Freedom Summer

Background:

During the summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement. Under the direction of the Council of Federated Organizations, the predominantly white students organized health clinics, established "freedom schools" to educate black school children, and sponsored voter registration drives throughout the state. Perhaps most importantly, student volunteers helped to establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which attempted to unseat the state's all-white regular delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Although the Democratic Party ultimately seated Mississippi's regular delegation, the MFDP's bid for recognition raised awareness of voter discrimination in the Deep South and helped secure passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Online Manuscript Resources in Southern Women's History (Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (Emory University))
  • Printed matter: "Freedom Registration," COFO, Jackson, Mississippi, undated (Leaflets)
  • Printed matter: "Mississippi Student Union," COFO, Jackson, Mississippi, undated (Brochures)
  • Printed matter, "Work-Study Project," COFO, Jackson, Mississippi, undated (Brochures)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Madison County (Letters (correspondence))
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a man without a shirt standing on the grass and two men reading beside a tree during a COFO training session for volunteers, Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a woman standing on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a woman wearing sunglasses and standing on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an African American male holding a guitar alongside a white female standing on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an African American minister and an African American female college student talking with a white male during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an African American woman walking on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an unidentified female taking notes while sitting on a sidewalk with an unidentified male during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an unidentified male standing on a sidewalk and smoking a pipe at a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Anthony John O'Brien that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 May 5 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Bob Lines that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Daniel Adam Kline that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Dial Parrott that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Eleanor Beth Moore that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Eleanora Willing Patterson that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Fred V. Martin that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 March 30 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Gibbs Von Kinderman that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Harold Ickes that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Howard Kirschenbaum that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 March 30 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Hulbert Martin that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of James C. Ohls that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Jean Anne Konzen that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Jo Ann Ooiman [sic] that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Joseph Dean Keesecker that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 March 28 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Kenneth Kipnis that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Margaret Ann Kerr that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Michael L. Kogan that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Parrish Kelley that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 March 29 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Paul A. Miller that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 April 24 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Robert Pardun that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Rosa Clay (center), Mrs. Robinson (right) and an unidentified African American woman during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Rosa Clay (right), Mrs. Robinson (center) and an unidentified African American woman during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Sharon Gail Kaplan that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Shirley Jean Littlejohn that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Stephen LaVerne Johnson that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Susan Martin that accompanied her application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Theodore R. Jacqueney that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Tim [sic] Morrison that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 May 4 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of two African American males standing with a white female viewing the contents of box shown by a white male during a COFO training session for volunteers, Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of two men and a woman walking on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white-photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of two women sitting outside on a stone wall during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of two women walking on a sidewalk during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Victoria Gray [sic] standing with a group of men and women and looking at items on the ground during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph taken up close of two women sitting outside on a stone wall during a training session for COFO volunteers in Oxford, Ohio, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
• USM Historical Manuscripts (University of Southern Mississippi)
  • Additional materials which Freedom School and community center workers must bring with them; [n.d.] (Text)
  • Affidavits (Affidavits)
  • African-American child in doorway (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American child in pigtails (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American child with bicycle (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American children in exhibit area (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American man at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American volunteer, close-up (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American volunteer, close-up (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American youths on porch (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • African-American youths on porch (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • After MFDP caucus at St. John United Methodist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • After MFDP meeting (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • After MFDP meeting (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Andrew Wilson speaks to MFDP meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anne Smith at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anne Smith Taylor speaks to MFDP meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anthony Beaulieu by church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anthony Beaulieu on mailbox (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Anthony Harris (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Arthur and Carolyn Reese in meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Arthur and Carolyn Reese with Susan Stokes (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Arthur Reese, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Arthur Reese, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Arthur Reese lectures (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Barbara Schwartzbaum and class outdoors (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Barbara Schwartzbaum and others singing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Beth More and Cynthia Perteet at Freedom School registration (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Beth More at Freedom School registration (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Beth More helps register (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Blalock, Connor, and Patton at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Bob Moses, West Coast Civil Rights Conference; April 23, 1964 (Texts (document genres))
  • Bullet hole in car grille (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Campaign headquarters of Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn and Arthur Reese and others (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn and Arthur Reese at Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn and Arthur Reese, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn and Arthur Reese in front of COFO headquarters (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn Lane and others (Color photographs)
  • Carolyn Reese teaches Freedom School class (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carolyn Reese teaches Freedom School class (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Carrie Houze and others (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Casey Hayden, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Text)
  • Child with minister (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Children and MFDP sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Children at Dahmer fish fry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Children on porch (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Clarence Williams sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Clark sisters (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Clarksdale community center (Color photographs)
