A collection of six 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...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This transcription of a tape-recorded interview records the feelings of Natchez laundry workers on the subject of labor unions. The ladies that are interviewed feel that laundry workers in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Mississippi Summer Project staff to summer project workers assigned to work in voter registration. Lists supplies and materials...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is standing in a wooden stall or kiosk labeled, "Public workers' aid center...Outgrowth of fed. budget cuts." A first aid kit hangs from a nail at...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 3, 2005 with Barbra Kay ""Babs"" Faulk. Director of the South Central Mississippi Chapter of the American Red Cross, Ms. Faulk discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 1, 1994 with Judge Harvey T. Ross (born 1920). In the mid-1960s, Judge Ross was active in laying the groundwork for Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the...
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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House to friends and former workers. Included are accounts of recent arrests, cross burnings, school integration attempts, and other news. Also includes...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, now relocated to 200 Rust Avenue (signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi). Discusses local news, union actions a Klan rally, and requests...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten statement by Robert and Carolyn Goodman, the parents of Andrew Goodman, dated August 5, 1964. The Goodmans express grief over the deaths of their son and fellow civil rights...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Guidelines for conducting phone calls to influential persons in an effort to solicit Federal support for civil rights workers in Mississippi. Compiled after the murder of three civil...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Petition to President Lyndon Baines Johnson requesting federal protection for Freedom Project workers. Mentions the harassment faced by voter registration workers, as well as the murders...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 20. Features an article about recovery of the bodies of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
