Oral history.; Mr. Edward Sternberg was born on October 22, 1901, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools and graduated from Grady School, Louisville, in June 1915. He worked in a variety of jobs as a boy and began his first...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains eight affidavits detailing the violence and discrimination against African Americans and/or civil rights workers in Mississippi during the Mississippi Freedom Project in...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains details of events from July 2-5, 1964, relating to the Mississippi Freedom Project. It describes harassments, scare tactics, threats, and violence that the civil rights...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document was enclosed with the letter written by Steven McNichols about the Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom (see mus-zz009). Philip Sherburne reports on his experiences in McComb, Mississippi,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from COFO director Robert Moses to contacts and parents of students volunteering in Mississippi. Moses writes of the continuing potential for violence and describes steps taken by COFO to...
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. Photograph of the remains of Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by fire in an act of racial violence. Three men stand looking at the remains of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of bombings that occurred in Mississippi from June 16 to October 4, 1964. Prepared by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the incidents of violence are listed in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An extensive list of incidents of violence and discrimination in Mississippi in October 1964. The last page of the document lists the officers of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Georgia Governor (and later Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox stands behind the counter of a cafeteria (restaurant). The counter is labeled "Maddox political cafeteria." Maddox...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. An unknown author relates the stories of two bombings and police misconduct in McComb, Mississippi.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Phyl (last name unknown) of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to Joseph and Nancy Ellin, dated February 11, 1965. Discusses depositions taken for the Mississippi...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten statement by Robert and Carolyn Goodman, the parents of Andrew Goodman, dated August 5, 1964. The Goodmans express grief over the deaths of their son and fellow civil rights...
Pamphlet from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Pamphlet prepared by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in November 1955. Provides information about three racially-charged murders in Mississippi: Rev. George W....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Pamphlet reprint of an article published in The Nation. Zinn writes about Mississippi Freedom Schools Jackson and elsewhere.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses trial of white men for a racially-motivated beating, and local agriculture and federal farm subsidies.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes the inadequate conditions of Beasley School, an African American elementary school in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1965. It gives details of the boycott of the school, which...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cartoon produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that shows the coffins of three civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) who were killed in...
