Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Herbert Randall's close-up of Sandy Leigh taken in Peggy Jean Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
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. SNCC Field Secretary and COFO-Hattiesburg Project Director Sandy Leigh standing beside the blackboard while giving a lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Students and teachers laugh as some of the students joke around during SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh's lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) during Freedom Summer in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) sits in the foreground while SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh writes in a journal behind her. This photo was most likely taken on July 18, 1964, at the opening of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the Hattiesburg project, at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting at St. John United Methodist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three civil rights activists have a discussion. They are, from left to right, volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, stands to address a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in the St. Paul United Methodist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (far left), Director of the Hattiesburg project, stands leaning on a car next to local African American resident Lenelle Vaughn (left) in the parking lot of St....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Seated at a table in front of the altar at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964 are, left, SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the Hattiesburg project, sits on the steps of project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local African American civil rights activist Gladys Young (left) and SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project Sandy Leigh (right) sitting on the steps of the COFO...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith (left) and SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh explain to elderly African American Hattiesburg resident Felix Smith the procedures required in order to register to vote...
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...
