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From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center. Carolyn Lane, a registered nurse, is on the far left of the photo.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the courthouse in Clarksdale, Mississippi, taken in September 1964, showing the building from the street. There are several trees around the building and there are cars parked out front.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Zoya Zeman, Carolyn Lane, and friends. It shows Zeman and Lane standing in front of a building with an unidentified man and child in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Carolyn Lane was a registered nurse.

From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. An unknown author relates the stories of two bombings and police misconduct in McComb, Mississippi.

From the Gonzalez (Candy Brown) Freedom Summer Photographs. A photograph of picking cotton in Issaquena County for a penny a pound. Unidentified person emptying a bag of cotton into a truck bed.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and six unidentified African American children taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in September 1964. It shows Lane and the six children sitting in front of a building posing for the picture. Lane was a registered nurse.

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Fidel Castro runs in panic with his pants on fire. The flames are labeled, "Chile's anti-Communist vote." The cartoon caption reads, "Where it hurts!"

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of First Baptist Church, Clarksdale, Mississippi, taken in September 1964. When the photograph was taken, the church was located on 114th Street. The street name and number have since changed to 115 Martin Luther King Boulevard.

cartoon by Eddie Germano; The world is depicted as a short man with latitude and longitude lines on his head and suit. The world is at a store that sells assorted weapons that could cause mass destruction. The storekeeper holds a sign that states,"Super-dooper special, special...The latest thing in destruction." There are various items at the shop,"Newton bombs 15 million or two for...25 million,"Fallout specials for fall,"Missiles while they last,"Death rays! 500 million per dozen, with germs 50% extra,"Fresh bombs just arrived...while they last,"Rockets that glare 5 million...1/2 price without glare,"Day old atom bombs cheap!"Cobalt bombs 25 million each." The world has a worried expression on his face."K" the storedeeper refers to Khrushchev.

From the Gonzalez (Candy Brown) Freedom Summer Photographs. A photograph of Larry Benson sitting on the bag of a truck in Issaquena County, Mississippi.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are smiling for the picture while sitting on the porch of the Ruleville Community Center.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated September 21-22, 1964, on two bombings in Pike County, Mississippi. The home of Alyene Quin and the Society Hill Baptist Church were bombed, and Quin's two young children were injured. Following the bombings, eight people connected to the civil rights movement were arrested and questioned by the police. The report includes Ursula Junk's and Jesse Harris's accounts of their interrogations by the police.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of an unidentified house taken by Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, September 1964. A young African American boy can be seen in the background swinging from the rafters of a shed.

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include an incident of discrimination against a mother and her sick child, Freedom Schools, the Civil Rights Bill, the history of civil rights laws in America, and an analysis of the Hattiesburg American's depiction of the city police department. Reports on the local Freedom libraries and the jail status of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) leaders are also included.

From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. <br>Letter written by Jesse Morris for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and sent to the workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project of 1964. The letter is written on the back of a CODO poster that reads "Now with your hand, pull the lever down." Voting booth levers are labeled Justice, Equality, and Freedom. Also shows chains and three pairs of hands labeled with the names of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964. The first pair of hands is chained, the second is breaking the chain, and the third pair is unchained.