Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American child stands in front of a car damaged by gunfire during Freedom Summer, 1964, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked at the side of local civil rights leader J.C....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of an African American volunteer at the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of an African American volunteer at the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of employees of the Aladdin Company (manufacturers of Aladdin Houses) lined up outside the company building located on North Street at the Mississippi Central Railroad track; 12 x 4
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows Annie Devine, a Mississippi civil rights activist, seated in an auditorium during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio,...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Contract signed between private tutor William Westerman and representatives of twelve families in Warren County, Mississippi agreeing that Westerman will teach sixteen children of their children. The families include the Hyland, Rawls, and Gibson...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the large, brick building that housed Barron Motor Company, the local Lincoln, Ford and Fordson dealer. The company was located at the corner of Main Street and Batson Street; 10 x 8
Photograph of a water fountain and plaque located in Bennett Auditorium. Plaque reads, "Claude Bennett Auditorium - Dedicated to the memory of the second President of this University, who served 1928-1933 - November 10, 1972"; 5 x 7
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Five local African-American boys with rakes help to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the front of a white car parked in front of J. C. Fairley's Radio's TV Service shop (522 Mobile Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi). ...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Burge's Sandwich Shop sign, featuring the menu and and ad for Falstaff beer. Burge's Sandwich Shop was located on Main Street.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Bynum Lumber Company locomotive #346 at work in the woods hauling logs. The company was located in Lamar County, Mississippi.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Carver/Peterman House. Caption included reads “The last of Old Gainesville. Home built in 1865 by the Carver family and later owned by J. H. Peterman. It was located on the Lower Gainesville...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American children -- a girl and two little boys -- sweep and pick up litter from the porch of the COFO-Hattiesburg project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
