From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. This two-part document includes a copy of a press release given by the Young Democrats Club of the University of Illinois regarding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. A copy of a speech given by...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Invitation to Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to attend a White House conference,"To Fulfill These Rights" on June 1-2, 1966.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
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. 4; formerly titled the "Student Voice), is dated July 1965. Coverage includes...
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, local civil rights leader and candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) ticket, at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on...
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 Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers.; Photograph of Victoria Jackson Gray Adams holding the Distinguished Service Award that she received from Wilberforce University Alumni Association on October 27, 1989.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist and candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) ticket, Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) speaks to a meeting of the political party members held...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Philadelphia by Benjamin Warner, No. 171, Market St. S. Probasco, in 1821. This book is a sequel to The courtship, marriage, and pic-nic dinner of Robin Red-breast and Jenny Wren. ...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of a town ant fungus garden. It resembles a gray sponge and is made of bits of vegetation cut and carried to the nest.
Booklet from the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers Booklet titled "To get that power" compiled by Mississippians United to Elect Negro Candidates to solicit funds to support the campaigns of African American candidates in the 1967 Mississippi...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Brochure designed by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to inform people of the economic problems in the South and to encourage poor whites to join forces with Blacks to work for economic and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This brochure describes the United States Congress and its functions. It also explains what the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is and why it is challenging the 1964 election...
A collection of ten 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...