  • Clarksdale community center note cards; [n.d.] (Notes)
  • Clarksdale youth meeting flyer (Flyers)
  • Cleaning the yard of the second community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Cleaning up the community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • The Copeland sisters (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Curtis Ducksworth (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Harris (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Demonstration of nonviolent self-defense (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Denise Jackson, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Denise Nicholas, John O'Neal, and Gilbert Moses in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Development of the Mississippi project (Text)
  • Dick Kelly explains voter registration (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Dona Richards Moses, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Dorie Ladner (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Doris Townsend records MFDP vote (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Doug Smith and Clarence Wilson sing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Doug Smith and Sandy Leigh participate in voter registration canvassing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Doug Tuchman at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Dr. Staughton Lynd, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Earline Boyd speaks to MFDP meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Ebony magazine in Freedom School (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Elderly African-American man, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Elnora Knight close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Eric Weinberger in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Essays on Mississippi : America's only police state; December 1964 (Text)
  • Event at Palmers Crossing Community Center (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Event at Palmers Crossing Community Center (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Event at Palmers Crossing Community Center (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Event at Palmers Crossing Community Center (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Exterior view of St. John Methodist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Felix Smith close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Folksinger "Folksy" Joe Harrison (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Folksinger "Folksy" Joe Harrison (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Free Southern Theater performances of "In White America" (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom house in Clarksdale (Color photographs)
  • Freedom house library (1) (Color photographs)
  • Freedom house library (2) (Color photographs)
  • Freedom house library, Clarksdale, Mississippi (Color photographs)
  • Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School class outdoors (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School class outdoors (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School discussion (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School student writing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School students (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School students arrive (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School students speak up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School students typing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom School teacher and students (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom Schools students discuss (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom Summer office in Clarksdale, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom Summer training session, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Freedom Summer worker and an unidentified child (1) (Color photographs)
  • Freedom Summer worker and an unidentified child (2) (Color photographs)
  • Freedom vote ballot (Text)
  • Freeman Lott and others sit and listen (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Gathering at Dahmer fish fry (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Girl claps and sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Girls near MFDP sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Girls with MFDP sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Good times at Freedom School (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Gracie Hawthorne, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Group of African-American women at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Group reading Ebony on the porch (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guidelines for action for parents of New York area students going to Mississippi (Letters (correspondence))
  • Guitar lesson (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guitar lesson (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guitar lesson (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guitar lesson, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Hattiesburg resident, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Henry Lee and Lawrence Dantzler (Black-and-white photographs)
  • House of liberty; [n.d.] (Poems)
  • Information sheet-Project Mississippi (Text)
  • Instruction in nonviolent self-defense (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Jacob Blum hangs a voter registration sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • James Forman addresses volunteers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • James Forman, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Jinny Glass washing face (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Johanna 'Johnnie' Winchester (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Johanna Winchester (Black-and-white photographs)
  • John O'Neal in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Julius Lester performs at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Larry Lee sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lawrence Guyot (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lawrence Spears and child (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lecture for Freedom School teachers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lelyveld leaving hospital (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Letter, Burke Marshall to Israel Zwerling; September 2, 1964 (Letter (correspondence))
  • Letter, Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson; July 8, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Dr. Israel Zwerling to Robert Kennedy; July 13, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter from Robert Moses; [1964] (Texts (document genres))
  • Letter from Robert Moses; [1964] (Texts (document genres))
  • Letter, Jacob K. Javits to Israel Zwerling; November 6, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Jesse Morris (COFO) to workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project; September 14, 1964 (Newsletters)
  • Letter, Jinny Glass to Zoya Zeman; August 15-16, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Kenneth B. Keating to Israel Zwerling; September 5, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling and Sara; June 23, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling and Sara; June 26, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling and Sara; June 30, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 10, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 11, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 17, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 26, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 3, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 5, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; August 6, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 14, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 24, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 28, 1964 (Notes)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 3, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 7, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Ogden R. Reid to Dr. Israel Zwerling; August 5, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Ogden R. Reid to Mrs. Israel Zwerling; May 11, 1965 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Sandra Adickes to Victoria Jackson Gray Adams; January 15, 1990 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Summer project staff to friend; May 18, 1964 (Texts (document genres))
