From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry, presumably inside the doctor's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Henry was a prominent...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Aaron Henry, taken in the 1980s.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American activist Andrew Wilson speaks at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Andrew (Andy) Young addressing a group of people.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American residents stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The woman in the center is local activist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Anne Smith Taylor speaks to a caucus of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows Annie Devine, a Mississippi civil rights activist, seated in an auditorium during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio,...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Byron de la Beckwith taken in July 1963. Beckwith was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Charles Evers speaking into a microphone which he is holding in his hand. Evers' brother was Medgar Evers, field secretary for...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Doris Townsend records on a blackboard the nominations for Secretary of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at a meeting held at the Mt....
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Dr. Gilbert Mason, taken in 1960. Mason was a physician in Biloxi, Mississippi.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activist Earline Boyd, Secretary of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), speaks to a meeting of the MFDP at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up of local activist Elnora Knight, probably taken during a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Gilbert Mason, taken in the 1980s. A physician in Biloxi, Mississippi, Dr. Mason was a local leader in the civil rights...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of local activist Gracie Hawthorne sitting on the steps outside COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
