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Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964

1964
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BOX 1

Folder 1: Berea College and the training of the civil rights workers. (one report)

• Berea College in Kentucky was originally to host the training of the civil rights workers. We have asked Steve Gowler, Archivist of Berea's Special Collections, to help us understand why the college opted not to allow the use of its campus. In this folder, Mr. Gowler gives us answers from various sources in his collection. (two pages)

Folder 2: Western prepares for the volunteers: May 5, 1964 - June 5, 1964

• May 5, 1964 - Memo from President Young to Mr. Keebler concerning a special student conference in June on the Western Campus
• May 7, 1964 - Memo from President Herrick Young asking three faculty members to meet with him and Mr. Bruce Young concerning the June 15-30 student conference at Western
• May 11, 1964 - Memo from President Young concerning the vacating of a room for all available space was needed for the conference
• May 13, 1964 - Memo from President Young stating the conference will now possibly be June 11-29
• May 25, 1964 - Memo from President Young confirming the June conference schedule: June 12- 27
• June 5, 1964 - President Young's letter to Bruce Hanson asking for more information on the coming conference

Folder 3: Western after the conference: June 26, 1964-July 22, 1964

• Photograph of John Doar and volunteer
• Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation (Two Pages)
• June 26, 1964 - Letter to Rev. Bruce Hanson from President Young concerning the conference. It includes the damage done to rugs and furniture and replacing missing couch cushions.
• Letter to Frank from Herrick B. Young, undated
• July 22, 1964 - Phillip F. Myers, Assistant to the President, replies in President Young's absence to an undated letter in the file thanking Western for helping host the conference

Folder 4: Volunteers and Sponsors (partial list)

• List (Three pages)

Folder 5: Mississippi Freedom Summer Project - photos (14 copies)

• 11 pages of copies of photographs taken by George R. Hoxie

Folder 6: Miscellaneous information

• Western College Alumnae Association Note from Jean Perry Archivist on Box Contents
• Letter to Earl Carter from Jean Perry, November 16, 1987
• “Freedom Summer 1964,” High Street Journal, December 2, 1999
• “Oxford to Honor 1964 civil-rights martyrs,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, June 20, 1994
• Copy of E-mail to jwaldron@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, from carolh@earlham.edu, Subject: Books, Tuesday, August 30, 1994; Copy of E-mail to Judy Waldron from Carol M. Hunter, Subject: RE: Freedom Summer Project, Tuesday, October 1, 1996

Folder 7: Miscellaneous information

• Copy of “The Stranger is the Enemy,” The Washington Post, Sunday, August 16, 1964
• “Civil Rights Demonstration Orientation Program Being Held at Western College in Nearby Oxford,” Journal and Daily News, Tuesday, June 16, 1964
• “Volunteers are Lauded, Warned,” Article
• Photograph from Freedom Summer Article (copy)
• “What’s wrong with Cities?” The Washington Post, Sunday, August 16, 1964
• “Two Oxfords,” The Oxford Press, 6/25/64

Folder 8: Alumnae correspondence (reaction to the use of the college from the Freedom Summer training)

• Letter to Alumnae secretary
• Letter to Berenice, October 8 (two copies)
• Letter to Mrs. from Mary Louise Charles, July 31, 1964
• Thank you note (two copies)
• Letter to Madam June 22, 1964 (two copies)
• July 2, 1964 Letter from Herrick B. Young
• Letter to Mrs. Binder from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, 7/7/64
• Letter to Dr. Young, September 18 (two copies)
• Letter to Mrs. Stegall, June 21, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Nichols from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, July 10, 1964 (two copies)
• July 14, 1964 Letter (two copies)
• Letter to Margaret, June 27, 1964 (two copies)
• Letter from Herrick B. Young, July 1, 1964
• Letter from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, July 7, 1964
• Letter to Alumnae Office
• Western College Inter-office communication to Alumnae Office from Phyllis Hoyt, 6/29/64 (two copies)
• June 24, 1964 Letter (two copies)
• Letter to Berenice, June 30, 1964
• “Into Jaws of Hate and Fear Ride 200” article (two copies)
• Letter to Berinice, June 25, 1964
• Letter to Whom it may concern, June 30, 1964 (Two pages)
• Letter to Mrs. from Herrick B. Young, 7/2/64
• Letter to Mrs. from Berenice Stegall, July 8, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. from Herrick B. Young, July 2, 1964

Folder 9: Alumnae correspondence (reaction to the use of the college from the Freedom Summer training)

• “Sending Troops Into Mississippi Solves Nothing,” Article with Other Article
• Letter from Alumnae Development Committee, June 25 (two copies)
• P.S. July 1, 1964 from Berenice Stegall
• Letter to Gentlemen to Western College Alumnae Development Fund (two copies)
• Letter to Alumnae Office, June 29, 1964 (two copies)
• Letter to Murl, Berenice, and Mary Louise (two copies)
• 7/6/64 Letter (two copies)
• Page Two of Letter from Mary Louise Charles
• August 21, 1964 Letter from Mrs. Berenice Stegall (two copies)
• Letter undated
• July 15, 1964 letter to Mrs. Stegall (two copies)
• Letter to President Young (two copies)
• Letter to Alumnae Office, June 29, 1964 (two copies)
• Letter from Herrick B. Young, 7/2/64 (two copies)
• Letter from Berenice Stegall, 7/2/64 (two copies)
• 6/29 Letter (two copies)
• Letter to Miss Hoyt, 7/29/64 (two copies)
• June 24, 1964 Letter
• Letter to Western College Alumnae Development Fund, July 4, 1964
• Letter to Berinice, June 25, 1964 (two copies)
• Letter to Berenice
• Letter from Berenice Stegall, 10/8/64
• Letter to Western College Bulletin, August 23, 1964 (two copies)
• Letter to Mrs. Berenice Stegall, 9/2/64
• Letter to Alumnae Office, June 29, 1964

Folder 10: Fall, 1964, Western Trustees' opinion on the use of the Western campus in the future training of the civil rights workers (copied from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Fall 1964)

• Statement on the Civil Rights Conference, from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Fall 1964

Folder 10A: "College to Trains Rights Workers: Kentucky School Will Orient Students Going South", The New York Times, May 3, 1964

• Letter to Friends of the Mississippi Project June 28, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from James W. King, July 6, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Bishop William Crittenden, Episcopal Diocese, Erie Pennsylvania, July 7, 1964
• Letter to President Herrick Young from Sidney T. Swan, July 13, 1964
• Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project Bulletin, July 14, 1964
• Letter to Isabel R. Abbott to Marian Robinson, July 16, 1964;Letter from Marian Robinson to Phyllis Hoyt, July 12, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Paul Lindsay, July 20, 1964
• Memo to Phyllis Hoyt from Brank F, July 23, 1964;Newsletter from Freedom Schools, July 16, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. J. Earl Bailey from Phyllis Hoyt, August 5, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Bill Hawley, August 17, 1964
• Note to Phyllis Hoyt from Berenice Davis Stegall (no date); Letter to Western Administrators from Mary M. and
Fred A. Dewey
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Cary (last name not listed(August 24, 1964)
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Gene Bookman DeSeberer, August 25, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Sara Lee, (August 27,1964)
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Mary Jane Sew, August 31, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Gay Hadley, August 31, 1964
• "A Psychiatrist's Report: The Impact of Project Freedom On Mississippi, The Boston Sunday Herald, September 6, 1964 by Dr. Robert Coles,Editorial
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Mrs. Jack H. Fuller, September 8, 1964; Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Ms. S. Fuller
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Mrs. Paul Revere, Jr. Labor Day, 1964
• Letter to Margaret C. McHolme from Phyllis Hoyt, September 18, 1964;Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Peggy McHolme
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from J. Carl Bailey, September 24, 1964
• Letter to Fletcher Coates from William H. Maness, September 30, 1964
• "A Volunteer Looks Hard at Mississippi", Pacific Churhman, August-September, 1964
• Letter to Stephen Bingham from Phyllis Hoyt, October 6, 1964
• Letter to Fletcher Coates from Phyllis Hoyt, October 7, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from William A. Slater, October 8, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from B. Stegall, October 9, 1964
• "The Mississippi Venture", The Sabbath Recorder, October 12, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from William H. Maness, October 15, 1964
• Memo to President Young to Dean Abbott, October 20, 1964;Memo to the Board of Trustees, Western College for Women, September 24, 1964
• Letter to Class of 1947 from Emily Greenland, October 29, 1964
• "Straws in the Wind", The Bible Advocate, November 12, 1964/October 19, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Leon M. Maltby, November 18, 1964
• Letter to Leon M. Maltby from Phyllis Hoyt, December 16, 1964
• Memo to Sharon Gowdy, Fran Hoffman, Reynalda Ware, Nancy Babcock, Peggy Budington from Phyllis Hoyt, March 23, 1965;Memo to Phyllis Hoyt, March 22, 1965
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Constance L. Gingrich, June 19, 1966
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Carolyn Lindquist, July 8, 2000
• Flier from NSA Board, Funding for Participation in March to Montgomery, Alabama undated (2 copies)
• Flier from NSA Board Funding for Student Demonstrations in Montgomery, Alabama
• Note to Phyllis Hoyt from Dick Monaco, Undated

Folder 11: "Mississippi Burning" Trial (U.S. vs. Price et al.), 1967

• “Biographies of Key Participants in the Mississippi Burning Trial” Web page
• “Judge William Harold Cox” Biography
• “Delmar Dennis” Biography
• “James Jordan” Biography
• “John Proctor” Biography
• “Joseph Sullivan” Biography
• “John Michael Doar” Biography
• “Sam Bowers” Biography
• “Edgar Ray Killen” Biography
• “Wayne Roberts” Biography
• “Sheriff Lawrence Rainey” Biography
• “Cecil Price” Biography
• “Michael Schwerner” Biography
• “Andrew Goodman” Biography
• “James Chaney” Biography

Folder 12: “Mississippi Burning" Trial (U.S. vs. Price et al.), 1967

• “U.S. vs. Cecil Price et. Al Photograph
• “Chronology of the trial”
• “The Verdict”
• "A Trial Account" by Douglas O. Linder
• "Bending Toward Justice: John Doar and the Mississippi Burning Trial" by Douglas O. Linder

Folder 13: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Commemoration, 1989

• “Gregory to speak at Miami,” Columbus Call and Post, March 30, 1989
• Article on Dick Gregory, Press Intelligence, Inc. April 1, 1989
• “Gregory asserts need for change,” Pottsville Republican, Pottsville, PA, April 1, 1989
• “People,” Jefferson City, Mo. Post-Tribune, April 2, 1989
• “Get up, stand up, stand up for your right,” April 3, 1989
• “Gregory Stresses Courage of ‘Mississippi Project’,” The Oxford Press, 4/6/89
• “Mississippi Summer vets to reunite in Oxford,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, date unknown
• “Miami should embrace its ‘Freedom Summer’ heritage,” Journal-News, Sunday, November 29, 1998
• "Mississippi Summer vets to reunite in Oxford

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Folder 14: Articles

• Separation Sheet from The Smith Library, Oxford, Ohio, 4/19/90
• “Black history at Miami… University had key role in movements,” The Miami Student, Friday, February 16, 1996

Folder 15: Memorial dedicated in April 2000

• “Mississippi and Freedom Summer,” Friday, October 27, 2000 (three pages)
• “Dedication omission ‘unjust, unfair’” The Oxford Press
• “Miami dedicates civil rights memorial,” The Middletown Journal, Saturday, April 8, 2000
• Fax cover sheet April 6, 2000 and letter dated April 7, 2000 to Miami and Oxford Communities from the Office of Congressman, John Lewis
• Fax cover sheet from Tammy Boyd to Karen White, the Office of Congressman John Lewis, April 6, 2000
• Remarks from Joe Cox at dedication, Associate Provost, Miami University, April 7, 2000
• Fax to Ms. White from Dr. Carolyn Goodman, April 7, 2000
• Fax of Dedication Ceremony Program, April 7, 2000
• Invitation from President Garland to Freedom Summer Memorial Dedication, April 7, 2000 and invitation card to lectures Wednesday and Thursday, April 5 and 6, 2000
• Copy of “Nota Bene” from The Bulletin, p. 38 undated
• Tentative Schedule for Wil Haygood, Donald C. Faber Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, April 2000
• Mississippi Summer Project Memorial Miami University copy of watercolor
• Fax of Paperweight Measurement
• Copy of photo proofs from the April 7, 2007 dedication ceremony (two pages)
• Copy of Appendix D: Mississippi Summer Project Running Summary of Incidents
• Friends of the Mississippi Project Listing of Depositors (two pages)
• Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project, listing of who deposited and how much
• Oxford Community Sponsors of Mississippi Summer Project Volunteers List
• List of Addresses of SNCC Conference Participants, (four pages)
• List of Congressmen addresses
• Page of Notes
• List of Addresses, (six pages)

Folder 16: Summer of ’64 Volunteers’ Memories

• Ellen Barnes Journal, a Miami graduate student in Political Science, was doing her master's thesis on nonviolence and had permission to spend the week of June 14 - 20, 1964 training with the civil rights workersat Western College, Oxford, Ohio. (four copies)

