M357 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Brochure describing the mission and motivations of the James E. Chaney Institute of Laurel, Mississippi, incorporated in 1993. Includes biographical information on James Earl Chaney and defines the organizational goals.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House to friends and former workers. Included are accounts of recent arrests, cross burnings, school integration attempts, and other news. Also includes a list of workers present in Holly Springs at that time.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three unidentified African American boys playing ping-pong on porch in Holly Springs. This is probably the porch of the second Holly Springs Freedom House at 110 Rust Avenue.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from SNCC Northern Campus Coordinator Jon Else to returned Freedom Summer volunteers, dated November 3, 1964. Else discusses the Freedom Vote of November 1964, the October incident summary, and the Fast for Freedom.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Bob Smith, U. Z. Nunnally, Annanais McGhee (seated in the background), Howard Jeffries and Barbara Bloomfield on their way to a meeting. Nunnally, McGhee and Jeffries were residents of Holly Springs; all were volunteers in the Mississippi Freedom Project.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of four Rust College students standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Civil rights posters and posters of the Johnson/Humphrey 1964 presidential campaign are attached to the house.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of three African American girls reading a book on the porch of the second Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker asks Dahl to send clothes and food to Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes about civil rights workers U.Z. (Nunnally), Howard (Jeffries) and Aviva (Futorian). She also discusses local voter registration efforts and work shared with her husband, Bud, to organize welfare and Social Security for the people of Holly Springs.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Fundraising letter with accompanying television transcript dated April 24[?], 1967. The letter and transcript are about the legal difficulties of the Louisiana-based Southern Consumers' Education Foundation, a group involved in cooperative farm marketing. The transcript is a response to a report on April 18, 1967 on television Channel 3; it addresses events in 1966 and 1967 that are characterized as harassment and a series of articles published in The Daily Advertiser.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Hardy Frye (far left in overalls) speaking with Henry Aronson during a voter registration demonstration in downtown Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page fund raising letter by James Baldwin addressed to Friends. Baldwin, an African-American novelist/activist in the 1960s, asks the public to support the Freedom Summer volunteers already working in and still coming to Mississippi. The letter mentions that three young people "have disappeared"(presumably James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman). A photographic image shows Freedom Summer volunteers in an auditorium.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Mississippi license plate 47B491 issued by Marshall County (Miss.) showing an expiration date of October 1964.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Bench warrant signed by R.E. Greene for the arrest of Frank Cieciorka, who was charged with defacing the Marshall County jail. Cieciorka was actively involved in other aspects of Freedom Summer: he participated in voter registration, created publicity artwork, taught, and wrote newsletters for the Holly Springs project.

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information. Discusses upcoming visit from Dahl and that many Holly Springs people have relocated to Illinois. She writes that Hardy [Frye] had been to Memphis but not to Holly Springs, saying he was "threw [sic] with them people."

From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Elinor Lerner on the letterhead of COFO in Vicksburg, Mississippi, explains that teachers in Warren County, Mississippi, do not need a donation of used textbooks and that the library attached to the Freedom School in Vicksburg has a large enough quantity of used textbooks. Lerner mentions boycotts and the setting up of Freedom Schools in Sharkey and Issaquena Counties. She discusses after-school programs in development and the need for funds and help from community groups to convert unused building space into study and reading areas.