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...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of a concrete structure from an abandoned P.O.W. camp on the Tuxachanie Trail of the Desoto National Forest.
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Yasir Arafat, labeled “PLO,” stands on a large block labeled "Cornerstone for peace" and yells, "Call for an oil boycott, it'll lead to war." Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Documents (five pages and one index card) contain lists of books and other readings relating to the social and economic structure of the South. These books were used by volunteers during the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A 1963 pamphlet designed to appeal to potential donors; briefly outlines SNCC's history, power structure, activities, present and past achievements.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Describes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), its structure and leadership, history, programs, and future plans.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a brick structure known as the Ross Building, featuring a sign, "Drugs & Medicines." Several well-dressed males stand around the entrance. This building was located on the corner of Front...
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 McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet, Landry asserts that integrationists are trying to reunite the races that God separated in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel. He asserts that new anthropological and...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; D. B. Red states that God implemented segregation after the flood and enforced it all through the Old Testament. He quotes the Bible to support his belief that segregation of races was ordained by...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document about the experiences of Jill Wakeman (Goodman) during her stay in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, including her motives for going to Mississippi and the civil rights work she did there. Describes Mount...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 26, 2005 with Joel Ellzie. A paramedic, Mr. Ellzie discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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.
