Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure published by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) inviting college students, clergymen, laypersons, and businessmen to participate in various summer projects sponsored...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; In the foreground is a man labeled "Congress" who is frantically pulling at a rope that is tied around the mouth of a large bag with a dollar sign on it. A hose in the mouth the money bag leads back to the head of a rocket...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; "State School Super' Floyd Christian" is a hen that sits on eggs that symbolize one billion dollars for the "Education Program." Governor Claude Kirk ponders over the situation in the background.
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man is wrapped in blankets and blowing steam with his breath. He is looking out a frosted window of a building labeled "Congress." There is snow on the ground outside the building and a sign is in the yard that...
cartoon by John Stampone; A black sumbarine labeled "U.S. Sub-Fleet Modernizing Program" delicately navigates between a cluster of under-water mines. The foremost mine is labeled "Defense's Systems Analysis Economy."
cartoon by John Stampone; An American soldier is being carried above mountain peaks by a large bird labeled "increased mobility program." A piece of paper on the ground says "conventional warfare needs."
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1964, in which the Mantinbands discuss their life in Texas. While they return to Mississippi occasionally upon the invitation of...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Excerpt from the football program for the game between Mississippi Southern College and Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, played on 29 September 1951.
