From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report documents the economic conditions in the South in the 1960s, and it addresses ways of bringing the region up to the standard of the northern half of the country. The document...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report on school desegregation in the South produced by SNCC and authored by Marion Barry and Betty Gorman. Begins with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and discusses the inadequacy of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal discusses the symptoms and needs of civil rights workers who have been on the front lines in the South. The author feels that the shock of civil rights work on individuals would be...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet presents a defense of States' Rights, and argues the states have a legal right to continue the segregationist way of life.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Guidelines for conducting phone calls to influential persons in an effort to solicit Federal support for civil rights workers in Mississippi. Compiled after the murder of three civil...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report reveals that Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) sought to develop more health and medical programs in the South, and sought to ensure medical aid for the civil rights workers...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A report on the civil rights movement in the South written by Tom Hayden, Southern Field Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society. Includes a history of SNCC and then focuses mostly...
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers. Lecture delivered by Rabbi Charles Mantinband on April 16, 1962, at the First Annual George Brussel Memorial Lecture held at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, New York. Mantinband discusses...
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers, Article by Rabbi Charles Mantinband and published by the Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith in the May 1962 issue of the ADL Bulletin. Discusses his experiences as a rabbi living in Mississippi,...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Leslie W. Dunbar to Rev. J. Martin England, dated September 23, 1963, in which Dunbar thanks Rev. England for his concern about the loss of ministers in the South. Many...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Ross's address uses Christian scriptural quotes to support racial segregation. He denies that race prejudice exists in Mississippi and alleges that the South has done African Americans a favor by...
Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated November 11, 1963. The front-page article covers the recent Freedom Vote, in which over 70,000 African-American voters in Mississippi cast ballots. Other articles include...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Charles Jones, dated November 14, 1963. Campbell discusses the pressures on members of the clergy from opponents of the civil rights movement. Many...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children attending a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964, sit on the church steps with their teacher. The...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A group of African American men walk north under the shop signs of African-American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from the COFO-Hattiesburg project...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American male teenager in a plastic raincoat walks south under the shop signs of African American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Petition to President Lyndon Baines Johnson requesting federal protection for Freedom Project workers. Mentions the harassment faced by voter registration workers, as well as the murders...
Pamphlet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Pamphlet produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), includes descriptions of the consequences often encountered by those involved in the civil rights movement in the...
