From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Campaign button reading "I am a registered voter are you?" and "N.A.A.C.P. Voter Registration Committee"
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Mississippi Summer Project staff to summer project workers assigned to work in voter registration. Lists supplies and materials...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in an armchair has been reading a book, his feet on the footstool. The book is being tossed to the floor, and the man has put his hands on the chair arms and is lifting...
Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated November 11, 1963. The front-page article covers the recent Freedom Vote, in which over 70,000 African-American voters in Mississippi cast ballots. Other articles include...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to friends, no date given. Describes events in McComb, Mississippi, including the arrests of several civil rights workers and other acts of...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work in and around Batesville, Mississippi, on voter registration. They also mention developments in registration across the state. The...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report of voter registration information for various locations in Mississippi. Information is divided by county, volunteer center, area, and "new centers."
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Application to register to vote in Mississippi, containing a list of twenty-one questions for the applicant to answer and instructions on how to complete the voter registration process.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report published by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) as part of the Political Education Project gives the history of both the MFDP and the regular Mississippi Democratic...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix C explains the history and platform of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), lists the executive committee members, and sets out a plan for the Congressional challenge. ...
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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker asks Dahl to send clothes and food to Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes about civil rights workers U.Z. (Nunnally), Howard...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Four main areas of the Mississippi Freedom Project are discussed: freedom schools, community centers, voter registration, and special projects.
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Erle Johnston to Rev. Frederick Fowler, dated April 1, 1965, in which Johnston defends the voter registration laws of Mississippi. According to Johnston, despite some discrimination...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Benton County describing the election of black residents to local public office; also contains news on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and details on legal issues...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is a publicity document published by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to encourage people outside the state of Mississippi to support the MFDP's Congressional challenge. The...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This legal notice to James L. Whitten from Fannie Lou Hamer announces Ms. Hamer's intent to contest his 19-64 election to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd Congressional...
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...
