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Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as a teacher in the Freedom Schools, the students, local African Americans, and other volunteers in Hattiesburg. Highlights include her comments on integrating the public library with a group of African-American youths, being refused service at the Kress lunch counter, and her subsequent arrest. The journal is preceded by a prologue that was written later.

From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Sandra Adickes to Ella Baker, dated April 2, 1971. Adickes discusses the outcome of a lawsuit she filed against S.H. Kress and Company, and her desire to give her portion of the settlement to the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She specifies that Jimmella Stokes, an African American from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, should receive a portion of the money for her education.

From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Sandra Adickes to Victoria Jackson Gray Adams dated January 15, 1990. Adickes discusses her fond memories of Addie Mae Jackson, who was her host in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. She writes of her family, career and the 25th reunion of Freedom Summer volunteers held at Queens College in 1989.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in Mississippi Freedom Schools. Dr. Adickes lobbied, raised funds, solicited book contributions, and recruited teachers. She taught in a freedom school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for a six-week session, and she accompanied some of her students in an effort to integrate Hattiesburg's public library. After being refused service at a Kress store because she was with an African-American, she was arrested and charged with vagrancy. Later, she sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and won a cash settlement, which was dispersed for education to people who had been active in the civil rights movement.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in Mississippi Freedom Schools. Dr. Adickes lobbied, raised funds, solicited book contributions, and recruited teachers. She taught in a freedom school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for a six-week session, and she accompanied some of her students in an effort to integrate Hattiesburg's public library. After being refused service at a Kress store because she was with an African American, she was arrested and charged with vagrancy. Later, she sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and won a cash settlement, which was dispersed for education to people who had been active in the civil rights movement.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in Mississippi Freedom Schools. Dr. Adickes lobbied, raised funds, solicited book contributions, and recruited teachers. She taught in a freedom school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for a six-week session, and she accompanied some of her students in an effort to integrate Hattiesburg's public library. After being refused service at a Kress store because she was with an African American, she was arrested and charged with vagrancy. Later, she sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and won a cash settlement, which was dispersed for education to people who had been active in the civil rights movement.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in Mississippi Freedom Schools. Dr. Adickes lobbied, raised funds, solicited book contributions, and recruited teachers. She taught in a freedom school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for a six-week session, and she accompanied some of her students in an effort to integrate Hattiesburg's public library. After being refused service at a Kress store because she was with an African American, she was arrested and charged with vagrancy. Later, she sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and won a cash settlement, which was dispersed for education to people who had been active in the civil rights movement.

Oral history.; Transcript for interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in Mississippi Freedom Schools. Dr. Adickes lobbied, raised funds, solicited book contributions, and recruited teachers. She taught in a freedom school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for a six-week session, and she accompanied some of her students in an effort to integrate Hattiesburg's public library. After being refused service at a Kress store because she was with an African-American, she was arrested and charged with vagrancy. Later, she sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and won a cash settlement, which was dispersed for education to people who had been active in the civil rights movement.