Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
From the Kitson (John) Letters. Letter to Richard Shaw of Gillingham, Norfolk. The front contains a document from the Stamp Office dated 6 July 1831, requesting unpaid duties from the will of Daniel Pettet. The letter, dated 2 August 1832, is a...
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Road report to the Board of Police, which includes a request for continued appointment as road overseer, by Alexander K. Farrar, dated 15 November 1841.
From the Foote (Henry Stuart) Letter and Autograph. Letter by Henry Stuart Foote, written in response to George H. Morrow's request for information about the relationship between Linn Boyd and Henry Clay, who died in 1852. Foote discusses Clay's...
One printed pamphlet presented by Governor Letcher containing an urgent request from Peter B. Starke that the General Assembly of Virginia respond to Mississippi's resolution supporting a convention of Southern states which Starke had presented to...
A dispatch sent by Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge to Colonel H. P. Brewster in Corinth, Mississippi, apparently in response to his request for information on Union troop movements in northeast Mississippi, and warning about a potential...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 1 p. (15 x 10 cm.) To Miss Eveline M. Burnblum from Kate Greenaway at Holloway dated 27 November 1882.
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Correspondence between Charles W. Journey and William E. Connelley, regarding a request for a copy of Connelley's book and offer of information on William McW; Report of Connelley's interest...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page typed letter by Peggy Quinn on letterhead of the Jackson COFO office, amended with a Greenville, Mississippi, address. Quinn identifies herself as Freedom School coordinator for COFO in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report gives background and activity information on the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU) to the northern offices. In it, Margaret Lauren notes problems within the organization and...
News release by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), calling for a final effort to unseat the Mississippi congressional delegation. There is also a request for leaders and organizations to participate in the "One Man One Vote...
