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...
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 Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document distributed by the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Document outlines the status of various legislative proposals in...
From the Bilbo (Theodore G.) Papers; view of the Leesdale Tower, set among tall pine saplings, with a gravel road nearby. The Homochitto National Forest is located primarily in Adams, Franklin, Wilkinson, and Amite Counties, in Southwestern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains materials on Dr. Leslie A. Falk's medical career and his Civil Rights activities in Mississippi, but the bulk of the collection consists primarily of materials on the Underground...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The papers consist primarily of material related to Gray's law enforcement career in Mississippi. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m387.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists primarily of material for the book, Letters From Mississippi (1965, republished 2002). The book contains letters written in 1964 by Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers. The papers...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection contains correspondence and other records documenting Miller's work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, primarily between 1964 and 1966. For the full finding...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The papers contain personal papers; records related to Rose's religion-centered journalistic, fund-raising, and activist work; and material related to his non-religious employment in journalism and music...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists primarily of a photocopy of an eight-page letter addressed to Mrs. Anna Murray of Summit, New Jersey, dated June 25, 1964. Sowerwine wrote the letter while training in Oxford, Ohio,...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Primarily copies of speeches prepared for delivery by Alabama Governor George C. Wallace between 1961 and 1965; includes also biographical information, copies of interviews, statements, and telegrams. For...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection primarily contains materials concerning a Black History celebration that was held on February 18, 2001. The celebration commemorated the life and legacy of the late Mrs. Helen Fields...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Statement by four Harvard Law School students calling for effective federal intervention in southern civil rights conflicts, primarily through the executive branch.
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...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
From the Lewis (Levi) Letters; Levi Lewis, born October 16, 1841, was reared on the family farm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The oldest son of Robert S. and Mary Lewis, he had an older sister, Lydia Rugar, and two younger brothers, Robert T....
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...
