An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Susan Solf writes to Ed [Hamlett], state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), that despite strong pressure from her father, she will participate in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Two...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In Susan Solf's letter to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), she writes of her inability to raise enough money to travel to the training session as the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 2, 1995 with Miss Gladys Austin (born 1927). She was inducted into the Jones County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Hall of Fame in 1992. She was the second African American and the only African American...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers William D. Jones and Susan Patterson talk together shortly after Peter Werner was assaulted in their company while walking in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Jones, Patterson, and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actor Susan Tabor performs in Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 3 as part of Freedom Summer,...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Photocopy of two typed letters on one page. They are dated August 7, 1964 and written by Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Friends, Family, and What Not," and to Susan. The first letter details the plans for unseating the regular Democratic Party delegation...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. African American Hattiesburg resident Susan Stokes (left) stands with volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people mingle with Freedom Summer volunteers at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Arthur (center background) and Carolyn (right background) Reese participate in a meeting of volunteers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The Reeses were Co-Coordinators...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith drives one of Vernon Dahmer's tractors pulling a flat bed hauling group of Freedom Summer volunteers. The group includes Arthur Reese (holding a radio), Terri Shaw...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy with pencil sketches and text paste-ups of Happy Jaspar by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Betty Howe (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #73 from the books series of the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Galleys marked with pagination of Happy Jaspar by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Betty Howe (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #73 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Brown Proof of Happy Jaspar by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Betty Howe (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #73 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink illustrations with tracing paper overlay that has colored pencil for pages 40 and 44 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 4 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy with original pencil sketches pasted-in (MC-30-4), of Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of the...