• Eleanor Aurthur - Mrs. Aurthur visited the Western College Memorial Archives. She was traveling the same route she took in 1964 to Oxford and Mississippi. She hopes to write a novel about the Freedom Summer.

o Short biographical sketch explaining how she became a volunteer.
o E-mail to Western Archives from Elinor Aurthur, September 3, 2000
o E-mail to Elinor Aurthur from Western Archives, Isaac Bloom, 9/5/00

Folder 17: Newspaper/magazine Articles

• “Oxford to Honor 1964 civil-rights martyrs,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, June 20, 1994
• “‘Ultimate sacrifice’ 3 martyrs for civil rights,” June 22, 1994 Cleveland Plain Dealer
• “FBI sent Mafia after KKK, paper says,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 22, 1994
• “Hopes” article continued from page A1, Thursday, February 20, 1997
• “To the Editor” Oxford Press, July 30, 1964
• Miami University Report, “Dedication for NAACP/Miami memorial to be....” article
• “Memorial honors civil rights,” by Sarah Pechan
• “Freedom Summer dispute not for all NAACP members,” article by Camilla Hewson Flintermann, Oxford, Ohio
• “Letters to the editor,” Oxford Press, undated
• “Ultimate sacrifice... monument sought for martyrs of movement,” by Randy McNutt, The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 8, 1999 (two copies)
• “Activists seek memorial for civil rights workers,” Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Oh, February 9, 1999
• “Activists pursue monument for ‘Mississippi Burning’ victims,” Journal-News, Wednesday, February 10, 1999
• “Money sought to honor activists,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 22, 1999
• “Civil rights workers honored,” The Independent, Massillon, Ohio, February 26, 1999
• “Miami to build memorial to activists,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 26, 1999
• “Dead activists to get monument,” Dayton Daily News, February 26, 1999
• Internet printout of “Miami to build memorial to slain activists,” by Randy McNutt, the Cincinnati Enquirer, February 26, 1999
• Internet printout of “Monument sought for slain civil rights workers,” by Randy McNutt, the Cincinnati Enquirer, February 8, 1999 (three pages)
• “Memorial: Civil rights heroes,” March 1, 1999, The Cincinnati Enquirer; “Memorial to civil rights workers planned,” The Cincinnati Post, February 26, 1999; “Miami honors slain rights workers,” article by France Griggs (three copies)
• “Miami U. plans memorial,” Fairborn Daily Herald, February 27, 1999
• “Memorial to honor civil-rights history,” The Columbus Dispatch, February 27, 1999
• “Oxford’s civil rights role worth remembering,” Journal-News, February 28, 1999
• “NAACP/Miami University Memorial to Commemorate Civil Rights Activists,” The Columbus Post, March 11, 1999
• “NAACP, Miami honor slain civil rights workers,” The Cincinnati Herald, March 6-12, 1999 (two copies)
• “Memorial will honor slain civil rights workers,” The Cincinnati Post, May 5, 1999
• “NAACP/Miami Freedom Summer memorial gets go-ahead,” Article
• “Freedom Summer ’64 Memorial,” from Fall 1999
• “Groundbreaking for NAACP/Miami Memorial,” 7 October 1999
• The Miami University Report, vol. 19, no. 12, “Groundbreaking for NAACP/Miami memorial,” October 14, 1999 (two copies)
• “Miami to remember slain activists,” October 18, 1999 article
• “Memorial,” The Cincinnati Post, October 18, 1999
• “Miami University to create memorial to 1960s activists,” News Messenger, Fremont, Ohio, October 18, 1999; “Miami U to create memorial,” Star Beacon Ashtabula, Ohio, October 18, 1999
• “Miami University to create memorial to 1960s activists,” Portsmouth Daily Times, October 18, 1999; “University to create memorial to activists,” October 18, 1999 Daily Sentinel, Pomeroy, Ohio
• “Miami University to create memorial,” Wilmington News-Journal, October 18, 1999; “Miami U. plan memorial for activists,” Times Reporter, New Philadelphia, Ohio, October 18, 1999 (two copies)
• “Miami University to build memorial,” October 18, 1999 article
• “Civil rights memorial to be built at Miami University,” 10/20/99
• “Ohio Memorial to honor activists killed in South in 1964,” Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 10/26/99
• “Memorial to activists going up at Miami,” The Cincinnati Post, October 27, 1999
• “Miami to erect memorial in activists’ memory,” 10/26/99, 10/27/99
• “Civil rights activists honored,” Times Leader, Martins Ferry, Ohio, October 27, 1999
• “Ohio memorial to honor activists killed in South in 1964,” Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, October 27, 1999
• “Miami breaks ground on memorial to activists,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, October 27, 1999
• “Miami to erect memorial in activists’ memory,” Marysville, Ohio Journal-Tribune, October 27, 1999
• “Memorial will honor slain students,” Journal-News, October 27, 1999 (two copies)
• “Groundbreaking for NAACP/Miami memorial,” Article

Folder 18: Newspaper/magazine Articles

• “Memorial ground-breaking,” October 28, 1999 Wapakoneta Daily News
• “Miami to erect memorial to activists,” Fairborn Daily Herald, October 28, 1999
• “Groundbreaking for NAACP Miami Memorial,” The Dayton Weekly News, November 4, 1999
• “NAACP/Miami memorial groundbreaking,” Miami Report, 11/4/99
• “Groundbreaking for NAACP/Miami Memorial,” Daily Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1999
• “‘I am Miami,’ New recruitment effort targets multicultural students,” November 11, 1999, Columbus, Ohio Call & Post
• “New recruitment effort targets multicultural students,” Call & Post, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1999
• Miami Report, 3/9/2000 article
• “Dedication for NAACP/Miami memorial,” Call & Post, Columbus, Ohio, March 30, 2000 (two copies)
• “Dedication for NAACP/Miami memorial to be April 7,” The Miami University Report, 3/30/2000
• Article, Crisis, March/April 2000
• “Civil Rights Memorialized,” article
• “U.S. Rep. Lewis to speak at Miami,” Journal-News, Wednesday, April 5, 2000 (two copies)
• “Headline: Across the USA News from every state,” USA Today, April 5, 2000 (two copies)
• “Miami U to memorialize slain activists,” The Middletown Journal, April 5, 20000
• “Civil Rights memorial to be dedicated Friday,” Marion Star, Marion, Ohio, April 5, 2000; “School to open civil rights memorial,” Lima News, Lima, Ohio, April 5, 2000
• “Civil rights memorial to be dedicated at Miami U.,” News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, April 5, 2000; “Civil rights memorial to be dedicated,” Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, April 5, 2000
• “Writer discusses travels,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 6, 2000
• “Lewis forced to cancel appearance at MU,” Journal-News, April 7, 2000 (four copies)
• “Speaker cancels, ceremony will go on,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 7, 2000 (four copies)
• “Miami stones honor activists of rights struggle,” Dayton Daily News, April 7, 2000 (Two pages, two copies)
• “Memorial honors activists,” Journal-News, April 8, 2000 (Three copies)
• “Missing, murdered, and now remembered,” Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), April 8, 2000 (two copies)
• “Memorial dedicated,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 8, 2000 (Three copies)
• “Miami dedicates civil rights memorial,” The Middletown Journal, April 8, 2000
• “Memorial dedicated,” The Courier, Findlay, Ohio, April 8, 2000
• “Civil Rights Memorial,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2000
• “NAACP president says organization ‘used’ by Miami,” The Oxford Press, May 4, 2000 (two copies)
• “Miami cannot speak for NAACP Branch,” The Oxford Press, May 4, 2000 (Two copies)
• “Editorial: Secret’s out about Oxford’s role in Freedom Summer ’64,” The Oxford Press, printout (Two pages)
• “Memorial recalls ‘Freedom Summer’ by Kevin M. Kalish for the Oxford Press
• “A summer to remember,” article photograph with caption (four copies)
• “Memorial recalls ‘Freedom Summer,’” The Oxford Press, April 13, 2000 (two pages)
• “Donations,” Unidentified article fragment
• “Journey to Mississippi” Article

Folder 19: Notes from Freedom Summer Training, 1965-

• Copy of Jane Adams, Notes from Freedom Summer Training: Oxford, Ohio June 17-26, 1964 , 2004

BOX 2

Folder 1: Virginia Steele Papers, 1965-2007

• Memo, Virginia Steele to library workers; August 7, 1964
• “A Summer in Mississippi, Freedom Worker Reports,” The Morgantown Post, September 15, 1964
• Page of “Remembrances of Virginia Steele 11/04/22-9/09/06
• Letter to Ms. Mary Morgan from Lisa Anderson Todd, December 26, 2006 (two pages) with color photograph July 1994, Mississippi, l to r: Virginia Steele, Lisa Anderson Todd, Nancy (“Shanny”) Schieffelin, Candy Brown, Pat Vail, and Barbara Mutnick, with envelope (four pages)

Folder 2: Articles, Papers, Correspondence, ca. 1964

• “Posters, Pickets, and Tickets,” The Miami Student, April 28, 1964
• “If you are arrested in Mississippi,” Prepared by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
• “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation, Oxford, Ohio” by Phyllis Hoyt
• Power of Attorney for Selection of Legal Counsel Page
• Letter to Reverend Bruce Hanson from Herrick B. Young, President, June 5, 1964

Folder 3: Freedom Summer Project (2000 Memorial Correspondence)

• Letter to the Longaberger Legacy Initiative, Ohio Bicentennial Commission, from Joseph L. Cox, June 30, 1999
• Letter to Mr. Joseph L. Cox, III, from Jane C. Campbell, Programs Coordinator, Ohio Bicentennial Commission, July 20, 1999
• Letter to Joseph L. Cox from Andrew L. Verhoff, Ohio Historical Markers Program Coordinator/Historical Agency Consultant, Ohio Historical Society, July 23, 1999
• Letter to Joseph L. Cox from Christopher S. Stowe, Historical Markers Specialist, Ohio Historical Society, July 26, 1999
• “Ohio Historical Marker to be established in Butler County,” Attn: Bennie, signed by Joseph L. Cox, July 28, 1999
• Fax Cover Sheet to U. S. Representative John Lewis from Karen S. White, December 2, 1999 with letter to Congressman Lewis from James C. Garland, December 2, 1999
• Letter to Ms. Lawand Kerns from Karen S. White, February 9, 2000
• Fax Cover Sheet to Karen White from LaWand, 3/1/2000, with “The Biography of John Lewis” (five pages)
• Fax Cover Sheet to Ms. Lawand Kerns from Karen S. White, March 2, 2000 with letter to Ms. Lawand Kerns from Karen S. White, March 2, 2000 (two pages) and transaction report
• Fax Message from Karen S. White to Ms. Lawand Kerns, March 15, 2000
• Letter to Karen from Nancy, March 17, 2000
• Letter to Ms. Lawand Kerns from Karen S. White, March 21, 2000
• E-mail to Karen from Richard D. Little, 30 August 1999
• E-mail to Cecila M. Knight, Burton Kaufman, Vanessa Cummings, and Joseph Cox, from Karen S. White, Subject: Ground Breaking- Freedom Summer Project, 9/22/99
• E-mail to Karen S. White from Celia M. Knight, Subject: Re: Ground Breaking- Freedom Summer Project, 9/22/99 (two pages)
• E-mail to Karen S. White from Joseph L. Cox, Subject: Re: Ground Breaking- Freedom Summer Project, 9/22/99
• Letter to Mr. Arthur F. Miller from James C. Garland, October 7, 1999 with two list attachments
• Model letter from James Garland, October 11, 1999 with five page list attachment
• Letter to Byrkett, Ellison, Fox, Governanti, Johnson, Rhodes, Sessions, Short, and Skillings, from Jim Garland, Re: Freedom Summer ’64 Memorial, October 11, 1999
• Letter to Ms. Meredith Yankow from James C. Garland, October 11, 1999
• Letter to Joseph Cox, Vanessa Cummings, Burton Kaufman, Celia Knight, and Richard Momeyer, from Karen White, Re: Groundbreaking- Freedom Summer ’64 Memorial, October 11, 1999
• E-mail to Karen S. White from Celia M. Knight, Subject: found him, 12 November 1999
• E-mail from Osama Ettouney, 17 November 1999

Folder 4: Freedom Summer Project (2000 Memorial Correspondence)

