From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This small slip of paper advocates hate as a positive virtue and labels persons as fence straddlers if they will not commit to active involvement in hate groups. The paper instructs recipients of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A record of race-related violence in Mississippi from January 1961 to February 1964, with a brief paragraph for each incident. Illustrated.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of young people dancing at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
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 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...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In this memo, lawyers for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party present and address questions that were raised regarding the legality of the 1964 Congressional Challenge. The authors cite...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum suggestions for prospective freedom school teachers. Table of contents delineates three distinct curriculum areas: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic; document...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of a Rust College student standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. A civil rights poster of Fannie Lou Hamer and a poster of the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Hardy Frye (far left in overalls) speaking with Henry Aronson during a voter registration demonstration in downtown Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry, presumably inside the doctor's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Henry was a prominent...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Aaron Henry, taken in the 1980s.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of, from left to right, an unidentified man, a police officer (possibly Ben Collins) and Dr. Aaron Henry in Clarksdale,...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a gathering in Dr. Aaron Henry's backyard in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Joe Youngerman and four local African-American...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three African Americans at "the 'table'" inside Dr. ("Doc") Aaron Henry's drugstore on 4th Street in Clarksdale,...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
