Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written by student Julie Ann McCarty that expresses her enthusiasm for the Freedom School which she is attending.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of an essay written by Freedom School student Vernon Lee Austin. The essay is a modification of the Declaration of Independence written from the perspective of an...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A series of essays by Freedom Summer volunteer Carl Young. Young discusses his reasons for volunteering, describes his duties and the working conditions in Holly Springs, and provides details on...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Essay written by Frederick B. Routh, dated January 29, 1956, which provides a commentary of the changing political and social climates of the South at the time. Stresses the concept of desegregation as supported...
An autobiography written by Confederate Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey and addressed to Colonel Calhoun Benham for a book Benham was writing. Lowret was born in McNairy County, Tennessee, and was a resident of the Corinth, Mississippi, area...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Gwendolyn Merritt. Contains the resolutions of the Priest Creek Precinct meeting as well as a brief essay on the Freedom Movement and the Black...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a brief essay written by Freedom School student Neretha Stewart about the lack of freedom for African Americans.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written in 1964 about the Mississippi Freedom Schools and their importance to the civil rights movement. Discusses the current educational situation in Mississippi schools and how...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
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.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written by a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary following the bombing of the home of Alyene Quin and the Society Hill Baptist Church. The author...
