From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Training document gives role playing scenarios for volunteers to use as a guide during orientation in Oxford, Ohio, for the civil rights summer projects. Role playing scenarios include police...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Includes an article about James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers who were murdered in...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Soren Sorenson writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks project (WFP), to communicate travel plans to Ohio and Mississippi for orientation and work with the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Documents (five pages and one index card) contain lists of books and other readings relating to the social and economic structure of the South. These books were used by volunteers during the...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father, Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, dated July 1, 1964. Zeman writes about her activities as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Clarksdale, Mississippi, during her first three days in Mississippi.
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...
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...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
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....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three young female Freedom Summer volunteers arrive a few doors down from the COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the end of June, 1964. One of the three may...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Dorie Ladner, an African American civil rights worker, relaxes on the grass during the second Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Orientation Session at Western College for Women;...
Photograph of a railroad worker; records in this collection were secured primarily from the Association of American Railroads; the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company; and the Mississippi Central Railroad Company; 6 x 4
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Nine-page typewritten document entitled, *Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi: Subversion of the Fifteenth Amendment in Mississippi;* presumably part of the curriculum training...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff to Mississippi Summer Project participants, no date given. The letter informs participants of the 1st orientation session...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
