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From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Margaret Hazelton (left) and Zoya Zeman (right) taken in June 1964, after they learned they would be roommates in Clarksdale, Mississippi, for the summer. Hazelton and Zeman were volunteers in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. In an open field, labeled "Plain of jars," are many large jars with wide necks and without lids. Among them is a different type of jar, its lid half off. It is labeled "Jam in S.E. [southeast] Asia" and has hammer and sickle symbols on the label. Uncle Sam is trying to climb out of this jar, but he is being hindered by the stickiness of the jam. The cartoon caption reads, "Sticky problem."

From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In the notecard, Margaret [Burnham?] writes to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi's state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to express her view that the Project is losing its good people. Possible author of this note is Margaret Burnham.

From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) letterhead. The letter responds to a previous letter from Rabbi Ben-Ami.

From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Investigation report from the Sovereignty Commission concerning the disappearance of three civil rights workers (Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney) after they were released from the Neshoba County jail on Sunday, June 21, 1964 at 10:30 p. m.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked across from COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street. The shots were fired at the car during Randall's first night in Hattiesburg at the end of June, 1964.

Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, June 20, 1964. Zwerling notifies his parents of his arrival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and includes his address there. He notes that the community is friendly and that he has yet to experience harassment.

Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 26, 1964. Discusses the positive community response in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, to voter registration drives, and expresses optimism with regard to the lack of violence and police harassment experienced thus far. Zwerling also writes about his concern for Andrew Goodman. (Goodman was a civil rights worker and friend of Zwerling's from New York who was missing and later found murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner.)

From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Bruce Maxwell, in his letter to Ed [Hamlett], expresses his reservations and aspirations for poor whites, African-Americans, and the Freedom Democratic Party in Mississippi.

cartoon by Eddie Germano; Presidential hopefuls Goldwater and Rockefeller jump over their "last major hurdle," the California Primary. The "Oregon" hurdle is shown in the background. Both men are straining to get by to the "GOP convention."

From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from COFO director Robert Moses to contacts and parents of students volunteering in Mississippi. Moses writes of the continuing potential for violence and describes steps taken by COFO to protect Freedom Summer workers.

From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Philip Alden's letter indicates frustration caused by a lack of communication from the White Folks Project (WFP), and by his inability to forward a $50 check for the Project.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Dorie Ladner, an African American civil rights worker, relaxing on the grass during the second Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Orientation Session at Western College for Women; Oxford, Ohio, June 22-27, 1964.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Annie Devine, a Mississippi civil rights activist, seated in an auditorium during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in Oxford, Ohio, at the civil rights summer project training session held June 21-27, 1964. It shows, from left to right, Heidi Dole, Zoya Zeman, and other participants of the project.