Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo about the changing educational priorities of SNCC, including a move away from teacher training to the production of educational materials. Discusses a shift in emphasis from voter...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The 120 African-American members of the Panola County Okra Cooperative initially produced and sold okra mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, markets, but future plans are to produce and sell other cash...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs. The photograph shows Kathie Amatnick (Sarachild), the first person seen in the photograph, helping an unknown person in the library of the church at Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows two unidentified men working in the library of the Church of God in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows three unidentified people working in the office of the Church of God in Batesville, Mississippi. Two are women leaning over to help a small child, and the other person, a...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows the Batesville, Mississippi, railroad station, where Mississippi Freedom Project volunteers, on July 25, 1964, were harassed by opponents of their work.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows the African American public school and Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows local children using the library at the Church of God in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows civil rights workers helping children use the library of a Batesville, Mississippi, church in July of 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Bebe, John B. Maurer, and Mrs. Lamar Thomas in front of Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Bebe, a cook at Thomas' Sundry, and Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Thomas, owners of Thomas' Sundry, posing in front of the Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows an inside room of the Community Center in Batesville, Mississippi, which has Freedom posters on the wall and voter registration materials about the room.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows a bread delivery to Thomas Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July of 1964.
