Oral history.; Zella McNair Weathersby was born January 1, 1929, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Mrs. Weathersby graduated from high school from Depriest (now known as Earl Travillion) in Hattiesburg. She attended Jackson State College and later did...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Stories, poems, essays, and drawings created by students at the Mt. Olive, Mississippi freedom school.
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activist Earline Boyd, Secretary of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), speaks to a meeting of the MFDP at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Exterior view of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A mass meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) has just...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Folksinger Julius Lester plays the guitar while Freedom School students sit around him outside of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Lester was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Doug Tuchman stands with two local African American men in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Visible between the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Beth More supervises registration for the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. In the background is Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American residents stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The woman in the center is local activist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American female resident picks up a leaflet while a Caucasian female volunteer checks a card file at a table in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; At the conclusion of a mass meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), participants leave Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Legendary folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger plays his guitar for a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4 as part of Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American activist Andrew Wilson speaks at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American woman stands in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964, while volunteer Beth More works with a card file...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Anne Smith Taylor speaks to a caucus of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
