Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Information concerning David Owen's involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, including personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, a photograph, and information concerning various civil...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1972 with Mr. Owen Cooper at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Cooper was born on a farm near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He attended Culkin Academy in Vicksburg, and received a degree in...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a painted portrait of Owen Cooper, taken in 1960. Cooper, a prominent businessman from Yazoo City, was one of the first leaders of the Head Start program that was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen receiving treatment for head and arm injuries sustained after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld were attacked by two Caucasian...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen, Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, and Lawrence Spears (left to right) on July 11, 1964, the day after they were assaulted in Hattiesburg by two men from nearby Collins, Mississippi. At the...
A collection of ten 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...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Oral history.; LePoint Cassibry Smith was born on October 29, 1920, in Memphis, Tennessee; she grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi. She attended the Hill Demonstration School at Delta State Teachers College; she then attended and was graduated from...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the Director to the New Orleans office, dated July 13, 1964. Includes instructions for conducting the investigation of an attack on Rabbi...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the New Orleans office to the Director, dated July 12, 1964. Report on the investigation of the attack on Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, David...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the New Orleans office to the Director dated July 11, 1964. Describes the attack on Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, Lawrence Spears, and David...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Untitled Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memo summarizing two statements given to the FBI regarding the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld on July 10,...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Alex ") Rosen to Alan ") Belmont dated July 21, 1964, about the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 10, 1964. The...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Report by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent of the New Orleans office on the progress of the investigation of the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the Director to the New Orleans office, dated July 10, 1964. Gives instructions to conduct an investigation into an attack on Rabbi...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Alex ") Rosen to Alan ") Belmont dated July 31, 1964, about the progress of the case against Clifton Archie Keys and Kilmer Estus Keys for the assault against Lawrence Spears,...
