From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local African American civil rights activist Gladys Young (left) and SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project Sandy Leigh (right) sitting on the steps of the COFO...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three local African-American teenagers in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two young women sit on either...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African-American teenagers and David Batzka (right) in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of young people playing ping-pong on a porch in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of young people dancing at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page fund raising letter by James Baldwin addressed to Friends. Baldwin, an African-American novelist/activist in the 1960s, asks the public to support the Freedom Summer volunteers already...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three young female Freedom Summer volunteers arrive a few doors down from the COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the end of June, 1964. One of the three may...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo to accepted applicants for Mississippi Freedom Project giving current information on the growing expectation of hostility in Mississippi when hundreds of young people from other parts of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of young African Americans of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand and sing in front of the headquarters of local civil rights leader Victoria Jackson Gray's campaign for the U.S. Senate on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the Community Centers in the Hattiesburg project, talks with local African American residents who are helping to turn an old kindergarten building into the...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows three young men reading from scripts, and two young girls sitting and facing them.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows two young children, and Luther Buckley, from Batesville, standing in the doorway of the Como, Mississippi, home.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen receiving treatment for head and arm injuries sustained after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld were attacked by two Caucasian...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen, Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, and Lawrence Spears (left to right) on July 11, 1964, the day after they were assaulted in Hattiesburg by two men from nearby Collins, Mississippi. At the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Legendary folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger performs for Freedom School students, local residents, and volunteers in the community center established by Freedom Summer participants at...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freeman Lott (foreground) and an unidentified young African American male sitting on the floor at the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of an unidentified house taken by Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, September 1964. A young African American boy can be seen in the background...
