Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and Dr. Leo Orris taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 1964.
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Dr. Erwin D. Zeman taking the pulse of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. They are seated outside her home in Ruleville, Mississippi, in September 1964. Dr. Zeman was a visiting member of the...
