From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; July-August issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 107 features an article about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page flyer advertising Rev. Albert C. Pegues' candidacy for Marshall County Board of Education representative. Flyer was bundled with Rita Walker's letter to Kathy Dahl dated September 26,...
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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter to Cleveland (Cleve) Sellers. Dahl advises Sellers to write about his experiences as a civil rights worker in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She mentions Rita and Bud Walker, Ivanhoe...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter to Professor Robert McElvaine of Millsaps College. Dahl discusses the donation of project files and historical papers from Holly Springs to the University of California at Berkeley.
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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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...
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.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history; Fredrick Harrison Cook III was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on April 15, 1952. During his senior year at The University of Southern Mississippi, Mr. Cook was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League. He...
