From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 18" x 14"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of three well-dressed, young African Americans. There are two young men and one young woman in the photograph, kneeling on...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter, dated June 28, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad." The letter was written a couple of days after leaving the training session in Oxford, Ohio. It contains information about Hattiesburg, and descriptions of...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents], dated August 7, 1964. The letter discusses the lack of Freedom School materials and what types of books should be donated to help the cause. It...
Carbon copy of a 1 1/2-page typed letter, dated July 9, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to an anonymous person(s). The document describes Freedom Schools (curriculum, enrollment, etc.) and the opinions of teachers and students. It also details the local...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
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; 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 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; Three Freedom Summer volunteers explaining voter registration procedures to an African American female resident of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Dick Kelly stands on the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Two Caucasian female volunteers do paperwork at tables in the back room of COFO-Hattiesburg Project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American residents stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The woman in the center is local activist...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of (left to right) R.W. Dunn, W. S. F. Tatum, and Dr. W. E. Holcomb. W. S. F. Tatum donated the property on which South Mississippi Woman's College was established in 1911. The school is now...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. Mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. There are two African American children...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A local African American woman, Mary Stepps, sings during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.