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From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 5; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated August 30, 1965. Includes an article about the beginning of the Madison County Sewing Co-op, near Jackson, Mississippi, as well as an account of the first membership meeting of the Poor Peoples' Corporation. Also includes a report on civil rights demonstrations in Ft. Deposit, Alabama, and an article by Howard Zinn on the stance of civil rights workers with regard to the war in Vietnam.

Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the political process. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and county precincts are discussed, and the author expresses admiration of local activist Victoria Jackson Gray, MFDP candidate for the U.S. Senate.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An assessment of statistics on education, housing, income and employment, and health care issues in the southern United States during the 1960s, with special emphasis on Mississippi. The relationships between jobs, income, and education are discussed, as well as changes in demographics in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Washington, D.C., office of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Northern supporters and committees on challenge, sent in an attempt to organize the conference on the Congressional Challenge. Names groups supporting the Challenge and concludes with a brief questionnaire for information on participants.

Transcribed copy of a statement, presumably written by a Freedom School teacher, dated July 9, 1964. Discusses the teaching methods used in Freedom Schools, particularly using the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to demonstrate the importance of voting.

Photocopy of a one-page typed letter written on August 11 and 12, 1964 by Joe Ellin. It discusses the status of the Freedom Library and fund-raising efforts by Harry Belafonte to provide college education for African-Americans. The All-State Freedom School Convention in Meridian, Mississippi is described, and Joe indicates plans for a trip to a "librarians' convention" in Greenville, MS.

Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, Priest's Creek Missionary Baptist Church Study Center, and True Light Baptist Church (branch not open) are described. Ellin makes suggestions for new libraries, including the use of an adapted Dewey Decimal System, inter-library exchange, and the retention of books.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter entitled "The Voice of the Movement," distributed by the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, branch of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), dated August 17, 1964. Volume 1, Issue 12 discusses various incidents occurring within the Fifth Congressional District, including the removal of an African-American woman from a city bus after she refused to move to the back of the bus at the request of the bus driver. Another incident involved the arrest of three COFO workers who were arrested while picketing and charged with interfering with an officer.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of nine bills signed into law by Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman. The list was compiled to show Coleman's support of racist policies as demonstrated by his passage of bills ensuring racial segregation in public schools, laws designed to impede the efforts of organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and his support of the State Sovereignty Commission, among other discriminatory policies.

Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his fellow volunteers and civil rights workers and some of their activities. He discusses the preparations he and Nancy must make before driving into Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and gives a bit of his preliminary knowledge of the area.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) describing the political and economic situation in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Includes a summary of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in 1966 regarding municipal elections in Sunflower County, as well as a description of the MFDP plan to run candidates for local offices. A brief section is dedicated to the Sunflower County poverty program.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Summary of acts of violence and intimidation against African Americans and civil rights workers that occurred in Mississippi in October 1964. Includes the date, location, and brief description of each incident. Arrests, assaults, cross burnings, police misconduct, and other acts of intimidation are included in the report.

Photocopy of a two-page typed letter written to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] by Nancy and Joe Ellin on Thursday, July 9, [1964]. Freedom Schools, problems experienced by colleagues, and teaching experiences are topics discussed in the letter.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) describing the progress made in Sunflower County, Mississippi, with regard to the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to nullify the municipal elections of the previous year. Also discusses the poverty program, federal registers, federal protection for African-American political activists, Congressional campaigns, and the MFDP candidates' contest of Mississippi Code Section 3129.

Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a booklet containing excerpts from and interpretations of the following documents: the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, a speech by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, a speech by Blanche K. Bruce, resolutions from the court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, the Civil Rights Law of 1964, and the Mississippi Constitution.