Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document prepared for civil rights workers and their families and friends. It lists the legal justifications for federal intervention in civil rights disputes and cites specific legislation that...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Benton county; provides details on local elections and the voting difficulties of local blacks. Also includes poetry and a section on negro history.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The material provides background information, presents statistics, and gives examples of people who served--and were served by--the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a statewide...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Report prepared by the Southern Regional Council that provides a detailed account of civil rights-related activities and incidents that took place during 1963. The events are listed according to state and...
From the Southern Tourism Collection. 1954-55 Hi-Lights brochure from the Department of Parks and Recreation of Hattiesburg. The brochure shows all of the recreation opportunities in Hattiesburg and provides numbers on the amount of users of there...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover and first five pages of a booklet compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Provides a synopsis of the events leading up to and including Freedom Summer 1964....
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A series of essays by Freedom Summer volunteer Carl Young. Young discusses his reasons for volunteering, describes his duties and the working conditions in Holly Springs, and provides details on...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Essay written by Frederick B. Routh, dated January 29, 1956, which provides a commentary of the changing political and social climates of the South at the time. Stresses the concept of desegregation as supported...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Describes the political campaigns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in 1964. It introduces the freedom registration and provides biographical sketches and platforms for the four...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The Mississippi Newsletter, published by the Freedom Information Service (FIS), provides information on varied civil rights activities in Mississippi in June of 1966.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Eighteen-page handwritten journal authored by Margaret Hazelton. The journal provides a day-by-day account of Hazelton's experience as a Freedom Summer volunteer working in Clarksdale,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document that provides guidelines for parents of New York area students who have committed to participate in Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964. Parents are...
From the Shaw (Terri) Freedom Summer Collection. Program for the Free Southern Theatre production of Martin Duberman's In White America. The program lists the cast and crew and provides background information about the play and Free Southern...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This five-page document provides background and justification for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project. It gives a description of the project, the importance of community centers and voter...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Leslie W. Dunbar to Will Campbell, dated March 8, 1965. Includes five pages of notes on Mississippi which Dunbar request that Campbell keep to himself. Provides details about the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
Transcribed copy of a handwritten letter from Jill Wakeman (Goodman) to friends dated Saturday, June 25 and Monday, June 27, 1966. Discusses the Meredith March against Fear and the rally held in Jackson afterwards, where speakers included civil...