From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Minutes of the April 1965 meeting of COFO's fifth district leaders in Waveland, Mississippi. Includes discussion of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, labor unions, cooperative marketing,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Southern Student Organizing Committee Newsletter (Volume II, no. 4: May 1965) contains articles on civil rights movement projects, fundraising, and arrests as well as a student...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The memo from Anne Braden to the Southern Student Organizing Committee discusses approaches to Civil Rights organizing in the South. Braden feels that white students should work at organizing...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal puts forth the idea of a "Freedom Corps" made up of young volunteers who would like to live in Mississippi for an extended period of time and participate in civil rights activities...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated April 26, 1964. Zeman began writing this letter on April 26 after attending a conference at Stanford University, and then finished it on May 23, 1964. Zeman explains that the main...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
Photocopy of a three-page typed letter from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad," written on Wednesday, July 29, 1964. The host family, work in the project's office, books, and the Freedom Library are discussed. There is a description of a short trip to New...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter written on August 11 and 12, 1964 by Joe Ellin. It discusses the status of the Freedom Library and fund-raising efforts by Harry Belafonte to provide college education for African-Americans. The All-State...
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...
News release by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), calling for a final effort to unseat the Mississippi congressional delegation. There is also a request for leaders and organizations to participate in the "One Man One Vote...
Flyer advertising a workshop on March 31, [1965?] in Mt. Beulah, Mississippi, and to include speakers from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Delta Ministry, CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and several other civil rights organizations.
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; 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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor studying documents during Freedom Summer 1964. She is in Jean's Beauty Shop (her place of business) located at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Connor was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary and COFO-Hattiesburg Project Director Sandy Leigh standing beside the blackboard while giving a lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Students and teachers laugh as some of the students joke around during SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh's lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) during Freedom Summer in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers and local African American children and teenagers gather outside Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Palmers Crossing, Mississippi, for Freedom School registration during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up of James Forman, Executive Secretary of SNCC, addressing a meeting of COFO-Hattiesburg Project volunteers in an African American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
