Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
A collection of eight 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 February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man approaches a member of the City Council during the "Police Brutality Hearings" with a note that reads, "The hostages should have stayed in Iran." A member of the City...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This report by the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights describes the committee's procedures and lists its members, but it focuses mainly on the allegations of...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated December 9, 1963. The front-page story of this issue reports the bombing of the home of an African-American voter registration worker in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An extensive list of incidents of violence and discrimination in Mississippi in October 1964. The last page of the document lists the officers of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) reporting the police beating of Joe Schwartz, a COFO worker. Schwartz was stopped by police and beaten after an office...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated October 30, 1964. Addresses the need for heightened investigation of illegal political practices against the MFDP...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 3) is dated June 6, 1965."(Note that the name changed from the "Student Voice"...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph of the back of an injured man's head in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The injured man, possibly named Mark Fast, was an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter from Mel to Sid and Sue gives details about the jail conditions in Jackson, Mississippi, and the treatment of civil rights workers who were arrested for demonstrating there.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This letter from Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) summer volunteers, Nancy and Gene Turitz, to friends details the social and political climate of Batesville, Mississippi, in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report gives many accounts of bombings, shootings, and assaults perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez between the years of 1963 and 1965. It also mentions a court injunction placed on...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A record of race-related violence in Mississippi from January 1961 to February 1964, with a brief paragraph for each incident. Illustrated.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection; Carbon copy of a typewritten letter from Dr. Israel Zwerling to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, dated July 13, 1964. Zwerling expresses disdain for the disparaging remarks made by Police...
