Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
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...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer collection.Poster (approximately 14" x 22"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of a well-dressed group of young African Americans. There is an unobstructed view of two young men. Both of the young men...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 18" x 14"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of three well-dressed, young African Americans. There are two young men and one young woman in the photograph, kneeling on...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 14" x 24"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of an older African American man in overalls and hat, seated with hands clasped. Directly behind him is the corner of a...
Oral history.; Discusses the curricula, teachers and administrators, and recreational activities, including school sports at the African American schools. Compares the schools of the 1990s to those of the past, and describes the African American...
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
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Reverend Arthur Lewis Jr. was born on October 29, 1948, in Forest Home, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, where he was graduated from high school in 1967. From Jackson State University, he earned a B.S.W. degree, and from...
Oral history.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo about the changing educational priorities of SNCC, including a move away from teacher training to the production of educational materials. Discusses a shift in emphasis from voter...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter from Muriel Tillinghast, representing the SNCC Finance Committee. She requests that all money donations be made out to SNCC and provides other guidelines for donating materials.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Title page, proof, and miscellaneous production materials relating to Marge's Little Lulu Her Train Ride to Grandma's [Marjorie Henderson Buell] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1946) Westfield classics #80 from...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A snail is trying to move along a path between two mounds of lumber debris left by Hurricane Camille. Sweat drops show the snail to be working hard to move, and cobwebs are impeding...