• Letter to Karen from Rev. Elmon W. Prier, November 27, 1999 with attached “Man plays key role in memorial,” The Middletown Journal, October 28, 1999; “The Mission to Mississippi,” 11-14-99
• E-mail to Sue Treadway from Karen S. White, 1/14/00
• Letter to Professor Miller from David P. Little, March 4, 2000
• Letter to Mr. Wil Haygood, from Karen S. White, March 16, 2000
• Wil Haygood/Biographical Sheet
• E-mail from Vanessa Cummings, Subject: for your information, 21 March 2000 (three pages)
• Model letter from Karen S. White, March 21, 2000 with two attached lists
• E-mail from Barbara Heuberger, Subject: Upcoming event, 23 March 2000
• E-mail to Barbara Heuberger from Karen S. White, Subject: Re: Upcoming event, 3/23/00
• E-mail to Barbara Heuberger from Karen S. White, Subject: Re: ‘Freedom...’ film, 3/23/00
• E-mail to Karen White from Demetria Patrick, Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Freedom Summer Memorial, 25 March 2003 (two pages)
• Letter to Ms. White from Dr. Carolyn Goodman, April 7, 2000
• Fax Cover Sheet to Karen S. White from Carolyn Goodman, April 5, 2000
• Letter to James C. Garland from W. Hardy Eshbaugh, April 8, 2000
• E-mail to Joe [Joseph Cox] from Donald Daiker, Subject: Congratulations!, 8 April 2000
• “Dedication omission ‘unjust, unfair,’” Oxford Press, April 20, 2000 (two pages)
• Letter to Editor from Karen White, April 24, 2000 (two pages, two copies)
• “Miami cannot speak for NAACP Branch,” The Oxford Press, May 4, 2000 (two copies)
• “NAACP president says organization ‘used’ by Miami,” Oxford Press, May 4, 2000 (two copies)
• Letter to President James Garland, from Camilla Hewson Flintermann, 5/5/00 (two copies)
• “Freedom Summer dispute not for all NAACP members,” by Camilla Hewson Flintermann
• Letter to Mr. Wil Haygood from Karen S. White, June 20, 2000
• Inter-Office Memorandum to Karen White from Jim Buckley, Subject: Letter of Appreciation, November 16, 2000
• Letter to Mr. Miller from Jim Buckley, November 27, 2000
• E-mail to Jacky Johnson from Joe Cox, Subject: Re: Freedom Summer Memorial Information, 10/17/06

Folder 5: Articles

• Alice Lake, “Last Summer in Mississippi ,” Redbook Magazine, November 1964 (three copies)
• Les Bayless, “Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964,” People’s Weekly World, 25 May, 1996 (two copies)
• “Mississippi: the attack on bigotry: An “outsider” comes to fight,” produced by Christopher S. Wren, Look, September 8, 1964 (two copies)

Folder 6: Excerpts from two books:

• Freedom Summer
• Walking with the Wind

Folder 7: “The Mood of Miami: Interpretations Amid the 1960's Civil Rights Movement”

• In 1993, for her Senior Honors Project, Jane Marie Jordan asked 1965 Miami alumni for memories of their years at Miami. We have one copy of the parts related to Western and another copy of the complete paper.

Folder 8: Freedom Summer Continues into the 21st Century

• In 2000, Phyllis Hoyt, Dean of Western in 1964, published her book Where the Peonies Bloomed: A Memoir of My Years at Western College. At the end of her book, she has her thoughts on the Civil Rights Orientation of 1964. That one part is in this folder.
• “Freedom Summer 1964: Remembering Oxford's role in the civil rights movement,” by Allison Kolodziej, The Miami Student, February 27, 2004
• Freedom Summer Scholars Schedule
• Freedom Summer 2004: Historic North-South Freedom Caravan sponsored by the Chaney Goodman Schwerner Justice Coalition, June 9-25, 2004, New York to Mississippi, 15 City Freedom Ride
• “Truth and Reconciliation in Neshoba County,” June 17, 2004
• Mississippi Burning Website Pages
• “Students follow the path of ‘Freedom Summer’,” The Oxford Press, Friday, June 18, year unknown; invitation to 40th anniversary of Freedom Summer 1964; “Remembering freedom summer on anniversary,” The Oxford Press, Friday, June 18, 2004
• “Mississippi town honors slain activists 40 years later,” Dayton Daily News, Sunday, June 20, 2004
• “Students retrace ‘Freedom Summer’ path,” The Miami University Report, Vol. 23 No. 38, June 24, 2004
• ABC News transcript of “Waiting for Justice Documentary on a murder,” June 20, 2004 (four copies)
• “Democratic Debacle,” by Joshua Zeitz American Heritage June/July 2004.
• E-mail from P. Anna Johnson, 1/14/05, Fwd: Articles in the Post (pages 2 to 7)
• Email and attached Interview Between Chris Wellin and Roy Torkington

Folder 9: Various Articles on Freedom Summer from The Miami Student

These articles follow how the students at Miami University were contributing as well as reacting to Freedom Summer.

• 9/27/1963 – “The Great March,” The Miami Student
• 10/15/1963 – “Civil Rights Legislation Vote Due,” The Miami Student
• 10/22/1963 – “An Outside Agitator,” The Miami Student
• 11/26/1963 – “Students Journey to Washington , Return to Support Civil Rights,” The Miami Student
• 1/18/1964 – “Xavier Censorship,” The Miami Student
• 2/14/1964 – “The Letter Box,” The Miami Student
• 2/14/1964 – “Southern Leader [George Wallace] Visits UC, Speaks on Discrimination,” The Miami Student
• 2/25/1964 – “On the Right Side: Wallace Speech,” [Editorial], The Miami Student
• 3/13/1964 – “Civil Rights Debate Begins In Senate,” The Miami Student
• 4/14/1964 – “SNCC Mississippian [ Lawrence Guyot] Outlines Efforts Necessary for State,” The Miami Student
• 4/24/1964 – “Editorial Page: Southern Justice?” The Miami Student
• 4/28/1964 – “We Too Shall Overcome,” The Miami Student
• “Student recalls Endeavors to Register Negro Voters,” The Miami Student, Friday, October 4, 1963
• 5/1/1964 – “Our Readers Write,” The Miami Student
• 4/21/64- “Miamian Sentenced to Prison, Fiend for SNCC Demonstration”

Folder 10: News Articles about the 40 year anniversary of Freedom Summer

• “Freedom Summer reunion and conference Sept. 17-19,” The Miami University Report, Sept. 2, 2004
• “Faces of Freedom Summer at Miami University Art Museum ,” The Miami University Report, Sept. 2, 2004
• “U.S. Representative John Lewis to speak,” The Miami University Report, Sept. 9, 2004 (two copies)
• “Racism is alive, shaking hands,” Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 27, 2004
• “On a different pathway to the Creator,” Middletown Journal, Sept. 27, 2004
• “Miami theatre production selected for festival,” Miami Report, Dec. 16, 2004 (two copies)
• “Wisconsin Historical Society Has Papers Of Slain Civil Rights Worker,” [Unknown publication], [Unknown date]
• “Minister flees death threats, settles here,” [Unknown publication], [Unknown date]
• “Finding Freedom Summer: Influences that Endure” Compass Magazine, 2005, internet printout

Folder 11: Art Miller News Articles
This folder contains news articles that Art Miller collected that deal with Freedom Summer

• “My Project is Mississippi , Terrible Mississippi,” Monroe Morning World, July 5, 1964
• Editor’s Mail, Oxford Press, July 9, 1964
• “Western Dean Writes Thoughts On Civil Rights Orientation,” Oxford Press, July 9, 1964
• Letter to the Editor, Oxford Press, July 30, 1964 (two copies)
• “Gregory criticizes blacks, condemns white racists,” The Miami Student, April 4, 1989 (four pages)
• “Memorial Wednesday of Civil Rights Effort,” The Oxford Press, June 15, 1989
• “Town where 3 activists died schedules day of remembrance,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 21, 1989 (four pages)
• “NAACP/Miami University Memorial to Commemorate Civil Rights Activists,” The Columbus Post, March 11, 1999
• “Miami to build memorial to activists,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 26, 1999
• “Hopes” unidentified article continued, February 20, 1997
• “Civil rights workers honored,” The Massillon Independent, February 26, 1999
• “Miami to build memorial for civil rights workers,” Zanesville Times Recorder, February 26, 1999
• “Miami U. to build memorial for slain civil rights workers,” Chronicle Telegraph, Elyria , February 26, 1999
• “Memorial to civil rights workers planned,” Cincinnati Post, February 26, 1999; “Miami honors slain rights workers”; “Memorial: Civil rights heroes,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 1, 1999
• “Martyrs: Monument sought for 3,” unidentified continued article, undated (two copies)
• “Memorial to civil rights workers planned,” The Cincinnati Post, February 26, 1999
• “Memorial to honor civil-rights history,” The Columbus Dispatch, February 27, 1999
• “Oxford ’s civil rights role worth remembering,” Hamilton Journal-News, Feb. 28, 1999
• “Memorial will honor slain students,” Journal News, October 27, 1999
• “Dedication for NAACP/Miami memorial,” Call & Post (Columbus , Ohio), March 30, 2000
• “Civil rights memorial to be dedicated at Miami U.,” News Journal (Mansfield), April 5, 2000; “Civil rights memorial to be dedicated,” Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, OH, April 5, 2000
• “Speaker cancels, ceremony will go on,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 7, 2000
• “Lewis forced to cancel appearance at MU,” Hamilton Journal News, April 7, 2000
• “Miami stones honor activists of rights struggle,” Dayton Daily News, April 7, 2000 (Two copies)
• “Missing, murdered, and now remembered,” Star Tribune (Minneapolis , MN), April 8, 2000
• “Miami dedicates civil rights memorial,” The Middletown Journal, April 8, 2000
• “Civil Rights Memorial,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2000
• “Memorial: Rights activists remembered,” Publication [Unknown], Date [Unknown]
• “Views of our readers,” Publication [Unknown], Date [Unknown]
• “NAACP chapter to honor front-line civil…,” Middletown Journal, Date [Unknown]
• “Monument sought for martyrs of movement,” Cincinnati Enquirer, Date [Unknown]
• “Miami U. to build civil rights memorial,” Cincinnati Enquirer, Date [Unknown]
• “Mississippi Group to Meet Monday,” Publication [Unknown], Date [Unknown]
• “Two Oxfords,” Publication [Unknown], Date [Unknown]
• “To the Editor,” Publication [Unknown], Date [Unknown] (two pages)
• “A Worthy Memorial: Oxford, Ohio, project advanced civil rights,” The Columbus Dispatch, Date [Unknown]

Folder 12: Transcripts

• Freedom Summer Tape 1: Ms. Camilla Hughson-Flinterman, Gwynn Etta-Lewis, & Ann-Elizabeth Armstrong
• Freedom Summer Tape 2: Ann-Elizabeth Armstrong, Joe Cantrell, & David Griffing
• Freedom Summer Transcription- Tape 1: [Joe] Cantrell/ [David] Griffing – July 24, 2004
• Freedom Summer Transcription- Tape 2: Art Miller, July 21, 2004
• Freedom Summer Transcription- Tape 3: Paul Daniels – August 5, 2004
• Freedom Summer Transcription- Tape 4: David & Louise Griffing – August 12, 2004
• E-mail to Western Archives from Judy Waldron, Subject: Fwd: [WESTERN] arrest for 1964 civil rights murders, January 7, 2005 (two pages)

Folder 13: Alum Letters and Articles

• Alum letters:

o Letter to Friends, Alumnae Office, Oxford , Ohio , June 29, 1964 (four pages)
o Letter to Berenice, June 30, 1964 (three pages, two copies)
o Letter to Friends, Alumnae Office, Western College, Oxford , Ohio , June 29, 1964 (two pages)
o Western College Letter to Dr. Young, Dated September 18; Letter to Mrs. Stegall, Dated June 21, 1964
o Letter to Pres. Young [not dated]; Letter to Mrs. Binder from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, Executive Secretary, July 7, 1964
o Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
o Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964; Letter to Alumnae Office, Western College, Oxford, Ohio
o Letter to Friends, June 29, 1964; Letter, “I have long planned to…”
o Letter, Dated July 6, 1964; Letter to Murl, Berenice, and Mary Louise
o Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, cc: Margaret Ebeling, July 1, 1964; Letter to Margaret, June 27, 1964
o Letter from Berenice Stegall, Executive Secretary, cc: Mr. Myers, July 1, 1964; Letter “Alumnae Development Committee, Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio,” Dated June 25
o Letter to Berinice, June 25, 1964; Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, cc: Mrs. Stegall, July 2, 1964
o Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, cc: Mrs. Stegall, July 2, 1964
o Letter to Madam, June 22, 1964
o Letter to Mrs. from Herrick B. Young, President, cc: Alumnae Office, July 2, 1964 (two copies); Letter to Mrs. from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, Executive Secretary, July 8, 1964
o Letter from Mary Louise Charles, Director of Admissions, July 6, 1964
o Letter to Gentlemen from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, Executive Secretary, August 23, 1964
o Letter “Western College Alumnae Development Committee” Dated June 29
o Letter to Berenice, Dated October 8
o Letter to Alumnae Secretary (two copies)
o Note “’46, ‘Congratulations on housing (?) the Mississippi workers. Western at last is nearing the mainstream.’”
o Letter to Friends, Alumnae Office, Western College, Oxford , Ohio , June 19, 1964
o Letter to Alumnae Office from Phyllis Hoyt, June 29, 1964
o Letter to Gentlemen from Auburn, Alabama, July 4, 1964
o Letter “Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,” June 25, 1964
o Letter to Madam, June 22, 1964
o Newspaper Article “Repeat of Reconstruction” & “As a Minimum, Prudence” (two copies)
o Newspaper Article, “Young Bias Foes Head for Mississippi : Into Jaws of Hate and Fear Ride 200”
o Letter dated June 24, 1964
o Letter from Berenice Stegall, Executive Secretary, July 2, 1964
o Letter from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
o Letter To Whom it May Concern, June 30, 1964 [2 Pages] (two copies)

