From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Undated letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future wife about his desire to marry her and about joining...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains a typed copy of a diary kept by Jinny Glass from August 7 through August 25, 1964. It records her experiences as a volunteer during Mississippi Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg. The...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report in the form of a memo, titled "Mississippi Report of Citizenship Education Program" written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams). Describes the activities of and challenges faced by the Citizenship...
Photograph of Golden Eagles basketball fans at a game. One holds (or is playing) a trombome. Another has a paper bag over his head with holes cut out for eyes; on the bag is written "Hokie fan" [Virginia Tech?]. Several fans hold newspapers....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon looks excited at the large number of "telegrams and letters favorable to administration." He also has two feathers in his hat. The feathers are labeled, "Historic...
In this one-page letter, Jinny Glass writes to Zoya Zeman about her time in Mississippi working on the Mississippi Freedom Project. She explains that she has been working at a community center and has just attended a memorial service in Neshoba...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Virginia Scott writes to Ed [Hamlett] that she will be unable to work with him in Mississippi and asks about his plans for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) for September 1964...
Transcribed copy of a three-page letter from Jinny Glass to Zoya Zeman. Glass writes about her decision to go to Mississippi to work on the Mississippi Summer Project and discusses how the decision to go was hard to make because of her family....
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated July 28, 1964. Discusses improvements to the library collections, services offered, and various projects within the libraries.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Virginia "Jinny" Glass washes her face with water from a metal tub outside of a house at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
