Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
Oral history.; Reverend Kenneth Haynes Sr. was born October 11, 1930, in Amite County, Mississippi. In 1958, he entered the ministry, enrolling in Harper Baptist College where he received a Diploma in Christian Education and a Doctorate of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 31, 1995 with long-time civil rights activist Ms. Winson Hudson. In 1956 her community challenged the enforcement of the "separate but equal" provision of Brown v. Board of Education. When local banks...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
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.
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Council of Federated Organization leaders to national civil rights leaders and notable figures, including Martin Luther King, Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Marlon Brando, and others....
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten report from the Free Southern Theater, a theatrical group formed by John O'Neal and Gilbert Moses, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The Free...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Text of a November 1964 speech by Robert Moses. He discusses legal difficulties for Blacks and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's reception at the 1964 Democratic convention.
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 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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document records Jules Irving's experiences while visiting Jackson, Mississippi, to help set up the Free Southern Theatre. Irving's notes record the reactions of community members to his...
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 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 Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Thirty-six pages (typewritten and handwritten) recounting Zoya Zeman's experiences in Mississippi from June 24, 1964, through September 6, 1964.
A collection of ten 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...
