Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to the Kalamazoo Council on Human Relations, dated September 23, 1964. Requests that supporters of the Civil Rights Movement write letters to...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Nancy Ellin to the editor of the Gazette, dated December 10, 1964, in reaction to a speech given by acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Ellin voices her...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to friends, no date given. Describes events in McComb, Mississippi, including the arrests of several civil rights workers and other acts of...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Adda Dilts to Nancy Ellin, dated July 19, 1964, written in response to Joe and Nancy Ellin's letter to the Gazette. Dilts states that she will donate supplies to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing swim trunks, is sitting outdoors under a bright sun. He is in a beach chair before a table which holds a typewriter, and he is typing. Paper in the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Mark Currier, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter on official letterhead from Linda [Gordon] to Joseph and Nancy Ellin, dated July 16, 1964. Discusses the shipment of textbooks sent for use by the freedom schools in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Arthur [Falk] to Joe and Nancy Ellin, dated July 22, 1964. Discusses the individual who assaulted Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter written to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] by Nancy and Joe Ellin on Thursday, July 9, [1964]. Freedom Schools, problems experienced by colleagues, and teaching experiences are topics discussed in the letter.
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...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Patrick (Jones) to Nancy and Joe Ellin, dated July 13, 1964. Discusses race relations in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and expresses sympathy and concern for the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcript of a handwritten letter from Jan [Bhuyan] to Nancy and Joe Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses a letter she wrote to the Gazette in support of the civil rights movement. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Adda Dilts to Nancy Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses contributions of textbooks to freedom schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, including some that were given to the...
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work in and around Batesville, Mississippi, on voter registration. They also mention developments in registration across the state. The...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work registering voters in Batesville, Mississippi. The Turitzes also mention local African American leader Robert Miles.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes time spent in Mississippi: special session of the state legislature called by Governor Paul B. Johnson to address new federal voting...
