From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers in front of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting during Freedom Summer 1964. ...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Arthur (center background) and Carolyn (right background) Reese participate in a meeting of volunteers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The Reeses were Co-Coordinators...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld leaves Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a wheelchair on July 11, 1964, upon being released. Rabbi Lelyveld was hospitalized after being assaulted the...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Bond dated 29 January 1861, and signed by Captain Merry B. Harris in the amount of $900 is for the purchase of 60 muskets. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the front of a white car parked in front of J. C. Fairley's Radio's TV Service shop (522 Mobile Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi). ...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Standing in front of the COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street are volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964, stand in front of Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmer's...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American residents and volunteers gather in the parking lot of St. John United Methodist Church in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Local...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Photograph of a local African American child and other guests at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A little girl identified as Della Balam stands behind a wooden post at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The sons of Reverend Robert Beech, Director of the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, reach for cold drinks in a Coca-Cola cooler at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Bob Smith, U. Z. Nunnally, Annanais McGhee (seated in the background), Howard Jeffries and Barbara Bloomfield on their way to a meeting. Nunnally,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the community center that Zoya Zeman and other volunteers renovated as part of the Mississippi Freedom Project in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Erwin D. Zeman took this picture in the...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure distributed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in an effort to solicit economic support and volunteers for Freedom Schools. Describes the purpose and function of...
Correspondence between Governor Brown and the Secretary of War, upon the right of the Georgia volunteers, in Confederate Service, to elect their own officers.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen receiving treatment for head and arm injuries sustained after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld were attacked by two Caucasian...
