From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Thirty-six pages (typewritten and handwritten) recounting Zoya Zeman's experiences in Mississippi from June 24, 1964, through September 6, 1964.
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A group of hippies is sitting or lying in front of a door labeled "Army induction centers, Pentagon, etc." One is burning a draft card, and all their eyes appear closed. A sign...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American teenagers and boys and two Freedom Summer volunteers pick up litter in the yard of the house at 1100 Dewey Street, which was refurbished for use as a second...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American male teenagers and boys and one volunteer worker with rakes and scythes to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three civil rights activists have a discussion. They are, from left to right, volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) sits in the foreground while SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh writes in a journal behind her. This photo was most likely taken on July 18, 1964, at the opening of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Engaged in discussion are two civil rights activists in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. On the left is volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of an unidentified African American woman and two unidenfied African American children standing in front of a community center.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of three unidentified African American children in a community center. It shows one older African American boy standing between two younger African American...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Seven-page document from the Ecumenical Center for Renewal (ECR) with a cover letter signed by R.B. Kochtitzky. Provides detailed plans for a model for twelve proposed regional centers of renewal in the South,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A speech printed for general release by Clifton R. Whitley, candidate for the United States Senate. Whitley's speech centers around injustice in Mississippi race relations and outlines his...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Mississippi Freedom Project community centers describing how community centers improve the lives of African Americans in Mississippi. The report is organized by the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Staff reports from a number of SNCC projects, compiled at the Atlanta office by Jon Steinberg. Most describe voter registration, labor organization, or similar grass roots activity. In some...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, stands to address a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in the St. Paul United Methodist...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report of voter registration information for various locations in Mississippi. Information is divided by county, volunteer center, area, and "new centers."
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 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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of Mississippi Freedom Schools, arranged according to Mississippi Congressional Districts. Includes the numbers of students expected at each location, the number of teachers needed,...
