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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 1, 2007 with Dr. Ethelyn Patricia ""Pat"" Joachim. Associate Provost for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Dr. Joachim describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her own home as well...
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 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter outlines the Mississippi Freedom Project's planned research on Mississippi's educational system, its income distribution, its tax structure, its social security system, its welfare...
Photocopy of a three-page typed letter from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad," written on Wednesday, July 29, 1964. The host family, work in the project's office, books, and the Freedom Library are discussed. There is a description of a short trip to New...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American male teenagers and boys and one volunteer worker with rakes and scythes to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at...
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; 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; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
