From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet suggests that to accommodate everyone's educational preferences three kinds of schools should be established--all African American, all Caucasian American, and a combination of the two.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report explains why federal aid did not get to the people who really needed it in the South in the 1960s. The report also suggests adjustments that can be made to the aid programs so that...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter to Susan written by Joe Ellin on [August 17, 1964?]. SNCC, Friends of SNCC, and ties with Michigan are each discussed. Integration, WMU faculty, and schools are spoken of in the same paragraph. Joe suggests a...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten letter from Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson dated July 8, 1964. Zwerling describes his position as the father of a civil rights volunteer in the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report records the background of the Southern Regional Council, which was formed in 1944 to improve the economy, society, and race relations in the South by changing related legislation. ...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
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,...
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...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated December 1954. Discusses their efforts to build a Jewish life in the South, the impact of the May 1954 Supreme Court...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 4, 2007 with Jeff Bennett, Director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health Center. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection; Copy of a typewritten telegram from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, dated June 23, 1964, about the disappearance of two New York civil rights workers, Andrew...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document contains Silas Norman's critique of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) publication, the Student Voice. He notes the content of the publication and suggests that...
