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 Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 23. Features articles about the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to increase its...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document from Margie [?] recounts a meeting with Rev. Harris, an African American minister whose church was used as a Freedom School.
Photocopy of a three-page handwritten letter, dated June 21, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written upon the Ellins' arrival at the Freedom Summer training session held at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. It...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a baptism performed by Rev. A. L. O’Briant of Immanuel Baptist Church, in Gordon’s Creek, circa 1908.
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. The State Sovereignty Commission report on Hattiesburg demonstrations, dated 13 February 1964, covers the period of 31 January - 12 February 1964. The report mentions how the investigators found out that the...
Transcribed copy of a journal written by Joseph Ellin in which he discusses government and political issues in relation to racial discrimination, education, economic conditions, and other aspects of society and culture in Mississippi.
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a four-page typewritten report authored by Rev. Faulconer in November 2000 concernig his work as a Freedom Summer volunteer in 1964. The report describes his experience...