Folder 14: Bourbon at the Border Miami University Theatre Production

• Bourbon at the Border, Costume Plot Chart
• Copy of Bourbon at the Border, stage directions and play book

Folder 15: Five Copies of Freedom School Poetry

• Freedom School Poetry, forward by Langston Hughes, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Atlanta , Georgia , 1965 (Five copies)

BOX 3

Folder 1: Copies of Miller Photos

• Andrew Goodman, June 1964 (1943-1964) Photograph
• Photo from Crisis (March/April 2000) of Oxford, Ohio NAACP activists with President Garland after groundbreaking for memorial
• Flyer labeled “The Worst Horror on Earth”
• “Save Our Land: KKK Join the Klan, For God and Country” Flyer
• Photos: “Andy Goodman and James Forman at Oxford , Ohio , training Session, June 1964” & “Bob Moses, architect and guiding spirit of the Freedom Summer project”
• Photos from an anonymous article, “Missing civil rights workers’ burned station wagon is found and towed away” & “Andrew Goodman, left, and Mickey Schwerner are missing, Goodman’s parents, right, sought help”; Photo labeled “Rita Schwerner, widow of one of the murdered workers, impressed many of the volunteers with her quiet courage. At Oxford , she told a second group of volunteers that the disappearance of] the three workers only made it more important that the project go forward”

Folder 2: Miller Letters

• Letter from Wendy H. Kisken, to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, dated October 10, 1964 (2 pages, two copies)
• Letter from Dr. Carolyn Goodman to Friends at Miami University , dated January 1999 (four pages)
• Letter from Barbara, dated August 1, 1964
• Letter from Cephas to Mr. Nelson, dated July 16, 1964
• Letter from Barbara Simon, dated July 6, 1964
• Letter from Richard K. Parsons, Attorney, to Councilman Arthur F. Miller, dated October 5, 1964
• Letters from Cephas to Mr. Nelson, dated July 16, 1964 (4 pages total)
• Two Letters to Mr. Nelson from Cephas dated July 16, 1964
• Letter from Mrs. Robert E. Strippel to “Sirs”
• Letter from Donald N. Nelson to Senator Edward T. Kennedy, dated January 27, 1965
• Letter from Edward M. Kennedy to Mr. Cephas Hughes, February 5, 1965
• Letter from Barbara Simon dated July 6, 1964
• A Washington Letter from Olin D. Johnston, U.S. Senator, South Carolina , dated 27, 1964 (two pages)
• Letter to Mr. Nelson, dated July 10, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Nelson from Cephas, dated July 16, 1964 (two pages)
• Letter to Whom It May Concern, June 30, 1964 (two pages)

Folder 3: Freedom Summer 40th Anniversary Posters, Flyers, etc.

• Letter to Friends and Colleagues from Momeyer, dated September 1, 2004
• “Voices of Freedom Summer Reunion and Conference in Oxford, Ohio, September 17-19, 2004” Conference Schedule and Program (of Events) (two copies)

Folder 4: Sponsor and Student Volunteer List

• Sponsor and Student Volunteer List

Folder 5: Art Miller Copies, copied by Rhonda Smith, July 3, 2004

• Carolyn Goodman Curriculum Vita
• Mississippi Freedom: South and North [article] by Robbie McCauley
• “Summer of 64’ Memorial” by Geoff Cerilli
• “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation, Oxford , Ohio ,” by Phyllis Hoyt, Dean of Students, dated June 26, 1964
• Appeal sponsored by United Church Women of Oxford
• “Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project” Listing of who deposited and how much
• U. S. Knights of The Ku Klux Klan Registration Form
• The Andrew Goodman Foundation: Hidden Heroes: A Documentary Film Synopsis
• “Thirty Year Commemoration of the deaths on June 21, 1964 of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner” Reception program
• Miami University News [article], “NAACP/Miami Memorial Gets Go Ahead,” 25 February, 1999
• “Criticism Is Beamed At Oxford: Bring Out Point; Miami University Has No Connection,” Hamilton , June 28, 1964

Folder 6: Donations from Sandra Adickes

• Letter to Jacky Johnson, Archivist from Sandra Adickes, August 4, 2005
• Copy of Freedom News, July 23, 1964
• Copy of Script of 1953 Class Stunt
• Copy of “A Freedom Teacher’s Report: Phones Are Tapped, Informers Watch Them,” Article
• Copy of “Sandra Adickes’ Own Story: Why I Went to Mississippi,” Article
• Copy of Envelope “Classes out of doors” with: 1 negative
• Copy of Envelope “Mrs. Addie Mae Jockson my host in Palmer’s Crossing with: 1 negative
• Copy of Envelope “Priest Creek Baptist Church Freedom School” with: 2 negatives
• Copy of Envelope “Volunteers” with: note and 1 negative
• Copy of 1 photograph and 1 negative
• Copy of 1 photograph and 1 negative
• Copy of 2 photographs
• Copy of Envelope “FS Students” with: 1 negative
• Copy of 4 photographs
• Copy of 4 photographs
• Copy of 5 photographs
• Copy of 5 photographs

Folder 7: Donations from Nina Myatt

• Copy of “SNCC summer project harassed,” Record, Antioch College, May 8, 1964
• Copy of “SNCC workers scared but determined while in Oxford,” Record, Antioch College, Monday, July 6, 1964
• Copy of “ACRE organizes Miss. Co-op,” Record, Antioch College, Friday, October 30, 1964
• Copy of “SNCC workers scared but determined while in Oxford,” Record, Antioch College, Friday, July 3, 1964
• Copy of “A Long, Hot Summer in Mississippi,” The Antiochian, November 196?
• Copy of Article Page 2

Folder 8: More Freedom Summer

• “Photo Gallery: Neshoba’s Legacy of Racial Violence,” Online Print-Out (three copies)

Folder 9: Smithsonian: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

• Copy of Book Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 from Smithsonian Institution, Program in Black American Culture

BOX 4

Folder 1: Why Mississippi?

• Satirical comic strip, New York Times, "Views of the Civil Rights Crisis", 6/28/64
• Article “Mississippi: A Profile of the Nation's Most Segregated State”, [1964]
• Graph of The Civil Rights Bill - Four Key Provisions and the Problems they are Designed to Correct

Folder 2: Articles from 1964

• “Students Start Rights Training in Oxford,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/15/64
• “Students Told Dixie Has Perils,” by Raymond R. CoffeyChicago News, June 16, 1964
• “Students Told: Watch Out for Klan, by Nicholas Hoffman” Chicago News, June 17, 1964
• “Two Valley City College Students Among Trainees for Rights Mission, by Raymond R. Coffey,
Morning Forum, Fargo, North Dakota
• “Students Warned on Southern Law,” by Claude Sitton, The New York Times, Friday, June 19, [1964]
• “Racial Workers… Ready to Invade State,” Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss. Herald, Undated
• “Shaken But Staying, Mississippi Rights Corps Vow to Go On Full Steam,” Monroe (LA) World, 6/20/64
• “Group Wants Mississippi Occupied,” by Joseph Alsop, Royal Tribune 6/30/64;
• “Students Will Seek to Register 200,000 Mississippi Negroes,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/20/64 (two copies)
• "Dangerous Summer, The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
• “U.S. Aide Cautions Rights Workers,” The New York Times, June 20, 1964; “Dangerous Summer,” The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
• “200 Students Heading for Mississippi,” Lafayette, LA Advertiser, June 21, 1964;
• “Race Corps Moving on Mississippi,” by Hoke Norris, Pittsburgh Pa. Press, June 21, 1964
• “Mississippi Rights Bus Leaves Ohio,” Pine Bluff Ark Commercial, 6/21/64
• “Son in Miss. Jail, Father Asks U.S. Aid,” New York Post, June 21, 1964
• “Students Jam Mississippi to Aid Negroes,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/22/64
• “Missing Men Report Stirs Rights Trainees,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 1964
• “The Dangerous Journey”, New York Post, June 24, 1964
• “Oxford Demonstrators Undaunted…” Dayton News, June 24, 1964 (two copies)
• “Charred Hulk of Car Spurs Intensive Search,” New Haven, Conn. Register, 6/24/64
• “Group Appeals for Protection,” Hackensack, NJ Record, date unknown; “UW Rights Worker Approaches Trip Soberly,” Milwaukee Journal, June 25, 1964
• “Cranks on Phones Intimidate Parents,” Hartford, Conn. Times, date unknown;
• “No Volunteers Quit Civil Rights Project,” Bay City Mich. Times, June 1964
• “UW Rights Worker Approaches Trip Soberly,” Milwaukee Journal, June 25, 1964
• “Travelers Yet to Come,” by Jimmy Breslin, New York Herald-Tribune, June 25, 1964
• “Integration Students To Continue in The Project,” Marion, Ind. Leader-Tribune, June 25, 1964
• “Week of Violence”, New York Times, June 28, 2964
• “Mississippi Invasion Army,” Columbia, S.C. Record, June 25, 1964
• “Wife of Missing Rights Worker Wants Sheriff to Deny It’s ‘Stunt’” Minneapolis Tribune, 6/26/64
• “Make Mississippi Safe,” Cleveland Press, June 25, 1964
• “More Rightists To Leave Oxford for Mississippi This Weekend,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/25/64;
• “Parents Backing Mississippi Drive,” undated
• “Tribute to Youth in Mississippi Crisis,” Baltimore, MD. News American, June 1964
• “In Mississippi Students Urged to Work Harder,” Greenville, Tex. Herald Banner, date unknown
• “Mississippi’s Lawless Invaders,” Shreveport Louisiana Journal, June 24, 1964
• "Work Harder, Civil Rights, School Students Urged, 6/26/64
• “Last Oxford Group Off to Mississippi,” The Plain Dealer, June 28, 1964
• “Milwaukeean On the Scene in Mississippi,” Milwaukee Sentinel, date unknown
• “Rights Workers Vow Miss. Push,” Elmira, NY, Star Gazette, June 30, 1964
• “Southern Critics: Oxford Blamed for Rights Meet,” Dayton News, June 23, 1964
• “Collegiates Will Invade Mississippi,” Vicksburg Post, 1964
• “Fight to Avoid Use of Troops in Mississippi,” Racine, Wis. Journal-Times, June 30, 1964
• “Workers Will Move Full Steam,” by John Hall,El Paso, Tex. Times, date unknown
• "Rights Workers Shaken but Still Pour into Miss, June 30, 1964
• “Mississippi Now Has Armed Guerrilla Units,” Lewiston, Idaho Tribune, June 1964
• “U.S. Puts Rights Army On Its Own in Dixie,” Chicago News, date unknown
• “More FBI Agents in Mississippi,” Gastonia, N.C. Gazette, date unknown
• “Students Get Taste of Terror at School,” Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, date unknown















