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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…

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".

Poster: It briefly describes the purpose of a hearing that will take place. The purpose of this hearing is the violence that has occurred in Mississippi due to Freedom Summer black voter registration.

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…

Black & White photograph of the dam site where 3 civil rights activists were buried. Copy of FBI photo by a People Magazine photographer. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in the summer of 1964 and their bodies were…

Paper/essay on the reasoning for a hearing being held in Washington D.C. in 1964. The paper discusses the violent response seen in Mississippi because of the voter registration drives for black Americans. The paper comments on the need for action to…

The item is a pamphlet that is folded into 8 sections including a title page. Text is placed on the front and back of each section. It includes images of members of the Mississippi Summer Project. The goal of the object is to detail the goals,…

This pamphlet is a three panel front and back pamphlet educating Mississippi citizens on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's (MFDP) goal to make sure there is proper representation at the…

Printed news release for the Voter Education Project outlining 64 acts of intimidation and violence against African Americans in Mississippi since 1961. The Voter Education project attempted to provide a detailed list of the most egregious acts of…

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.…