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. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi. This newsletter describes or mentions numerous events, including: Howard Jeffries in jail; expired...
One letter from Southern Railroad Company Secretary N.G. Bryson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi & Alabama Railroad Company Secretary A.J. McConnico in Holly Springs, Mississippi, concerning financial transactions between the two railroad...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House to friends and former workers. Included are accounts of recent arrests, cross burnings, school integration attempts, and other news. Also includes...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, now relocated to 200 Rust Avenue (signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi). Discusses local news, union actions a Klan rally, and requests...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three unidentified African American boys playing ping-pong on porch in Holly Springs. This is probably the porch of the second Holly Springs Freedom House at 110 Rust Avenue.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Marjorie Merrill (holding guitar) and two unidentified African-American students on the steps of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, MS. Marjorie, a volunteer from...
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen and a man labeled "Legislature" wear Santa Clause costumes (without beards) and hold a piece of paper between them that reads, "Preparations for...
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter, likely from the Holly Springs Freedom House (signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi). Discusses activities during September, including attempts at intimidation on the part of local...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page typed sheet written by Hardy T. Frye and two pages of black-and-white photographs. Frye, with the Holly Springs COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) Project, solicits funds from...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter written by Rita Walker to Kathleen Dahl. Walker writes about organizational problems with, presumably, individuals from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. End of summer report by Kathy Dahl written for the Medical Committee for Human Rights. The first half outlines basic medical care conditions for African Americans in the Holly Springs area; the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information. Discusses upcoming visit from Dahl and that many Holly Springs people have relocated to Illinois. She writes that Hardy [Frye] had...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. The first page of an incomplete newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House; deals with legal issues and general news.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of four Rust College students standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Civil rights posters and posters of the Johnson/Humphrey 1964...