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From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project, lecturing on the MFDP to Freedom School students in the sanctuary of True Light Baptist Church. He illustrates his lecture by writing on a blackboard: "Why MFDP Challenge. 1. Does not represent people. 2. Does not support National Democratic Party. 3. Unpledged electors. 4. Negroes not fr[ee]?] to ta[ke part?]."

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of voter registration volunteer Johanna 'Johnnie' Winchester (Baltimore, Maryland; a student at Cornell University) reading a piece of paper. In the background is SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of MFDP sign on tree in front of a house on Gravel Line Street where a group of local African-American men and boys have gathered on the porch.

From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph show Bebe, the cook at Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of three men with whom SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project, meets in the Green Door Cafe at 318 Mobile Street near project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street. Winston Fairley is at the right. Leigh's arm is at the left.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of local African-American residents singing probably Freedom Songs at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property at the Kelly Settlement on July 4. In the left foreground is local African-American resident Ulysses Everett, who worked in the Laurel project. On his left is local African-American teenager Sandra Blalock.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a group of Freedom Summer volunteers standing in front of local civil rights leader J.C. Fairley's car, on the bumper of which is a sticker that reads "Register Now." Those identified in the photograph are: Patricia Von Yorck (back to camera), Joseph Ellin (standing across from Von York and wearing glasses), Bob "Soda Pop" Ehrenreich (right of Von Yorck, wearing glasses and a hat), and Terri Shaw (in between Ellin and Ehrenreich). Behind them is a car and house owned by the Beard family and a group of local people standing in the front yard. This photograph was taken at a fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1964. The event marked the official beginning of Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of local African-American teenagers Peter Wilson and David Otis Wilson singing and clapping their hands in a group outdoors.

From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Pam Jones and Doug Sorenson sitting in the back seat of an automobile.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project, (left) siting at a table in front of the altar with a local African-American man during an MFDP meeting in the sanctuary of St. Paul United Methodist Church. Standing to their left is volunteer Lorne Cress (Chicago, Illinois) Director of the Community Centers in the Hattiesburg project). Seated in front of her is local civil rights leader Peggy Jean Connor.

From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Strickland writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), that she will arrive in Jackson on July 17 in time to attend the orientation that weekend.

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.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of folksinger 'Folksy' Joe (Joseph Decker) Harrison (Ann Arbor, Michigan; a student at the University of Michigan) playing his guitar and singing for children and adults at the party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center on July 18. One of the boys sitting on the floor listening is John Arthur Perry. Volunteer Lorne Cress (Chicago, Illinois), Director of the project's Community Centers, stands wearing plaid slacks in the right background.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Gwendolyn Merritt. Contains the resolutions of the Priest Creek Precinct meeting as well as a brief essay on the Freedom Movement and the Black Muslims. Also included is a Freedom School spelling test.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of two men, one African-American, one Caucasian, probably visiting ministers with the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, explain voter registration procedures to an African-American female resident on her front porch.