• “Oxford Still Talks of Training Meet,” Article; “White Moderate Lives in Fear Very Real Danger in Mississippi,” Minneapolis Tribune, 7/12/64
• “Mississippi Project Friends Seek Donations to Aid Work,” Oxford Press, 7/2/64; “Rights Group Knew Mississippi Dangers,” Columbus Dispatch, date unknown
“Rights Workers Vow Miss. Push,” Elmira, NY, Star Gazette, June 30, 1964; “Oxford Blamed for Rights Meet,” Dayton News, June 1964; “Collegiates Will Invade Mississippi,” Vicksburg Post, 1964
• “Negroes Plan to Test Bill,” Murfreesboro Tenn. News-Journal, date unknown; “Rights ‘Invaders’ Told: Be Wary of Mississippi Cops,” Chicago News, date unknown; Trainees for Rights Mission,” Fargo, ND Morning Forum, date unknown
• “Oxford Demonstrators Undaunted…” Dayton News, June 24, 1964 (two copies)
• “’No Religious Beliefs,’” “In Mississippi Today,” “Cool Look at Long Summer” Articles; First Page of “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation”
• “Editors Mail” Two Articles
• “Mississippi’s Lawless Invaders,” June 24, 1964
• “Son in Miss. Jail, Father Asks U.S. Aid,” New York Post, June 21, 1964
• “Students Will Seek to Register 200,000 Mississippi Negroes,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/20/64 (two copies)
• “Fear Clash With ‘Militia,’” Article; “Volunteers Are Lauded, Warned,” Article
• “Senseless Slaughter,” Thursday, August 6, 1964
• “Young Rights Trainees Scared, Dedicated,” Austin Texan, date unknown; “Tommies Liked His Song,” Carbondale, Ill. South Illinoisan, July 2, 1964
• “Ex-St. Paulite Risks Life in Mississippi,” Minneapolis, Minn. Tribune, date unknown; “Mississippi Invasion Army,” Article;
• “Students Told Dixie Has Perils,” Chicago News, June 16, 1964
• “’No Religious Beliefs,’” “In Mississippi Today,” “Cool Look at Long Summer” Articles; “Rights Worker Reports on Mississippi…” Philadelphia Bulletin, date unknown; “Rights Worker to Speak Here,” Cincinnati Post & Times Star, 8/27/64
• “Race Corps Moving on Mississippi,” Pittsburgh, PA Press, June 21, 1964; “Mississippi Rights Bus Leaves Ohio,” Pine Bluff Ark Commercial, 6/21/64
• “Son in Miss. Jail, Father Asks U.S. Aid,” New York Post, June 21, 1964; “Urges Caution on Rights Test,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• “Editorial Comment” Article; “Death Fears Slow Dixie Rights Driv…” Article; “Workers Vow Strong Drive in Mississippi,” Toledo Times, date unknown; “Rights Workers will continue,” Thomasville Times, June 30, 1964
• “Shaken but Staying, Mississippi Rights Corp Vow to Go On Full Steam,” Monroe LA World, 6/20/64; “Group Wants Mississippi Occupied,” 6/30/64;
• “Fight to Avoid Use of Troops in Mississippi,” Racine, Wis. Journal-Times, June 30, 1964; “Workers Will Move Full Steam,” El Paso, Tex. Times, date unknown; “Rights Workers Shaken, But still Pour into Miss.,” Springfield, Mass. Union, date unknown
• “U.S. Powers are Limited in Dealing with Civil Rights Strife,” Article
• “Group Appeals for Protection,” Hackensack, NJ Record, date unknown; “UW Rights Worker Approaches Trip Soberly,” Milwaukee Journal, June 25, 1964; “Cranks on Phones Intimidate Parents,” Hartford, Conn. Times, date unknown; “No Volunteers Quit Civil Rights Project,” Bay City Mich. Times, June 1964
• “FBI Joins in Search in South for 3 Missing Rights Workers,” Yonkers, NY Herald Statesman, date unknown; “’Freedom’ To the Delta,” Charleston, SC Post, date unknown
• “Mississippi Now Has Armed Guerrilla Units,” Lewiston, Idaho Tribune, June 1964; “U.S. Puts Rights Army On Its Own in Dixie,” Chicago News, date unknown
• “Make Mississippi Safe,” Cleveland Press, June 25, 1964; “More Rightists To Leave Oxford for Mississippi This Weekend,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/25/64; ; “Integration Students To Continue in The Project,” Marion, Ind. Leader-Tribune, June 25, 1964
• “U.S. Aide Cautions Rights Workers,” The New York Times, June 20, 1964; “Dangerous Summer,” The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
• “Dulles Being Sent to Scene; On LBJ Orders,” Bridgeport, Conn. Post, date unknown; “Dulles Heads Probe of Missing Rights Trio in Mississippi” Article
• “Students Told Dixie Has Perils,” Chicago News, June 16, 1964
• “The Mississippi Invasion Army,” Columbia, SC, Record, June 25, 1964; “Wife of Missing Rights Worker Wants Sheriff to Deny It’s ‘Stunt’” Minneapolis Tribune, 6/26/64
• “Says Mississippi Project has responsible leadership,” Lancaster, PA. Intelligencer-Journal; “More Volunteers For Mississippi,” Columbia, MO. Tribune
“Racial Workers… Ready to Invade State,” Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss. Herald
• “Students Jam Mississippi to Aid Negroes,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/22/64
• “Three Greater Boston Students in Mississippi: Bullets…Threats…Ostracism,” Article
• “NCC Aids Insurrectionary Group” Article, “The Agony of Mississippi Daring New Gospel is Heard,” New York Journal American, 1964
• “Students Get Taste of Terror at School,” Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, date unknown; “More FBI Agents in Mississippi,” Gastonia, N.C. Gazette, date unknown
• “Last Oxford Group Off to Mississippi,” P.D., June 28, 1964
• “Rights Workers Trained to Cope With Violence, Jail,” Milwaukee Journal, 7/5/64
• “In Mississippi…” Greenville, Tex. Herald Banner, date unknown, “Johnson’s Warning on Rights,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 25, 1964, “Parents Backing Mississippi Drive,” undated, “Tribute to Youth in Mississippi Crisis,” Baltimore, MD. News American, June 1964
(“Week of Violence” Article on Back)

• “Students Jam Mississippi to Aid Negroes,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/22/64
• “For Freedom Schools…,” “To Deputize 50 Farmers” Articles on One page (“Week of Violence” Article on Back)

• “Rights Training Classes Slated for June 12-27” Cleveland Plain Dealer, undated

Folder 3?: Articles from 1964

• “Second Session at Oxford, Missing Men Report Stirs Rights Trainees,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 23, 1964; “Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi,” 6/22/64; “2d Student Unit Begins Training,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• Article by Hank Hokamp, Champaign, Ill. News-Gazette, August 30, year unknown
• “Charred Hulk of Car Spurs Intense Search,” New Haven, Conn. Register, 6/24/64; “Make Mississippi Safe,” Cleveland Press, June 25, 1964; “More Rightists To Leave Oxford For Mississippi This Weekend,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/25/64
• “Work Harder, Civil Rights School Students Urged,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/26/64
• “Mississippi’s Lawless Invaders,” Shreveport, LA, Journal, 6/36/64
• “Dulles Heads Probe of Missing Rights Trio in Mississippi,” New Haven, Conn. Register, date unknown
• “Mississippi-Bound: Cranks on Phones Intimidate Parents,” Hartford, Conn. Times, date unknown; “No Volunteers Quit Civil Rights Project,” Bay City, Mich. Times, June 25, 1964
• “Make Mississippi Safe,” Cleveland Press, June 25, 1964; “More Rightists to Leave Oxford For Mississippi This Weekend,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 25, 1964
• “Western Dean writes Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation,” Article (two pages)
• “Mississippi Invasion Army,” Article; “ “Alvin Silverman Urges Caution on Rights Test,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• “Shaken but Staying, Mississippi Rights Corps Vow to Go on Full Steam,” Monroe LA World, 6/20/64
• “200 Students Heading for Mississippi,” Lafayette, LA Advertiser, date unknown
• “Mission to Miss. Three Who Went,” Article Continued
• “Students Warned on Southern Law,” The New York Times, Friday, June 19, year unknown
• “Says Mississippi Project has responsible leadership,” Lancaster, PA. Intelligencer-Journal, date unknown; “More Volunteers for Mississippi,” Columbia, MO. Tribune, date unknown
• “The Mississippi Invasion Army,” Columbia, SC Record, June 25, 1964
• “Two Valley City College Students Among Trainees for Rights Mission,” Fargo, ND, Morning Forum, date unknown
• “Students Told: Watch Out for Klan,” Chicago News, June 17, 1964
• “Race Corps Moving on Mississippi,” Pittsburgh Press, June 21, 1964; “Mississippi Rights Bus Leaves Ohio,” Pine Bluff Ark. Commercial, 6/21/64
• “Alvin Silverman Urges Caution on Rights Test,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• “Dangerous Summer,” The Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1964
• “Justice Department Attorney is Booed at Civil Rights School,” Minneapolis, Minn. Tribune, date unknown
• “Students Start Rights Training in Oxford,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/15/64; “Rights Training Classes Slated for June 12-27,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• “In Mississippi Students Urged to Work Harder,” Greenville, Tex. Herald Banner, date unknown; “Johnson’s Warning on Rights,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 25, 1964
• “Southern Critics: Oxford Blamed for Rights Meet,” Dayton News, June 23, 1964; “Collegiates Will Invade Mississippi,” Vicksburg, Miss. Post, June 1964
• “Milwaukeean on the Scene in Mississippi,” Milwaukee Wis. Sentinel, date unknown; “Rights Workers Vow Miss. Push,” Elmira, NY Star Gazette, June 30, 1964
• “Mississippi Now Has Armed Guerrilla Units,” Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune, June 1964
• “US Puts Rights Army On Its Own in Dixie,” Chicago News, June 1964
• “Travelers Yet to Come,” New York Herald-Tribune, 6/25/64; “Integration Students To Continue in the Project,” Marion, Ind. Leader-Tribune, June 25, 1964

• “Criticism is Beamed at Oxford,” Hamilton, 6/28/64 (two copies)

Folder 3: Articles from 1964

• "Alpha Sigma Alpha Pledges 12 Women for Fall Classes, 10/25/63
• "The First Step:, The Miami Student, 12/6/63
• “Academic Freedom,” The Miami Student, Friday, February 14, 1964
• “Posters, Pickets and Tickets,” The Miami Student, Tuesday, April 28, 1964
• “Gregory, Freedom Group Stage Civil Rights Benefit,” The Miami Student, Tuesday, April 28, 1964
• “Mississippi Professor Speaks on Segregation at ‘Ole Miss’,” 2/21/64
• “Spotlight: Civil Rights,” The Miami Student, Friday, March 20, 1964
• “Rumor,” The Miami Student, Friday, May 1, 1964
• “Gregory Concert Yields No Violence,” 5/1/1964
• “Gregory Discusses Student’s Action in Press Interview,” The Miami Student, 5/11/64
• “FBI Joins in Search in South for 3 Missing Rights Workers,” Yonkers, NY Herald Statesman, date
• “Matter of Fact, Murder by Night,” Washington Post, 6/17/64
• “Civil Rights Study Begins on Western College Campus,” The Oxford Press, June 18, 1964
• Johnson's Warning on Rights, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/25/64
• "Dear Friend of the Mississippi Summer Project, 6/28/64, 2 pages
• "The News of the Week In Review as Demonstrators and Violence Focused the Nation's Attention on the Civil
Rights Struggle"
• "Dear Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project, 7/4/64
• “Civil Rights Groups at Western Prepare for Voter Registration,” August 1964
• “Birmingham ‘Place for Hope’ Reports Dr. R. Brank Fulton,” The Oxford Press, Thursday, July 30, 1964
• “Mourning a son,” Copy of Photograph, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman reacts as the body of their son Andrew is
taken from a plane at Newark Airport on August 7.
• Herbert Oliver of Birmingham to Talk on Rights Violations,” 2/25/65
• “College to Refuse Rights ‘Prep School’,” Akron Beacon Journal, March 26, 1965
• “Event sincere, Selma Marcher Tells NAACP,” Hamilton, 5/20/65
• “Training for the freedom fight, Activists recall Oxford program,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/20/89
• “Rights Worker Service Slated,” The Daily Standard, Celina, O., June 21, 1989
• “Plaque honors human rights,” The Oxford Press, Thursday, October 29, 1992
• “Oxford marks registration project’s 30th anniversary on Tuesday, June 21,” Times Bulletin, Van Wert, O., June 18, 1994
• “Miami civil rights monument gets guarantee,” Journal-News, Friday, February 26, 1999
• “Freedom Summer volunteers among those who were truly great” Article, April 11, 1999
• "Miami's tribute to civil rights martyrs by Allan Winkler, 6/28/99
• “Miami memorial to honor civil rights activists,” Wednesday, October 13, 1999
• “Terrorists Cheated of Victim: Three Lives for Mississippi” Article, undated
• “A Reflection on June, 1964 and Racism, Then and Now,” Speech from Rick Momeyer, June 18, 1994; “Criticism is Beamed at Oxford,” Hamilton, 6/28/64
• “78 Leave Here on Summer Rights Project,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 1964
• "Missing" Poster (two copies)
• “Alvin Silverman Urges Caution on Rights Test,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• “Three Youths Trained Here ‘Disappear’,” The Oxford Press, date unknown
• “Students Warned on Southern Law,” The New York Times, Friday, June 19, year unknown
• “Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi,” 6/22/64;














• “Parents Backing Mississippi Drive,” Article; “Tribute to Youth in Mississippi Crisis,” Baltimore, MD News American, date unknown;
• “Why Blame Us?” The Oxford Press, 7/2/64
• “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation June 26, 1964, Oxford, Ohio,” by Phyllis Hoyt (two copies)
• “The First Step,” The Miami Student, Friday, December 6, 1963
• “Wesley Foundation Discusses New Civil Rights Legislation,” The Miami Student, 10/25/63
• “Memorial to Honor Civil-Rights History, Oxford was Hub for training in ’64,” The Columbus Dispatch, Saturday, February 27, 1999
• “Matter of Fact: Murder by Night,” Washington Post, June 17, 1964
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• Missing Poster (two copies)
• “Terrorists Cheated of Victim: Three Lives for Mississippi” Article
• “Rights Worker Service Slated,” The Daily Standard, Celina, O., June 21, 1989
• “Oxford marks registration project’s 30th anniversary on Tuesday, June 21,” Times Bulletin, Van Wert, O., June 18, 1994
• “Plaque honors human rights,” The Oxford Press, Thursday, October 29, 1992
• “Civil Rights Study Begins on Western College Campus,” The Oxford Press, June 18, 1964
• “Miami to build memorial to activists,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, February 26, 1999
• “Monument sought for martyrs of movement,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, February 8, 1999
• “Three Youths Trained Here ‘Disappear’,” The Oxford Press, date unknown
• “Miami’s tribute to civil rights martyrs,” Cincinnati Post, June 28, 1999
• “Miami memorial to honor civil rights activists,” Wednesday, October 13, 1999
• Herbert Oliver of Birmingham to Talk on Rights Violations,” Article
• “Memorial will honor slain civil rights workers,” Cincinnati Post, May 5, 1999
• “Black History at Miami… University had key role in movements,” The Miami Student, Friday, February 16, 1996
• “The News of the Week in Review,” The New York Times, Sunday, June 28, 1964
• “Missing auto of trio found by FBI Tuesday (1964),” The Neshoba Democrat, June 25, 1964
• “Civil Rights Study Begins on Western College Campus,” The Oxford Press, June 18, 1964
• “Historical context of 1964 civil rights murders,” The Neshoba Democrat, June 25, 1964
• “Visiting media (July 9, 1964),” The Neshoba Democrat, July 9, 1964
• “$1 million suit filed against NBC, others,” The Neshoba Democrat, July 23, 1964
• “’Civil Righters’ suit dismissed/August 6, 1964,” The Neshoba Democrat, August 6, 1964
• “Bodies of missing trio found buried in levee,” The Neshoba Democrat, August 6, 1964

