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Broadside- Vote for Aaron Henry
Broadside poster advertising the Freedom Vote. Election campaign for Aaron Henry.
Rodger E. Ownby's Address Information
This is Rodger E. Ownby's address information. This was attached to the his and John C. Stennis letters. Refer to the items "Letter from Rodger Earle Ownby to John C. Stennis" and "Letter from John C. Stennis to Mr. Rodger E. Ownby".
Letter from Rodger Earle Ownby to John C. Stennis
The following is a paper of what Rodger E. Ownby wrote to Senator John C. Stennis. He sent this letter during the event of Freedom Summer. Rodger E. Ownby's letter contains explicit language because during this period, Jim Crow Laws were still in…
Broadside- Vote for Aaron Henry
Broadside poster advertising the Freedom Vote. Election campaign for Aaron Henry.
Poem 34 from the Freedom Summer Poems Collection
The poem was written on butcher paper about a row of shacks in Sylvester, Georgia, that the speaker considers similar to shacks in New York City, New York, and the oppression of African Americans across the nation. The poet wrote mostly in black…
Letter, Mary T. Vandevender to John Stennis, December 16,1964
Mary T. Vendevender's letter to John Stennis expressing the want to move interracial couples North in the 1960's. Vendevender expressed that she wanted to be able to live in peace and harmony again.
Letter from Douglas M. Montgomery to John C. Stennis, January 16, 1964
This is a letter with a letter head belonging to East Central Junior College most commonly known today as East Central Community College located in Decatur, Mississippi, written by Douglas M. Montgomery addressed to Stennis.
The Negro Voter In The South
Booklet of the rights for African American voters in the US South and ways to evade voter suppression. The pages featured here are excerpt from various sections of the book. Page one details African American voting as it stood in 1957. Page 7…
Martin Luther King Jr. Visits Mt. Zion Church
The photo of King Jr. and J.R. "Bud" Cole was taken in 1964 after the attack and murders of three civil rights workers. Cole was an Elder of the Black church and was asked to retell the story of the incident that is now known as the Mississippi Burn.…
Letter from John Stennis to Mr. Rodger E. Ownby
The item is a paper that United States Senator John Stennis sent to citizen Mr. Rodger E. Ownby, who is from Jackson, Mississippi. The contents of the letter are typed, and it contains all of members of the Senate in the upper left hand corner of the…