From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Report of the planned programs for Freedom Summer of 1964. Beginning with a quote from James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed Society, the prospectus discusses issues such as goals of the Mississippi...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Nine-page typewritten document entitled, *Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi: Subversion of the Fifteenth Amendment in Mississippi;* presumably part of the curriculum training...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Voter registration statistics of African Americans and whites in five congressional districts in Mississippi, 1961. A letter to groups supporting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Voter registration form distributed by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), made up of two sections. The first section consists of 9 questions for the registrant to...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This newsletter contains six pages of text, largely edited by Eric Blanchard, and ten photographs by Ken Thompson. The newsletter explains the history of voting in Mississippi, the voter...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The material provides estimates of Black and White voter registration in the South in the Summer of 1966.
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.
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated July 28, 1964. In the short note, he mentions voter registration work and the up-coming Freedom Day.
A collection of six 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1995 with Fred Winyard (born 1944), a civil rights activist recruited from Reed College in Oregon by the student nonviolent coordinating committee to work in Mississippi. He helped to organize the...
Flyer from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Double-sided flyer produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as part of a fund raising effort. The front side features a close-up photograph of a SNCC voter registration worker...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Prospectus for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, likely produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Contains justification for the project and its timing, also contains...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This brochure outlines the goals and activities of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) in the early 1960s. It describes the organization's structure and its coordination with the Council of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Hattiesburg resident Horace Laurence (left) and Freedom Summer volunteer Dick Landerman (right) discussing voting rights while sitting on Laurence's front porch on Fairley Street in...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 5, 1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a letter written in an effort to solicit help for Freedom Summer volunteers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Discusses James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed...
