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 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 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 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document relates the history of the election contest statute (Title 2 U. S. C. Section 201) and sets forth the main objections of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the 1964...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
Photocopy of a three-page handwritten letter, dated June 21, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written upon the Ellins' arrival at the Freedom Summer training session held at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. It...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
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...
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.
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 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 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 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 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. ...
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...