Folder 4: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Commemoration, 1989

• “’Freedom school’s’ grads return to tell life’s lessons,” The First Cox Newspaper, Thursday, March 30, 1989
• “Miami to recall role in civil rights tragedy,” The Journal-News, Saturday, June 17, 1989
• “Observance to mark slayings in Mississippi,” Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Sunday, June 18, 1989
• “Remembering slain activists for civil rights,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, June 20, 1989
• “Service at Miami University remembers place in history,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, June 22, 1989
• “Service Honors Trio of Martyrs,” The Journal-News, Thursday, June 22, 1989
• “Civil rights movement veterans honor slain workers,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, June 22, 1989
• “Freedom Summer 1964,” High Street Journal, December 2, 1999

Folder 5: Articles from 1964
• “Western C. To Host Civil Rights School,” Oxford Press, May 28, 1964
• “Students Warned on Southern Law,” The New York Times, Friday, June 19, year unknown
• “U.S. Aide Cautions Rights Workers,” The New York Times, June 20, 1964
• “Over 100 Students-Civil Rights Workers Arrive in Mississippi,” 6/22/64; 3 Rights Workers Are Freed After Paying $20 Fines, Baton Rouge, LA. State Times, date unknown;“2d Student Unit Begins Training,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, date unknown
• "COFO, the Coalition Thats Battling by Dom Bonafede, The Herald Tribune, date unknown
• “With Dignity and Restraint,” Clarksdale, Miss. Press Register, date unknown
• “Dulles Being Sent to Scene; On LBJ Orders,” Bridgeport, Conn. Post, date unknown
• “Course at WCW In Civil Rights to Enroll 600,” 1964
• "Article by Hank Hokamp", Champaign, Ill. News-Gazette, August 30, year unknown
• “The March on Mississippi,” Daytona Beach, Journal;
• “Postdeb Joins Crusade,” Milwaukee Wis. Sentinel, date unknown
• “Matter of Fact, Murder by Night,” Washington Post, date unknown
• “Says Mississippi Project has responsible leadership,” Lancaster, PA. Intelligencer-Journal, date unknown;“More Volunteers For Mississippi,” Columbia, MO. Tribune, date unknown





Freedom Summer Orientation

BOX 5

20th Century Interactive Making Connections to America's Past, Teacher's Guide and CD-Rom


BOX 6

Folder 1: Articles and Papers, ca. 1964

• “Inter-Collegiate Conference on Community Action in Race Relations,” Oxford, Ohio, March 25-30, 1961 Informational Brochure
• Letter to Mr. Hoxie from Ruth Lester from Life, July 3, 1964
• Newsletter from Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project Newsletter No., 2, August 5, 1964
• “In Keeping with the Prophets: The Mississippi Summer of 1964,” The Christian Century, date unknown

Folder 2: Freedom Summer Papers, undated, ca. 1964

• Western College Alumnae Annual Giving Fund Envelope filled out by Mrs. Edw. F. Heekin
• Power of Attorney for Section of Legal Counsel Paper
• Letter to Mr. Frank Dodd from Herrick B. Young, President, date unknown
• Letter to Berenice from Mabel, October 8, year unknown
• Envelope to Alumnae Office with letter from Mrs. [Harriet] E. Martin Schraffran
• Western College Inter-Office Communication to Dr. Young from B. Stegall, September 18, year unknown
• Letter to Alumnae Secretary from Helen Hahn, date unknown
• Letter to Alumnae Office from Dorothy Goldstone Marcus
• Thank you note from Martha Hall Wedeman
• Letter on Western College Alumnae Development Committee stationary from Mrs. Morris Denny [Helen Pentzer]
• Letter to Murl, Berenice, and Mary Louise, from Charlaine Tullis Stone
• Letter to Berenice from Charlotte Burrer (two pages)

Folder 3: Freedom Summer Correspondence, 1964

• Memroandum [sic] to The Cabinet from President Young, May 25, 1964
• Letter to Reverend Bruce Hanson from Herrick B. Young, President, June 5, 1964
• Western College Inter-Office Communication to Mr. Keebler from President Young, 5-5-64
• Letter to Reverend Bruce Hanson from Herrick B. Young, President, June 5, 1964
• Western College Inter-Office Communication to Miss Hoyt, Mr. Keebler and Mr. Myers from President Young, 5-7-64
• Letter to Mr. Keebler from President Young, 5-11-64
• Letter to Mr. Keebler, Mr. Dodd, Miss Hoyt, Mr. Myers, from President Young, 5-13-64
• “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation, Oxford, Ohio” by Phyllis Hoyt, Dean of Students, June 26, 1964 (three pages)
• Letter to Mrs. Stegall from Diana Koch Mascali, June 21, 1964
• Letter to Madam from Mildred Walker Elberfeld, June 22, 1964
• Card from Roberta Scott Ball, June 24, 1964
• Letter to Berinice from Katherine M. Wanysler [?], June 25, 1964
• Letter to Margaret from Crissy, June 25, [1964?]
• Letter to Reverend Bruce Hanson from Herrick B. Young, President, June 26, 1964
• Letter to Margaret from Florence Horchow, June 27, 1964
• Western College Inter-Office Communication, to Alumnae Office from Phyllis Hoyt, 6-29-64
• Letter to Alumnae Office from Elizabeth Timberlake Binder, June 29, 1964
• Letter to Alumnae Office from Elizabeth Timberlake Binder, June 29, 1964
• Letter to Whom It May Concern, from Cynthia Leslie, June 30, 1964
• Letter to Berenice from B.J. Nelson, June 30, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. [Florence] Joseph Horchow from Herrick B. Young, President, July 1, 1964
• P.S. Letter to Crissy LaRoche from Berenice Stegall, July 1, 1964
• Letter to President Young from Berenice Davis Stegall, July 1, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Morris Denny from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Conrad Leslie from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. David J. Stone from Berenice Stegall, July 2, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. David J. Stone from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Katherine M. Wampler from Herrick B. Young, President, July 2, 1964
• Letter to Gentlemen, Western College Alumnae Development Fund, from Margaret MacGregor Nichols (Mrs. Samuel H., Jr.), July 4, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. [Charlaine] David J. Stone from Mary Louise Charles, July 6, 1964 (two pages)
• Letter to Mrs. John F. Nelson from Berenice Stegall, July 6, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. John F. Nelson [B.J.] from Berenice Stegall, July 6, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Raymond C. Binder from Berenice Stegall, July 7, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Gerald Hahn from Berenice Stegall, July 8, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Nichols, Jr., Berenice Stegall, July 10, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Charles J. Thornton from Henry J. Arnold, July 14, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Stegall from Willa Allen Frink, July 15, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Robert W. Spike from Philip F. Myers, July 22, 1964
• Letter to Miss Phyllis Hoyt from Phyllis Bailey (Mrs. J. Earl), July 29, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Gerald H. McBride from Philip F. Myers, July 30, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Gordon J. Burrer from Mary Louise Charles, July 31, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Fred A. Dewey from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, September 2, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Berenice Stegall from Crissy, Mrs. James N. LaRoche, September 6, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Gordon J. Burrer from Mrs. Berenice Stegall, August 21, 1964
• Letter to Gentlemen, Western College Bulletin, from Mary M. Dewey (Mrs. Fred A. Dewey), August 23, 1964
• Letter to [Crissy] Mrs. James N. LaRoche from Berenice Stegall, October 8, 1964
• Letter to President Young from Vendela T. Heller, undated [1964?]

Folder 4: Freedom Summer Publications (John Bloom File), ca. 1964

• “Mississippi Subversion of the Right to Vote” Publication by The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• “A Chronology of Violence and Intimidation in Mississippi Since 1961,” Publication by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• “Mississippi Freedom Summer” Brochure from the Council of Federated Organizations (two copies)
• “‘Tired of Being Sick and Tired’...” Jerry DeMuth, The Nation, June 1, 1964
• University of Mississippi, April 15, 1964 Faculty Statement
• “It Will Be a Hot Summer in Mississippi,” by Richard Woodley, The Reporter, May 21, 1964
• “New Racist Organization Terrorizes Several South Mississippi Counties,” The Delta Democrat-Times; “White Association Disclaims Charges as Negroes Point to 5 Deaths,” Delta Democrat-Times, May 10, 1964;"White Association Disclaims Violence Charges as Negroes Point to 5 Deaths," Delta Democrat-Times, May 10, 1964
• The Student Voice, Vol. 5, No. 14, June 9, 1964
• “Mr. James Houton candidate for Congress,” advertisement from campaign, June 2, 1964
• “Mississippi Project: Oxford still talks of Training Meeting,” Dayton Daily News, Sunday, July 12, 1964
• The Student Voice, Vol. 5, No. 16, July 15, 1964 (two copies)
• “Editorially Speaking... Why Blame Us?” The Oxford Press, July 2, 1964
• The Oxford Press, Section Two,Editorial Comment, Editors Speak in Mississippi, July 9, 1964
• “Western Dean Writes Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation,” The Oxford Press, July 9, 1964
• Incident Summary (page 9 and 10), undated [July 17-20, 1964?]
• “Letters from Mississippi: ‘I Lay There Waiting to Be Shot,’” Dayton Daily News, August 9, 1964
• Newsletter from the Friends of the Mississippi (Summer) Project, No. 3, September 22, 1964
• “Negroes are dragged off federal property as the FBI looks on, Registration in Alabama,” The New Republic, October 26, 1963, reprinted [1964?]

Folder 5: Freedom Summer Freedom Registration Form (John Bloom File)

• Freedom Registration Form (two copies)

Folder 6: Letters to John Bloom (John Bloom File)

• “The Klansman” Publication by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi
• Copy of Notes from an Anonymous Freedom Fighter
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie a Freedom Summer Volunteer
• Copy of Letter on Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from Mr. & Mrs. Bloom, from Dorie a Freedom Summer Volunteer, undated
• Transcript of pages written by David Wolf of Hartford Connecticut, summer volunteer
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, July 13, 1964
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, July 19, 196[4?]
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, July 22, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Robert White, Editor, The Oxford Press, from Rev. Bruce Hanson, National Council of Churches, Commission of Religion and Race, 30 July 1964
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, September 27, 1964
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, December 8, 1964
• Copy of Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bloom from Dorie, January 18, 1965

Folder 7: Freedom Summer Incident Reports (John Bloom File)

• July 10 Report on Summer Community Centers
• Incident Summary, August 14

Folder 8: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Information

• Platform and Principles of the Mississippi State Democratic Party Adopted in Convention in the City of Jackson June 30, 1960
• “Mississippi: How Negro Democrats Fared” Report
• “The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party” Report

Folder 9: Donation from Amy Peterson (Freedom Pin), ca. 1964

• Note to Ms. Johnson from Amy Peterson, 26 March 2007
• SNCC Pin in envelope on card
• Political Heritage Business Card
• Political Heritage Flyer
• Political Heritage Invoice/Packing Slip
• Package Envelope
• Political Heritage Packing List

Folder 10:Freedom Summer Articles, ca. 1964-2004

• “Last Summer in Mississippi,” by Alice Lake, Redbook Magazine, November 1964
• “Herbert Oliver of Birmingham to Talk on Rights Violations,” 2/25/65 [1964?]
• “College to Refuse Rights ‘Prep School,’” Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, March 26, 1965 [1964?]
• “Terrorists Cheated of Victim,” San Francisco Examiner, May 4, 1965 [1964?]
• “Course at WCW in Civil Rights to Enroll 600,” undated [May 20, 1964?]
• “Event Sincere, Selma Marcher Tells NAACP,” Hamilton, 5/20/65 [1964?]
• “Into Jaws of Hate and Fear Ride 200,” undated [May 1964?]
• “Sending Troops into Mississippi Solves Nothing,” undated [May 1964?]
• “Thoughts on Civil Rights Orientation, June 26, 1964, Oxford, Ohio,” Summer Bulletin, 1964
• “Gregory Stresses Courage of ‘Mississippi Project,’” Oxford Press, 4/61/89
• “Service Honors Trio of Martyrs,” June 26, 1989
• “Memorial recalls ‘Freedom Summer,’” The Oxford Press, April 3, 2000
• “Miami’s new center for American and World Cultures debuts lecture series,” The Miami University Report, Vol. 20 No. 5, August 31, 2000
• “Training for the freedom Fight, Activists recall Oxford program,” date unknown [2000?]
• “Students follow the path of ‘Freedom Summer,’” 2004
• “Remember Freedom Summer on anniversary,” The Oxford Press, June 28, 2004
• “Students retrace project marked by workers’ deaths,” Dayton Daily News, 6/20/2004

Folder 11: Student Paper on Imagery and Freedom Summer

• History 717 paper, November 1987 - "Oxford, Ohio, and the South: Imagery and the Freedom Summer of 1964," by Stuart R. Thomson

Folder 12: Freedom Summer- 40th Reunion- Photos and miscellanies, 2004

• 9 Photos from Roland Duerksen, took during his stay in Mississippi:

o “Citizens’ Councils: States Rights- Racial Integrity” sign
o Inscription on Jackson Mississippi School building, reads: “1060 Administrative Offices, Colored School Division, Jackson Municipal Separate School District ”
o Freedom School in Jackson , Mississippi
o Singer at Freedom School class in Jackson , Mississippi
o Chalk-board next to COFO headquarters building in Jackson , Mississippi

o Building that served as headquarters for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
o Mock Political Convention
o Freedom Democratic Party headquarters house
o Robert Moses, director of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project during break session

• Thank You Note [addressed to Kathy from Ruth and Dan Britt], September 19, 2004
• 2 Western College Memorial Archives Flyers
• Voices of Freedom Summer Reunion and Conference in Oxford , Ohio September 17, 18, 19, 2004, Conference Schedule and Program
• Copy of cover of Two Visions of Freedom CDs
• Copy of Mississippi Freedom Project Pamphlet
• Copy of Mississippi Summer Project Pamphlet

Folder 13: Letters from Mississippi

• “MU Lecture series to analyze Freedom Summer,” The Miami Student, Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Folder 14: Donations from Jeff Acorn

• New Mississippi Newsletter, July 11, 2000
• List of “Some Aspects of Black-White Problems as Seen by Field Staff”
• Letter to Summer Project Worker, May 5, 1964 from Mississippi Summer Project Staff
• Memo to Summer Project Participants from Summer Project Committee, Re: Orientation
• Memo to Accepted Applicants
• Council of Federated Organizations Legal Guide

Folder 15: Freedom Summer 40th Anniversary Posters, Flyers, etc.