  • Letter, William F. Ryan to Dr. and Mrs. Israel Zwerling; July 13, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, William F. Ryan to Israel Zwerling; August 31, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; July 1, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; July 3, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; July 5, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; July 6, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; March 5, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Zeman family; April 26, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Zeman family; May 23, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Levater Jackson (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Levater Jackson (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Levater Jackson on Mobile Street (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Listening to music (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Local African-American child (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Local African-American girl (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Local African-American man at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Locals in church parking lot (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lorne Cress (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lorne Cress, Bobby Plump, and others (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lorne Cress records MFDP vote (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Lorne Cress singing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • "M to Z" table at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Male volunteer close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Margaret Hazelton and Zoya Zeman, June 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Marion Davidson and children at Palmers Crossing Community Center opening (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mary Stepps sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Matthew Zwerling in Freedom Summer Office, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Meeting at the Green Door Cafe (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Meeting of volunteers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Meeting of volunteers and local activists (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Memo, Bob Moses to Mississippi Summer Project contacts; June 27, 1964 (Texts (document genres))
  • MFDP meeting at St. John United Methodist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • MFDP meeting at St. Paul United Methodist Church, view from altar (Black-and-white photographs)
  • MFDP meeting at St. Paul United Methodist Church, view from rear (Black-and-white photographs)
  • MFDP registration at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party brochure (1) (Brochures)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party brochure (2) (Brochures)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party brochure (3) (Brochures)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) caucus group (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) flyer (Flyers)
  • Mississippi Freedom Project pamphlet (Pamphlets)
  • Mississippi : handbook for political programs; [n.d.] (Books)
  • Mississippi Summer Project - 1964: Report by a student volunteer (Theses)
  • Mississippi summer project; April 28, 1964 (Letters (Correspondence))
  • Mississippi Summer Project pamphlet (Newsletters)
  • Mississippi Summer Project - running summary of incidents (Text)
  • Mississippi workshop flyer (Flyers)
  • Mt. Zion Baptist Church exterior view (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Mt. Zion students (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Outside COFO headquarters (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Owen, Lelyveld, and Spears (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Oxford, Ohio training session, June 1964 (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Oxford, Ohio training session, June 1964 (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Oxford, Ohio training session, June 1964 (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Oxford, Ohio training session, June 1964 (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Oxford, Ohio training session, June 1964 (5) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Palmers Crossing Community Center opening (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Palmers Crossing Community Center opening (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Paperwork at COFO-Hattiesburg Project headquarters (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Participants leave MFDP meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Peggy Jean Connor close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Peggy Jean Connor, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger and Anthony Harris (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger and Freedom School class (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger performs at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger performs at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger performs at the Palmers Crossing Community Center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Pete Seeger plays his guitar for Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Peter Werner on phone (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph from inside of bus, June 27, 1964d (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of a Freedom House dance; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry, police officer and unidentified man (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry's backyard (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of African American boys playing ping-pong on porch in Holly Springs; October 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of African American children playing ping-pong on a porch in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of an African American teenage male at a typewriter; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of back of injured man's head (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Batesville staff; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Bebe, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Bebe, the cook, Batesville, Mississippi; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of civil rights workers in Holly Springs, Mississippi, going to a meeting; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of courthouse in Batesville, Mississippi; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of delivery time at Thomas Sundry; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of "Folksy" Joe Harrison entertaining a group of children (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of four Freedom School students on porch of Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Frank Cieciorka during arrest, August 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Frank Cieciorka during arrest, August 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Frank Cieciorka standing on street in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of freedom poster on chicken house; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Freedom School in Ruleville, Mississipi; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Freedom School students and volunteers; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Gene Erickson working; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of group photograph in the church (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of home with children; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of house in Ruleville; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of "In White America" performance (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of "In White America" performance (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of inside Batesville Community Center; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Jim Forman and local person (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Jim Kates and Geoff Cowan; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Jim Kates and local woman; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Jim Kates, Geoff Cowan, and two local children; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of John Maurer and others; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Kathleen Dahl and Rita Walker; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Kathleen Dahl at desk in Freedom House; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Kathleen Dahl, M.L. Curry, and his sister Rebel standing in front of Kathleen's car; [n.d.] (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Kathleen Dahl playing ping-pong with three African American boys; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Kathy Amatnick in library; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of library at Church of God; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local children (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local children at community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local kid at the carnival (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local kid in "jail"; at carnival (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local kids and Margie Hazelton (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local kids using church library; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teen and David Batzka (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teens and David Batzka (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teens at the community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teens exercising (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teens in Aaron Henry's backyard (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Margie Hazelton, Paul Kendall, and kids (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Marjorie Merrill and two unidentified students in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Marjorie Merrill; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Mat Zwerling and Margie Hazelton (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Mike Smith and two teachers; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Thomason (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Mr. Thomas; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Mrs. Powell and John Maurer; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Mrs. Thomason with kids (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of