From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter written by Jesse Morris for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and sent to the workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project of 1964. The letter is written on the back...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This piece of Ku Klux Klan propaganda maintains that civil rights workers are Communists in disguise and that governmental officials are in league with them. An interview with an unnamed official of the KKK...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal discusses the symptoms and needs of civil rights workers who have been on the front lines in the South. The author feels that the shock of civil rights work on individuals would be...
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
Carbon copy of a typewritten letter from Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson, dated August 10, 1964, in which Zwerling appeals to Johnson for justice for murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Zoya Zeman and two unidentified civil rights workers in a Freedom office, taken by Zoya Zeman's father, Dr. Erwin D. Zeman.
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 Zoya Zeman and two unidentified civil rights workers in a Freedom office, taken by Zoya Zeman's father, Dr. Erwin D. Zeman.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Congressman William F. Ryan to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 24, 1964. Ryan relates his efforts to involve the President, Attorney General, and other Federal...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to friends, no date given. Describes events in McComb, Mississippi, including the arrests of several civil rights workers and other acts of...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Betty Garman (Robinson), Northern Coordinator for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to friends of SNCC, campus contacts and others, dated October 27, 1964. ...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of eight workers in front of the boiler shed at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Polish workers" is sitting on a wooden box while lettering political signs. Finished signs on the ground around him read, "Farmers rise up...Workers unite...More...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edwin Edwards and others dressed as blue collar workers are standing in an office with many desks and office workers. The sign above the desks reads, "La. Environmental...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Leonard Woodcock (United Auto Workers) and Henry Ford II (Ford Motor Company) stand in the wings of a proscenium stage. They are dressed as vaudevillians, complete with canes...
A collection of ten 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...