Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; In his three-page memoir, Shonholtz recounts his experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer, including his acquaintance with Dr. Aaron Henry, a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party representative. For the...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The bulk of the collection consists of the following: photocopied letters of general and organizational correspondence; photocopied and original White Folks Project (WFP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a four-page typewritten report authored by Rev. Faulconer in November 2000 concernig his work as a Freedom Summer volunteer in 1964. The report describes his experience...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains a typed copy of a diary kept by Jinny Glass from August 7 through August 25, 1964. It records her experiences as a volunteer during Mississippi Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg. The...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Papers and photographs documenting Margaret Hazelton's Freedom Summer volunteer work in Clarksdale, Miss. from June to August of 1964. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m359.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Photographs documenting John Maurer's activities as a volunteer worker in Panola County, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m358.htm.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page poem authored by Rita Walker, a Freedom Summer volunteer and native of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Shonholtz (Raymond) Freedom Summer Collection. Three page memoir of Mr. Shonholtz's experiences as a Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer. Written in 2002, the memoir involves events that took place during the historic summer of 1964...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report of voter registration information for various locations in Mississippi. Information is divided by county, volunteer center, area, and "new centers."
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Mary Sue Gellatly of Shaw, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and summer volunteer of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union in that same city discusses specific amounts and types of...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A series of essays by Freedom Summer volunteer Carl Young. Young discusses his reasons for volunteering, describes his duties and the working conditions in Holly Springs, and provides details on...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter on Congressional letterhead from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated September 5, 1964. Keating affirms his support for civil rights workers in...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page letter by Kathleen Dahl, a registered nurse and Freedom Summer volunteer in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes on behalf of Charles T. Scales, an African-American volunteer and native...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Volume 2 of the Freedom Flame includes articles by McEvans High School students in Shaw, Mississippi. The articles report the work that members of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) are doing...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Barbara Schwartzbaum, who was a teacher in the Freedom School at Morning Star Baptist Church, and local African American residents sing during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, sings during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. This photo was probably taken after a performance of...
