A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Copy of a handwritten letter from Rabbi Philip M. Posner to the family of Rabbi Charles Mantinband. Posner offers sympathy for the death of Mantinband and comments on the Rabbi's courage and dedication to civil rights.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection contains eleven handwritten letters, mostly exchanges between Dr. Joseph A. Schwartz and members of his immediate family, as well as a printed scientific article co-authored by Dr. Schwartz...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State University) in Mississippi in March 1957. The protest was a result of a controversy related to Professor...
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 Clifford Lindsey Alderman Papers.; A page of handwritten notes from Clifford Alderman's Blood-Red the Roses: The Story of the Wars of the Roses; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House; covers a peaceful demonstration and march held in Holly Springs, a boycott in Benton County, hirings and firings, arrests, personnel and...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Handwritten hate letter, unsigned and postmarked Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Apparently written in response to Dahl's fundraising efforts.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page handwritten letter by Kathy Dahl addressed to the Berkeley, California, chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Dahl discusses the social impact and financial needs of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcript of a handwritten letter from Jan [Bhuyan] to Nancy and Joe Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses a letter she wrote to the Gazette in support of the civil rights movement. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson with Student Voice newspapers in an effort to demonstrate the feelings of some African-American students in Hattiesburg,...
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 Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Ray Money, Jr., a freshman at Georgia Tech, is interested in taking part in a work-study program mentioned in a Council of Federated Organizations memo. He is uncertain about how useful he can...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Eighteen-page handwritten journal authored by Margaret Hazelton. The journal provides a day-by-day account of Hazelton's experience as a Freedom Summer volunteer working in Clarksdale,...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph of the back of an injured man's head in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The injured man, possibly named Mark Fast, was an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a community meeting held in a church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Participants hold hands as they sing "We Shall...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of local teenagers at a social gathering in Dr. Aaron Henry's backyard in Clarksdale, Mississippi. A handwritten note on the...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Rev. Rayford's son at a church community meeting in Clarksdale, Mississippi. According to a handwritten note on the back...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three local African-American teenagers in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two young women sit on either...
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...
