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...
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...
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; Project director Claude Weaver (far right), the Greenwood project director and Harvard student (left), and Geoff Cowan in the center.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work in and around Batesville, Mississippi, on voter registration. They also mention developments in registration across the state. The...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work registering voters in Batesville, Mississippi. The Turitzes also mention local African American leader Robert Miles.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work in and around Batesville, Mississippi, on voter registration and organizing the Freedom Labor Union there. Also contains a description...
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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 local children using the library at the Church of God in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
