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Broadside poster advertising the Freedom Vote. Election campaign for Aaron Henry.

Broadside poster advertising the Freedom Vote. Election campaign for Aaron Henry.

Letter from Aaron Henry, Robert Moses, and Reverend R. L. T. Smith about voting in Mississippi

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.…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…