• “Save the Dates!” Flyers for “Voices of Freedom Summer” Reunion and Conference
• “Voices of Freedom Summer” September 17-19, 2004 Registration Form
• Voices of Freedom Summer Conference in Oxford, Ohio September 17-19, 2004 small poster
• Voices of Freedom Summer Conference in Oxford, Ohio September 17-19, 2004 large poster
• Table Tent of Voices of Freedom Summer Conference in Oxford, Ohio September 17-19, 2004
• Flyer of Voices Freedom Summer Conference highlights mentions Representative John Lewis, Bob Moses, Mississippi Summer Project, in Oxford, Ohio September 17-19, 2004
• Flyer of “Write. Right? Reviewing Letters from MS,” Brown Bag Discussion in preparation for “Voices
Freedom Summer”

BOX 7

Folder 1: August 14, 2004 Art Facts [1964 materials]

• Letter from Carl R. Jantzen to Roland Duerksen, dated July 21, 1964
• Letter to Professor Ronald A. Duerksen, dated July 21, 1964 from Department of Government
• MSP Newsletter No. 4, Friends of the Mississippi Subsistence Project, Oxford , Ohio , November 18, 1964 [5 pages total]

Folder : Virginia Steele Papers, 1965-2007

• 1,000 Negro demonstrators seized in Ala.; Could you vote in Ala.?; Rights worker says Miss. in webWilmington Morning News, page 1-2, February 4, 1965
• “‘Freedom Summer Libraries’ of the Mississippi Summer Project,” by Virginia Steele, reprinted from Southeastern Librarian, Vol. 15, No. 2, July 1965
• “Virginia Says Goodbye to a Long-Time Friend,” Santa Rosa, CA, 2001, copy of photograph of Virgina Steele posing with van "The Freedom Bus".
• “Virginia Steele - Obituary,” Yellow Springs News, 9/14/06
• Letter to Ms. Mary Morgan from Lisa Anderson Todd, December 26, 2006 (two pages)
• Color photograph,Virginia Steele posing with friends in Jackson, Mississippi, July 1994 at Freedom Summer Reunion, left to right Virginia Steele, Lisa Anderson Todd, Nancy (“Shanny”) Schieffelin, Candy Brown, Pat Vail, and Barbara Mutnick, with envelope
• “Fannie Chaney; Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker,” The Washington Post/Obituary, May 27, 2007
• Remembrances of Virginia Steele, Conversation Notes with Mary M. Steele Morgan, sister of Virginia Steele, September 14, 2006, September 16, 2006
• “We need to remember 1964,” Dayton Daily News, undated

Folder 3: Miscellaneous, 1965-2007

• “Brazilians Visit Campus; Note Political Apathy,” The Miami Student, May 14, 1965
• Letter to Judy Waldron from Phyllis Hoyt, November 11, 2002
• "Freedom Now...a World in Progress" flyer from the April 10, 2003 production
• 2/19/07 Notes with envelope from Emerson Jordan, February 20, 2007

Folder 4: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Commemoration, 1989

• “From the 60's to the 90's: Alternative Visions of Racial Justice” Program/Flyer, March 21, 1989-April 1, 1989
• “From the 60's to the 90's: Alternative Visions of Racial Justice
” Program, March 31- April 1, 1989 (two pages)
• “Speaker Biographies from the twenty-fifth reunion, ” (two pages), [March 31-April 1,] 1989
• Tentative Schedule of Events, March 31-April 1, 1989;“From the 60’s to the 90’s: Alternative Visions of Racial Justice, Synopsis of Events” [March 31-April 1, 1989; Approximate Costs [March 31-April 1, 1989]
• “From the 60s to the 90s: Alternative Visions of Racial Justice,” Program Schedule, April 1, 1989
• Program for Twenty-Fifth Commemoration of Freedom Summer, An Oxford Community Celebration, June 21, 1989 ••••• “The History of Civil Rights in America,” Poster for marker, 1992
• Song Sheet for Freedom Song "Freedom In the Air"

Folder 5 : Memorial Planning Fall 1999 and Memorial Dedication in April 2000

• Photograph of the "Freedom Summer Memorial Marker”
• Photograph of "Freedom Summer Memorial Marker"
• Photograph of media, public, Miami University officials at Public meeting in the Fall of 1999 at site of memorial
• Photograph of in the Fall of 1999 People gather to discuss the planned memorial”
• Photograph of “Fall 1999 President Garland and Arthur Miller at the Fall 1999 meeting as they discuss the construction of the Freedom Summer Memorial and shows plans on 2 easels”
• Photograph of Memorial Dedication“ President James Garland,Miami University; Karen White,Event Coordinator, Miami University, Brother of Michael Schwerner”
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall, President Garland, Dr. Schwerner, Joe Cox, Micheal
Miller, Rick Momeyer and Will Haygood
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall, President Garland, Dr. Schwerner, Joe Cox, Michael
Miller, Will Haygood
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall, President Garlend, Dr. Schwerner, Joe Cox Michael
Miller, Rick Momeyer, Will Haygood
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, President Garland presenting plaque to Dr. Schwerner in Peabody Hall
Joe Cox, Michael Miller, Rick Momeyer and Will Haygood
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, President Garland and Karen White
• Photograph of Ceremony in Leonard Theater, President Garland speaking with Will Haygood, Karen White and
Dr. Schwerner
• Photograph of Memorial Dedication at Memorial, President Garland and Dr. Schwerner addressing the crowd
• Photograph of President Garland, Karen White at Freedom Summer Memorial
• Photograph of Karen White, Jane Strippel, Prue Dana at Memorial
• Photograph of reporter interviewing Rick Momeyer (2 copies)
• Photograph of crowd at Dedication of Memorial
• Photograph of Reporter and Will Haygood
• Photograph of Vanessa Cummings, Assistant Director of Public Safety and President of the Oxford Branch
NAACP and Reverend Virgil Cummings
• Photograph of Freedom Summer Memorial and Kumler Chapel
• Photograph of Panoramic view of the Freedom Summer Memorial
• Photograph of Panoramic view of the Freedom Summer Memorial featuring the engraved stones
• Photograph of Panoramic view of the entire Freedom Summer Memorial
• Photograph of Panoramic view of the Freedom Summer Memorial
• Photograph of Panoramic view of the Freedom Summer Memori with information about the chronology of the
engraved stones
• Freedom Summer Memorial Brochure, 2000
• Purple invitation card about scheduled lectures about Freedom Summer, April 5-6, 2000
• Freedom Summer Memorial Note Card that features photography of the Freedom Summer Memorial, 2000
• Program for the Freedom Summer Dedication Ceremony, April 7, 2000
• Remarks from President Garland for the Freedom Summer Dedication, April 7, 2000
• Inscriptions of each stone on the Freedom Summer Memorial

Folder 6: Articles on Mississippi Freedom Summer, 2004-2007

• “Students commemorate ‘Freedom Summer,’” The Miami Student, April 27, 2004
• The Miami University Report, June 24, 2004 with article, “Students retrace ‘Freedom Summer’ path”
• “U.S. Representative John Lewis to speak,” The Miami University Report, Sept. 9, 2004
• “Voices of Freedom Summer” [Front page photograph], The Miami University Report, Sept. 16, 2004
• “Racism is alive, shaking hands, by Leonard Pitts Jr. ” Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 27, 2004
• “Faces tells Freedom Summer story,” Oxford Press, Oct. 1, 2004
• “Let Freedom Summer be your guide,” Oxford Press, Oct. 1, 2004
• “Reward posted in Freedom Summer slayings from 1964,” Journal News, Dec. 21, 2004
• “Man indicted for ’64 civil rights murders,” The Miami Student, Jan. 14, 2005 (two pages)
• “A Season for Justice by Chris Gray,” City Beat, March 16-22, 2005 (3 copies)
• “Playwright to spotlight Freedom Summer 1964,” The Miami Student, 1/30/07
• “Miller’s passing impacts events of Miami’s Black History Month, The Miami Student, 1/30/07 (two pages)

Folder 7: Article on the Resurfacing of Freedom Summer due to Trial, June 2005

• “Mississippi trial has roots in Miami’s Freedom Summer,” Journal News, Sunday, June 19, 2005

Folder 8: “Finding Freedom Summer Project” Newsletter, October 2005

• “Letters from Oxford, OH, news of the Finding Freedom Summer Project at Miami University,” Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2005 (four copies)

BOX 8

Folder 1: Articles concerning Freedom Summer and miscellaneous papers, ca. 1964

• Conference Facilities Page
• “If you are arrested in Mississippi,” Brochure, Prepared by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
• “U.S. Powers are Limited in Dealing with Civil Rights Strife,” The New York Times, Sunday June 28, 1964;"Mississippi: A Profile of the Nation's Most Segregated State", June 28, 1964
• “Three Greater Boston Students in Mississippi: Bullets... Threats... Ostracism,” The Boston Sunday Herald, July 12, 1964
• “The News of the Week in Review,” The New York Times, June 28, 1964

Folder 2: Articles concerning Freedom Summer

• “‘Freedom school’s’ grads return to tell life’s lessons,” The First Cox Newspaper, Thursday, March 30, 1989
• “Another case of Murder in Mississippi,” Los Angeles Times / Calendar, Sunday February 4, 1990, p. 8+
• “Oxford to honor 1964 civil-rights martyrs,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, June 20, 1994
• “Oxford linked to ‘Freedom Summer,’” The Middletown Journal, February 23, 1997
• “Mississippi town honors slain activists 40 years later,” Dayton Daily News, June 20, 2004
• “Oxford recalls sacrifice of Freedom Summer Volunteers,” Oxford Press, Oct. 1, 2004
• “Crumbs of justice,” The Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 6, 2005 (two pages)

Folder 3: Letters from Mississippi Poster

• “Letters from Mississippi, An Interdisciplinary Series on Freedom Summer 1964, Civil Rights, and Social Justice” Poster, Fall 2005

BOX 9

Materials in Box:

• Chude Allen, “Why Struggle? Why Care?” Freedom Summer Lecture Series, 9-20-05 VHS
• CD of Lois Nelson 8-14-04 Interview
• CD of Jane Strippel 8-20-04 Interview
• Floppy Disk with Freedom Summer Tape 1- Flinterman/Miller, Tape 2- Griffing/Cantrell Interviews

BOX 10

Audiocassette Tapes:

• Story Circle, 114 MMH, 9-18-04
• Story Circle, Room 115, 9-18-04
• Story Circle, 113 MMH, 9-18-04 Tape 4
• Story Circle, 217 MMH, 9-18-04 Tape 5
• Story Circle, 107 MMH, 9-18-04 Tape 6
• Story Circle (Room with Chuck McDougall)
• Freedom Summer 1964, Will Keebler, Western Administration (Mr. Keebler was employed at the Western College for Women in 1964, took part in the training at Western)
• Memories of Freedom Summer, Elinor Aurthur, 11-19-00 (Ms. Aurthur was a student at Reed College in 1964, took part in the training at Western)

BOX 11

Compact Disks:

• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 107 MMH, September 18, 2004
• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 113 MMH, September 18, 2004
• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 114 MMH, September 18, 2004
• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 115 MMH, September 18, 2004
• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 116 MMH Chuck McDew, September 18, 2004
• Freedom Summer Conference, Story Circle 212 MMH, September 18, 2004
• Cantrell/Griffing, Oral History, Tape 2, July 24, 2004
• Jane Strippel, Oral History, Tape 1, August 14, 2004
• Camilla Flinterman, Oral History, Tape 1, July 24, 2004
• Jane Strippel/Roland Duerkson, Oral History, August 14, 2004
• William & Barbara McKinstry, Oral History, June 23, 2005

• Copy #1, Arthur F. Miller Interview, 7/21/04
• Paul Daniels, 8/5/04, Disc 1 (CD)
• Cantrell/Griffing, Tape 2, Oral History, July 24, 2004 (CD)
• David and Louise Griffing, 8/12/04, Disc 1 (CD)
• Don Nelson, Oral History, August 14, 2004 (CD)
• Freedom Summer Memorial PowerPoint Presentation, May 2001
• Miami University Libraries Digital Initiatives, SNCC Posters, April 12, 2007
• Bob Keller’s Freedom Summer Memorial Presentation
• Smithsonian: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement ’60-’66 Disc 1
• Smithsonian: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement ’60-’66 Disc 2
• Voices of Freedom Summer Reunion and Conference PowerPoint
• Freedom Summer 40th Anniversary Freedom Summer Reunion Conference, 7-28-04, 8-14-04
• The George Hoxie Collection: Photographs of Freedom Summer

BOX 12

Additional Materials:

• Freedom Summer ’64 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Dedicated April 7, 2000 Paperweight

BOX / FOLDER 13

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Posters:

• “Is He Protecting You?”
• “Support Your Local Police”
• “Come let us build a new world together”
• “For Food... For Freedom”
• “NOW”

BOX 14

• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 1. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Tour of Western College for Women and the Freedom Summer Memorial; Faith and Activism; and "Race:Mississippi"
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 2. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Non-violent Philosophies and Practice: 1964-2004; The History of SNCC: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; and Dinner for Presenters and Freedom Summer Participants.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 3. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Keynote Address: Representatice John Lewis, Democrat-Georgia; and Conference Opening Remarks and Keynote Address.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 4. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Reconciliation in Mississippi: A Conversation and The Role of the Arts in the Civil Rights Movement.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 5. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Freedom Schools and The Algebra Project.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 6. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: The Continuting Struggle for Civil Rights in Cincinnati and Women in the Movement.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 7. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Oxford Partcipants Share their Stories and Mississippi: Then and Now.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 8. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Religion and Social Activism and Story Gathering.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 9. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Prelude to Freedom: The Brown Decision and the Summer of 1964.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 10. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Civil Rights and Pedagogy and "Faces of Freedom Summer": Photographs by Herbert Randall.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 11. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: The Struggle for Social Justice.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 12. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: "Wouldn't take Nothin' for my Journey: A Celebration in Music and Drama"
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 13. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: The History of Race Relations at Miami University and Western College.
• Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University, Disk 14. Sept. 17-19, 2004. This includes: Interfaith Gathering at Freedom Summer Memorial on Western Campus; Interviwews with Ben Chaney, John Steele, Joe Keesecker; and Story of Three.
• "In Rarefied Air; A civl Rights story" "A Must See Inspirational Civil Rights Film" DVD with Jewel Case

BOOKS

Zellner, Bob The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

BOX 15

Folder 1

2009 Finding Freedom Summer Conference Materials Miami University Department of Theater Play Invitation
to a Staged Reading of Down In Mississippi, Saturday, February 28, 2009

• Tickets from play Down in Mississippi, Saturday, February 28, 2009 (6 tickets in envelope)
• Faculty information newsletter to Down In Mississippi Play signed by Carlyle Brown
• Printout of Medgar Evers Feature Story from Website
• Photo Copy of Handwritten List and Envelope
• Digital Image of James Cheney (printout)
• Playbook, titled "Mississippi Summer Project, Volunteer Manual 1964" (5 copies signed by Carlyle Brown, 2 unsigned)
• Poster for "Down in Mississippi Play" signed by Carlyle Brown (2 copies)

Freedom Summer Press Release on Play Down In Mississippi from the Center for American and World Cultures

Folder 2

• Narrative writings dealing with Mississippi Freedom Summer (4 pages and envelope
• Printout of Medgar Evers Internet article, "Medgar Wiley Evers and the Origin of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi" by Dernoral Davis
• Flyer, "Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" tri-fold with member application
• Flyer, "5th Annual Conference of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" at Jackson State University

Folder 3

• Flyer for "Freedom Summer Pre-Conference Event: Who's Teaching Whom?"
• "Freedom Summer Pre-Conference Event: Who's Teaching Whom?" Presenter abstract
• Freedom Summer Conference Flyer (2 copies)
• Freedom Summer Conference table tent advertisement (2 copies)
• Freedom Summer Conference Program (3 copies)
• Freedom Summer Conference Poster
• Freedom Summer Conference Visitor Packet with conference information (2 Folders)
• Marcum Conference Center and Miami Inn Folder (empty)
• Freedom Summer Conference Opening Dinner bi-fold program (3 Copies)
• Freedom Summer Memorial Tri-fold advertisement
• Marcum Conference Center Writing pad stationary
• "Finding Freedom Summer in Oxford Ohio, Faculty Workshop" schedule
• "Finding Freedom Summer in Oxford Ohio Conference adn 45th Reunion Schedule of events (4 pages)
• "Sunday Morning Farewell Brunch" for Freedom Summer Conference Schedule
• WCMA Photo Release form
• "Visions of Freedom" 2004 conference digital media (3 CD-ROMs)
• "A National Movement through[sic.] a Local Lens: Oxford, Ohio and Freedom Summer of 1964" digital media (CD-ROM)


Folder 4:

• “Mississippi Freedom Summer (Application for volunteer work)” made for 2010 play Down in Mississippi. Forms filled out by audience members including Carlyle Brown (playwright) (22 in total)
• Mississippi Freedom Summer (Application for volunteer work)” made for 2010 play Down in Mississippi. Blank Form
• Facsimile of Registration form for Freedom Summer

Folder 5:

• Script of Down In Mississippi; A Gospel Play With Music by Carlyle Brown; A Commission from the Theater Department in the School of Fine Arts and the Center for American & World Cultures, Miami University of Ohio.

Folder 6:

• All access and backstage pass for Down in Mississippi play, 2010
• Miami Student Article, “Play Celebrates Freedom Summer’s 45th anniversary” Tues, Sept. 22, 2009 by Mary Kate Linehan
• American Theatre article, “A Civil Rights Show-and-Tell” October 2009
• Poster for Down in Mississippi, “Would you go?”(4 copies)
• Photo copies of Play book for Down in Mississippi, 2010
• Down in Mississippi promotional mailing (3 copies)

Folder 7:

• Replica political pin advertising Civil Rights causes (2)
• “SNCC Identification Card” replica with bio of various civil rights workers. Made for Down in Mississippi play. (16)
• SNCC Mississippi Freedom Project Facsimile Flyer
• COFO Freedom Registration Facsimile Flyer
• “Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Volunteer Manual 1964” created for Down in Mississippi play 2010
• Text of Phyllis Hoyt Speech from Welcome Dinner of Freedom Summer Conference, Friday October 9th, 2009. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Oxford, Ohio.

Folder 8:

• COFO Facsimile “Freedom Registration Form” Filled out (4 copies)
• Facsimile “Sworn Written Application for Registration” Filled out (5 copies)


BOX 16

Folder 1: Documents from the Phyllis Hoyt Collection

• New York Times Article, “College to Train Rights Workers” Sunday May 3rd, 1964
• Letter to Friends of the Mississippi Summer Project, June 28th, 1964 (3 Pages)
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from James W. King, First Baptist Church, Dayton, OH. July 6th, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from “The Rt. Rev. William Crittenden, Bishop of Erie” (Episcopal) July, 7th 1964
• Letter to Mr. Sidney t. Swan from Philip F. Myers, Assistant to the President. July 13th, 1964
• Friends of the Mississippi Freedom Sumer Project Bulletin, July 14th, 1964 (1 page, front and back)
• Letter to Miss. Marian Robinson from Isabel R. Abbot, Dean of the College. July 16th, 1964 (mimeograph stapled to a second letter) attached to original letter from Marian Robinson to Miss. Hoyt. (2 sheets)
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt, from “Paul” of the Westminster Foundation of Oxford, Oh. July 20th, 1964
• Memo to “Dean Hoyt” on 7/23/64 attached to document titled, “The Freedom News, Vol.1, No. 1” 7/16/64
• Letter to “Phyl” (Mrs. J. Earl Baily) from Phyllis Hoyt, August 5th, 1964
• Letter to “Phyllis” (Presumably Phyllis Hoyt) from William “Bill” Hawley of The Diocese of Southern Ohio, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Oxford, Oh.
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from [Illegible] Fuller, August 22, 1964
• Note to Berenice Stegall to “Phyllis” [Hoyt] attached to a letter to “Gentlemen” at the Western College Bulletin in request of Phyllis Hoyt article, signed, “Mary M. Dewey - Mrs. Fred. A. Dewey”
• Letter to “Miss Hoyt” from Gene Boolsman[?] August 25th, 1964, attached to an envelope
• Letter to “Dean Phyllis” [Hoyt], signed “Sara Lee” attached to an envelope with return address to “Burneson”
• Letter to “Miss Hoyt” signed “Cary” attached to an envelope with return address of Mrs. Margaret C. Clumples
• Letter to Miss. Phyllis Hoyt from Mary Jane S[illegible] dated August, 31, 1964 (two pages stapled)
• Letter to Phyllis [Hoyt] from Gay (Halsley) [?] dated August 31st, 1964 (two pages stapled)
• Article cut from The Boston Sunday Herald, “The Impact of Project Freedom On Mississippi” from Sept. 6th, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Jack H. Fuller from Phyllis Hoyt, Sept. 8th, 1964
• Letter to “Miss Hoyt” from Cary Kimbark Revere on stationary of Mrs. Paul Revere Jr. with envelope attached. Dated, “Labor Day, 1964”
• Letter to “Peggy” Mrs. Margaret C. McHolme from Phyllis Hoyt, September 18th, 1964 attached to letter from Peggy McHolme to Phyllis Hoyt, September 12th, 1964
• Letter to Mrs. Hoyt from “Phyl” dated, September 24th, 1964, attached to an evelope with return address of J. Carl Bailey
• Letter to Mr. Fletcher Coates from William H. Maness, CC to Phyllis Hoyt. Dated September 30th, 1964 attached airmail envelope. All on Kurz, Toole, Maness, and Martin stationary and envelope.
• Article from “Pacific Churchman” newspaper, “A Volunteer Looks Hard at Mississippi” by Karen Duncan. August-September, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Bingham from Phyllis Hoyt, dated October 6th, 1964, attached to a letter addressed to “Dean of Students” and signed “Stephen Bingham” on Yale University stationary, dated September 21st, 1964
• Letter to Mr. Fletcher Coates of the National Council of Churches from Phyllis Hoyt, dated October 7th, 1964
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from William Slater on United Church of Christ, New York, NY. Dated October 8th, 1964. (2 Pages)
• Inter-Office memo to “Miss Hoyt” from “B. Stegall” dated October 9th [1964?]
• The Sabbath Recorder, October 12th, 1964, Cover, and Page 3/4 with article called, “The Mississippi Venture”
• Letter to Miss. Hoyt from William H. Maness, dated October 15th, 1964 on Kurz, Toole, Maness, and Martin stationary and airmail envelope
• Memo to President Young, from Dean Abbott, “Re: The Civil Rights Orientation Program” dated October 20th, 1964 attached to Memo to the Board of Trustees from Herrick B. Young dated September 24th, 1964. Attached is a two page letter to Herrick Young, from William Beckett on Beckett Paper Company stationary dated 15th September 1964.
• Letter to the Class of 1947 from “Emmy” Emily Greenland dated October 29th, 1964
• Article titled “Straws in the wind with “Mrs. Butler, 12 Nov ‘64” written under the title
• Letter to “Miss Hoyt” from Leon M. Maltby on The Sabbath Recorder Stationary dated November 13th, 1964 attached to envelope and response to Mr. Maltby from Phyllis Hoyt dated December 16th, 1964
• Memo to Sharon Gowdy, Fran Hoffman, Judy Chapman, Reynelda Ware, Nancy Babcock, and Peggy Buddington from Phyllis Hoyt on March 23, 1965 attached to a memo to Miss Hoyt, dated March, 22, 1965
• Letter to Miss Hoyt from Constance Lane Gingrich dated June 19th, 1966
• Letter to Phyllis Hoyt from Carolyn Lindquist nee Lloyd, July 8th, 2000
• Cut of paper “This is an appeal to all members of Western College…” (2 clipped together)
• Cut of paper, “Last summer, our college took responsibility…”
• Card to Phyllis [Hoyt] from [Illegible] Monaco
• UCCF Report from December, 1964 which addresses COFO in Mississippi
• “Freedom Primer No. 2”, “The Freedom Vote and The Right to Vote” booklet (6 pages)
• Letter to Dr. Mary Jane Berman, from Phyllis Hoyt dated September 21st, 2009 with envelope attached (2 pages)

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