Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Information packet for prospective contributors to COFO's freedom school program; consists of the original proposal for the program, written by Charlie Cobb.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains eight affidavits detailing the violence and discrimination against African Americans and/or civil rights workers in Mississippi during the Mississippi Freedom Project in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An arm with a hook (instead of a hand) in the shape of a Communist hammer and sickle has a note tied onto it that reads, "Get out of Vietnam...Stop the bombing." A note nearby...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Arthur (center background) and Carolyn (right background) Reese participate in a meeting of volunteers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The Reeses were Co-Coordinators...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close up of Arthur Reese who, along with his wife Carolyn Reese, was Co-Coordinator of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of nine bills signed into law by Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman. The list was compiled to show Coleman's support of racist policies as demonstrated by his passage of bills...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Five local African-American boys with rakes help to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Standing in front of the COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street are volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964, stand in front of Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmer's...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American children -- a girl and two little boys -- sweep and pick up litter from the porch of the COFO-Hattiesburg project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Six handwritten note cards outlining the Community Center at Clarksdale; Community centers were organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) as part of Mississippi Freedom...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief history of the Council of Federated Organizations, its origins, leaders, and bases of support.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cartoon produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that shows the coffins of three civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) who were killed in...
From the Whyte (Iain) Civil Rights Collection. A group of African American civil rights workers standing on the street corner in Greenville, MS. The group is believed to be Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) members.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Leaflet composed by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that describes the political program with regard to the up-coming Democratic National Convention of 1964. Includes...
