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Freedom summer digital collection

Selected materials from more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1964

Subject
Mississippi Freedom Project
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
College students--Political activity--Mississippi

Location
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036

Medium
web sites

Type
Interactive Resource

Description
Selected materials from more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Materials include official records of organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the personal papers of movement leaders and activists; and letters and diaries of northern college students who went South to volunteer for the summer. Other materials include newsletters produced in freedom schools, racist propaganda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, magazine articles, telephone call logs, candid snapshots, internal memos, and press releases.

Metadata URL
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15932coll2

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Wisconsin Historical Society

Rights