freedom Summer and the threat to civil rights workers; testimony provided by COFO representatives, including Robert Moses and Lawrence Guyot.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actors, from left to right, Denise Nicholas, John O'Neal, and Gilbert Moses perform Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up photograph of SNCC Field Secretary Dona Richards Moses in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Her husband, Bob Moses, also served as a SNCC Field Secretary as well...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. The Free Southern Theater performs Martin Duberman's "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church. FST actors in the scene are (foreground, left to right) FST cofounders SNCC Field Secretary...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Mrs. B. J. Gaillot, Jr. seeks to convince readers that God gave Moses a law of segregation along with the ten commandments on Mt. Sinai. She quotes many Bible passages to prove, according to her...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This five-page document provides background and justification for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project. It gives a description of the project, the importance of community centers and voter...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter written by Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" on August 29, 1964. The letter addresses the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Democratic National Convention. Integration, Freedom School students, and libraries...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter, dated June 28, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad." The letter was written a couple of days after leaving the training session in Oxford, Ohio. It contains information about Hattiesburg, and descriptions of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Form letter from Robert Moses on behalf of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to notify applicants for 1964 Freedom Summer projects that they have been accepted.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Form letter that would be sent to an applicant who was not approved to work in Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated July 3, 1964. Discusses a recent meeting that was well-attended, as well as the COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) discouragement of public...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The memo notes the need to hire interviewers to determine whether potential Mississippi Freedom Project volunteers will follow strict discipline to ensure their safety, lists changes in...
