From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page report by Rita Walker about the December 1965 ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) elections in Mississippi's Marshall and DeSoto counties. A federal program, the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Mary Sue Gellatly of Shaw, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and summer volunteer of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union in that same city discusses specific amounts and types of...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Samuel J. Simmons to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on United States Commission on Civil Rights letterhead. The letter notifies Rabbi Ben-Ami of his appointment to the Mississippi Advisory Committee...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Aviva Futorian on COFO Holly Springs Project letterhead includes information about the burning of St. Joseph's church, encounters with local police, and forced integration of...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Betty Garman on SNCC letterhead to Kathleen Dahl; she asks about the EBCORR project and discusses personnel issues like financial support of volunteers.
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typed letter from Ney M. Gore to William J. Simmons, dated October 12, 1955, written in response to a letter from Simmons discussing the occurrence of maintenance and barratry in South Carolina and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter is typed on Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) letterhead and is signed by 18 individuals. It was meant to spark publicity for the upcoming Congressional challenge sponsored...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Typed poem entitled "The House of Liberty" written by Joyce Brown. Presumably, Brown was a Freedom School teacher in McComb, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. She describes the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Elinor Lerner on the letterhead of COFO in Vicksburg, Mississippi, explains that teachers in Warren County, Mississippi, do not need a donation of used textbooks and that the...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Anne Braden to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Southern Conference Educational Fund letterhead, and the left margin includes a list of the staff at the SCEF office in Louisville, Kentucky. Braden...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from O.J. Keller to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Abraham Lincoln Association letterhead and lists the association's officers and board members in the right margin of the page. Mr. Keller invites...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) letterhead. The letter responds to a previous letter from Rabbi Ben-Ami.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The memorandum from Leon Shull is typed on Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) letterhead that lists the national board members on the reverse side of the page. The content of the memo...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Edith Macy to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on National Urban League letterhead with the names and positions of staff members in the New York office in the left margin. Macy asks Rabbi Ben-Ami to...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Copy of a typed letter from William J. Simmons to Governor Ross R. Barnett, dated May 6, 1969, written in response to a speech by Barnett concerning James Meredith and integration at the University of...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter, dated June 28, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad." The letter was written a couple of days after leaving the training session in Oxford, Ohio. It contains information about Hattiesburg, and descriptions of...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
