From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes the inadequate conditions of Beasley School, an African American elementary school in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1965. It gives details of the boycott of the school, which...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes the inadequate conditions of Beasley School, an African American elementary school in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1965. It gives details of the boycott of the school, which...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of Mississippi Freedom Schools, arranged according to Mississippi Congressional Districts. Includes the numbers of students expected at each location, the number of teachers needed,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Six-page prospectus for a summer Freedom School Program, written by Charles Cobb. The prospectus explains the goals of the program, itemizes a projected budget and describes plans for staffing and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Prospectus for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, likely produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Contains justification for the project and its timing, also contains...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Report of the planned programs for Freedom Summer of 1964. Beginning with a quote from James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed Society, the prospectus discusses issues such as goals of the Mississippi...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows the African American public school and Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Two African American students, (left to right) Renee McCollum and Cheryl Moore, study at the Freedom School hosted at Morning Star Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Accounts and evaluation of activities during the residential freedom school experiment, a two-part program which took place in Chicago, Illinois, and Cordele, Georgia.
From the Whyte (Iain) Civil Right Collection. This collection contains slides from Reverend Whyte's time in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 in Greenville and Jackson. There are two groups of slides: Group A, which Rev. Whyte took himself in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A traveling folk singer is joined in song by Freedom School student Ronald Moore in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the various Freedom Summer...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Sandra Adickes and Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth in the Freedom School hosted by Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photo is Herbert Randall's close-up of Freedom School teacher Sandra Adickes during Freedom Summer, 1964. Adickes was a teacher in the Freedom School hosted by Priest Creek Missionary...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Sandra Adickes (center) teaches one of her Freedom School classes at Priest Missionary Baptist Church in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. ...
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. 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. 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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A teacher is sitting at her desk in a classroom and appears dazed. Around her head are circular marks labeled "Test scores...Facility decay...Discipline." On the desk is a...
