usm_crmda_rand0249 rand0249 crmda usm yes Palmers Crossing Community Center opening (2) Randall, Herbert, 1936- Palmers Crossing Community Center (Hattiesburg, Miss.) Civil rights movements Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg Mississippi Freedom Project African American children--Mississippi--Hattiesburg City dwellers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg Johnson, Georgia Stokes, Jimmella Cunningham, Phyllis Ducksworth, Curtis From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Guests at the party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 18, 1964, enjoy refreshments on the grass outside the building. Local resident Georgia Johnson, sitting with her back to the building on the right, is the third person seated from the foreground. Freedom School student Jimmella Stokes sits in the second chair from the left with her back to the camera. Sitting left of center wearing a white flower print dress and leaning backward is volunteer Phyllis Cunningham, State Director of the Freedom Summer Health Clinics. Near her, kneeling on the grass, is Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth. Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Hattiesburg, Miss. : University of Southern Mississippi Libraries University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi) 2001-04-17 Black-and-white photographs http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/manu,6284 Box 2, Folder 9, M351-249, M351 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. Forms part of the Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. 1964-07-18 Palmers Crossing (Miss.) Forrest County (Miss.) Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. 20101221 154823