Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "S and D," [Susan and Diane] written on Wednesday, July 8, 1964. The letter speaks of the teaching experiences of the Ellins in the Freedom Schools in Hattiesburg and the neighboring...
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...
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a handwritten letter from John Sullivan to Jake Kilrain, dated 7 December 1888. Sullivan challenges Kilrain to a fight.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color pencil illustration with handwritten text (p. 19) from H.A. Rey's unpublished book, The Cigar Tree [ca. 1935-1945]. 7" x 8.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Crayon illustration proof with handwritten text (p. 7) from bound dummy of "How the Tortoise Outwits the Jaguar," which appears in H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Indian Tortoise Stories, volume 2 [ca....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Newspaper page of cartoons in Marianne, dated 30 June 1937, with handwritten notes for poems used in an published book.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Early crayon and watercolor illustration with handwritten text marked with the letters of the alphabet from H.A. Rey's unpublished books, Nonsense ABC; Nonsense Rhymes; and Rhyming Pictionary [ca....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration with handwritten text from H.A. Rey's unpublished books, Nonsense ABC; Nonsense Rhymes; and Rhyming Pictionary [ca. 1941]. 10" x 11"
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Jacob B. Abbott to Mr. Laughton and the handwritten tag, from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys,...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) located near Lorman, Mississippi. The student protest called for the...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Six handwritten note cards outlining the Community Center at Clarksdale; Community centers were organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) as part of Mississippi Freedom...
From the Gail E. Haley Papers. Sketch in graphite with the handwritten note "The Medicine Man with the Water that Cures all things" for A STORY, A STORY: AN AFRICAN TALE retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (New York: Atheneum, 1970). A STORY, A...
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.
