Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
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 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...
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...
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...
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. Transcript of remarks by Bob Moses at SNCC's fifth anniversary meeting, from The Movement; discusses what he sees as erroneous national perceptions of Southern white people and their problems.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from COFO director Robert Moses to contacts and parents of students volunteering in Mississippi. Moses writes of the continuing potential for violence and describes steps taken by COFO to...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Curtis C. Bryant (born 1917). In 1961, Mr. Bryant and Bob Moses became the catalysts to start the voter registration drive in Mississippi. Bryant was also active in the NAACP and the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950s and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo from Bob Moses tells Freedom Summer Project volunteers where to attend orientation meetings and what to bring.
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...
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,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
