From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Unit VII, Part 2 of a larger document. The information is to educate Freedom School teachers and prepare them to converse on topics covered, including the history and goals of the Council of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report describes Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) projects in Ruleville, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. It illustrates the political positions of specific Mississippi...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows the house in Ruleville, Mississippi, that John B. Maurer lived in during the Mississippi Freedom Project.
A collection of eight 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. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter from Joan [last name unknown] to Miller. Includes an inquiry about materials to be recovered from a car in Tchula, Christmas travel plans of the writer and Jane Stembridge, and future...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows a "One Man One Vote" freedom poster on the wall of a chicken house in Ruleville, Mississippi, in July of 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows a Freedom Project volunteer, named Lynn, preparing to conduct an adult literacy class for African-American adults in Ruleville, Mississippi, in July of 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Lynn, the person with the white sunglasses, teaching an adult literacy class sitting outside on chairs in Ruleville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are sitting on a porch of the Ruleville Community Center, and the civil rights...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center....
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are smiling for the picture while sitting on the porch of the Ruleville...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