office of Church of God; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of outside Freedom Office (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Pam Jones and Doug Sorenson; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Patricia Amlin Scudder with dog near sorting of textbooks; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of project director and others; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of railroad station on main square; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of Rev. Rayford's son (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Rita Walker's children, nieces, and nephews standing in front of the COFO Plymouth; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of role playing at Mason's Hall; July 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Sid Walker and others in Freedom House; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of staff meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of staff meeting in Freedom House (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of staff outside church; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of the front of Holly Springs Freedom House, gable end; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of the front of the Holly Springs Freedom House, gable end, view from the street; [n.d.] (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of three African American girls reading book on porch of Freedom House; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of three men building a porch on the second Freedom House; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of three volunteers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of volunteers on porch of freedom house in Holly Springs, Mississippi; July 1964 (Color photographs)
  • Photograph of voter registration canvassing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Wayne Yancey, Charlie Scales, Ruth Koenig, and unidentified woman on Freedom House porch in Holly Springs; October 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of "We shall overcome" (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Position paper (Text)
  • Prospectus for the summer (Prospectuses)
  • Quiet time (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Railroad tracks (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Refurbishing the second community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Registration outdoors (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Relaxing on grass (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Renee McCollum and Cheryl Moore (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Report from the Free Southern Theater (Letters (correspondence))
  • Rest and relaxation (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Reverend Jim Nance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Reverend Jim Nance participates in voter registration canvassing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Roger Johnson and Pete Seeger lead "We shall overcome" (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Ronald Moore and folksinger (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandra Adickes and Curtis Ducksworth (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandra Adickes close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandra Adickes teaches Freedom School class (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh and Gladys Young (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh and Gracie Hawthorne (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh and Lorne Cress at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh at St. John Methodist Church, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh, close-up (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh, Lenelle Vaughn, and others (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh's MFDP lecture (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh's MFDP lecture (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sandy Leigh's MFDP lecture (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • School registration (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sharon Hunter singing and clapping (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing outside Freedom House (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing with onlookers at Dahmer fish fry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • SNCC newsletter (Newsletters)
  • Socializing at Dahmer fish fry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Songs of the Southern freedom movement; [n.d.] (Songs)
  • St. Paul United Methodist Church exterior view (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Standing around the cooler (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Standing by tree (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Staughton Lynd lectures to Freedom School teachers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Stu House and Denise Nicholas in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Stu House in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Student voice, Vol. 4, no. 6 (Newsletters)
  • Student voice, Vol. 5 no. 13 (Newsletters)
  • Student voice, Vol. 5 no. 15 (Newsletters)
  • Student voice, Vol. 5, no. 16 (Newsletters)
  • Susan Tabor in performance (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Sweeping the porch of the second community center (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Talking in St. John parking lot (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Three African-American civil rights activists (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Three children at the community center (Color photographs)
  • Tilton Sullivan and William D. Jones close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Tip of his finger; 19 July 1964 (Sermons)
  • Toddler on porch (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Tractor ride at Dahmer fish fry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Two unidentified Freedom workers (Color photographs)
  • Unidentified man and Lafayette Surney (Color photographs)
  • Unidentified man, Jimmie Lou Tolbert, and Zoya Zeman (Color photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) speaks at MFDP meeting at St. John (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray and Lorne Cress (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray and Sandy Leigh (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray, Sandy Leigh, and Lorne Cress (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteer and local resident singing (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers and Carolyn Reese (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers and locals at Dahmer fish fry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers arrive (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers in Hattiesburg (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers play touch football (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Voter registration canvassing of Hattiesburg woman (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Voter registration meeting (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Voter registration meeting (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Voter registration meeting (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Voter registration meeting (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Wats line digest (Text)
  • William D. Jones and Susan Patterson (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Writing in Freedom School (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Young African-American woman sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Young African-American woman taking notes at MFDP meeting (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Zoya Zeman and Etrulla Trotter (Color photographs)
  • Zoya Zeman and Freedom workers (Color photographs)
  • Zoya Zeman, Carolyn Lane, and friends (Color photographs)
  • Zoya Zeman's Freedom Summer Diary (Diaries)
• USM Oral History (University of Southern Mississippi)
  • Oral history with Dr. Barry Clemson (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Dr. Peter Orris (Oral histories)
  • Oral history with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips. (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Jan Handke (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Joseph E. Wroten (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Fred Winyard (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Larry Rubin (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Rims Barber (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Rims Barber (1995) (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Roger Barnhill (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mrs. Jane M. Schutt (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Ms. Winson Hudson (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Ms. Zoya Zeman (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Sandra Adickes (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Terri Shaw (Transcripts)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a press conference with Bob Moses and James Forman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee about the upcoming Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 (Moving images)

Educator Resources

• Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection (WGBH Educational Foundation)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer (Instructional materials)
  • Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) (Instructional materials)
  • Robert Moses (Instructional materials)

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