A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom Summer volunteer Reverend James "Jim" Nance talking with unidentified African American residents while conducting voter registration canvassing near Fifth and Mobile Streets in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local residents and Freedom Summer volunteers at a voter registration meeting held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Earline Boyd, Marie Blalock, Lenon E. Woods, and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three Freedom Summer volunteers explaining voter registration procedures to an African American female resident of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Dick Kelly stands on the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers and local African-American activists meet in a small room to discuss voter registration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of volunteers and local African American residents hold a meeting regarding voter registration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of volunteers and local African-American residents hold a meeting regarding voter registration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three male volunteers begin a morning of voter registration canvassing in an African American neighborhood in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The man on the right is Dick...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Jacob Blum hangs a voter registration sign on the front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, prior to a mass meeting during Freedom Summer, 1964. The sign reads...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American man, possibly a visiting minister with the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, and Freedom School teacher Dick Kelly (right) explain voter registration procedures to local...
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.
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 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...
Transcribed copy of a speech given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) during her campaign for the United States Senate in 1964. Discusses Section I, Title I of the Civil Rights Bill and its effects on African Americans in Mississippi. Also describes...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
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...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson;"Percy" takes an arm of a lounging "Illinois voter" and says,"Get up and realize your potential!"Douglas" pushes the voter back down and says,"Relax--you've never had it so good!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jack Jurden; A man wearing a suit labeled "Voter apathy" stands inside a cauldron with his hands behind his back. His eyes are closed and his head is tilted so that his nose is in the air. The...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
