From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Due to his work with a parish, Rolland Kidder informs Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project, that he must cancel his plans to work in the Mississippi Freedom Project....
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Gayraud Wilmore, dated April 1, 1965, asking for fund raising help for the ongoing recruitment of ministers. Financial assistance was needed to meet the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Request letter sent to former Freedom Summer volunteers for items needed by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) for fall and winter programs. Items needed include: school,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Mississippi Summer Project staff to summer project workers assigned to work in voter registration. Lists supplies and materials...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written in 1964 about the Mississippi Freedom Schools and their importance to the civil rights movement. Discusses the current educational situation in Mississippi schools and how...
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 eight 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...
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...
A collection of six 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A tombstone of RFK with a wreath next to it reads, "Restoration of America's Moral Values"and "Control of Crime and Violence."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A scroll on the ground reads, "New Orleans area's MAC and Total community action." The ground reads "Job training" on one side of the scroll and "Search out and recruiting of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document explains to staff members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) what the "Friends of SNCC" groups do. These groups support SNCC's programs in the Civil Rights...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Barry Davis Jim, Sr., was born in Philadelphia Indian Hospital and grew up on the Pearl River Indian Reservation. He attended Pearl River Elementary Day School, which became Choctaw Central High School. Mr. Jim, a promising athlete,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
