From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This five-page document provides background and justification for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project. It gives a description of the project, the importance of community centers and voter...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Five-page document details the Federal chronology of events that took place when three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) disappeared in Philadelphia,...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
