From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Minutes of the April 1965 meeting of COFO's fifth district leaders in Waveland, Mississippi. Includes discussion of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, labor unions, cooperative marketing,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal discusses the symptoms and needs of civil rights workers who have been on the front lines in the South. The author feels that the shock of civil rights work on individuals would be...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The transcription of a meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staff from the North discusses emerging issues in the organization. Mainly, the discussion centers on...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
Photocopy of a three-page typed letter from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad," written on Wednesday, July 29, 1964. The host family, work in the project's office, books, and the Freedom Library are discussed. There is a description of a short trip to New...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
From the Kershner (Charles) Papers. A seven page speech by Charles “Chuck” Kershner, the editor of The Student Printz in spring 1964. The speech was delivered during the Symposium on Social Justice held at USM’s Thad Cochran Center on...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
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. 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...
Transcribed copy of a list of suggestions for teaching methods for teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Suggestions include an emphasis on teaching the students to clearly express their ideas as opposed to an emphasis on grammar and...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
Transcribed copy of a case study that examines the purpose and philosophies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). It also examines the Pledge for Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary,...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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...
