From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page report by Rita Walker about the December 1965 ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) elections in Mississippi's Marshall and DeSoto counties. A federal program, the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter written by Rita Walker to Kathleen Dahl. Walker writes about organizational problems with, presumably, individuals from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl and her family. Walker, a native of Holly Springs, writes to Dahl about area politics, her efforts at voter education and voter...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker to Kathy Dahl. Walker writes from Aurora, Illinois, about the lack of jobs in Mississippi. She writes that African Americans did not make use of opportunities to talk to...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information, expresses frustration with social and economic conditions and with President Lyndon Johnson, mentions rioting in New York, Chicago...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information. Discusses upcoming visit from Dahl and that many Holly Springs people have relocated to Illinois. She writes that Hardy [Frye] had...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page letter written by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker thanks Dahl for sending money and reports on the progress of a number of community development projects in the area.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker asks Dahl to send clothes and food to Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes about civil rights workers U.Z. (Nunnally), Howard...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page poem authored by Rita Walker, a Freedom Summer volunteer and native of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page personal account by Rita Walker, an African-American civil rights worker from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Walker writes about being mistreated by the white doctor and white nurses near...
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers.; Photograph of Jimmella Stokes (left), Rita May Crawford (center), and an unidentified woman (far right) taken during the summer of 1964.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman [Rita Jenrette?] is holding a man's shoe stuffed with cash (labeled "$25,000") and showing it to a man labeled "Jenrette." John W. Jenrette says to her, "The tooth fairy brought...
A collection of ten 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.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Gwendolyn Beard, a fourth-generation Mississippian who desribes her experieneces during and after Hurricane Katrina in Moss Point, MS.
