Freedom Summer collection, ca. 1963-1965.

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Freedom Summer collection, ca. 1963-1965.

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Correspondence, photographs, and civil rights-related materials, including the probable last photograph taken of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman.

.50 cu. ft.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7551266

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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Zwerling, Matthew, 1944-

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Voter registration volunteer in Clarksdale, Miss. Freedom Summer, 1964. From the description of Freedom Summer collection, ca. 1963-1965. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 45211766 ...

Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964

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Andrew Goodman, along with hundreds of other students, was a volunteer in the Mississippi Summer Project launched in June 1964 to register black Mississippi residents to vote and to establish Freedom Schools. He along with another white activist, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, an African-American resident of Mississippi and Project volunteer, were shot to death on June 21, 1964. The disappearance and murder of the three men led to the intervention by President Lynden Baines Johnson and an F...